Project Portfolio - engCETL - Engineering Centre for Excellence

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Qualitative data from the JISC funded, Loughborough based, Rights and Rewards Project shows that academics would like to have more of an opportunity of finding colleagues on campus with the same learning and teaching interests. This project aims: To provide recognition of both teaching and research activities To encourage cross-curricular... [more]

ARM Instruction Set

The ARM Instruction Set is a CD-based software engineering study unit incorporating ARM Developer Suite programming software together with study notes, laboratories, tutorials and assessments.Main Objective of the ProjectThe main objective was to produce a coherent structure and framework for the delivery of a study unit on the subject of software eng... [more]

Astute-Chem

ASTutE-Chem is a computer based tutorial system on chemical engineering process balances. It enables the user to set up a flowsheet, label it, choose basis, solve and balance units and check answers. This is an Authorware based courseware.The user has access to a selection of carefully chosen tutoral questions and they are expected to answer the quest... [more]

Attendant - Attendance Monitoring System

Attendant is an online database system which provides a straightforward way for departments to record attendance information about their students. This information is then immediately displayed in the student's tutorial records within the 'Co-Tutor' system.The system has been set up so that any lecturer can create and take their own registers. There i... [more]

Automated Coursework Assignment Using Learn

There is currently a significant difficulty in giving large numbers of students sufficient and timely feedback on their experiment work. The coursework assessment carries 15% of the total mark for the Control Systems Design Part B and C compulsory module and is currently assessed on the report that they produce from the coursework.An electronic system... [more]

Biomass Virtual Laboratory

This is the third in a series of 'Virtual Laboratories' - a set of multimedia simulations for distance learning students on the 'MSc Renewable Energy' programme for CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy) at Loughborough University. The objective of the labs is to provide an interactive simulation of the on-campus experiment so that students can participa... [more]

Business Maths Foundation

A resource for Business School students to enhance their basic mathematics using interactive PDF’s that contain worked examples and quizzes. Business Maths Foundation:WEBSITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT Dr Marie Bassford CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS Dr Tony CroftClare Trott... [more]

Business Simulation Game

There is a desire within the department to establish a Part D management module, for the students to develop a business plan through an interface with a virtual corporation. The business game would run over the course of one semester (10 weeks) with students providing weekly data that a ‘guardian’ would input to the software, which would t... [more]

Business Simulation Game Extension

To support and review the implementation of the business simulation Marketplace Venture Strategy in to the Part D Business Management module (TTD201 - Business Model) of the MEng Aeronautical & Automotive Engineering programme. We plan to support Rob Thring and John Grover with the implementation of Marketplace with around 70 students. ... [more]

Case studies of industrial practice in project management

The aim is to improve the industrial content within the Engineering Project Management Part B module (ELB013) in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. Case studies of project managers will be created to use as a teaching resource and inform course development. We will produce a questionnaire to&n... [more]

Co-Tutor (Old Co-Tutor 2003 - 2008)

Co-Tutor is an online database system which provides a straightforward way for personal tutors and project supervisors to record and view their student's tutorial progress. Tutors can record the details of face to face meetings, add any information at any time, have a record of email that has been sent to their tutees and add a copy of any email sent ... [more]

Co-Tutor Plus (redevelopment)

What is Co-Tutor? Co-Tutor is a Student & Staff Relationship Management (SSRM) system and is used by academic staff and administrators, at Loughborough University (UK), to communicate with and manage personal tutees, project students, industrial placement activities, postgraduate research supervision and course cohorts. It is a large PHP/MySQL we... [more]

Computer Assisted Assessment tool for improving engineering drawing production.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) has made it easier to produce engineering drawings, but consequently the technical quality of drawings has reduced due to poor understanding of underlying principles. This project involves the creation and development of questions for the University's online Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) system, to en... [more]

Continuing Support of engCETL Past, Current and Future Projects

engCETL and the EEC have produced a wide variety of interactive online tools to aid teaching and learning. We wish to spend time on the web-based dissemination of these tools, for further uptake within the CETL departments and across the institution. This will mean that academics and students can easily be made aware of these tools and facilities that... [more]

Developing virtual lab code to run in Windows Vista

Some distance learning students were having trouble running the three virtual labs developed in Authorware by the EEC, as they don't function in Windows Vista. Students can download a link from Microsoft to fix this, but this is a temporary solution and one that can confuse those students that are not technologically aware. The investigation would foc... [more]

Development of e-case studies to support cross-departmental teaching.

Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) is currently taught to students in both Design and Technology (D&T) and the Business School, using extended tutorials and lectures. We will expand on these to produce a pilot e-case study focusing on the misuse of medical devices. It is anticipated that the e-case study will be an inte... [more]

Development of learning resources for use of Arduino and Adobe Flash

Over the last year we have seen an increasing interest by students in integrating electronic product design with interaction design in their final year major project work. Furthermore, this has been coupled by increasing interest in the use of Arduino (www.arduino.cc) as a prototyping environment for electronic product design. ... [more]

DIS Placements in IPTME

To create new links with industry to promote postgraduate courses, increase the recruitment of part-time postgraduate students and develop the course programme. Support existing links with industry and create new links to increase DIS placement opportunities for undergraduate students with a particular focus on Applied Design students.... [more]

Dissertation Allocation System

Currently, every academic year, staff involved with the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Part C modules MMC500 and MMC501 are asked to supply proposals for undergraduate projects by entering the details of the project in to a word document that is circulated via email during the summer. Completed proposals are sent via email to t... [more]

E-Staff Development Content Management System

This project comprised the development of a content management system (CMS) as a platform to enable staff and educational developers to make more effective use of e-learning for their own development. The use of a cms has enabled the project leaders to maintain and update the website themselves. The overall project was sponsored by t... [more]

EARL - Virtual Learning Environment

This continuing project is based on two advisory board proposals which were accepted in November 2003. The main requirements for these projects were:‘Communications Module’ - Civil & Building Engineering 3 academics needed to have access to the module resources website so they could update it and make contributions. However, the... [more]

Economics Maths Foundation

A resource for Economics School students to enhance their basic mathematics using interactive PDF’s that contain worked examples and quizzes.VIEW SCREEN SHOTS:Homepage of the website Economics Maths Foundation:WEBSITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT Dr Marie Bassford CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS Dr Tony CroftClare Trott ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dr Tony CroftClair... [more]

Electromagnetism Simulations Tutorial/Website

A series of web-based electromagnetism tutorials/teaching resources are to be created with embedded interactive java applets as animations. The animations will serve to explain difficult electromagnetic concepts to students and will be accessible on and off campus whenever the student requires acces... [more]

Electronic Management of Coursework Submission

Undergraduate coursework submissions in the Civil and Building Department are made in the period 9-10 on a Monday morning using post-graduate students. Some weeks involve several hundred submissions. An electronic system is required to benefit students, post-graduates, teaching staff and administration staff to speed up the process and to maintain acc... [more]

Eng Student - web portal

EngStudent is a one stop shop for engineering students, including over 100 links to resources in engineering, key skills and lifestyle.Engstudent originated from TQEF funding to develop virtual support for engineering students. The EngStudent web site http://engstudent.lboro.ac.uk was launched in 2002 and followed by the development of an engineering ... [more]

Engineering Image Pool

Main Objectives of the Initial Scoping Study. The intitial 3 day scoping study surveyed all departments on their requirements for an image bank and whether it would be a feasible future project. The survey revealed a need for the ImageBank with many academics willing to contribute their own images for use in the Faculty.Main Objectives of the ProjectT... [more]

Engineering Mechanics Foundation

Engineering Mechanics Foundations are the beginnings of a series of learning resources produced to provide additional support to students who may not have studied engineering mechanics before coming to University, who have not studied it for a while, or for those who would like to brush up on the basics. The resources are available in both paper forma... [more]

Enhancement of Industry-based teaching in IPTME

Brief Description of Proposal. The application refers to a proposal to upgrade some elements of teaching and student resources in IPTME, in line with the overall strategies (“linking education with industry”) on which the CETL initiative is based. For the current round of funding, these will include initiatives to upgrade and to introduce ... [more]

Equipment Database

Equipment database, for teaching and research. Initially focussed on materials characterisation.Information to be listed includes:• Name of equipment• Photo• List of capabilities• Case studies of practice, who has used it in the past• Handbook for use (eg manufacturer pdf)• Who to contact to book or hire• Category of... [more]

