Postgraduate Course: Pre-Dissertation Project in Fire Safety Engineering (PGEE11036)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | Short research project, undertaken as a preparation for the main project leading to MSc Dissertation (except for Diploma students). | 
 
| Course description | 
    
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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 2018/19, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 2 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
200
(
 Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 6,
 Formative Assessment Hours 1,
 Summative Assessment Hours 20,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
169 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Assessment of the written submission (report) (80%), satisfactory progress (20%) | 
 
| Feedback | 
Supervision meetings. | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    To enable students to do a preliminary investigation of a complex research topic.  
To enable students to make interim conclusions about a complex research question in a short space of time.  
To learn to identify and prioritise the key sub-topics relevant to their chosen topic of research for further detailed investigation.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Keywords | Structural and Fire Safety Engineering | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Stephen Welch 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5734 
Email: S.Welch@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Margaret Robertson 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5565 
Email: margaret.robertson@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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