Global Engineering Challenge: Timetable

A short introduction outlining the value of the transferable skills you will develop during the Project Weeks and how these will support your future as an engineer. Please go to your assigned lecture theatre.

Your hub facilitator will deliver a presentation about how the module is run, what you need to do, and how you will be assessed. This will be the first session in your hub room, which you can find via the Hub Info page on this website. An icebreaker activity will follow to help you get to know the other members of your team.

Your hub facilitator will delivery a presentation and lead a discussion about the value of teamwork in delivering successful engineering projects.

Tools for being inclusive in your engineering practice are presented, including A-E prompts and bringing in/shutting out behaviours.

During this session you will use tools from inclusive engineering practice to write a team operating agreement. Please download the team operating agreement. Your hub facilitator will be available to support you. The team contract will be submitted for sign-off later in the day.

In this session you will begin working on your project. You are in the design phase, where you need to carry out background research to understand the context in which your solution will operate. A video and presentation will be delivered by the facilitator introducing a tool used to visualise the complexity of a design problem’s context, called a Rich Picture. For the remainder of the session, you will conduct research and illustrate your findings by creating a Rich Picture for your project.

A STEEPLE analysis is a framework that helps you consider your background research through a variety of lenses, ensuring you have thoroughly investigated the context. In this session you will use the STEEPLE Group Learn site to work through the teaching material about STEEPLE analysis and understand how to apply the framework. For the remainder of the session, you will perform a STEEPLE analysis for your project. When completed, you should add both the Rich Picture and the STEEPLE analysis to your group report. You can download the group report template from the assessment page Group Report Template.

This session is self-directed. It is an opportunity to finish the day’s deliverables, reflect on what you have learned, and look ahead. During this time you should complete and submit your first individual assessment: a mySkills reflection on inclusive practices. Please go to Blackboard to submit your individual assessment.

In this student-led first session of the day, your team should review the progress made yesterday and look ahead to understand the plan and deliverables for the rest of the day. Discuss how you are working as a team. Are you making good use of the inclusive teamworking skills you developed on Monday? How will you work and divide tasks today? Will one member of the team act as leader for the day, and should this be a rotating role?

In this phase of the design process, you need to articulate a precise engineering design brief. The hub facilitator will deliver a video and presentation on what a SMART question is and how to apply it to a design problem. Your hub facilitator will be available to help if needed. You will use the remainder of the session to develop a SMART question for your project. You will need to add your SMART question to your report during this session.

Ensure you use some of this time to take a mid-morning break. You do not need to spend the whole session on the break; some of it can be used to continue working on your project. You have flexibility in how you use this time. The facilitator will be available if you have any questions.

The next phase of the design process is to generate conceptual ideas to fulfil the design brief. Use the Group Learn site to work through the material in your groups and understand the behaviours of proposing and building during teamwork and idea generation. This will provide you with a structured methodology for brainstorming. Use the remainder of the session to generate conceptual ideas for your project, and add the most feasible ideas to the appropriate section of your group report.

In the next phase of the design process you will need to select one of your conceptual designs. There may be competing viewpoints and different advantages to different solutions. In this session your facilitator will present a design matrix tool to help you objectively decide which conceptual design to take forward. For the remainder of the session, you will apply a decision matrix to select your final conceptual design and add this design matrix to the appropriate section of your group report.

Now that your final design has been selected, you need to develop the engineering details of the product, such as its size, shape, manufacture, operation, and end-of-life disposal. Some questions to prompt your thinking have been prepared for you. During this session your faculty staff member will be available to support you. Once your detailed engineering design has been developed, you should add it to the appropriate section of your group report.

Ensure you use some of this time to take a mid-afternoon break. You do not need to spend the whole session on the break; some of it can be used to continue working on your project. You have flexibility in how you use this time.

This session is self-directed. It is an opportunity to finish the day’s deliverables, reflect on what you have learned, and look ahead. During this time you should complete and submit your second individual assessment: a multiple-choice test on the design process you have undertaken so far. Please go to the Blackboard to submit your individual assessment.

In this student-led first session of the day, your team should review the progress made yesterday and look ahead to understand the plan and deliverables for the rest of the day. How is your teamwork going? Today is the interim boardroom, so you may want to discuss how you will approach this as a team. Will one member act as leader for the day, and is this a different person from yesterday?

