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UG Student Handbook 2014-15
Mechanical Engineering Department

2014 Imperial College London
Preface
Congratulations! Youre a student of the best university Mechanical Engineering
Department in the UK. Here weve tried to bring together or point towards all
the information you might need during the few years you spend here.
This booklet (also published online) serves two purposes.
The frst is to help you settle in during Welcome Week and the early weeks of
term. The second is to map out where youre heading: to give you an early
overview of the whole degree programme, and a Handbook to guide you on-
wards.
When the frst day of term ends you will already have a stack of important in-
formation including a timetable and a tutor group list. Youll have taken in a
lot of information and forgotten most of it. As time goes on, please use the
online version of this handbook to answer all your questions. Theres a com-
ments/feedback section on every screen to ask (anonymously!) the ones we
missed. Updates are frequent.
A new and exciting phase of your life is beginning. The Students Union, social
media and your fellow students are all around you, but never be afraid to seek
help from us, the staf. Whatever our ofcial role, thats what were all here for.
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CAGB is changing!
Imperial has embarked on a rolling, two-year programme to completely renovate
our City and Guilds Building. Some teaching spaces and many teaching staf of-
ces have moved. The interactive Teaching Spaces web page provides directions.
Above Level 3, only the central section of the building is in use.
Danger
Do not go beyond the north and south hoarding lines on level above Level 3.

All staf ofces which were situated beyond the hoarding lines above
Level 3 are now on Levels 2-3 of the Annexe the three storey extension
on the south east corner of the building.
All UG teaching labs and most research facilities are now in the Annexe.
The main computer rooms are replaced by Rooms 203, 204A and 204B,
and the smaller facility in 795 by Room 464.
Important
Please report any non-functional facilities or services the sooner we know, the fast-
er theyll be fxed.

The BOSS space is now fully functional and available to all students.
Level 7 Mechatronics Lab (Room 771) can only be accessed from Level 4
or 5, via the staircase in the tower above the main entrance to Exhibition
Road.
Tip
If you have a physical disability, please contact the UG Ofce to arrange alternative
access provision.

The Main Stores on Level 1 can only be accessed from the Level 1 corri-
dor: you can no longer reach it from the north staircase.
Most lectures remain in CAGB, but those for some electives will be in oth-
er buildings.
Remember
Study the maps and plans in advance so that you arrive punctually.

