Reference no: EM132818077

EL4895 Engineering Project - University of Central Lancashire

Project title - "Reliability Optimisation of the Electric Car".

Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate the ability to frame, undertake and defend a significant project in an appropriate area of Engineering, with appropriate technical level and depth, identifying and selecting source materials, techniques and theories appropriate to the task.

Learning Outcome 2: Identify, implement and assess solutions to particular technical problems and challenges, as defined by the project area.

Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate their ability to communicate their findings in an effective manner in a variety of forms, including summary reports, presentations, and a final report (dissertation).

Assignment 1 - INTERIM REPORT

This project module requires a student to specify, plan, execute and report a programme of work leading to investigate a product, system, service by the following activities: design, analysis, implementation, simulation, evaluation, test, make or manufacture, with aspects involving the study of current research or advanced industrial developments and leading to the development of new knowledge, skills or applications for the chosen topic.

As EL4895 is run at a stage of the 30% to 45% expected completion time, there is an interim assessment, including two assessment components. This assignment brief is to set the first assessed component - Interim Report. It is supposed as a project specification and plan.

The project specification is a description of what you are working to achieve, and a plan is the schedule proposed to achieve it. By establishing a good specification and plan at the start of your work, your progress on the module will be more focused. As the ‘end' is defined first, you will be able to apply project management techniques to ensure that your effort progresses the work toward your goals. The specification and planning must be readable, unambiguous and complete.

The interim report is to describe the background of a MSc project, aims to the work, the progress to date and a plan for future work. It is required to write strictly in the style of a conference paper. A template is provided.

Part 1: Project Specification

With an agreed project proposal by both you and your supervisor, you need to specify your project in more details. Project specification is a crucial document which provides a yardstick to measure the performance of a project. The following contents are required.
• Project title
• Project proposer
• Project supervisor
• Abstract and key words
• Project rationale
Explains the issues and problems in certain engineering background, any impact of your research on the application, and how your proposed project will address them.

• Aims and objectives
Clarify the objectives of your project and make them SMART (specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and time-limited). If necessary, list the objectives as imperative and desirable.
Summarise them into aims.
• Methodology
Give a description on your principal method or approach with theories and knowledge in the project for addressing the issues identified in certain engineering application and potential innovation.
• Resources
Identify all the resources you may use for the project including hardware, software and major sources of information.
Write a specification for your project, following the guidance in lectures and from regularly meetings with your project supervisor.

Part 2: Project Planning

Produce an execution plan for your project as you have described in the specification. You should break the overall project into logical steps or subunits, determine the performance standards for each step, determine the time required to complete each step, and estimate the cost of each step and aggregate costs into the project budget.

Take account of the University Academic Calendar, project module deadlines, and other time constraints from your tutors, collaborating company, use of resources, etc. Use MS Project to plot your plan with steps, durations and deliverables, and attach an image to the document.

Part 3: Project Progress

Produce a short commentary to critically evaluate your work and progress, explain any change from your previous project proposal, and identify technical difficulty and any risk of resource requirements and external constraints on your execution as planned.

Assignment 2 - CONFERENCE-STYLED PRESENTATION

After an interim report is completed and submitted, the student is required to give an oral and visual presentation in the conference style. A student presentation shall be between 10 and 15 minutes to address the contents covered in the interim report, then followed by answering questions around 15 minutes with the supervisor and moderator.

Attachment:- Interim_report.rar