Undergraduate Course: BEng Thesis 4 (Civil & Environmental Engineering) (CIVE10013)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Engineering |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
40 |
| Home subject area |
Civil |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
Every student is required to submit an individually written thesis on a research, review or design project by the end of the honours year. The honours thesis is an opportunity for the student to undertake an original study of a challenging engineering problem. It is intended to advance knowledge and most topics are topical research projects, based on the research activity of the supervising member of staff. It is the student's greatest opportunity to show individual intelligence, enterprise, ability, vigour and an aptitude for engineering excellence in a forthcoming career. Students are encouraged to undertake the study of a topic in pairs. This provides them with the opportunity to expand their skills in cooperation and task division, which is a normal feature of engineering activity. It also permits them to make considerably more progress in studying a challenging problem, and ensures that they have generated a significant amount of new knowledge by the end which they must present coherently without being able to find it described in published literature. Each student must write their own individual thesis. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
This course is intended to:
- deepen the student's understanding of an area of knowledge which holds special interest for him or her;
- strengthen the student's ability to undertake autonomous engineering work on subjects of which he or she has been taught little;
- increase the student's confidence that he or she can tackle any reasonable problem within his or her speciality in civil engineering;
- develop skills in the oral presentation of individual work, including explaining the nature of the problem to academic staff who have no special knowledge of the topic;
- develop skills in the preparation of a large report: structured writing, presentation of information in a variety of ways; - critical appraisal of data and the drawing of appropriate conclusions from it;
- develop skills in the defence of a body of work which the student has undertaken in front of critical assessors. |
Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed through a poster presentation, assessment of the submitted thesis and oral examination |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Simon Smith
Tel: (0131 6)50 7159
Email: Simon.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Ms Helen Bain
Tel: (0131 6)51 7159
Email: v1hbain@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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