Advanced Materials Research & Communication

Code

MMME4055

School

Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering

Level

4

Credits

10

Semesters

Autumn UK

Summary

Advanced Materials is a module which requires personal engagement in the classes and there is no examination. In this way Advanced Materials is like the Individual Project. Advanced Materials has three cycles each comprising students individually preparing a talk, and report, on a topic within a theme and with a title that has been negotiated with the Advanced Materials Teachers (Prof AB Seddon, Dr X Hou and Dr I Ahmed) straight after the Teachers have delivered an introductory lecture on that theme. The point of the module is to improve oral presentation and engineering report-writing skills using advanced materials as a vehicle. The classes are seminars where good practice is openly discussed and materials' advantages and disadvantages are openly debated. Not to attend classes is not an option or failure of the module at the end is very likely to ensue. This module is designed to deal with a wide range of materials (including advanced metallic, ceramic, glass, composite and polymeric-based materials) for a wide range of applications. Also it considers materials' themes such as: aerospace materials, medical materials, coatings, carbon-based materials and so on. The module deals with: the underlying principles behind the suitability of material properties for the targeted applications; the processing of these materials; the effects of processing on their subsequent structure and properties and ultimate performance.

Re-assessment
Students who fail this module overall and are required to complete a re-assessment will be re-assessed in all failed assessment components. The re-assessment mark for the module will be a combination of the marks from components passed first time and the components which have been re-assessed.
 

Target Students

Final Year Undergraduate or Taught Masters Students in Materials, Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering. Second or Third Year Option for Chemistry or Physics Undergraduates.

Assessment

• 30% Coursework 1: Case study 1, 2000 word report and oral/visual presentation
• 35% Coursework 2: Case study 2, 2000 word report and oral/visual presentation
• 35% Coursework 3: Case study 3, 2000 word report and oral/visual presentation

Assessed by end of autumn semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students will be able to:

LO1 – Be able to abstract critical information from primary source literature like peer-reviewed learned journals on four different topic areas.
 

LO2 – Be able to synthesise this critical information into a formal engineering report.

LO3 – Be able to distil the essence of the engineering report into a short oral presentation.

Conveners

• Professor Angela Seddon