To get the students, under supervision of an academic member of staff, to carry out an individual project and to present the work both through a final report and demonstration.

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

Study a problem independently

Gather, organise and distil  information from various sources, summarise the information succinctly, and draw  general conclusions;

Exercise initiative and  independence in the planning and execution of a project, and manage time and  resources competently

Design a solution to an  engineering problem, which will include one or more of the following:

Construction and testing of  hardware or software solutions

Simulation/modelling and  testing

Analysis and inference

Critically appraise results,  and present the essential features and conclusions clearly and coherently in  both written and oral forms.

An excellent student will additionally be able to

Design an innovative solution,  informed by the forefront of knowledge, to a new engineering problem