Building Bridges (!)

Academic Quality & Enhancemnet

Engineering & Information Sciences

How it was before…

How it was before…

Constrained Proceses (?!)

START Project TitlesProject

RegistrationProject

Allocation

Feasibility StudyProject SeminarPractical

Demonstration / Completion

Final ReportPoster

DemonstrationEND

ModerationGroup

ModerationGroup

ModerationAssessor

ModerationAssessor

ModerationGroup

START Project TitlesProject

RegistrationProject

Allocation

Feasibility StudyProject SeminarPractical

Demonstration / Completion

Final ReportPoster

DemonstrationEND

ModerationGroup

ModerationGroup

ModerationAssessor

ModerationAssessor

ModerationGroup

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Building Bridges to Students

Individual staff has access to students whom they are supervising and assessing

via the “Manage my students” page.

Project Tutors

have access to overall results and are able to view and produce graphical

representation of the statistics.

Shared with Board of Examiners.

Building Bridges ‘Examiners’

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Consider the following two equations:-

221 1 sinh 150

L L

L L

dy xS dx dx

dx a

sinhcosh , sinh , tanh

2 2 cosh

x x x x x x

x x

e e e e x e ex x x

x e e

BLU Project: The Longitude Project (MDBL)

Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Students

Building Bridges through KTPs

• Industrial aims are: -– to have a product for release this year in September 2009– Academic knowledge in CFD and modelling techniques

• School aims are: -– Commercial income– Knowledge acquisition & industrial case studies

Achievments to date:-

• KTA is our own graduate – ‘employability’;

• 5 Students industrial project in 2008;

• PhD student involvement – anti-condensation and drying issues;

• Staff engagement in the business facing activity.

Future expectations:

• Building a drying centre – energy saving and sustainably;

• MEng group projects.

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• FAQEC – between the centre, Faculties and the Faculty, and within the Faculty;– FLTEG – sharing of experience – knowledge

transfer internally & externally, innovation and colloboration;

• DAG & SBUs– Strategic and tactical timing issues.

• Developmental facets:– FACO: outputs should lead to enhancements

in the ‘design of assessments’ as well as ‘education of our new students”;

– Programme Tutors - AMER Authors;– Chair to Programme Development

Committees;– Establish a reliable network of Alumni for

review of the programmes.

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In the words of Deming & Goldratt: -

‘Quality’ of a product, service, process is as good as its ‘Contraint’.

Promote the ‘Contraint’ then work on it to Improve!

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