Unit name | Engineering Research Skills and Practice |
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Unit code | EENGM0029 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. David Bull |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
This unit is designed to equip students with the complementary skills required to plan, deliver and communicate a research project in an academic or commercial environment.
Topics will include: Literature Surveys, Project Management, Presentation Skills, Writing Technical Reports and Papers, Reproducible Research, Identifying and Delivering High Impact Research, Soft Methods, Unconscious Bias and Responsible Innovation.
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
The the majority of the time allocated for this unit is intended for independent study and for you to liaise with your project supervisor.
Lectures will be provided on researching and report writing, covering aspects such as:
Submission of a Research Review document (70%). This will typically be the early-stage precursor of the Research project. During the second teaching block students will refine their project description with other stakeholders (Academic and industry stakeholders). This report will therefore be general in form and would typically involve a critical review of a small number of papers in the field recommended by the academic supervisor, associated with an identification of key challenges and opportunities.
Presentation of a Research Project literature survey (30%)
The lecture materials will provide suggested relevant literature