IO-7 - Engineering Project (MSc Dissertation)

Content developed by The University of Wolverhampton, UK.

The MSc Engineering Project enables students to undertake an in-depth individual research project in an area directly linked with the taught element of the course. This ensures that the student undertakes scholarly work that further develops an aspect of the taught material and thereby contributes to the student’s personal development and training towards professional practice.

This intellectual output seeks to involve live industrial projects where ever possible.

Methods and approaches

This module aims to develop knowledge in:

• Produce an exemplar of independent professional practice and apply appropriate research methods to its production;
• Critically analyse, synthesise and apply information and ideas from relevant sources of information and your own studies to support decisions appertaining to professional practice and the relevant professional bodies where appropriate;
• Take responsibility for and organise your own learning through self-management and independent research;
• Advance and extend your subject knowledge and understanding and develop research and practical skills relevant to your subject area;
• Define, organise and report on a project of considerable duration with outcomes that are uncertain at the outset, with the professional approach required by the host subject area.

Competences to be developed by students:

The module will present students with the available tools and competences associated with the generation of a report / thesis such as but not exclusively:

• The ability to organise and generate a report from an extensive set of results;
• The ability to disseminate and develop reasoned arguments based on results;
• To be able to plan and schedule a significant report based on the experimental data generated.

Innovation:

Industrially relevant data will be generated and used to formulate a thesis for this extended project module. Monitored and supervised by consortia staff. The project will offer a proposal and then develop a methodology and testing phase to realise a set of conclusions that are justified, discussed and defended through Viva Voce.

Impact:

Open educational practice available for replication in all engineering HE institutions in Europe.

Transferability potential:

The intention is that this module and its content will be used for the Masters award and in addition can be used as a standalone CPD course, upskilling and platform for industry to develop new materials for product manufacture associated with AM processes