Engineering Design

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Prepare working documents, designs and gantt charts
• Ability to operate as a team
• Use of a logbook and the engineering design build and test application
• Prepare a full report of the design and its operation

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• To understand the design process
• To understand the processes involved in project management
• Have an understanding of a robot system and its programming
• Define the specification of an artifact that needs to be designed, tested and commissioned

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Undertake realtime programming
• Undertake detailed faultfinding of the developed circuits at required
• Undertake small scale mechanical and electronic construction use of 3D printing to produce complex parts.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyses the design as it evolves, and deduce problems with the subsequent rectification
• Develop a plan for the implementation of the design and the undertake those activities
• Undertake an evaluation of the complete design and prepare a critical précis

• The development of individual practical skills through completion of a simple build and test exercise, incorporating soldering, circuit construction and the manufacture of a container.
• Groups of students are required to undertake a design, build and test project against a predefined specification. The project assessment includes a competitive trial, individual log books, group reports and quality assessment of the designed system.
• The groups will have seminars on project management and principles of design to support the activities, including design rationale capture and design and build best practice.
• Introduction to 3D printing is provided as part of the module

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.