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 2015/16, 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
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- recommend and describe a viable engineering design solution for a given problem in the water treatment context, meeting the Client's requirements, whilst also meeting the aesthetic, environmental, economic and safety requirements that affect design;
- work and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary design team and appreciate the role of the team in developing design concepts and in peer review;
- encourage questioning and creative thinking when adopting a particular process design, substantiated by reasoned arguments, supplemented by design data and the literature.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| 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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