MSc Thermal Power & Fluid Engineering

Year of entry: 2024

Course unit details:
Dissertation (Thermal Power & Fluids Engineering)

Course unit fact file
Unit code MECH60200
Credit rating 60
Unit level FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree
Teaching period(s) Full year
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

This course unit detail provides the framework for delivery in 20/21 and may be subject to change due to any additional Covid-19 impact.  Please see Blackboard / course unit related emails for any further updates.

Students carry out an individual project of about three month's duration in an area related to the preceding taught programme Units. Depending on the subject chosen, this work can be experimental in nature or can involve modelling and simulation, or can be a combination of both. The work is then written up in the form of a Dissertation.

Aims

The aim of this module is to carry out a substantial piece of research work in a specific technological area and report on this work in the form of a Dissertation.

Assessment methods

Method Weight
Dissertation 100%

Feedback methods

Written feedback provided as part of research methods module. Verbal feedback provided at regular project supervisor/student meetings.

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Practical classes & workshops 6
Tutorials 24
Independent study hours
Independent study 570

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Robert Prosser Unit coordinator

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