Student Handbook 2013/14 Edexcel HNC Diploma in Engineering (ML257 Electrical & Electronics) (ML265 Mechanical, Fabrication & Welding) (ML267 Operations)
Edexcel HND Diploma in Engineering (ML258 Electrical/Electronics) UCAS Course Code 006H (ML266 Mechanical) UCAS Course Code 003H (ML268 Operations) UCAS Course Code 2741
Revised July 2013 Dr S. Koudis Programme Leader
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Welcome to the University Centre at North Lindsey College This booklet contains the information you will need to guide you through your HNC/D course. We place great emphasis on ensuring that students have access to academic and support staff. This booklet provides a list of staff with contact numbers and email addresses. If you need to contact an individual member of staff feel free at any time to phone or email them at the addresses provided. If staff are not immediately available then leave a message and they will respond. This handbook is a source of general information about the academic nature of your course and will be supplemented by more specific information about each unit on your programme. The unit information will give details of your week by week programme and the way in which you will be assessed. The college operates a comprehensive personal guidance and counselling service, details of which can be found in your ‘College Handbook’ provided during induction week.
PROGRAMME LEADER Dr Stefan Koudis Office: Room L2, HE Library Building Email: stefan.koudis@northlindsey.ac.uk Tel: 01724 295377 ACADEMIC ADVOCATES & STAFF While any member of the academic and support staff can be approached to help you with a problem or enquiry, Academic Advocates are also available to offer detailed pastoral and academic guidance where this is necessary. Academic Advocates should also be approached if you have a problem, such as needing an extension for an assignment. If you have any concerns about the course in general or are facing any problems, which may be affecting your performance, please contact your Academic Advocate or the Programme Leader: Anne-Marie Trenholme (Electrical & Electronic Engineering) Office: Room L2, HE Library Building E-mail: annemarie.trenholme@northlindsey.ac.uk Tel: 01724 295377 Dr Abbass Hashim (Mechanical Engineering) Office: Room L2, HE Library Building E-mail: abbass.hashim@northlindsey.ac.uk Tel: 01724 295377 S. Mielczarek (Maths & Mechanical Engineering) Office: Room L2, HE Library Building Email: sonia.mielczarek@northlindsey.ac.uk Tel: 01724 295377 Andrew Garbutt (Engineering & Computing) Office: Room L1, HE Library Building E-mail: andrew.garbutt@northlindsey.ac.uk Tel: 01724 295394 Rob Garner (Engineering/Business & Finance) Office: Room MT8, Maurice Taylor Building E-mail: rob.garner@northlindsey.ac.uk
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AIMS OF THE PROGRAMMES Your Higher National programmes run under the EDEXCEL framework and are designed to meet the following aims: • Develop a range of skills, techniques, personal qualities and attributes essential for successful performance in working life and thereby enabling learners to make an immediate contribution to employment at the appropriate professional level. • Prepare learners for a range of technical and management careers in mechanical Engineering. • Equip individuals with knowledge, understanding and skills for success in employment in the mechanical engineering related industries. • Provide specialist studies relevant to vocations and professions in which learners are working or intend to seek employment within mechanical engineering and its related industries. • Enabling progression to or counting towards an undergraduate degree or further professional qualification in mechanical engineering or related area. • Prepare learners for a range of technical and management careers in electrical, electronic or communication engineering. • Equip individuals with knowledge, understanding and skills for success in employment in the electrical/electronic/communication engineering-based industry. • Provide specialist studies relevant to vocations and professions in which learners are working or intend to seek employment within electrical/electronic/communication engineering and its related industries. • Enabling progression to or counting towards an undergraduate degree or further professional qualification in electrical/electronic engineering or related area. • Prepare learners for a range of technical and management careers in process, instrumentation and control operations and maintenance engineering. • Equip individuals with knowledge, understanding and skills for success in employment in the process, instrumentation and control operations and maintenance engineeringbased industry. • Provide specialist studies relevant to vocations and professions in which learners are working or intend to seek employment in process, instrumentation and control operations and maintenance engineering and its related industries. • Enabling progression to or count towards an undergraduate degree or further professional qualification in process, instrumentation and control operations and maintenance engineering or related area. • Provide a significant education base for progression to Incorporated Engineer level. PERSONAL GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING SERVICE North Lindsey College operates a comprehensive and confidential service relating to personal issues. Your ‘Learner Handbook’ or ‘FAX’ provides a full explanation of this specialist service. An appointment system operates to enable you to access the team of counsellors and your Subject Leader will ensure that you know where to find the appropriate staff. ATTENDANCE If you are absent from College due to illness or other unavoidable circumstance, you should inform the HE Office (01724 294600 or HE@northlindsey.ac.uk) or your Academic Advocate. This information is kept by the HE Office and may provide evidence for mitigating circumstances claims so it is essential to keep us in touch about such problems. This is particularly important if the absence is likely to affect the submission of coursework or other forms of assessment. Failure to meet submission dates may affect the grade of the assignment, unless an extension has been granted in advance by your Academic Advocate.
