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ED251A: ENGINEERING WORK EXPERIENCE (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

This innovative course is designed to promote students personal development and enhance their employability skills through undertaking a group consultancy project for a local engineering organisation. The course will enable students to learn more about the engineering sector, and develop their project management skills, students will also have the opportunity to reflect on learning to better equip them for future employment or postgraduate study.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 2
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Paul Davidson

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Programme Level 2
  • Engineering (EG) (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course is designed with the support of employers to provide students with the opportunity to undertake a group consultancy project for a local engineering organisation. The course enables students to practice key career and project management skills, most notably team work, project management, negotiation, action planning and communication. For this course, projects were sought from high calibre companies such as Subsea 7, Wood, CNR International and Halliburton.

During the course students are supported to undertake their project work via a series of on-campus workshops delivered by academic staff, external organisations and the Careers Service, topics include Giving a Presentation, Introduction to the Business Model and group work skills.  Students will also be given the opportunity to network with employers on the course and undertake site visits.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Reflective Report

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Students will receive written, oral, peer feedback durig the course.  All summative assessments will be marked agains the eassessment criteria and students will be provided with constructive written feedback for each assignment.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Report: Group

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Feedback
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

Oral Presentation: Group

Assessment Type Formative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Resit Assessments

Reflective Report

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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