Postgraduate Course: Research Project Preparation (PGEE11044)

Course Outline
School	School of Engineering	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course is preparation for the MSc project.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 65 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Lecture attendance will be compulsory. Lecture attendance will be compulsory. The main deliverables will be a report and a presentation on a Mini-project - containing the project definition, the literature review, a detailed description of the resources required and a Gantt chart. This report will be submitted around mid March.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
Relationship with the supervisor, what can be expected from him/her and what is expected of the student. Time management, project planning, Gantt charts and resource planning. How to do a literature review. Use of computers during a project. Plagiarism. What it is and how to avoid it - the techniques employed to detect it. What is added value? How to write a MSc thesis. Presentation and communication skills. Background material including data protection, copyright and patent law, IP issues, enterprise topics, health and safety and ethics.