modules

Professional studies and skills development is a pair of linked modules designed for Civil Engineering Degree Apprentices. This is the first module, introducing you to design, health and safety, and reflective practice.  During the module you will be required to keep a record of your activities and relate them to the knowledge, skills and behaviours set out in your apprenticeship standard. Your log should include sketches capturing technical details of projects that you are involved with and you will develop and practice drawing as a design skill. Engineers have responsibility for health and safety from their own working environment through designing for safe construction to engaging with the global sustainable development goals. Using reflection on your own experience and published case studies you will develop an awareness of risk management for your academic studies, work placement and professional development. Your drawing skills and health and safety knowledge will be applied in a group project, designing a feasible concept to meet a technical brief, building a structural prototype and testing its performance. Each group will present their analysis and evaluate other groups’ proposals to select a preferred design for the cohort. The final exercise of the module will require you to research an engineering design precedent and prepare a case study explaining its structural behaviour and identifying lessons for future projects.