Evaluation of the web tutorial software for distance learning

This project will evaluate the use of i-meeting, web conferencing software, for distance learning students studying on the REST MSc.... [more]

Forecast

FORECAST lets the user experiment with various models and model parameters used in product demand forecasting. The user can use the self-assessment facility of the software to see if (s)he could correctly predict a demand trend based on a chosen model. Graphical interface displays known data and demand trends calculated by the software. This highly in... [more]

Hands On - Digital Video & Audio in your teaching

'Hands On' is an online guide to using digital video and audio in your teaching. It is split into two main sections. The first section takes you through the 10 generic steps of the entire process of producing digital video or audio.These include: Decide on your objectives Plan the type of shots you want Choose your equipment Shoo... [more]

History of Architecture

Main Objectives of the ProjectThis project involved updating the existing CAL software 'History of Architecture' (on the university CAL launcher) by extending the historical periods, incorporate more of the design and material aspects of architecture, and improve the textual and graphical information available. The software is used at present to teach... [more]

Hydro Power Virtual Laboratory

This is the second in a series of 'Virtual Laboratories' - a set of multimedia simulations for distance learning students on the 'MSc Renewable Energy' programme for CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy) at Loughborough University. In this virtual laboratory experiment, the student will evaluate and compare the performance characteristics of three types... [more]

Immprest

This is an interactive modelling tool that facilitates the evaluation of benefits arising from use of Standardisation and Pre-assembly within building construction industry. The model will identify the factors that need to be considered in such an assessment, the data required to assess the effect of these factors, and where the required data resides ... [more]

Industrial Placement website

The aim of the project was to develop a sandwich placement website. This would provide a central online resource where academic tutors and sandwich placement students can view and download schedules and forms and where students can create and maintain a record of professional training, as is required for the Diploma of Industrial Studies. The facility... [more]

Information / Inspiration sustainable design website

An academic and engCETL educational technologist will work together to refine and update the content of the web based Sustainable Design tool 'Information/Inspiration' (www.informationinspiration.org.uk) which resides on the Department of Design and Technology server space. At present it actively used by second and third year Industrial Design a... [more]

Innovative Manufacturing Engineering (IME) Website & Promotion

To develop web resources for the new IME course in Wolfson, where students receive sponsorship and undertake short regular placements: a) provides information to students on placement. Building upon the good practice of the engSKILLS website and incorporating developments proposed by Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf b) to provide support to student... [more]

Instrumentation Training Material

The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is equipped with a variety of basic laboratory equipment that is used in a range of laboratory exercises and project work. It has generally been assumed that students will be familiar with the use of basic instrumentation when they arrive having used them in school, or college, however, this assu... [more]

Lab Assistant

Brief Project DescriptionDynamics and Control Laboratories, like many laboratory classes, require intensive staff support to ensure that students achieve the maximum benefit from the learning opportunities available. The purpose of this application is to reduce the time staff have to spend on simple but essential 'student-comfort' feedback, allowing s... [more]

Maple Study Worksheets

The Department of Chemical Engineering delivers Module CGA011 (Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering I) to Part A students as a combination of lectures, tutorials and computing problem classes. The students are guided through solving mathematical problems in the computing problem classes using Maple software. The mathematical problems students ... [more]

Materials Selection for Engineering Design

The project seeks to assess the potential demand to develop Teaching & Learning resources in the area of Materials Engineering across engCETL departments, in order to develop the underpinning engineering science for Materials Selection in Engineering Design. IPTME already has staff, software and equipment resources to offer teaching & le... [more]

Materials web-based case study resources

Developing web-based Materials Engineering teaching resources for 14-18 year old students. This project seeks to develop a series of web pages of Materials Engineering technical articles (one page long, including diagrams) to attract the 14-18 year old school students. The website material will be set at a level so that it will serve as a resource for... [more]

Matlab - Enhancing Coursework Feedback

The aim of this project was to: provide faster and more timely feedback to students on the Electronic and Electrical Engineering module 07ELA004 ‘Signals and Systems’, through developing assessment methods using Matlab to reduce the marking time for coursework, whilst also providing high quality individualised feedback.Andy Larkum and... [more]