Next summer it will be all change again as the central section of the building is
vacated for its own makeover
RELATED LINKS
Teaching Spaces: directions and maps
Appendix G Teaching staf listed by surname on page 156
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Contents
Chapter 1 Settling in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Welcome Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.1 ID cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1.2 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.3 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.4 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.5 Imperial Horizons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Meeting your Personal Tutor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Key contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.5 Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.5.1 Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.5.2 Moodle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
1.5.3 Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
1.5.4 Internet access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
1.5.5 Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
1.5.6 Refectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
1.5.7 Banking and ATMs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
1.5.8 Lockers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
1.5.9 Bicycle and car parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
1.5.10 Personal protection equipment . . . . . . . . . . . .13
1.6 Support for the academic transition . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
1.6.1 English classes for overseas students . . . . . . . . . . .14
1.6.2 Applied Mathematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
1.6.3 Technical communication skills . . . . . . . . . . . .16
1.7 Imperial College Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
1.8 Support and welfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
1.8.1 The Student Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
1.8.2 Disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
1.9 Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
1.9.1 Part-time work during term. . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
1.10 Plagiarism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
1.11 Clubs and societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
1.12 Joining the IMechE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
1.13 Vacation work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Chapter 2 General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.1 About the Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
2.2 The Undergraduate Ofce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
2.3 The Senior Tutor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
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2.4 Personal Tutors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
2.4.1 Duties of a Personal Tutor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
2.5 The Year Organisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
2.6 Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
2.6.1 The Departmental Librarian. . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
2.6.2 ICT support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
2.6.3 Copying and printing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
2.6.4 Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
2.6.4.1 The Teaching Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
2.6.4.2 The IDEAs Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
2.6.5 Breakout student space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
2.6.6 Quiet study space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
2.7 Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
2.7.1 Teaching and learning methods . . . . . . . . . . . .31
2.7.2 Late or absent teaching staf . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
2.7.3 Professional Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
2.7.4 Humanities and languages evening classes . . . . . . . . .34
2.7.5 Student representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
2.7.6 The Staf Student Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
2.7.6.1 Staf Student Committee members . . . . . . . . .35
2.7.7 Student surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
2.7.8 Studying abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
2.7.9 Unenrolling from a Moodle course . . . . . . . . . . .38
2.8 Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
2.8.1 Progression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
2.8.2 Coursework. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
2.8.3 Feedback to students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
2.8.4 Revision for exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
2.8.4.1 Revising for combined subjects in ME1-2 . . . . . . .41
2.8.5 Examinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
2.8.5.1 Open-book exams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
2.8.6 Mitigating circumstances for assessment . . . . . . . . .43
2.8.7 Examination feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
2.8.8 Grades and numerical marks for exams and coursework . . . . .45
2.8.9 Moderation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
2.8.10 Getting your results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
2.8.11 Supplementary qualifying tests (SQTs) . . . . . . . . . .47
2.8.12 Re-sitting the year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
2.8.13 The Deans list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
2.8.14 Student prizes and awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
2.9 Support and welfare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
2.9.1 The Disability Advisory Service. . . . . . . . . . . . .51
2.9.2 Coping with stress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
2.10 Professional development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
2.10.1 What is a Chartered Engineer? . . . . . . . . . . . .52
2.10.2 Industrial placements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
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2.10.3 UROP placements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
2.10.4 What is a Monitored Professional Development Scheme? . . . .54
2.10.5 Registering for MPDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
2.10.6 Recording Monitored Professional Development. . . . . . .55
2.11 Credit transfer using ECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
2.11.1 The integrated masters credit gap . . . . . . . . . . .56
2.11.2 What is the Extracurricular Professional Development (XPD) scheme?
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2.11.3 Registering for the XPD scheme . . . . . . . . . . . .57
2.11.4 Activities eligible for ECTS credit . . . . . . . . . . . .58
2.11.5 Completing an XPD Activity Plan. . . . . . . . . . . .59
2.11.6 UROPs: completing Registry Form B. . . . . . . . . . .61
2.11.7 Reporting your XPD activities . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Chapter 3 The programme year by year . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.1 The frst two years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
3.1.1 Structure of the ME1-2 programme . . . . . . . . . . .64
3.1.2 Key dates and attendance in ME1-2 . . . . . . . . . . .65
3.1.3 Managing your time and workload . . . . . . . . . . .67
3.1.4 Progress tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
3.1.5 Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
3.1.6 Foreign language classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
3.1.7 The year in industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
3.1.8 Imperial Horizons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
3.2 The third year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
3.2.1 Structure of the ME3 programme . . . . . . . . . . . .72
3.2.2 Key dates and attendance in ME3 . . . . . . . . . . . .72
3.2.3 Choosing ME3 electives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
3.2.3.1 Types of ME3-4 electives . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
3.2.3.2 Registering for ME3 electives . . . . . . . . . . .74
3.2.3.3 Rules for selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
3.2.3.4 Electives available to ME3 this session . . . . . . . .77
3.2.4 ME3 Design, make and test project . . . . . . . . . . .78
3.2.5 Choosing and planning your project . . . . . . . . . . .79
3.2.5.1 Building a DMT team . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
3.2.5.2 Intellectual property . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
3.2.5.3 Choosing a DMT project . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
3.2.5.4 The Sharepoint team site . . . . . . . . . . . .82
3.2.5.5 Keeping a log book . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
3.2.5.6 The project budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
3.2.5.7 COSHH forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
3.2.5.8 Risk assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
3.2.5.9 The Project Plan report . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
3.2.6 Making and testing the product . . . . . . . . . . . .85
3.2.6.1 Obtaining parts and materials . . . . . . . . . . .85
3.2.6.2 Workshop access and use . . . . . . . . . . . .88
3.2.6.3 Maintaining progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
3.2.6.4 The Project Progress report . . . . . . . . . . . .92
3.2.7 Product delivery and documentation. . . . . . . . . . .93
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3.2.7.1 Project feedback and assessment . . . . . . . . . .93
3.2.7.2 The group report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
3.2.7.3 The individual critiques . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
3.2.7.4 The project seminar . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
3.2.7.5 The Design Make and Test Exhibition . . . . . . . . .98
3.2.8 Online peer evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
3.2.8.1 Self and peer assessment . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3.2.8.2 Providing written peer review . . . . . . . . . . 102
3.2.9 Undergraduate Teaching Assistants . . . . . . . . . . 103
3.2.9.1 Claiming payment for undergraduate teaching work . . . 104
3.2.10 Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering . . . . . 105
3.2.11 Transfer from MEng to BEng . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3.2.12 Transfer from BEng to MEng . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.3 The fourth year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.3.1 Structure of the ME4 programme . . . . . . . . . . . 108
3.3.2 Key dates and attendance in ME4 . . . . . . . . . . . 108
3.3.3 Choosing ME4 electives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.3.3.1 Registering for ME4 electives . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.3.3.2 Rules for selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
3.3.4 Electives available to ME4 this session . . . . . . . . . 111
3.3.4.1 M-level Advanced Applications electives. . . . . . . 112
3.3.4.2 M-level Technical electives . . . . . . . . . . . 112
3.3.4.3 M-level IDX electives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
3.3.5 The ME4 individual project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
3.3.5.1 Choosing an individual project . . . . . . . . . . 114
3.3.5.2 Planning the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
3.3.5.3 Maintaining progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
3.3.5.4 Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
3.3.5.5 Moderation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
3.3.6 Finding employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
3.3.6.1 Technical interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
3.3.6.2 Assessment centres . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
3.3.7 Further study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
3.4 The year abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.4.1 Exchange partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.4.2 Academic and other pre-requisites . . . . . . . . . . 130
3.4.3 The Year Abroad application process . . . . . . . . . . 131
3.4.3.1 Applying for an exchange outside Europe . . . . . . 131
3.4.3.2 Applying for an exchange within Europe. . . . . . . 132
3.4.4 The study plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
3.4.5 Completing a Year Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
3.5 Interruption of studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
3.6 Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
3.6.1 The Examiners Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
3.6.2 The graduation ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Appendix A Campus map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Appendix B Programme modules mapped by year and TSG . . . . . 138
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Appendix C ME1-2 coursework marks distribution . . . . . . . . 139
Appendix D Mapping of ME modules onto ECTS elements . . . . . 142
Appendix E Schemes for the Award of Honours . . . . . . . . . 145
E.1 Progression and graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
E.2 MEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2014-15 . . . . . . . . . . 146
E.2.1 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
E.2.2 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
E.2.3 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
E.2.4 Part IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
E.3 MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering, 2014-15. . 148
E.3.1 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
E.3.2 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
E.3.3 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
E.3.4 Part IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
E.4 BEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2014-15 . . . . . . . . . . 150
E.4.1 Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
E.4.2 Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
E.4.3 Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Appendix F MPDS Training Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Appendix G Teaching staf listed by surname . . . . . . . . . . 156
G.1 Academic staf and Assessors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
G.2 Postdoctoral Research Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
G.3 Graduate Teaching Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Appendix H Teaching staf listed by initials . . . . . . . . . . . 162
H.1 Academic staf and Assessors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
H.2 Postdoctoral Research Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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Chapter 1 Settling in
Welcome to Imperial College! Heres a quick-reference guide for your frst week or
two as an undergraduate student of the Mechanical Engineering Department:
please read it before you arrive.
During your frst week (Welcome Week), and the few which follow, you can get
most of the information you need from the New Students website. Later on, as
you settle into the department, youll need a lot more information on many of
the topics we mention here so there are many links forward to the General
Information and Programme Year by Year sections.
Remember
As time passes the online version of this Handbook will be progressively updated.

