EG5912: Process Safety Individual Project

EG5912: PROCESS SAFETY INDIVIDUAL PROJECT (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58

Course Overview

This course enables students to write a dissertation based on a process safety related topic. The wide aim of the course is to engage students in a problem which ties together the learning outcomes of the programme at an appropriate technical level.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	Third Term	Credit Points	60 credits (30 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Alfonso Martinez Felipe

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
Engineering (EG) (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

Content will be project-specific

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	20
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Agreed feedback between the two markers of the dissertation is provided to the student.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Project Report/Dissertation

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	80
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Agreed feedback between the two markers of the dissertation is provided to the student by their Supervisor soon after the grades are released.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Reflection	Understand	Extensive knowledge and understanding of process safety in the wider sense and also in its relation to specific items of plant, equipment and processes
Reflection	Understand	•A thorough understanding of current challenges and practices •An appreciation of emerging developments, techniques and the application thereof within the arena of process safety
Reflection	Create	Ability to apply the full range of chemical engineering technical and management techniques to unfamiliar problems such as to account for complexity and a wide range of commercial/industrial constrain

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