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Module Title LH Integrated Design Project 3 (BEng)
SchoolSchool of Engineering
Department Civil Engineering
Module Code 04 30373
Module Lead Imran Qureshi
Level Honours Level
Credits 20
Semester Semester 2
Pre-requisites LI Integrated Design Project 2 - (04 30338)
Co-requisites
Restrictions Individual students need to pass a number of quizzes and submit one pager response of ideas to cover requirements of Security, Quality Management, Ethics, Risk, and EDI. This submission will be assessed, and students must pass this assessment to pass the module. The deadline to pass this assessment is Week 12 of the Semester.
Contact Hours Practical Classes and workshops-10 hours
Supervised time in studio/workshop-10 hours
Guided independent study-180 hours
Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description This module provides students with the opportunity to take on, as part of a team, real life designs that address world-wide problems, providing an opportunity to apply cross-disciplinary working to solve a range of different problems. There will also be team projects based around the Formula Student Project.

For UoB Dubai campus Mechanical Engineering: This will be dependent on facilities and resource.

For UoB Dubai campus, it is anticipated that Dubai teams will be able to contact Birmingham teams virtually.

The project design aspects of the work will aim at enhancing students’ awareness regarding challenges imposed by key issues such as globalisation, climate change, sustainability and inequality, and the way these impact their role as Engineers, working in teams.

Groups will be drawn from Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and EESE cohorts, working together in cross-disciplinary teams to provide design solutions to real world project scenarios. The team will divide into discipline specific design project groups required to meet a global design challenge, with discipline specific activities feeding into the final integrated solution.

There will be discipline specific taught sessions covering key material in support of discipline specific activities.

(1) Civil Engineering: structural forms and load paths, robustness of engineering structures, the anatomy of single-storey and multi-storey buildings, introduction to architectural design, design of strip, pad and pile foundations

(2) EESE: conceptual and architectural design, creativity and innovation.

(3) Mechanical Engineering: conceptual design, creativity and innovation.

Teams will ultimately produce final design concepts that demonstrate full integration of between discipline led tasks.

Teams will ultimately produce final design concepts that demonstrate full integration between discipline led tasks
Learning Outcomes By the end of the module students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of risk and limitations, and utilise measures to evaluate and manage uncertainties in information, design techniques, the product, health and safety, environmental and commercial consideration.
  • Appraise and understand the differentiation between responsibility within an engineering team, as an individual, team member and professional engineer, and apply this knowledge to fulfil team goals.
  • Evaluate, reflect on and adapt engineering practise, in the context of an interdisciplinary team.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the broader considerations, codes of conduct and legal regulations, required by the professional engineer with respect to: sustainability, ethics, environmental concerns, human, industrial and commercial constraints.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of current engineering practise through technical literature, its limitations, restriction of use through intellectual property and contractual issues, and new and emerging technologies.
  • Communicate and defend effectively the design concepts to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of project, financial and business management.
  • There are discipline specific learning outcomes that supplement the main set, which are embedded into the element of group assessments that form the final submission:

    (1) For Civil Engineering students: Apply hand calculations and finite element analysis-based software to analyse and design triangulated and skeletal structures, joints and foundations according to relevant design codes.
    Demonstrate understanding of the effect of structural form on structural efficiency
    Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate via hand sketches and drawings within and beyond the civil engineering discipline.

    2) For EESE students:Apply problem-solving skills, technical knowledge mathematical and computer-based models or section prototypes, where appropriate, to create a design and establish that it is fit for purpose.
    Adapt and apply design methodology to evaluate a design solution against user requirements.
    Demonstrate the ability to generate innovative design solutions to satisfy to the requirements of the target market.

    (3) For Mechanical Engineering students: Apply problem-solving skills, technical knowledge mathematical and computer-based model, where appropriate, to create a design and establish that it is fit for purpose including production, operation, maintenance and disposal.

    Adapt and apply design methodology to evaluate a design solution against user requirements.

    Demonstrate the ability to generate innovative design solutions to satisfy to the requirements of the target market.
Assessment 30373-01 : Team presentation : Presentation (25%)
30373-02 : Team Integration Report : Coursework (10%)
30373-03 : Discipline Specific Report : Coursework (65%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions Assessment:Presentation inc. Q&A, in Week 6 of the Semester (25%)
  • Final report detailing designs (75%) This may be broken down into the discipline specific design (65%) and the integration of the design (10%)
  • Summative pass/fail quizzes required to cover requirements of Security, Quality Management, Ethics, Risk, and EDI. One quiz in each of the topics listed which will not contribute to the module mark but be pass/fail with a 0% contribution.

    Peer assessment will be used to moderate the final mark by ±20 marks across the group, if required.

    Reassessment:
    Individual resit assignments are set for students who fail the module during the supplementary period.
    Other Duplicate of Birmingham-based module 29646
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