Undergraduate Course: MEng Thesis 5 (Discipline of Civil & Environmental Engineering) (CIVE11031)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | Every student is required to submit an individually written thesis on a research 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. The course provides an opportunity for the students 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 his or her own individual thesis.
The course must be taken in conjunction with CIVE11032: Research Method and Application in Civil & Environmental Engineering 5
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| Course description |
Students are briefed on the general requirements of the thesis at the start of the course. Work is then done on a self-study basis with the supervision of an academic member of staff. Further details are given in the "Thesis Project Handbook" that accompanies both this and the Research Methods course (CIVE11032)
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2018/19, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 40,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
330 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Feedback |
Interaction with supervisors and through feedback on deliverables |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- show adequate knowledge of the field of study and relevant literature; strengthen the student's ability to undertake autonomous engineering work on subjects of which he or she has been taught little; make links between the field of study and cognate subdisciplines
- demonstrate skill in organisation of individual research; have developed teamwork organisation and cooperation in developing and executing a work plan
- gain ability to marshal diverse academic and engineering skills in a problem-solving context;
- demonstrate skill in presentation, including defence of selected research approaches; demonstrate advanced skill in report preparation, organisation and presentation; develop skills in the defence of a body of work in front of critical assessors
- show ability to think critically in (as appropriate) evaluation of experimental data, theory, and literature results
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Reading List
| Fellows, R and Liu, A (2003). "Research Methods for Construction, Second Edition", Blackwell, Oxford, UK. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research ability, team work, project management |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The thesis research is self-directed. It is carried out with the guidance of academic supervisor(s), and it is the students' responsibility to arrange regular meetings to evaluate and discuss progress. |
| Keywords | Thesis,Dissertation,Research Project |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Grunde Jomaas
Tel: (0131 6)50 7209
Email: Grunde.Jomaas@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Margaret Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5565
Email: margaret.robertson@ed.ac.uk |
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