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If you are expecting to be absent then you should inform us of when and why the absence will take place. We are required to keep a record of your attendance and in order to fulfil this requirement we have Course Registers. This is another reason why you should inform us of any absence whether planned or unplanned. A system is now in place whereby employers are informed of any absence from any class during the college day. We regard full attendance at all scheduled sessions to be crucial to your academic progress. TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS Lectures Lectures and practical workshops will form an integral part of your learning programme and provide you with the basis from which to progress within the subject area. You will, however, be expected to use your own initiative in finding other relevant material to broaden your knowledge and understanding. Lectures and workshops should be seen as the supporting framework of your learning programme and not the ceiling of your expected attainment. Independent Study As outlined above you will be expected to conduct research and investigations in order to extend your knowledge and expertise in appropriate subject areas. This applies particularly to assignment work which will form a considerable part of your learning programme and the College has several facilities available to help you. LEARNING RESOURCES The HE Learning Resource Centre is situated adjacent to the Nigel Dransfield building which is dedicated HE teaching and administration. In addition, HE is also located in Global House. Both buildings provide high quality accommodation consisting of lecture, seminar and tutorial rooms and computer suites. Within the Library there are PCs for HE student use, quiet rooms for private study, Engineering books and journals relevant to HE programmes together with statistical digests and Newspapers. Over the summer 2009, over £20,000 has been expended on expanding the bookstock. Subscriptions to a wide range of electronic databases are in place. There are many computers available for open access with standard Microsoft packages and unlimited access to the Internet. All students have e-mail facilities and a personal account with storage space on the college network. The College has a well developed virtual learning environment which sees proactive use of Moodle across the HE provision. In the Maurice Taylor Building you will find 19 PC’s in MT11 (First Floor) and 16 PC’s in Room ND7, Nigel Dransfield Building. These facilities are specifically for the use of HE students. In the HE Library Building you will find 16 PC’s in L3. This new engineering facility, the Tech Suite, is specifically for the use of HE students. QUALITY ISSUES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING We are committed to providing high quality education and services to all our students. You will be asked to give an opinion on the teaching and academic quality of each unit which you undertake and your comments will be instrumental in maintaining the high levels of course delivery expected by students. Lecturing staff are subject to internal quality peer review as part of their professional development and the information you provide assists us in addressing quality issues. There are also quality audits carried out by external bodies such
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as the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and other organisations which have an interest in how well we (and to some extent you) are doing. Quality is a “double edged sword” and the whole process is aimed at producing a learning environment that supports and motivates you to produce high quality work. Work of a high quality usually results in a good academic outcome and as part of this process you will be encouraged to become part of a culture of lifelong learning as a means of maintaining future career progression and intellectual growth. A student representative will be elected for each class of Electrical/Electronics, Instrumentation & Control and Mechanical programmes. This ensures that student views can be transmitted through to academic staff and course management. The Course Committee The Course Committee’s primary purpose is to enable the efficiency and effectiveness of communication regarding matters affecting staff and students associated with a particular course. The Committee is made up of the course team, the Learning Resources Manager, and student representatives and is essential to the maintenance of quality of courses. It serves as a forum for open discussion between all parties in relation to the academic wellbeing of the course. The Minutes are incorporated into the Annual Course Report and student involvement in this process is crucial to ensure a well balanced view. The Committee meets once each term, and at any time the occasion demands. Student Voice The University Centre at North Lindsey College strongly believes in and promotes ‘effective student voice’ and recognises that it is essential for developing provision and quality assurance and enhancement. There are a number of ways in which the University Centre seeks to achieve this including the Student Representation System, National Student Survey and Internal HE Survey. The former of which is in place to ensure that Students are represented effectively in decision making processes and to ensure that student voice is heard. Student Representatives are elected Students who represent their peers on the same course at the same level. STUDENT ASSESSMENT AND PROGRESSION A range of different forms of assessment such as assignment work, project work and in-class assessments will be taken into account when assessing your performance. Students are required to submit course work on or before the given deadline date. Details of these dates for each piece of work will be included in the assignment brief. An assessment is not considered valid until it has been internally approved and then issued to the students. Assignments are normally posted in the Moodle. Students not meeting submission deadlines may, at the discretion of the Course Committee, be issued with an alternative assignment enabling the attainment of the Pass criteria only. Coursework assessed as not meeting the Pass criteria will be referred back to the student for remedial action and re-submission with a new deadline date and the above rules will apply in the same way to the new date. You are advised, wherever possible, to keep a copy of all course work until after the final assessment of the award.
