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  • Department: Electronic Engineering
  • Module co-ordinator: Prof. Andy Hunt
  • Credit value: 40 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
    • See module specification for other years: 2021-22

Module summary

This module helps you to design and develop an original research project, assessing and evaluating current literature on the chosen topic. You will learn about project management and research techniques, and apply them to a personal research blog, conference presentation, and literature survey in your chosen area. 

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2022-23

Module aims

Subject content aims:

  • investigate an area of interest within Audio and Music Technology and scope an extended research project

  • design and develop an original research project, assessing and evaluating current literature on the chosen topic.

Graduate skills aims:

  • communicating research to peers and the general public

  • event management: including marketing, financial planning, management and reporting to clients, activity scheduling, communication, team working, client management, implementation (Hard and Soft management techniques), active and passive management

  • Autonomous task planning and self motivation and management

Module learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate a high level of written communication

  • Select a current problem or topic in the field appropriate for an extended literature review for a research or programming project.

  • Scope, design and plan an extended individual research project

  • Find, evaluate, read and understand suitable and relevant research literature from a variety of sources.

  • Write an extended literature review on their chosen area of research

 

Graduate skills learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate successful team working, event and project management skills in a real-life situation

  • Demonstrate the skills of verbal/oral presentation and communicating research to peers and the general public

  • Produce a website/blog (with interactive content) to communicate their research project to the general public

  • Structure a lecture presentation

  • Plan and manage their own work and the work of others

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Literature review/project plan		 N/A 60
Essay/coursework
Webpage/blog on research topic		 N/A 20
Oral presentation/seminar/exam
Research Project Presentation		 N/A 20

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Literature review/project plan		 N/A 60
Essay/coursework
Webpage/blog on research topic		 N/A 20
Oral presentation/seminar/exam
Research Project Presentation		 N/A 20

Module feedback

'Feedback’ at a university level can be understood as any part of the learning process which is designed to guide your progress through your degree programme.  We aim to help you reflect on your own learning and help you feel more clear about your progress through clarifying what is expected of you in both formative and summative assessments.

A comprehensive guide to feedback and to forms of feedback is available in the Guide to Assessment Standards, Marking and Feedback.  This can be found at https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/assessment-and-examination/guide-to-assessment/

The Department of Electronic Engineering aims to provide some form of feedback on all formative and summative assessments that are carried out during the degree programme.  In general, feedback on any written work/assignments undertaken will be sufficient so as to indicate the nature of the changes needed in order to improve the work.  Students are provided with their examination results within 20 working days of the end of any given examination period.  The Department will also endeavour to return all coursework feedback within 20 working days of the submission deadline.  The Department would normally expect to adhere to the times given, however, it is possible that exceptional circumstances may delay feedback.  The Department will endeavour to keep such delays to a minimum.  Please note that any marks released are subject to ratification by the Board of Examiners and Senate.  Meetings at the start/end of each term provide you with an opportunity to discuss and reflect with your supervisor on your overall performance to date. 

Indicative reading

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The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University is constantly exploring ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary by the University. Where appropriate, the University will notify and consult with affected students in advance about any changes that are required in line with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.