20 Credits ACADEMIC YEAR



Aims/Description: PHY346 provides students with an industrial project where team working, planning, time management; presentation and report writing are integrated with science problem solving. The industrial client poses a problem that a group work on over two semesters to resolve. Interim and final presentations are made to the client and academic supervisors. Project work may use laboratory measurement and computational approaches as well as referencing leading research literature.

Staff Contact: BUCKLEY ALASTAIR R
Teaching Methods: Seminars, Laboratory work, Independent Study
Assessment: Course work, Presentation, Project/ portfolio

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