1. Building Bridges (!) Academic Quality & Enhancemnet Engineering & Information Sciences

2. How it was before… Constrained Proceses (?!)

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4. Building Bridges to Students Individual staff has access to students whom they are supervising and assessing via the “Manage my students” page.

5. Project Tutors have access to overall results and are able to view and produce graphical representation of the statistics. Shared with Board of Examiners. Building Bridges ‘Examiners’

6. Building Bridges Consider the following two equations:- BLU Project: The Longitude Project (MDBL) Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Students

7. Building Bridges through KTPs Industrial aims are: - – to have a product for release this year in September 2009 –Academic knowledge in CFD and modelling techniques School aims are: - –Commercial income –Knowledge acquisition & industrial case studies Achievments to date:- KTA is our own graduate – ‘employability’; 5 Students industrial project in 2008; PhD student involvement – anti-condensation and drying issues; Staff engagement in the business facing activity. Future expectations: Building a drying centre – energy saving and sustainably; MEng group projects.

8. Building Bridges FAQEC – between the centre, Faculties and the Faculty, and within the Faculty; –FLTEG – sharing of experience – knowledge transfer internally & externally, innovation and colloboration; DAG & SBUs –Strategic and tactical timing issues.

9. Developmental facets: –FACO: outputs should lead to enhancements in the ‘design of assessments’ as well as ‘education of our new students”; –Programme Tutors - AMER Authors; –Chair to Programme Development Committees; –Establish a reliable network of Alumni for review of the programmes. Building Bridges

10. In the words of Deming & Goldratt: - ‘Quality’ of a product, service, process is as good as its ‘Contraint’. Promote the ‘Contraint’ then work on it to Improve! Building Bridges