RELATED LINKS
Imperial New Students website
1.1 Welcome Week
The frst week of your frst term at Imperial will be a busy one, for which you will be
given a separate timetable. Some of the events and requirements need planning:
please read this section now.
1.1.1 ID cards
The College-wide security system of ID swipe cards controls and monitors access to
halls of residence, and to the departmental building and certain rooms outside
normal hours. Your ID card will be your passport for the duration of your course:
get it as soon as you can, and treat it with respect.
Once you have registered, the way you obtain your ID card will depend on
when you arrive, and where you will be living.
If you arrive after Week 1, you will need to take your Registration Confrmation
page to Security (located on Level 1 of the Sherfeld Building next to the HSBC
cash machine) where they will take your photo and issue the ID card. Other-
wise:
If you will be living in College accommodation and
If you uploaded a photo when you registered, you will be issued with
your ID card by the Hall Warden at the hall Safety Briefng.
If you did not upload a photo, your Warden now issue you with a guest
card, valid for a limited time only. To obtain a fully validated ID card you
will need to take your Registration Confrmation page to Security (see
above) to get your picture taken. If you can do this during week 1, the ID
card will be sent to the UG Ofce from where you can collect it.
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If you will be living in private accommodation and
If you uploaded a photo when you registered and you arrive during Week
1, you should collect your card from the UG Ofce; or
If you did not upload a photo and are arriving in week 1, you must take
your Registration Confrmation page to Security (see above) to get your
picture taken. The ID card will then be sent to the Undergraduate or Post-
graduate Ofce from where you can collect it.
Warning
Lending your swipe card to friends or acquaintances, for however short a time, is a serious
ofence which can result in your being asked to leave the College permanently. Never, ever
lend your card knowingly to a third party.

