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To be sure of passing T460 you must achieve at least a pass grade of 40 on the EMA as well as an average of 40 on your continuous assessment.

Your EMA will consist of four sections: your project report, your project poster, your project presentation slides and your process review section. Please read the guidance in Sections 2-5.

The assessment will be based on the learning outcomes and so the markers will be considering how well you have demonstrated:

1. competence in the use of the principles and conventions of project management and execution

2. ability to recognise potential engineering problems in developing technologies and solve them using innovative analytical and experimental techniques

3. an understanding of engineering principles and techniques and the ability to apply them to accomplish a project.

In addition, your key skills will be assessed by considering how well you have:

4. executed a literature review supporting your project

5. produced a written technical report, a poster presentation and slides on your specialist topic

6. reviewed what you have done critically, analysing your learning and skill development.

Project report

Word limit: 8000 words maximum

This is the culmination of your engineering qualification where you will bring together your learning across the different modules that you have taken. You will have submitted reports and part reports throughout the modules of your qualification so it is expected that you will be able to show that you have developed a professional approach to communicating technical information

Use the A4 paper size for your project report and put your name, your personal identifier, the module code and ‘Project report' at the top of every sheet.

Your report must be formal in nature, i.e. it should include a title page, table of contents, etc. and should be written in the third person/passive voice - see the Study guide for more information. Also be sure to look at the types of report given in the ebook by Bowden (2011) and adapt them to suit your purpose.

The markers of your project report will want to know the full story of your project. So ensure that you include enough narrative to explain what you set out to do by describing your proposal, what you actually did in your activities and what you found in your results and conclusions. These sections must all be supported by your reasoning and evaluation.

Why did you select your aims? What persuaded you to adopt your methods and what do your results tell us about the engineering question you set out to answer? The requirements of your report will include strict word limits, so it will need to be written concisely.

The requirements of your report will include strict word limits so it will need to be efficiently written. This means that you must report in a technical style, concentrating on the engineering analysis that you did. Remember, this is about how you perform as an engineer. While your work in TMA 03 will contribute to your EMA, you need to take care in how you use it. The updated TMA parts are directly transferable to the EMA. The EMA, apart from requiring additional work, also needs to comply with a formal report structure. Take care to ensure your sections actually address what they should. For example, your summary should give a brief description of what your project was about and what was concluded. It is not an introduction.

What you will need to do is to imagine you are addressing a particular audience. It may be your senior management. It may be a technical committee or, if you are involved in product design, a group providing financial backing needing to understand the technical detail of the product. They will want to know answers to the questions you have set yourself and by reading your report they expect to find them. However, they will also require a formal technical or technological document.

Markers will also be judging the presentation of the report as well as the quality of the English. So, make sure you pay attention to spelling, grammar and punctuation.

General guidance for writing the project
Central to all your project work are the engineering questions that you set out to answer in your proposal. These need to be defined as part of the context of your report. You will have done some of this work in TMA 03; now is your opportunity to respond to the feedback and refine their descriptions.

Similarly, you will have started describing what you did in TMA 03 and now you can report on the work you have carried out since TMA 03.

The new sections which are needed for your final report are:

your results
your discussion and evaluation of these results your conclusions.

You will also need to arrange your references and appendices in a suitable form (see the Study guide). Finally, please ensure that your report complies with the standards expected in professional engineering. For example, have you used sufficient graphical content to explain your work?

You must make sure that your report addresses the three questions that follow. It is your choice as to how you divide your report into sections, but you are expected to follow one of the variants of a technical report. This is an important distinction. Your report must look and read like a technical document.
For examples of types of reports, look at the ebook by Bowden (2011). It is likely that your project would be best presented by one of the technical/technological variants given in Part 3.

It will need:

an appropriate title page a one-page summary
an introduction which will describe the context and the aims of the project. It will draw on the literature review
methodology description of activities
a presentation and an evaluation of the results a discussion leading to your conclusions
a list of references (and possibly a bibliography) along with any acknowledgements appendices (see below) and, if necessary, a glossary.

As the word limits are tight, please consider using diagrams and other graphics to describe your work. They are an important and efficient means of engineering communication.

