Postgraduate Course: Dissertation (MSc in Structural and Fire Safety Engineering) (PGEE11035)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Dissertation |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 60 |
ECTS Credits | 30 |
| Summary | MSc Dissertation |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond |
| Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
600
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 60,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
507 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment of satisfactory progress - 20%
Assessment of the written submission - 60%
Assessment of oral defence (poster presentation) - 20% |
| Feedback |
Supervision meetings. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
Students will apply the knowledge gained from the taught courses to an intellectually demanding research topic of their choice (selected from the choices made available to them).
They will carry out the research either independently, or with minimal supervision.
They will learn to use research resources (library, WWW, advanced engineering computational software) imaginatively to produce meaningful answers to the questions posed in their chosen research.
Specific learning outcomes are as follows:
* deepen the student's understanding of an area of knowledge which holds special interest for them;
* strengthen the student's ability to undertake autonomous engineering work on subjects of which they has been taught little;
* increase the student's confidence that they can tackle any reasonable problem within their speciality in structural and fire safety engineering;
* develop skills in the oral presentation of individual work, including explaining the nature of the problem to staff and interested parties who have no special knowledge of the topic;
* develop skills in the preparation of a substantial technical report: structured writing, presentation of information in a variety of ways;
* critical appraisal of data, synthesis of diverse information (technical literature, model results, etc.) and the drawing of appropriate conclusions from it;
* develop skills in the defence of a body of work which the student has undertaken in front of critical assessors.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Structural and Fire Safety Engineering |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Stephen Welch
Tel: (0131 6)50 5734
Email: |
Course secretary | Mr Craig Hovell
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
Email: |
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