RELATED LINKS
Student registration website
1.3 Key contacts on page 5
1.1.2 Fees
If you are still due to pay fees immediately before Welcome Week, you should pay
online if possible. You can do so in person during the weekend before Welcome
Week.
The Student Hub will be open over the arrivals weekend between 09:00-17:00.
Any last-minute queries can be answered here, and there are facilities for pay-
ment of fees.
Important
The Hub cannot accept cash payments.

If possible, you are strongly encouraged to pay online.
RELATED LINKS
1.8.1 The Student Hub on page 17
Pay tuition fees online.
1.1.3 Safety
Mechanical engineers make things, break things and deal with potentially dan-
gerous quantities: power, energy, force, pressure, mass and velocity. To be a profes-
sional engineer your consciousness of risk, and concern for your own and others
safety, must be instinctive. We will emphasise this from day one.
Very soon after registration, every student must attend the Departmental
Safety Briefng. This will cover all of the absolute essentials including frst aid,
fre drills and security.
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Important
The College is required, under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), to formally ac-
quaint all its members with their legal responsibilities for the maintenance of their own
safety and that of others. You must read and understand the linked Health and Safety Policy
Statement, and will be required to sign a form to say that you have.

Warning
Failure to attend the Safety Briefng will forfeit the protection ofered by the Act and render
you vulnerable to personal prosecution in the courts. In any event, you will certainly not be
allowed to work in the departmental laboratories or workshops.

RELATED LINKS
Departmental Safety website
College Safety Policy statement (pdf )
1.1.4 Security
Imperial is a relatively public space, the City and Guilds Building is situated near its
front entrance and, sadly, thefts do occur from time to time. It is essential to look
after your own property and to remain vigilant.
Take great care of both your personal property and that of the College.
Do not keep valuables even in your locked locker
Do not leave wallets in jackets in empty rooms
Take care of handbags
Important
If you lose anything, report it promptly to the Security Ofcer in Sherfeld Building (ref. 20
on Campus Map, internal tel. 4444). It is especially important to report a lost or stolen ID
card.