Your facilitator will deliver a presentation introducing the concepts of slide design, presenting information, and communicating numerical data. Use the remainder of the time to prepare your presentation for the interim boardroom this afternoon. Design your slides, plan what will be discussed, and decide who will present each part. Your hub facilitator will be available to support you.

Ensure you use some of this time to take a mid-morning break. You do not need to spend the whole session on the break; some of it can be used to continue working on your project. You have flexibility in how you use this time. The facilitator will be available if you have any questions.

Use this time to continue working on your project. You can continue with any deliverables not yet finished or prepare for the interim boardroom. Your facilitator will be there to support you, and your hub may be visited by an industrial mentor. During this session, you may also complete your third individual assessment: a multiple-choice test on presentation skills. Please go to the Blackboard to submit your individual assessment.

An employability-focused panel event in the basement of the Diamond where you can ask questions of industrialists and hear presentations about career opportunities.

Each group will take a turn to present their work so far to the facilitator, faculty staff, and an industry mentor. Teams that are not presenting should continue working on their projects in the hub room and plan to take a break during this time.

In this student-led first session of the day, your team should review the progress made yesterday and look ahead to understand the plan and deliverables for the rest of the day. How did the interim presentation go? What feedback did you receive, and how can you use this to improve for the final presentation on Friday? Today will involve considering the logistics of your project and evaluating its ethics, inclusivity, and sustainability. Will one member act as leader for the day, and is this a different person from yesterday?

Your final conceptual design may be a product or a service. However, you will typically need a business or organisation to prototype, test, build, distribute, and provide customer support. This is the point where an engineering design becomes a project, and a project needs to be planned. The hub facilitator will deliver a presentation introducing the key concepts of project planning. Use the remainder of the session to apply this knowledge and begin outlining a project plan for your design. Add this material to the appropriate section of your group report. Your hub facilitator will be available to help if needed.

Ensure you use some of this time to take a mid-morning break. You do not need to spend the whole session on the break; some of it can be used to continue working on your project. You have flexibility in how you use this time. The facilitator will be available if you have any questions.

In this session you should analyse the costs and feasibility of your project. Use the Group Learn site to work through the material in your groups and understand the payback method. Use the remainder of the session to apply costing analysis to your project, and add the output to the appropriate section of your group report.

Once your project has been planned, you should evaluate its ethical, sustainability, and inclusivity implications. In this session, use the Group Learn site to work through the material in your groups and learn how to perform an ethical analysis. Once you understand the method, apply what you have learned to carry out an ethical analysis of your project. Facilitators will be available to support you.

In this session, use the Group Learn site for evaluating sustainability to understand the triple bottom line approach, and then apply this method to your project. Do the same using the inclusivity Group Learn site: Inclusivity Group Learn. Once you have completed your ethical, sustainability, and inclusivity analyses, add these to the appropriate section of your group report. Faculty staff will be available in this session to support you.

Ensure you use some of this time to take a mid-afternoon break. You do not need to spend the whole session on the break; some of it can be used to continue working on your project. You have flexibility in how you use this time.

This session is self-directed. It is an opportunity to finish the day’s deliverables, reflect on what you have learned, and look ahead. During this time you should complete and submit your forth individual assessment: a multiple-choice test on the design evaluation process. Please go to the Blackboard to submit your individual assessment.

The final team meeting of the week. How has your team dynamic been evolving? What deliverables do you still need to complete, and how will your team ensure they are finished by the deadline? The final presentation is this afternoon, so plan how you will approach it.

Self-led time to continue working on the final parts of your project. During this time you should submit and complete your final individual assessment:Project Evaluation Reflection. - a mySkills reflection on the ethics, inclusivity, and sustainability evaluation of a project.

Use this time to take a mid-morning break. You may also choose to continue working on your project if you wish, but you will probably need a decent break after such a busy week!

Continue working on your project, group report and final presentation. Ensure all deliverables are submitted, individual assessments are completed, and your final presentation is ready. During this session your facilitator will be available to support you. Please go to the Blackboard to submit your group assessment.

Final preparation time to ensure everything is set up and ready for the final presentation.

The end of the week! In the final presentation, each group will take a turn to present their work to the facilitator, faculty staff, an industry mentor, and the rest of the groups in the hub. The google form to mark presenations is here. After all presentations conclude, scoring will be completed and the highest-scoring team in the hub announced. Then you can celebrate what you have achieved.