MEng, BEng Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering (Industrial) Year 4 Placement

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Engineering)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme, students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge and professional competencies, some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in mechanical engineering as applied to the nuclear industry;
- deploy accurately, standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within mechanical with nuclear engineering;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
- describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in mechanical engineering as applied to the nuclear industry;
- make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;
- conform to professional boundaries and norms where applicable;
- understand the application of design to the modern nuclear industry.;
- understand the basic concepts of nuclear reactors and be able to apply the mathematical tools used for analysis;
- develop an understanding of the fundamentals of nuclear physics;
- have an understanding of the materials that exist in nuclear reactors, and be able to carry out analysis using a variety of techniques.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of Mechanical with nuclear Engineering;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.