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This course enables students to write a dissertation based on a subsea related topic of the student’s own choice. Students are encouraged to focus their dissertation on a problem confronting the Subsea industry.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Third Term | Credit Points | 60 credits (30 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The aim off the course is to permit students to undertake a piece of supervised academic research: to demonstrate critical thinking within a selected research subject; to collect, manage and/or interpret data from a variety of sources; to prepare written documentation in a scientific manner appropriate for peer-reviewed publications.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Agreed feedback between the two markers of the dissertation is provided to the student by their Supervisor soon after the grades are released. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Reflection | Create | Demonstrate competence in presenting findings in a technical presentation/interview scenario with a mixed audience of experts and non-experts. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 65 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Agreed feedback between the two markers of the dissertation is provided to the student by their Supervisor soon after the grades are released. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Develop critical understanding of, and the ability to appraise, technical, economic and environmental aspects relating to the topic of the project. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop competencies in managing time and resources to plan and execute a major individual project. |
| Reflection | Create | Effectively communicate a major piece of individual technical work in written form with fixed constraints on volume of content and presentation. |
| Reflection | Create | Develop the ability to conduct a research-driven project putting into practice the acquired knowledge and understanding to make an original contribution to the field of the project. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 15 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback | ||||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Apply | Develop competencies in managing time and resources to plan and execute a major individual project. |
| Reflection | Create | Develop the ability to conduct a research-driven project putting into practice the acquired knowledge and understanding to make an original contribution to the field of the project. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | ||
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Develop critical understanding of, and the ability to appraise, technical, economic and environmental aspects relating to the topic of the project. |
| Reflection | Create | Develop the ability to conduct a research-driven project putting into practice the acquired knowledge and understanding to make an original contribution to the field of the project. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop competencies in managing time and resources to plan and execute a major individual project. |
| Reflection | Create | Effectively communicate a major piece of individual technical work in written form with fixed constraints on volume of content and presentation. |
| Reflection | Create | Demonstrate competence in presenting findings in a technical presentation/interview scenario with a mixed audience of experts and non-experts. |
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