This open ended assignment is designed to assess your knowledge and skills to research
an engineering subject area relevant to your course of study, discuss your findings,
propose a research project and write a structured report.
The Task:
(a) Select an engineering topic that is of interest to you personally and relevant to your
course of study.
(b) Research the topic using physical and electronic resources of the university library
(preferred), or external sources, to identify and review recent research reports,
ideally published within the past 5 years in peer reviewed journals or conferences.
(c) Critically analyse the outcomes that have been presented in two of the sources
you have reviewed in terms of their methodologies, data collection and
interpretation process.
(d) Write a structured report explaining your research process to find and select two
sources in (c) above, compare and contrast them, presenting your analysis of their
findings, and how such analysis has helped to increase your knowledge of the
subject.
(e) Your report should also include a tentative project proposal, annexed to the
report, demonstrating how the subject area can be further developed by carrying
out a project at master level. use the proposal template on the Studyspace
(f) The report should be of 3000 words including a project proposal of not more than
1000 words. It must be properly structured, accurately referenced, and correctly
presented. In addition to reference citation in the body of the report all illustrations
should also be captioned and appropriately referenced.