Postgraduate Course: Dissertation (MSc in Structural and Fire Safety Engineering) (PGEE11035)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Dissertation |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 60 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | MSc Dissertation |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
The course will be assessed through a submitted dissertation and oral presentation. A fixed portion of the former will be based on "regular reporting" to the supervisor and "achieving a steady rate of progress" in peforming the research tasks and will be awarded on the discretion of the supervisor.
The oral presentation will be undertaken as part of the final event of the course, i.e. "Poster Day", to which a wide audience will be invited. The student can choose whether to present from the poster itself or to use a few PowerPoint slides. Whichever mechanism, the time limit for the presentation is strictly 10 minutes.
Practical matters - thesis cover sheets are required, and are available from ETO. The dissertation can be printed and bound at the KB copy centre (NB - costs are payable by student). The dissertation should be submitted in hard copy to the ETO (two copies required) and electronically via Learn, both prior to the declared submission deadline (see SAFE MSc Course Handbook).
Posters can also be printed at the university, see uCreate on the university website:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/help-consultancy/ucreate/facilities/printing/printing
uCreate KB has two plotters (one loaded with plain paper and the other with glossy paper) located on the first floor of the KB Library Study Centre. The KB Library Study Centre is adjascent to the Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library at King's Buildings. Plots can normally be sent and collected within an hour; the KB copy centre also has a poster printing service but collection may be next day.
Templates for the poster and presentation will be made available via the course page on Learn. |
| Course Start Date |
21/04/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
600
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
588 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will apply the knowledge gained from the taught courses to an intellectually demanding research topic of their choice (selected from the choices made available to them).
They will carry out the research either independently, or with minimal supervision.
They will learn to use research resources (library, WWW, advanced engineering computational software) imaginatively to produce meaningful answers to the questions posed in their chosen research.
Specific learning outcomes are as follows:
* deepen the student's understanding of an area of knowledge which holds special interest for them;
* strengthen the student's ability to undertake autonomous engineering work on subjects of which they has been taught little;
* increase the student's confidence that they can tackle any reasonable problem within their speciality in structural and fire safety engineering;
* develop skills in the oral presentation of individual work, including explaining the nature of the problem to staff and interested parties who have no special knowledge of the topic;
* develop skills in the preparation of a substantial technical report: structured writing, presentation of information in a variety of ways;
* critical appraisal of data, synthesis of diverse information (technical literature, model results, etc.) 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.
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Assessment Information
Assessment of satisfactory progress - 20%
Assessment of the written submission - 60%
Assessment of oral defence (poster presentation) - 20% |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Stephen Welch
Tel: (0131 6)50 5734
Email: S.Welch@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Craig Hovell
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
Email: c.hovell@ed.ac.uk |
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