Who does ECS3 and TDP

Engineering Career Skills 3 Skills of use now, and a starting point for building up the skills you will need for the rest of your career

Course Runs in Parallel with TDP In the same teams as TDP Have the same supervisor No exams Mixture of team and individual assessment

Extract from timetable WeekStaffEngineering Career Skills (ECS)Team Design Project (TDP) (formal instruction) 1*NPJ/ DSM Lecture: Introduction to ECS and TDP. 12-1pm (Level 1 Lecture Theatre) 2*ED/ (Annie Donald- son) Lecture Report Writing, the basics Assignment: One- two page formal report based on informal journal or Web article. Wed 5 th 12-1pm Team Building Workshop Allocation of teams Friday 2 pm -5 pm 7 th Oct 3*Tutors/ DSM Meet with Supervisors/Tutors Group AssignmentLecture: Practical elements of electronics construction. Boxes, fuses, cables, static handling 4*DSMLecture: PERT charts Assignment: develop PERT chart for TDP3 for week 6 5*Tutors/ FR Return and discuss 1-2 page reports marked by EFL Refresher 6808 Microcontrollers lecture 6*VA/NPJ/Tut ors/FR Lecture: Oral presentations and preparation of overheads and slides. Compulsory Lab with tutors Wed 3 rd November 7* ACB/NPJ Lecture: Health and Safety. Assignment: To make risk assessment. Refresher 6808 lab level 3 Microcontrollers

Some Reasons why Writing is Important to Engineers Telling someone how to use a widget Asking for money to build a better widget Telling the boss or customer that this is the best execution of a project ever (in a non- boastful way) Getting a better job Asking for a pay rise!

Writing is one of the Major Skills Each task connects other skills References Writing about what you have done Use of formal language Searching & Organisation of information

Team assessed work Health and Safety risk assessment around 1/2 a page each member of the team Intellectual Property case study15 minute oral presentation Practical elements of electronic construction one page from each member of the team

Task Team

The bottom line -assessment All assignments to be handed to your supervisor except the formal report, essay outline and essay which are to be handed in to Ms L Higgins in the Departmental office room 720 (12 noon) TypeGiven Required Details 10Formal Report05/10/05 (2)19/10/05 (4)1-2 page written report (individual) 5Health and Safety16/11/05 (8)30/11/05 (10)Risk Assessment (team) 10Intellectual Property Case study 09/12/05 (11)01/02/06 (16)15-minute oral presentation (team) 10Practical Elements of Electronic Construction 25/01/06 (15)8/02/06 (18)6-page written report (team) 15Researched report08/02/06 (15)02/03/06 (18)2-page written report with critical analysis (individual) 10Technical Essay Outline09/03/06 (19)26/04/06 (23)Outline (individual) 40Technical essay26/04/06 (23)04/10/06(year4)Final submission (individual) %

Conclusion Do it well - it counts –for marks –for getting the first job –for use throughout your careers