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ME52046: Consultancy project

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 30 [equivalent to 60 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 600
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Dissertation Period
Assessment Summary: CWES 40%, CWOG 20%, CWRG 40%
Assessment Detail:
  • Consulting Project Business Report (CWRG 40%)
  • Consulting Project Business Presentation (CWOG 20%)
  • Consulting Project Individual Essay (CWES 40%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes:
  • Plan and conduct a project on practice based business issues.
  • Critically assess the particular challenges confronting actual businesses.
  • Evaluate the need for and sources of relevant data and support your arguments with relevant empirical evidence.
  • Develop viable alternatives and how they would contribute to management solutions.
  • Reflect on the outcomes of an activity and the processes that led to those outcomes.
  • Present outcomes and reflections in written and oral form.



Synopsis: Apply skills, concepts and techniques learnt during your course to a real industry project. Working in groups with one of our industry partners, You will work on a real business opportunity or challenge. You will use your team dynamics and project management skills to investigate the issue and recommend viable solutions.

Content: Students will work in groups on a project set by a company. The scope of the project is a real-world engineering management or technology management opportunity or challenge that they have in their business. The project teams will plan and execute a consulting project to analyse the challenge, research alternative solutions and formulate recommendations which they will present back to the sponsoring company. The project will be undertaken full-time based at the university culminating in presenting the findings to the sponsoring company and producing a comprehensive business report. In taking the role of a consulting team, teams will need to manage their customers' expectations and ensure that the outcomes meet their expectations. Presenting alternatives and a viable solution necessitates effective management of team dynamics and project management skills. Students are also expected to reflect on their own learnings from the experience including how effective they were as an individual or a team in applying engineering and technology management skills and techniques.

Course availability:

ME52046 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Mechanical Engineering School of Management

Notes:

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