2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

XJMS1100 Professional Engineering Skills

20 creditsClass Size: 80

Module manager: Dr WT Sow
Email: w.t.sow@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

On completion of this module, students should be able to create the technical knowledge and skills required to pursue SCAPE programmes of study and enhance students' career prospects.

Objectives

The module objectives are:
- To gather information through a literature search from credible sources.
- To prepare reports for assigned projects with formal structure and references.
-To discuss and analyse project findings.
- To develop note-taking skills in lectures and self-study.
- To prepare an oral presentation with a suitable content structure using available software.
- To perform tasks in a team.
- To use common engineering and technical software to complete tasks i.e., Microsoft suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- To describe safety, hazard and risks in the working environment.
- To undertake activity in a laboratory setting.
- To recognise the importance of ethics and effects of plagiarism.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:

1. Be effective users of IT.
2. Be able to find and apply, with judgement, information from technical literature and other sources.
3. Have developed a range of effective communication skills including written reports and presentations.
4. Understand the need for high ethical and professional standards and understand how they are applied to issues facing engineers.
5. Understand the principles of risk assessment and of safety management.
6. Have a knowledge and understanding of laboratory practice.
7. Be able to design, plan and undertake experimental and critically interpret, analyse and report on experimental data.
8. Recognise the importance of project planning and time management and have acquired a range of experience in achieving these.
9. Understand that an effective ethics culture includes how sustainability, health and safety, equality, diversity and inclusion and professionalism are informed by and influence the ethical reasoning and behaviour of the professional engineer.

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills:

a. Information skills: gathering and using information; referencing and plagiarism; critical analysis.
b. Communication skills: technical writing; literature reviews; report writing; oral presentation.
c. Data analysis and presentation: IT skills: use of software: MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel.
d. Engineering Applications: review a risk assessment, obtain data and then analyse them.
e. Team working skills: researching information as a team, organising and planning tasks within a team, prepare and deliver an oral presentation as a team.

Syllabus

- Lectures on information skills (information gathering, referencing and plagiarism); writing skills (technical report writing); health and safety and risk assessment; data analyses and presentation (visual presentation of data; statistics - distributions and their description; data acquisition; error analysis and handling; analysing and modelling of statistical data); practical briefings; ethics.
- Practical on information skills (information gathering); practical on IT skills (statistical analyses, Excel software), experiments designed to provide sufficient results for report compilation and data analysis.
- Group project assignment.

Methods of Assessment

We are currently refreshing our modules to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full assessment details for this module are not available before the start of the academic year, at which time details of the assessment(s) will be provided.

Assessment for this module will consist of;

Maximum 4 x Coursework

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	12	2.00	24.00
presentation	2	1.00	2.00
seminars	8	1.00	8.00
Practicals	2	2.00	4.00
Practical	8	1.00	8.00
Independent online learning hours			5.00
Private study hours			149.00
Total Contact hours			46.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

* Discussions during classes.
* Practicals during the experiments - discussion with lecturers, demonstrators and technical staff.
* Feedback given on lab practical report.
* Regular meetings with group supervisors and subsequently oral presentations and report writing.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 22/08/2024

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