McCabe Theile Technique

This Authorware based courseware is an interactive tutorial on the McCabe Thiele Technique used to solve binary distillation problems in chemical engineering. By allowing the user to go through a planned route while solving any tutorial question, this software enables the understanding and visualisation of this difficult concept. Extensive interactivi... [more]

Online Generic Form for Coursework and Labwork Submission

The use of web forms running on the LEARN server has proved to be a simple way of collecting students submissions for coursework and lab work results. After several experiments using bespoke real-time assessment programmes the web form was arrived at. It has proven popular with students because it can be submitted from anywhere that the LEARN pages ar... [more]

Online Placement University System (OPUS) pilot

The OPUS software was developed by the University of Ulster, and it manages the entire placement process for companies, students and academic staff. Companies can promote placement vacancies and monitor applications for each vacancy, contact students for interviews and appoint. Students can create their CV and make it available to their selection of v... [more]

Paints and Coatings

This software was designed in two parts to include an interactive presentation of 'a Guide to Paints and Coatings' followed by a tutorial formative test (authored in Question Mark for Windows).This guide was used on a module for Civil & building Engineering students and was launched from the CAL Launcher.SCREEN SHOTSSample of screen shots from sof... [more]

Photovoltaic Solar Cell Virtual Lab

This is the first in a series of 'Virtual Laboratories' - a set of multimedia simulations for distance learning students on the 'MSc Renewable Energy' programme for CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy) at Loughborough University. The objective of the labs is to provide an interactive simulation of the on-campus experiment so that students can participa... [more]

Placement Practice Project

To produce a placement guide to enhance the placement experience for students, industry and academics within Civil & Building Engineering. To meet this aim the engCETL is updating the Industrial Placement Guides for the Engineering Subject Centre and these will be made available (and promoted to placement tutors) and will also be wi... [more]

Plagiarism quiz

Plagiarism guidelines for Civil and Building Engineering Students. This project will attempt to find a better way of getting students to truly understand plagiarism and how to reference other people's work properly. Plagiarism is obviously becoming a big issue in many Departments in Loughborough and many universities throughout the UK.Consequently the... [more]

ProjectList (ECHO Redevelopment)

ECHO is an online project list and allocation system. Tony Sutton would like the ECHO system to be redeveloped to allow named users to have administrator rights to enter students and staff into the system and to remove or edit the same. He would also like to add additional features that would increase functionality and alleviate some of the student s... [more]

Quantity Surveying Measurement Tutorial Tool

The Quantity Surveying Measurement Tool (QSM) is a computer based tutorial system to aid student understanding in the basic principles of quantity surveying. It enables the user to work through an example of measurements, allowing them to establish how calculations are made with animations to aid the learning process. In addition the tool provid... [more]

RAPID Tutorials

The RAPID Progress File is a web-based Personal & Professional Development Tool that enables students to create their own Curriculum Vitae, and to audit and develop skills relevant for both their academic and personal / professional development. There are currently 8 versions of RAPID mainly within Construction disciplines with a generic Engineeri... [more]

Renewable Energy and Employability

Aim to build a sustainable relationship with firms and embed their involvement into the REST curriculum – teaching and project work. Working to increase and embed industry involvement in MSc project work with a view to giving students direct real world experience and providing an opportunity for industry to tap into a pool of potential employee... [more]

Snip

'Snip' is a small application wizard and online tutorial for creating module web pages on Loughborough University's Learn server.Snip is intended for staff who have little or no experience in developing web pages but wish to quickly and easily create module web pages on the Learn server that link to module learning resources, using templates that comp... [more]

Staff Guidelines for Assessment

It has become common practice to share the teaching of modules between parts in undergraduate programmes. This is done in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering using modules referred to internally as shadow modules. Material that is designed for Part B is taught concurrently to Part C students in Part C shadow modules and material th... [more]

Sustainable Product Design

To access site: Module HomepageThis project is a web-based resource to support the teaching of a new MSc module entitled: ‘Engineering Design for Sustainable Development’. This module was offered for the first time in semester 2 of the 2001/2002 academic year primarily to the MSc in Engineering Design course but also to students of the MSc... [more]

