Teaching Responsibility

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LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Lecture
Practical

Module Offerings

5306CIT-JAN-PAR

Aims

To enable students to develop the skills required to practice as a professional engineer. This module provides a broad range of experiences with an emphasis upon the systematic thinking, planning and execution required of engineers in a modern professional environment. The students will be required to design build and test an electronic product to a given specification. The product will incorporate elements covered elsewhere on the course, including analogue electronics and a programmable device such as a microcontroller.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:1. Experimental Practice • Complete a set of laboratory experiments • Observation, measurement and recording of experimental results • Data handling • Presenting and reporting of results 2. Professional Development • World of Work: Silver Award • Health & Safety • Ethics • Institutional Code of Conduct 3. Research Methods • Research & Library Skills • Report Writing • Critical Thinking 4. Engineering Management • Project Planning • Project Management
Additional Information:The professional development portion of the module is assessed on a pass/fail basis. Students must complete the assessment exercises to a satisfactory standard in order to achieve a pass grade in this module. Reports are 2000 maximum word count.

Assessments

Practice