CE300-6-FY-AW:
Placement Year
2019/20
Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (School of)
Study Abroad or Industrial Placement
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 03 October 2019
Friday 26 June 2020
120
04 October 2018
Requisites for this module
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BSC I610 Computer Games (Including Placement Year),
BENGI120 Computer Networks (Including Placement Year),
BSC I101 Computer Science (Including Placement Year),
MSCII100 Computer Science (Integrated Masters, Including Placement Year),
BENGHP50 Computer Systems Engineering (Including Placement Year),
BENGI1H6 Computers with Electronics (Including Placement Year),
BENGHP10 Electronic Engineering (Including Placement Year),
MENGH614 Electronic Engineering (Integrated Masters, Including Placement Year),
BENGHPK1 Communications Engineering (Including Placement Year),
BSC I1GB Data Science and Analytics (Including Placement Year),
BENGH617 Robotic Engineering (Including Placement Year),
BSC G113 Computing (Including Placement Year),
BSC GH03 Computing and Electronics (Including Placement Year),
BSC H633 Electronics (Including Placement Year),
BENGH732 Mechatronic Systems (Including Placement Year)
This is a full year module available only to those students on degree courses which include the placement year. Students will undertake their placement at a host organisation. The student will be responsible for securing the placement with the assistance of the School and the Employability & Careers Centre.
The aim of the module is to give the student the opportunity to put their academic learning outcomes into a work context and to add work related learning outcomes to their portfolio.
Knowledge and understanding
An experience based understanding of work roles
Intellectual/cognitive skills
A capacity to connect subject specific theory to practice in a work environment
Practical Skills
Communicate with a range of colleagues and clients in a working environment
Key skills
Capacity to work in a team within a work environment
Improve personal professional practice through a reflective approach within a work environment.
Syllabus
The syllabus will be developed around the learning outcomes for each student and will be recorded on the training agreement signed by the student, the host organisation, and the University.
The learning and teaching methods will be dependent on the placement and will be recorded for an individual student on the training agreement signed by the placement provider, the student, and the University.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Reflective Essay |
|
100% |
Additional coursework information
The assessment of the placement year is through a single assessment comprises three components. An assessment of the student's performance in securing the placement, an assessment of the students performance during the placement, and an assessment of the students reflection on the placement. The first component will be assessed by the School Placement Officer. The second component comprises an assessment by the placement tutor in the form of a report on the students performance. The third component will be a reflective statement written by the student and based on a logbook maintained throughout the placement. This third component will be assessed by the students academic tutor. All three components are assessed as pass/fail. A pass grade in all three components leads to the award of 120 credits.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Module is either passed or marked as not completed.
Reassessment
Module is either passed or marked as not completed.
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal, email: dariush@essex.ac.uk.
CSEE School Office, email: csee-schooloffice (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address), Telephone 01206 872770
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Dr Jeremy Ian Hiller Gow
Goldsmiths College
Lecturer
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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