Undergraduate Course: Group Design Project (Potable Water Supply) (SCEE11003)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This project is intended to introduce the students to multidisciplinary planning and design. The project should develop creative thinking, team skills and an improved understanding of other disciplines and how they come into play in a multidisciplinary project.
Interdisciplinary teams from several Engineering backgrounds (e.g. Civil, Chemical, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering) will arrive at a detailed design of a Water Treatment Plant set in a particular context, i.e. geographical position, population and with a given raw water quality. The aim is to work as a team and provide a detailed design and economic cost of the water treatment plant including: raw water delivery, water treatment, sludge treatment, potable water supply to the delivery point and treated water storage at that point. |
| Course description |
The course may be taken by students of Chemical, Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering and Electronics. It takes the form of a multi-disciplinary design project. The project is scheduled to run on one supervised afternoon per week, and students will need to devote considerable self study time also. It is a group project. The project will be inter-disciplinary and requires team effort. Areas of principal responsibility exist in each of the engineering disciplines. The project brief will be issued at the start of the course. Project groups will have weekly meetings with their project advisers, one of whom is a Visiting Professor with considerable industrial experience.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 28 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 33,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 4,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
138 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The assessment will be based on the submitted reports and on the project presentation. The allocation of marks will be as follows:
Options Report 35%
Final Report 55%
Design Presentation 10% |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
This course is intended to:
- encourage questioning and creative thinking;
- develop skills in problem identification and study planning;
- provide a realistic team working environment;
- further develop communication skills.
By the end of the project the student should have:
- improved team working skills;
- improved communication skills;
- a better appreciation of project planning issues;
- an appetite for creative engineering and planning.
Specific technical outcomes will include:
- familiarity of and competency in water treatment plant design;
- assessment of water resources and quality requirements,
- raw water and treated water delivery design and economical analysis including pipeline design, bridge design, sensors required, etc.
- water treatment process design including processes such as coagulation, clarification, etc. as well as sludge treatment design, and economic and environmental assessment.
- service reservoir design and economic analysis.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Andrea Correia Semiao
Tel: (0131 6)50 5792
Email: Andrea.Semiao@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Craig Hovell
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
Email: c.hovell@ed.ac.uk |
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