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Personal Effectiveness - ELE00119M

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  • Department: Electronic Engineering
  • Module co-ordinator: Dr. Bidyut Baruah
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
    • See module specification for other years: 2021-22

Module summary

Personal effectiveness will consist of a range of skills development workshops aimed at improving personal and professional potential among students. Presentation skills, academic referencing, resilience and reflective skills, effective time management, negotiation and leadership skills, teamwork and conflict management, are some of the core areas that will be covered at the start of this module. Later in the Autumn term, students will have six weeks of intense Project Management workshops. The Spring term will focus on sustainability in engineering and project management. This will be taught using a series of lectures and masterclasses.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23 to Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

Subject content aims:

  • To expose students to a wide range of generic management and technical skills that will be useful in everyday working situations.
  • To encourage discussion and practice in the use of these skills throughout the MSc course.
  • To improve transferable skills development in students and prepare them for industry roles

Graduate skills aims:

  • Technical knowledge and application to specific tasks
  • Communication skills: written and oral
  • Team working knowledge and practice in managing conflict
  • Listening and negotiation skills
  • Leadership and reflective practice skills
  • Ability to analyse and synthesise information
  • Decision making and personal effectiveness
  • Ability to lead and manage projects
  • Time management

Module learning outcomes

Subject content learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will:

  • be able to utilise IT skills more effectively
  • understand the key elements of leadership, team working and communication
  • apply management knowledge to organisational issues
  • have a greater understanding of research strategies and apply them appropriately

Graduate skills learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will:

  • have improved capacity for research, analysis and synthesis through the effective use of IT tools
  • understand issues of communication in a number of media and be able to use a range of media more effectively
  • be able to apply knowledge and/or skills in practice
  • manage information and time more effectively
  • be clear about decision making criteria

Module content

There will be 8 lectures and 4 workshops as part of the Autumn term and 9 lectures/Masterclasses in the Spring term. The Autumn term will focus on academic skills and project management whereas Spring term will look at sustainability in engineering and project management. Students who have this module as an optional are welcome to attend any of the lectures and masterclasses for information if they wish.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
Closed exam : Project Management Masterclass Test		 N/A 50
Essay/coursework
Essay : Individual Critical Review Report		 N/A 50

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)
Closed exam : Project Management Masterclass Test		 N/A 50
Essay/coursework
Essay : Individual Critical Review Report		 N/A 50

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 School of PET 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. The School will endeavour to return all exam feedback within 25 working days of the exam date. The School would normally expect to adhere to the times given, however, it is possible that exceptional circumstances may delay feedback. The School 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.

Please look at the guidance for Feedback on what information we need to provide. Please review this and let us know how you plan to give feedback to the students.

Indicative reading

Maylor, H. (2006). Project Management (3rd ed.). Noida (U.P.): Pearson.

Meredith, J. R., & Mantel, S. J. (Jr). (2011). Project Management: A Managerial Approach (8th ed.). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide) (6th ed.). Pennsylvania

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK (R) Guide) (PMBOK® Guide), Publisher : Project Management Institute; 7th Revised edition (1 Aug. 2021)

Sustainability Principles and Practice. Publisher : Routledge; 3rd edition (10 Feb. 2021)

Sustainable engineering: concepts, design, and case studies. Publisher : Pearson; 1st edition (20 Dec. 2011)

Business Ethics: Managing corporate Citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization. Publisher : PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT; 5th edition (26 Aug. 2019)

The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Publisher : Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc; Illustrated edition (3 Jan. 2017)


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.