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Submitting assignments Unit tutors are responsible for providing students with assignment deadlines. These will be included in the assignment brief. Assignments should preferably be typed or word-processed although this is not mandatory unless it forms part of the grading criteria. Ensure that all submitted work has the assignment brief and that you obtain a receipt for its submission. You will be given a receipt form which you can use for all assignments. You are normally required to submit the assignments on the agreed date to the unit lecturer or the HE Office. Formal extensions to assignment deadlines may, in exceptional circumstances, be granted by the unit lecturer with the approval of the Academic Advocate. Students should negotiate in good time and ensure that they have confirmation of an extension. It will not be acceptable to attempt to obtain an extension on the assignment due date. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of others’ work and is therefore dishonest. Unfortunately plagiarism has become an increasing problem, partly because of changes in information technology and partly because of the inclusion of quotations from published works on the Internet, the source of which is not properly acknowledged using the appropriate referencing conventions. Because it involves dishonesty, genuine cases of plagiarism are considered as very serious offences which, for example, may affect the grade obtained in unit assessments or even progression from one level to the next. Academic staff are experienced at identifying plagiarised work and will deal with cases which come to light and take appropriate action. If you are in any doubt as to what constitutes plagiarism, ask your tutor. The HE Progress board A Progress Board is held at the end of January with the purpose of monitoring the progress and status of each student on the programme. You are required at that time to have submitted all due work to an acceptable standard. Any student not meeting these requirements will be interviewed so that a course of action can be arranged and appropriate training agencies / employers will be informed of the situation and concerns of the board. The HE Exam board The board meets at the end of the academic year, at which time individual students' results are discussed. Your unit lecturers will be your support at such meetings and the Head of HE and Programme Leader will also be present to ensure that your results are processed fairly and accurately. The appointment of External Examiners by EDEXCEL furthermore ensures that decisions are fair and appropriate to national standards. Academic Regulations Academic regulations relating to your programme can be found on Moodle or can alternatively be accessed via your Programme Leader. These academic regulations cover the following: • • • •
assessment unfair means and academic offences extenuating circumstances academic appeals procedure
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ASSESSMENT GRADING The Centre uses the EDEXCEL Criteria for Assessment and Grade Descriptions to discriminate between different levels of performance and determine progression. Pass Grade Descriptor A Pass is awarded for the achievement of all outcomes against the specified assessment criteria. In meeting the assessment criteria specified in each unit, achievement at pass level will demonstrate:
knowledge and comprehension of relevant practice, appropriate theories or techniques the use of an appropriate method/technique for collecting and analysing information/data with guidance the ability to solve problems using given methods coherence in the quality of outcomes.
