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ME50390: Agile and effective working practices

[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWES 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Professional Working Practices Essay (CWES 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Reflect on and debate the challenges and opportunities of working in diverse agile teams to develop new automotive technologies
2. Assess ethical frameworks and their principles for enabling responsible engineering and sustainable solutions
3. Apply effective research methods and information analysis skills
4. Develop an individual action plan based on your identified CPD requirements.


Synopsis: Develop your knowledge and familiarity with a range of professional skills and agile research techniques essential for the dynamic nature of the automotive engineering sector.
You will explore and debate topics relating to responsible research and innovation, ethics, and diversity, and creativity and compassion.

Content:
* Communication, effective team working, ethics
* Effective debating in diverse communities
* Time management, CPD and structured reflection
* Responsible research and innovation
* Agile working techniques
* Information skills (literature searching, critical analysis, referencing and plagiarism)
* Ethical frameworks.

Course availability:

ME50390 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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