PENG9100 Engineering Science and Ethics Course description

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Admission requirements.

Students have to write an individual report. An individual oral exam and the individual report will constitute the portfolio exam for the course. Both exams must be passed in order to pass the course.

The oral presentation cannot be appealed.

All aids are permitted.

The course will consist of six gatherings. Each gathering will contain a mixture of resource lectures on ethical theory, guest lecturers with examples of real-world engineering projects from several areas of engineering, and student presentation of relevant academic papers and cases. Each presentation will be followed by in-class discussions.

Pass or fail.

Two internal examiners. External examiner is used periodically.

Master's degree in engineering science or related fields. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of the various phases of planning and implementing a research project and the academic writing process, including literature reviews, and analysing and reporting data

The students will acquire a broad and concrete theoretical and practical perspective on the production and consumption of empirical research across the fields that compose engineering science. applied mathematics and physics in the broad sense, engineering and technology. They will be familiarised with how practical problems from these areas are translated into research questions and with how research problems can be defined in order to answer those research questions. The students will be introduced to a spectrum of quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method approaches, building on their exising expert knowledge, and learn how quantitative and qualitative analytical methods can provide insight into contemporary research issues in engineering science.

Pass or fail.

The presentation will be assessed by the course leader, whereas the reflection document will be assessed by the course leader together with an additional examiner. External examiner is used periodically.