If you fnd an ID card or any apparently lost property in the Mechanical Engi-
neering Department, please hand it in to the Undergraduate Ofce or Post-
graduate Ofce.
RELATED LINKS
Information on ID cards
Appendix A Campus map on page 136
2.2 The Undergraduate Ofce on page 23
1.1.5 Imperial Horizons
Looking to get the most out of your degree? Imperial Horizons is a programme de-
signed to broaden your undergraduate education, inspire your creativity and en-
hance your professional impact. The courses are popular and highly rated by stu-
dents: make your choice and sign up quickly!
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You can choose from more than 20 diferent course options in the following
four felds of study:
Business & Professional Skills
Global Challenges
Science, Culture and Society
Languages and Global Citizenship
Some student opinions
I'd never really thought about the ethical side of science before, so
I've learnt a lot, and a new way of thinking about the science from
my degree too
[Global Challenges student, 2013-14]
Very friendly and helpful teacher. Extremely enthusiastic; made
classes very enjoyable
[Languages and Global Citizenship student, 2013-14]
This class has been truly fantastic, not only has it been stimulating
and highly engaging but has also generated more perspective and
enthusiasm for my core engineering that I would previously have im-
agined possible.
[Science, Culture and Society student, 2013-14]
The content of the course is very well-structured, and clear learning
objectives are given at the beginning of each session. The course
covers a wide variety of topics, all of which have been interesting... I
have thoroughly enjoyed the course, and would recommend it to a
peer or friend.
[Business and Professional Skills student, 2013-14]
Key benets
Give yourself a unique edge
These courses will give you opportunities to develop your skills in com-
munication, problem-solving and teamwork.
Make your degree transcript stand out
Imperial Horizons courses are included on your degree transcript as a
valuable selling point for employers.
Study for free during normal teaching hours
All Departments have set aside time for Imperial Horizons:
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First Years: 16.00-18.00 on Tuesdays
Second Years: 16.00-18.00 on Mondays
Third and Fourth Years: 16.00-18.00 Thursdays
Important
Register your course preferences on the Imperial Horizons website during Welcome Week,
before the deadline:
Event Date Time
Imperial Horizons enrolment closes Monday, 13 October, 2014 24:00

RELATED LINKS
Further information on Imperial Horizons courses
1.2 Meeting your Personal Tutor
As one of a group of about four, you will be allocated to a member of staf who will
act as your Personal Tutor. You will meet him/her regularly during the session in
groups and/or individually to discuss both academic progress and personal
topics.
You will fnd the name and room number of your Personal Tutor in the infor-
mation pack you received during Welcome Week. Lists will also be posted in
the Concourse, on level 2 of the City and Guilds Building and on the ME1 no-
tice board situated next to the lifts on level 6. A frst group meeting with your
Personal Tutor has already been scheduled but if unavailable at that time, s/he
will contact you to arrange an alternative appointment.
1.3 Key contacts
Almost all of the 50 or so academic staf and many other members of the depart-
ment are engaged in teaching, but as an undergraduate student there are a few
you will see and hear much more of.
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Head of Department
Prof Peter Cawley
Room 460B
Email p.cawley@imperial.ac.uk
The Head of Department is responsible to the Uni-
versity for all of the Departments activities, both
teaching and research.
Senior Tutor
Dr Fred Marquis
Room 552
Email a.marquis@imperial.ac.uk
The Senior Tutor is responsible for the welfare and
academic progress of every undergraduate stu-
dent in the department.
Academic Tutor
Dr Juliet Varley
Room 549
Email j.varley@imperial.ac.uk
The Academic Tutor (a new post in this depart-
ment) is concerned with all aspects of the student
experience, but especially those involving the
challenging transition from school to university.
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Advisor to Women Students
Dr Fusun Nadiri
Room 791
Email f.nadiri@imperial.ac.uk
The Advisor is available for women students to
contact on any issue whether personal or work-
related which they would be less comfortable
discussing with a male tutor.
Senior UG Administrator
Josie Ann Howard
UG Ofce, Room 553
Email j.howard@imperial.ac.uk
The Senior UG Administrator is responsible for
managing the interaction of students and teaching
programmes dealing, in particular, with timeta-
bling and registration issues.
UG Administrator
Victoria Bennett
UG Ofce, Room 553
Email v.bennett@imperial.ac.uk
The UG Administrator handles much of the day-to-
day organisation of undergraduate teaching and
learning.
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Director of Courses
Dr Mike Bluck
Room 548
Email m.bluck@imperial.ac.uk
The Director of Undergraduate Studies is responsi-
ble for the organisation and implementation of all
undergraduate teaching in the Department.
1.4 Health services
A list of College health and welfare services is posted throughout the Department
and College. You will probably need to make little or no use of these services, but
you should register as an NHS patient with the Health Centre within the frst few
weeks of term.
Health Centre
40 Princes Gardens Southside, Watts Way, London SW7 1LY
24-hour telephone service: +44 (0)20 7584 6301
Emergencies (Security) 4444 (internal) Internal extension 49375/6
Opening times: term time 08.0018.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday 08.0013.00 Tuesday; vacations 08.0017.00 Monday, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, 08.0013.00 Tuesday. Closed at weekends and
on public holidays.
On weekdays during the Christmas and Easter closures, the Health Centre
runs an emergency clinic only, 08.0010.00. Reception is open 08.00
13.00.
On the Sunday before Welcome Week, the Health Centre will be open for stu-
dents in local Halls of Residence to register, and to provide information on vac-
cinations if required. Health centre staf will also be working late sessions on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Welcome Week for new regis-
trations and immunisations.
Out of hours services
If you are registered with the Health Centre as a National Health Service (NHS)
patient, and need medical advice outside normal opening hours please tele-
phone the surgery as usual. Follow the recorded instructions which explain
how to contact its out-of-hours service.
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The Health Centre provides a 24-hour emergency service for its NHS registered
patients only. If you are not eligible to register there, you may use its on-site
services during normal working hours only. Make sure you are registered with
an NHS General Practitioner near where you live during term, in case you need
the doctor to visit you there or need medical advice out-of-hours.
Nearest accident and emergency departments
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 369 Fulham Road London SW10 9NH
St Marys Hospital, Praed Street, London W2 1NY
Important
Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments should only be used for accidents and emer-
gencies. If your problem is not a true emergency, or you are unsure of what to do, please
contact the Health Centre out-of-hours service.

