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ENGG71000 Advanced Vehicle Dynamics - Staffordshire University
Portfolio Workbook and Template
Learning Outcome 1: Articulate substantial engagement with the competences required from a professional engineer and demonstrate personal development lessons learned.
Learning Outcome 2: Identify areas you want and need to improve in order to develop your professional development requirements as a chartered engineer.
Learning Outcome 3: Produce a Personal Development Plan, designed to improve your learning capabilities and support your academic and professional success. Plan self-learning and improve performance as the foundation for Life long learning and CPD.
Report 1: Your Professional Profile - Professional Standards and Competences
Answer the questions below in order to record your current position and plan towards achieving CEng status.
Activity 1: Professional Engineer Current Position Template
A Knowledge and Understanding
B Design, Development and Solving Engineering Problems
C Responsibility, Management and Leadership
D Communication and Interpersonal Skills
E Personal and Professional Commitment
From the above, identify which area you most need to develop and how you could progress this over the following months (100 words).
Identify what steps you need to take over the next 3 months in order to progress with your engagement with the Professional body (100 words)
Week 3: Goal Setting
By the end of this session, you should:
recognise the importance of goal setting in Personal and Professional Development
be able to apply strategies for goal setting
be able to evaluate goals that are important to you
have started to set three development goals for the year.
Activity 2: complete the Goals Matrix below to get you started
D1 - Communicate with others at all levels, in English
D2 Clearly present and discuss proposals, justifications and conclusions.
D3 Demonstrate personal and Social Skills and Awareness of Diversity and Inclusion issues.
E1 Understand and comply with relevant codes of conduct.
E2 Understand the safety implications of their role and manage and apply safe systems of working.
E3 Understand the Principles of sustainable development and apply them in their work.
E4 Carry out and record the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) necessary to maintain and enhance competence in their own area of practice.
E5 Understand the Ethical Issues that may arise in their role and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.
C1 Plan the work and resources needed to enable effective implementation of a significant engineering project
C2 Manage programme or schedule, budget and resource elements of a significant engineering task or project.
C3 Lead Teams or Technical Specialisms and assist others to meet changing technical and managerial needs.
Activity 3: complete the Personal Development Plan Template
Activity 1, consider your priorities by examining your scores in Column C. Are they goals you want to work on and achieve this Academic year? Choose one of these goals to take forward.
Why you have chosen this goal to work on:
In the UK SPEC Each goal is related to a number of bullet points which indicate the type of evidence that can be used to demonstrate that goal. Gathering this evidence could be considered as a sub-goal. For the goal that you have chosen, list the sub-goals in the table below. Use the template below to make notes as you go along: when stating the sub-goal in the left-hand column, briefly state where you think you will find the evidence for this. This may be work that you need to do during the year or evidence that you already have that you need to record against the goal. Record the date when you expect to have the evidence and any resource that you need to achieve it.
Activity 4: Achieving Goals Planner (Cottrell 2019)
Complete the matrix below for one of your sub-goals. This is to help you self-assess what obstacles you may face in achieving your goals.
Week 4: CV Writing
At the end of this session, you will:
be able to explain the importance of a CV
have learnt what makes for a great CV
practice a key component of a CV
have discussed how to improve your CV.
Week 5: Report Writing, Referencing and Presentation Skills
By the end of this session, you will:
have discussed the characteristics of good and bad communicators
be able to explain the key drivers of communication
identified three techniques to help you become a brilliant communicator
have learnt and practised how to plan a simple presentation
be aware of what you can do to make your messaging clearer.
Activity 1: Good and Bad Presenters
Excellent Presenter: who and why?
Bad Presenter: who and why?
Activity 3: Presentation Planner
Use the planner on the next page to help you structure your presentation. You should do this as soon as possible after your PPD Presentation Skills session. REMEMBER: grab the Tutor's attention in the first 90 seconds!
Week 5: Harvard Referencing
By the end of this session, you will:
recognise the importance Harvard Referencing
know when you need to cite and reference
be confident in using Harvard Referencing
understand the difference between Professional and Academic articles.
Activity 1: Referencing - Why?
In groups, come up with reasons why you might need to reference your work.
Activity 2: Plagiarism - Is there a valid reason?
In groups, come up with as many common reasons for plagiarism as you can think of. In other words, why would a student want to resort to plagiarism?
Week 6 : Reflective Practice
By the end of this session, you should be:
able to recognise the importance of personal reflection
confident in interpreting and using Gibbs Reflective Model
able to explain what makes ‘critical reflection' critical
able to understand how critically reflective writing is assessed in your portfolio
feel confident in starting to write critically, using a hypothetical case study.
Activity 1: Reflective Writing
Considering Gibbs Reflective Cycle (see below), read scenarios 1 and 2, and comment on each one in terms of what are the good and bad aspects of the reflective writing.
Scenario 1
Jackie is studying a Level 4 skills module. She has just given a presentation as part of that module and has been asked to assess how she got on in a reflective manner as part of the assessment of the module.
Scenario 2
Annie is also a Level 4 student. She has just given a presentation as part of her PPD module and has been asked to assess how she got on in a reflective manner as part of the assessment of the module.
Activity 2: Reflective Writing
Read Scenario 3 below and consider whether it is a ‘full-moon' or ‘half-moon' reflection and discuss with your partner what steps are missing. Also consider what could be improved.
Scenario 3
Goal 1: Academic: to get a 2:1 in my [X] assignment.
Action Plan: Milestones
1. Start my assignment at least a month before the hand-in date PARTLY ACHIEVED
2. Hand in a draft by the date for feedback NOT ACHEIVED
3. Attend all lectures and tutorials PARTLY ACHIEVED
Week 6 : Team Working
By the end of this session, you will...
have discussed what a team is and what makes a great team
have had fun working in a team exercise
have had the opportunity to reflect on your personal goals and attributes relating to teamwork.
Activity 1: What makes a GREAT team?
What are the attributes and features of a great team? Make some notes below...
Reflections on team working: What are you good at? What do you need to improve? What resources or support can you use to help you?
Activity 2: Reflection on Team Working - This is a ‘practice' reflection which you can use to get formative feedback on your work from the tutor.
Reflecting on a recent experience of working in an Engineering team write a reflective piece about your experience (around 50 words in each section).
What Happened?
What were you thinking and feeling?
Evaluation - what was good and bad about the experience?
Analysis - What sense can you make of the situation?
Conclusion - What else could you have done?
Action Plan - If this arose again what would you do?
Action Plan - Identify any further research or development activities that you could undertake to improve your performance in this area
Activity 1: Goal Update
Previously, you were asked to set your goals. In order to develop your action plan for next year, you need to understand the progress you have made:
Activity 2: Developing an Action Plan
A structured Action plan can help to clarify exactly what you hope to achieve as well as providing a framework to decide how you will achieve your goals. For your assignment, you are required to provide an Action Plan for next year. The plan must include justification as to why existing/new goals are being taken forward.
Attachment:- Advanced Vehicle Dynamics.rar