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The key outcome is the development of the creative thinking, design and teamwork skills required of professional engineers, fostered by sustained engagement with a serious software and mechanical engineering design challenge.
On completion of this module students should also be able to:
1. Design and develop a solution to a relatively complicated problem.
2. Brainstorm effectively.
3. Design and build an electro-mechanical system to meet particular requirements.
4. Create a computer program to control an electro-mechanical system.
5. Specify, schedule and delegate engineering tasks effectively.
6. Articulate various ways that individual inventors and innovators have improved humanity's lot by brining their ingenuity to bear against pressing problems
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Lectures | 0 |
Tutorial | 24 |
Practical | 36 |
Specified Learning Activities | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 24 |
Total | 108 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Group Work Assignment: Video pitchdeck presentation | Week 12 | Graded | No | 15 |
No |
Portfolio: An in-person inspection of each team's final robot. | Week 12 | Graded | No | 12 |
No |
Group Work Assignment: A brainstorming and strategy document | Week 7 | Graded | No | 20 |
No |
Exam (In-person): An in-class midterm exam delivered as a Brightspace quiz. | Week 7 | Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% | No | 25 |
No |
Report(s): Submitted after labs in weeks 2 and 3 | Week 2, Week 3 | Graded | No | 8 |
No |
Practical Skills Assessment: Two in-person TinkerCAD programming assignments, each to be completed individually over the course of one afternoon during an invigilated lab session. | Week 4, Week 5 | Graded | No | 20 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Feedback on lab based assessments can be sought from the module co-ordinator in subsequent labs. Feedback on reports will be given, where necessary, through Brightspace. Feedback on the midterm will be given in the tutorial sessions.
Name | Role |
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Ms Jiajing Li | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Anshu Mukherjee | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Jakub Orlowski | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Zhe Cui | Tutor |
Conor Power | Tutor |
Qiang Wang | Tutor |
Qian Wu | Tutor |