You are encouraged to submit work of a quality higher than is required for a Pass. If you do this, you may achieve a Merit, or better still, a Distinction grade in this unit. There are separate criteria for these, as follows: Merit grade M1 Identify and apply strategies to find appropriate solutions. This involves finding and using the right approach to a problem, in order to solve it correctly. M2 Select/design and apply appropriate methods/ techniques. It is important to choose or design the best methods and techniques to complete an activity successfully. M3 Present and communicate appropriate findings. Clear presentation and accurate communication of results and ideas, are of crucial importance. Distinction grade D1 Use critical reflection to evaluate own work and justify valid conclusions. You have to think about your own work, to judge how good it was, with a view to improving future performance. D2 Take responsibility for managing and organising activities. Good management and organization is an important part of any work activity, and taking responsibility for it is an important aspect of self-development. D3 Demonstrate convergent/lateral/creative thinking. Success in assignments and projects is often about applying standard ideas and techniques. But often, thinking more creatively and widely can give more unexpected, but equally useful, results than focussing on one small aspect. You are required here to demonstrate different thinking modes. You can get a Merit in a Unit by covering all three M`s at least once each. You don`t have to do all three in one assignment; you could do M1 in assignment 2, for instance, and M2 and M3 in assignment 3. It wouldn`t matter if you did no M`s at all in the other assignments. The important thing is to hit each one at least once each. Do this successfully, and the Unit will be
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graded at Merit, provided you achieved all the pass learning outcomes. What you have to do is decide for yourself which assignments you are going to use to do the M`s on. Some assignments lend themselves to some of the M`s better than others. You will be provided with a list of ideas for the sort of things that are acceptable things to do to get M`s. You decide on what to do, with your tutor`s help if you need it, and hand in the work with that assignment by the deadline date set. Provided the work is acceptable, your tutor will record that achievement. He may give you the opportunity to improve the work if it is not to merit standard. You might decide to do more than one M in that assignment, or leave the others to another assignment. That is your decision. Whether you attempt M`s or not is up to you. You are encouraged to, but you will not be “chased� if you don`t. The idea is for you to take the responsibility on yourself. Exactly the same idea applies to Distinctions. You can`t be awarded a Distinction grade in a Unit unless you get all the M`s as well, but you can start working on them as soon as you like. You don`t have to wait until the M`s are finished. You can of course get M without doing D`s, but you can`t get D without doing M`s. M`s and D`s will only be given on first submission of assignment work. Re-submission for the purpose of gaining merits and distinctions not obtained on first submission, will not normally be allowed.
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Curriculum Structure and Unit Tutors The following tables indicate which units will be covered in each year. HNC Electrical/Electronic Year 1 Engineering Engineering Engineering Analytical Business Science Design Methods Management Techniques A.Hashim A Garbutt S. Mielczarek R. Garner S. Mielczarek S. Mielczarek AM Trenholme HNC Electrical/Electronic Year 2 Engineering Project PLC’s Electronic Principles S. Koudis AM Trenholme
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HND Electrical/Electronic Engineering Further Instrument. & Electrical Control Power Principles I. Oxenforth S. Koudis
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Manag. Work of Indiv. & Teams C. Griffith
Util of Elect Energy
Combinational & Sequential Logic
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Qual Ass Management R. Garner
S. Mielczarek AM Trenholme
HNC Operations Engineering Year 2 (Instrumentation and Control) Project PLC’s Instrum & Control Principles S. Koudis R. Smith S. Koudis AM Trenholme HND Operations Engineering (Instrumentation and Control) Analyt & Plant Process Chemical Principles Measurem. S. Koudis S. Clixby
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Top Up Year
HNC Operations Engineering Year 1 (Instrumentation and Control) Engineering Engineering Analytical Science Design Methods A.Hashim S. Mielczarek
Electrical/Electronic Principles
Bus. Improv. Techniques R. Garner
H&S and Risk W. Ella
Business Management Techniques R. Garner
Electrical/Electronic Principles
Condition Monitoring R. Smith
Plant and Process Control R. Smith
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Qual Ass Management R. Garner
Bus. Improv. Techniques R. Garner
H&S and Risk W. Ella
HNC Mechanical Engineering Engineering Advanced Science CAD Techniques A. Hashim A Garbutt S. Mielczarek
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HNC Mechanical Engineering Project Mechanical Principles P. Harrison A. Hashim
Year 2 Strength of Materials A. Hashim P. Harrison
HND Mechanical Engineering Mechatronic Engineering Systems Thermos
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HNC Fabrication & Welding Engineering Engineering Advanced Science CAD Techniques A.Hashim A. Garbutt S. Mielczarek
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Business Management Techniques R. Garner
Engineering Design A. Garbutt S. Mielczarek
Heat Transfer & Combustion A. Hashim
Qual Ass Management R. Garner
Fluid Mechanics A. Hashim
Bus. Improv. Techniques R. Garner
Business Management Techniques R. Garner
Production & Integrity of Welded Fabricat. R. Graves
H&S and Risk W. Ella
Engineering Design A. Garbutt S. Mielczarek
Fabrication & Welding Technology R. Graves
BTEC HNC & HND Eng Student Calendar 2013/2014 Week Number
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