Aim - To assess the students understanding of Research Methods & achievement of learning outcomes of the module with respect to the abilities to critically analyse technical papers, interpret scientific & technical data, proper referencing and citation of the literature
Objective - Assess the students understanding & knowledge of specific skills required in understanding research.A. Knowledge and understanding of the topic
- Demonstrate knowledge of acquisition of information
- Demonstrate appropriate application of module knowledge
- Demonstrate wider reading and comprehension of topic
B. Application and analysis of the topic
- Define a problem and identify constraints & use creativity and innovation to customer and end users.
- Understanding of the requirement for engineering activities to promote sustainable development.
- Understanding the needs for high level professional and ethical conduct in engineering with knowledge based contexts.
- Ability to use and apply information from technical literature and awareness of quality issues and their application to continuous improvement.
C. The structure in terms of logic and coherence
Submissions should have a clear start and a clear end. Information within submissions should also be logical and well grouped.
D. The use of relevant work examples and/or examples gained from further reading
Suggestions for further reading are contained within the course work and indicated at the end of the course work. These reading lists are not exhaustive and candidates are encouraged to read further and reference at the end of the course work using CCE Harvard style of referencing.
Task:
Task1: A technical paper will be given to the student by his/her Project Supervisor or Module tutor and he/she will be required to write a critical analysis and an abstract based on the scientific information available in the paper.
Abstract:
The Abstract must contain description of the topic, important applications of the topic, brief description about previous literature present in the paper, methodology adopted by the author, important results obtained and conclusions derived from the results. The word count is limited to 250.
Critical Analysis: With the introduction to the topic, students are expected to critically analyze the literature part that contains key findings of previous authors, methodology adopted in given paper, parameters used for analysis, analyze the results obtained (from graphs / tables) and important conclusions derived based on the result. Each topic has to be separately presented in the form of paragraphs and the word count for this part is limited to a range of 500 to 750.
TASK- 2: Visit the Library & Resource Center, e-brary and Internet sites and look for the literature like books, e-books, journal/conference papers, report, articles, videos etc., (preferably) related to the project topic or area. For this literature found, write the in-text citation and prepare the reference in CCE-Harvard referencing style.
There must be: 2 Library books or E-library books, 5 Journal or Conference Papers/Reports or Magazine Articles etc., 2 Web based resource like websites, electronic report, videos etc. and 1Image in Book