The markers will ask:

1. What was intended to be done and why?

They will expect, in an Introduction:

an updated version of your Introduction from TMA03- your aims and objectives may have altered as your project evolved, and this is acceptable
a description of the context of your project, including the background showing why there is a need for the work you have carried out in your particular project.
a clear technical explanation of your aims
a short section explaining how you responded to feedback from TMA03

2. What was done, how was it done and why?

They will expect in the Methodology or Approach section:

a description of your methods. These will be based on your literature review and your engineering study
a description and a justification of the particular approach you decided to use for your work
a report of the activities that you undertook as you worked through your project. This will build on the work you did for Task 3 of TMA 03.

Be careful not to write just a narrative for this last point, so avoid ‘I did this, then I did that'. Your activities need to be described in technical terms and backed up by engineering judgements. It is important, for instance, that you indicate key stages of your project. You should identify what these were and justify the decisions you made as a consequence of work done during each stage. If you changed your aims, you should say so here and include your reasons.

Ensure that you include sufficient detail for your markers to be able to follow how and why you arrived at your outcomes. For example, where you have responded to feedback from your tutor and Internal Examiner, your decisions should be indicated and explained.

3. Finally, what were the outcomes of the work and what was your evaluation of them?

It is here that you are expected to show your engineering understanding. Interpreting the results and what they demonstrate. Be critical about the methods you used and how well they worked. This needs to be an evaluation of the process, reflecting on the limitations and accuracy of the techniques used.

The markers will expect to see in Results and Conclusions sections your technical results and conclusions an evaluation of the results any supporting information that is better in the report itself, rather than in an Appendix (see the information about appendices below).

3 poster
Imagine you are going to a conference of experts and students in the field of your project. At this conference you have to present a poster that summarises your project. Your poster will be displayed in a public area and should be legible from a distance of about 1 metre. As a rough guide, presume a reader will spend no more than five minutes reading it. You should present your work on a poster, for display in an area of up to 1 square metre.

Posters at a conference are used to describe work in progress or completed work. It is vital to communicate the current state of the work and any significant results and milestones. Your poster might include:

short introduction to poster
a description of some completed work the main outcome
the route to the outcome the value of the outcome
an indication of related future work.

It should:

be visually attractive with diagrams, graphics, and so on be viewed as an integral item not include references.

Your project will have been lengthy, and you won't be able to cover all the detail on a single poster. You will need to be selective about what material you choose to display, and how you communicate your ideas effectively. It should be possible for someone familiar with the field to read your poster and understand your work and its results without further explanation.

There are a number of ways of creating your poster but remember that it will need to be submitted electronically. Using a series of Word files with graphical images is a possibility as is a digital photo of a hard copy poster.

4 presentation slides
An effective and common communication tool for disseminating the aims and outcomes of any project is an oral presentation. You are not required to make an oral presentation as part of the T460 assessment, but you have to prepare the slides for such a presentation of your project. Summarise the main aspects of your project using about 10-12 slides, which should correspond to an oral presentation which would last 5-10 minutes. The tone of your presentation should be for an audience of fellow students. The contents of your slides should reflect the main points of your project report, but obviously not in detail. As in the poster presentation, you need to select only the material that you deem to be important.

Your slides should include the following components:

title page
the aim(s) of your project
the work (analysis/methods) you carried out to achieve the aims your findings/results
the significance of the results conclusions.

The function of the slides in a presentation are twofold: (1) to display visual material, such as schematics and graphical plots; (2) to remind the presenter of the contents and the order of the presented work. Hence, the slides should not include long sentences - preferably the text should be given in bulleted lists and/or note boxes. Please read the Study guide for advice on preparing effective presentation slides.

Your presentation slides should only include static images and graphics. You should not use any multimedia or animations. Because of the size limitation of the submitted files, you will need to convert your presentation slides into .pdf format. You can generate the slides using a variety of commercial and free presentation software (see the Study guide for a list). The only requirement is that the page set-up should be in landscape format, which is the standard in presentations.

5 review

Word limit: 700 words maximum

What have you learned from doing the project?

This final part of your report is asking you to reflect on the project by looking back over your project and asking yourself:

how your skills have changed
how your skills now match with UK-SPEC (Engineering Council, 2020).

Using the work you did in the TMA 01, where you identified those Chartered Engineer competences which are relevant to your project, critically assess your development of those competences.

This question is asking you to be reflective about the work that you have undertaken. It is therefore appropriate for you to adopt a more personal tone and use the first person in your answer.

Attachment:- Project presentation.rar