Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6601TECYPC-SEP-PAR
Aims
To allow the students to develop their knowledge, skills, and general expertise in relation to a technical, design, management or business subject of their choice and to provide the opportunity for the students to demonstrate their ability to learn and develop their skills independently
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate their ability to learn new skills, acquire new knowledge, adapt current skills and knowledge and apply them to specific outcomes or problems in a self-directing mode of learning
2.
Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to apply management, business and/or technical scientific principles within the project
3.
Critically evaluate progress on the problem, decision-taking during the project
4.
Demonstrate to an advanced degree the ability to organise and coordinate the resources at their disposal to achieve project aims, including liaison with technician staff and lecturers and other organisations
5.
Critically review the solution and results of the project and ability to demonstrate good communication skills in written styles
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Although there is no specific syllabus, the process of achieving a successful end to the project will be:
• Exploring subjects for the project, identification of problems to be solved or opportunities to be evaluated within the time constraints of the project.
• Selection of project and rationale for the choice.
• Problem construction, opportunity definition. Identification of project objectives and applying measures and constraints.
• General solutions or optional strategies to achieve objectives.
• Selection of solution or strategy.
• Presentation of project in written or oral (formal) form.
• The student will provide a Terms of Reference document, agreed by supervisor(s) and student, to be submitted by a specified date (normally about 1 month after the start of semester 1). Thereafter the student will carry out the project according to this Terms of Reference.
Additional Information:The Technology Management Project is intended to be the embodiment of the taught component of the course, bringing together theoretical and conceptual aspects into the management of an investigative analysis of a problem in a real technical/ commercial environment.