Undergraduate Course: Group Design Project (The Passive House) (SCEE11005)
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 students to multidisciplinary planning and design. The project should develop creative thinking, team skills, and an improved understanding of other disciplines.
Interdisciplinary teams will arrive at a detailed design for a sustainable (energy- and carbon-neutral) passive house. The course reflects rapidly-emerging trends in Building Services such as intelligent building control, passive heating, lighting and ventilation, all set in the context of increasingly stringent statutory requirements for energy use and savings. |
| 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.
Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP) learning outcomes for Mechanical Engineering degree: SM1m, SM3m, SM4m, SM6m, EA1m, EA2, EA3m, EA4m, EA5m, EA6m, D1, D2, D3, D3b, D3m, D4, D5, D7m, D8m, EL2, EL3m, EL4, EL5, EL6m, P1,P2m, P4m, P8m, P10m, P11m, G1, G2, G3m, G4
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Experience and practice of the challenges of creative design, including: iteration, compromise, uncertainty, optimisation, and choice.
- Work and communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary design team.
- Develop project planning skills.
- Communicate using drawings (sketches, technical drawings, CAD), written and verbal communication.
- Specific technical knowledge including: an understanding of a variety of energy-saving technologies; the ability to appraise, critically, these technologies in a particular setting, including assessment of cost-effectiveness.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Interdisciplinary,design,building services |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jane Blackford
Tel: (0131 6)50 5677
Email: jane.blackford@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr James Foster
Tel: (0131 6)51 3562
Email: James.Foster@ed.ac.uk |
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