Chemical Engineering Industrial Project 5 (U02564)

? Credit Points : 60 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EEL-5-CHIND

The industrial project in chemical engineering can be undertaken by MEng students in their final year. It consists of a piece of original research into some technique or phenomenon in chemical engineering or a related discipline, within an industrial context. Industrial projects range from the purely experimental to entirely computational, with many having a mixture of both elements. Each industrial project has three elements:
1. A comprehensive literature review.
2. A major experimental, theoretical or computational project in industry of approximately 6 months duration.
3. Presentation of the work by means of both a poster and a formal report.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Chemical Engineering Projects 4. An aggregate mark for Year 4 of at least 65%.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Chemical, (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 5th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) per week for 20 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 36 hour(s) per week for 20 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will gain experience in the methods and practice of industrial research and/or development. Communications skills are developed, orally and in writing and with the aid, where appropriate, of electronic media. In addition students will gain a detailed knowledge and understanding of their particular research/development area. The project report provides the student with the challenge of writing an extended technical report, in which they are expected to discuss in detail the background to the project, the methods used and the results they obtained; and to give a critical evaluation of their work in the context of other researchers' or developers' activities.

Assessment Information

Students will be assessed on the three elements identified in the project description, mainly by means of the project report and their poster presentations, with a contribution from the supervisors' assessment of the project performance. The weightings (for a total of 60 points) are proposed as:
1. literature review: 15
2. project report and performance: 40
3. poster presentation: 5