Videos on Machining Processes

Good quality down to earth up to date Videos on Machining processes are not available commercially. The videos would not only back up my lectures on manufacturing processes but would give the Engineering students a good insight into machining processes prior to carrying out practical laboratories.... [more]

Web-based Health & Safety Risk Assessment

All LU students must complete a risk analysis as part of any workshop assessment. Dr Tyrer wants to develop an interactive web-based risk assessment analysis for health & safety requirements within the university, for use by staff, students and regulators. Nearly all departments have some contact with laser devices and the system fulfils a univer... [more]

Web-based Learning Resource for Enhancing Student's Strategic use of CAD

Research conducted in the department of Design & Technology by a PHD student, Clare Allsop, has shown that a meta-level approach to the teaching of CAD, i.e. teaching 3D modelling strategies rather than tool-based tactics can improve a student's grasp of CAD tools significantly. Preliminary results show that students following the strategic learni... [more]

Web-based Resources to Support Postgraduate Activity in Aeronautical Engineering

It is proposed to develop a web based resource to support aeronautical engineering Part D design groups and MSc students. The resource would provide straight-forward access to a range of technical material which underpins both advanced design projects and advanced studies in aeronautical engineering. It is prosposed that the resource provides links be... [more]

Web-Groups : Online Discussion Forum for Design Teams

Good communication is the key to success in team projects and as we become more adventurous in constructing teams the lines of communication become more extended. By way of example, projects in the Wolfson School at part B level involve typically 110 students, 8 supervisors, 8 industrial companies and 36 part D mentors (2004/5 figures). My proposal is... [more]

Web-PA : Web-Based Peer Assessment System

The PASS (Peer ASesment System) started as an advisory board project with Dr Peter Willmot (Wolfson School). It is an online peer assessment tool which provides an easy to use method for peer moderated marking of group work.There is an interface for staff to allocate students to groups for a particular module, to input marking criteria and set the dat... [more]

WebDISS

WebDISS is a database containing over 200 student dissertations submitted since 1995 by students on the Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying (CMQS) programme. The system contains details of project supervisors and moderators which can be found within the reference section of the web site. Members of academic staff who are registered with the w... [more]

WEDC: Handpumps

Several Computer Aided Learning (CAL) nuggets were developed by the centre for the Water Engineering Development Centre (WEDC). The 'nuggets' were developed to assist students with visualisation of physical or technical processes relevant to water engineering. The software was interactive incorporating assessments, animations, simualtions etc to engag... [more]

WEDC: Hydrological Cycle

Several Computer Aided Learning (CAL) nuggets were developed by the centre for the Water Engineering Development Centre (WEDC). The 'nuggets' were developed to assist students with visualisation of physical or technical processes relevant to water engineering. The software was interactive incorporating assessments, animations, simualtions etc to engag... [more]

WEDC: Saline Intrusion

Several Computer Aided Learning (CAL) nuggets were developed by the centre for the Water Engineering Development Centre (WEDC). The 'nuggets' were developed to assist students with visualisation of physical or technical processes relevant to water engineering. The software was interactive incorporating assessments, animations, simualtions etc to engag... [more]

WEDC: Sanitation Selection

Several Computer Aided Learning (CAL) nuggets were developed by the centre for the Water Engineering Development Centre (WEDC). The 'nuggets' were developed to assist students with visualisation of physical or technical processes relevant to water engineering. The software was interactive incorporating short decision making process interactions to eng... [more]

Wolfson School DIS Website Enhancement

To enhance the existing DIS website (MMDIS engskills) by adding new features which improve tracking of placement students performance and reduce the administration burden of the DIS Scheme. This system would include webforms which would be completed online by academics visiting students on placement and by company line managers. These forms would be... [more]


	Project Portfolio The engCETL Project Portfolio contains projects dating back to 1998 when the Centre first began as the 'Engineering Teaching and Learning Support Centre' (engTLSC) and then as the 'Engineering Education Centre' (EEC). Projects completed since May 2005 have been completed as engCETL projects. Details of projects that are presently being developed are also listed in the "Current Projects" section of our website. For more information on these projects, please contact Judith Burton our Centre Administrator on +44 (0) 1509 227191.