RELATED LINKS
College welfare and advice site
Email Health Centre
1.5 Facilities
Most of the facilities you need for your studies are available within the depart-
ment; many more are provided elsewhere on the South Kensington campus.
1.5.1 Communications
Our primary channel for maintaining contact with you is e-mail. Letter post is still
used for information from outside, and delivered to the concourse letter rack. You
must check this regularly.
The email address issued to you on registration will remain active until one
year after you leave Imperial. You can use this address freely to communicate
with other students, staf and people outside the College. We try to email you
no more than necessary, but messages will still be necessary and some of
these will be very important and, possibly, urgent.
Caution
You must check your e-mail regularly for incoming messages. If you fail to read and clear
your inbox regularly you may be unable to receive further mail: any resulting failure to read
important communications will not be accepted as grounds for mitigation.

If necessary, ICT can redirect your mail to a colleague or to a non-Imperial
email address.
If you wish to see a member of staf, e-mail her/him or call at her/his ofce; if
s/he is not there leave a note and expect an e-mail reply.
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There are letter racks, for both internal and external mail to students, on the
Level 2 concourse near the drinks machines.
In the Level 2 concourse are several general notice boards as well as displays
of staf and student photos.
RELATED LINKS
Appendix G Teaching staf listed by surname on page 156
Re-directing Imperial email to a non-Imperial address
1.5.2 Moodle
For any question connected in any way with your course, try Moodle frst. We use
this web-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for all teaching materials and
activities, and it is updated constantly. Information from other departments and
from College administration is better found using the web.
As a registered student, you should already be registered on Moodle. To use it
for the frst time please log on using your College username and the password
changeme. You will then be prompted to update this password to one of your
own choice. Your password can be the same as your College one, but does not
have to be.
Note
Moodle is not linked to the College login system: if you change your College password,
your Moodle password will remain unchanged.

