professional development from entrant to graduate
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Professional development
From entrant to graduate
Professional competence
• Technical competence subsumed in possession of RGU degree
• Employers want evidence of professional skills and attitudes
• These skills and attitudes should be subsumed in possession of RGU degree
Never Mind What’s Holding It Up. KEEP HAMMERING!!
What happened to the planning?
Where’s the support?
PACES
• Professional
• Academic
• Career
• Employability
• Skills
Format
• Activities and programmes outside academic class scheduled activities
• Includes group working, peer-teaching, peer-tutoring, industrial visits, speakers etc.
RAPID
• The “spine” is the online skills auditing and planning tool RAPID
• Students will start from Stage1 to learn to identify their strengths, weaknesses and achievement and how these have contributed to skills
• They will assess their level and identify opportunities to develop
• Tutor guidance will be available
Events
• Stage 1 – Activity week – Awayday– Design Make and Test (DMT) Project
• Stage 2 – The Energy Challenge• Stage 3 – Entrepreneurship Challenge
Competition• Honours Year – Residential Course to
hone interview skills
Design Make and Test (DMT) Project AW1
Remote operated vehicle (ROV)
• The Challenge Lives (1 week – 4 days)– Teams of about four – cross course– Design specification issued 1st Day– Design and make 1st three days– Competitive testing on Friday – Develop team working and comms skills
and gain appreciation of craft skills
Design Make and Test (DMT) Project – 2
• Mini-lectures on theory
• Apply theory
• Design and use experiments and testing
• Use construction skills
• Develop team working skills
• Develop communications skills
Design Make and Test (DMT) Project – 3
• Designs should be:
– Imaginative
– Realistic
– Effective
Deliverables
• 1 - ROV capable of lifting magnets from tank bottom
• 2 – Presentation on group operation (10 minutes)
• 3 – Team logbook showing how information, theory and experiment were used in the design
AWAYDAY (1 day)
• Workshop based and industrially situated
• Explore– Perceptions of students (am)– Motivations and expectations (am)– Employer expectations (am)– Study skills (pm)– Career development (pm)– Graduate experiences (pm)
Fresher to graduate .. and beyond
• Why engineering? – the goal
• What’s the course like? – good and hopefully not too much bad or ugly
• What is expected of me? – now and by graduation
• What will motivate me?
• What will help me? Eng07
ScheduleSection
Teams
Monday Tuesday Wed’day Thursday Friday
A1 – 5
Petrofac
Dril-Quip
Design & make
Design & make
Design & make
B6 – 10
Design & make
Total Design & make
Design & make
C11 – 15
Design & make
Design & make
Amec Design & make
D16 – 20
Design & make
Design & make
Design & make
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Second year Activity Week AW2
• Format very similar to year 1 (AW1)• Energy challenge to assess various
simulated renewable energy sources then design machine utilising power from selected source
• Systems integration• Skills and attitudes same as AW1
but advancement expected
Design Make and Test (DMT) Project AW2
• The Energy Challenge (1 week – 4 days)– Teams of about ten – cross course– Design spec issued and mini-lectures 1st Day– Amec mini-challenge 2 hours day 1– Design and make 1st three days– Competitive testing on Friday – Develop team working and comms skills and
systems integration skills
AWAYDAY 2 (1 day)
• Workshop based and industrially situated (graduate led)
• Explore– Review PD progress– Learn about company and graduate
careers– Case study sustainability– Case study ethics– Graduate experiences (pm)
ScheduleSection
Teams
Monday Tuesday Wed’day Thursday Friday
A1 - 3
Intro + Mini-lectures
Design & make
Amec Mini-project
Bureau
Veritas
Design & make
Design & make
B4 - 6
Design & make
BP Design & make
C7 - 9
Design & make
Design & make
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Entrant Graduate
Questions?