You should already have been enrolled onto the modules that you are re-
quired to take this year. Please take some time to look at the information and
teaching materials already there: your lecturers will post more during the year.
Each student cohort has a General Information module which is dynamically
updated, and should be your frst point of reference. Similar information provi-
ded on the Study web page is oriented more towards external readers and is
less often updated.
RELATED LINKS
Login to Moodle
Moodle page for general UG course information
Departmental Study website
1.5.3 Computers
The Departments main undergraduate computing facility is equipped with medi-
um-specifcation PCs running Windows 7. All run the same suite of software. Their
use is often reserved for timetabled classes. Outside those periods they are normal-
ly available for individual use, but it is important to minimise social networking
time.
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As an undergraduate you have right of access to more than 240 computers in
City and Guilds Building rooms 203, 204A, 204B and 464 and in the Skempton
Building (map 27) rooms 208 and 317. Access to all is shared with undergradu-
ates from the Aeronautics and Civil Engineering departments.
All shared computers are loaded with a standard suite of software including
Microsoft Ofce, drawing and CAD applications, stress analysis and fuid dy-
namics applications and other, more specialised engineering software. You
will use these facilities for timetabled programming classes in ME1 and ME2,
and for specialised electives in later years. At other times they are available for
report writing and preparing presentations etc..
Remember
Even outside timetabled class periods, report deadlines can put heavy pressure on comput-
er resources. Please keep your social networking and recreational surfng time to a consid-
erate minimum.

Printing is available in all computer rooms and is accessed using your College
ID card. You will be given 15.00 of printer credit at the beginning of each year,
after which you can purchase printer credits to charge your card at the Central
Library or online.
If you are thinking of buying a computer, special educational discounts are
available, once you have registered, from the College Purchasing website.
Consumables can be purchased at the Union Shop on the Sherfeld Walkway,
and software at the online ICT Software Shop.
RELATED LINKS
ICT advice to new users
Useful computing how tos
Union shop website
Purchasing website
ICT Software Shop
Login to online print service (on site or via VPN only)
1.5.4 Internet access
Imperial College London provides and supports excellent access to the internet,
both on-site and in halls. However, this access is not unrestricted and its misuse, or
its use for anti-social behaviour, are regarded as serious ofences.
An account for access to IT facilities was created for you on registration, and
you have been provided with a username and password for login and internet
access via Outlook, Internet Explorer and Firefox. If you forget your password
and need to obtain a new one, you will need to produce a valid college ID
card.
Mobile access to many services is available through the Imperial College Mo-
bile app.
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Warning
In your contract as a student you have agreed to abide by the Conditions of Use of IT Serv-
ices. These conditions concern anti-social behaviour by which other users can be afected
and areas of misuse which come under UK Law.

The College network extends to student halls and here, again, it is important
to be aware of the restrictions imposed both by College regulations and by
national law.
RELATED LINKS
Conditions of use for IT services
Conditions of use of the student halls network service
Information on Imperial College Mobile app
1.5.5 Library
The Colleges Central Library is next to the Sherfeld Building. It provides access to
high quality resources including electronic journals, databases, textbooks, print
journals and maps. PCs and wireless access to the College computing network are
also available.
Much more information is available on the librarys website, and you will be
given an induction course during the frst week of term.
The Liaison Librarian, who is shared with the Departments of Bioengineering
and Materials, can provide or arrange
Training for students and staf on how to use the library and its services
Support on how to use the librarys resources
Advice on how to cite, reference or use RefWorks
etc. etc..
The Liaison Librarian is available in the Central Library, Room 110, on Tuesdays
12:3014:00 or at another time by arrangement.
Post Holder
Email
Phone
@imperial.ac.uk
Liaison Librarian (Engineering) Nicole Urquhart n.urquhart 41889
RELATED LINKS
Library website
1.5.6 Refectories
There are refectories in the Sherfeld Building and the Union Building.
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1.5.7 Banking and ATMs
There is a branch of Santander on Level 1, Sherfeld Building. There are also cash
machines in the Level 1 concourse of the Sherfeld Building and in the Mechanical
Engineering concourse.
1.5.8 Lockers
During Welcome Week you will be allocated a numbered locker in the City and
Guilds Building. We plan for this to remain your locker for the duration of your
course. Use it for secure storage of any items which you might not need immedi-
ately, such as protective clothing for the workshop.
The lockers require a standard, small sized padlock (25 mm centreline on 6
mm diameter hasp) which you can bring with you or purchase locally.
RELATED LINKS
1.5.10 Personal protection equipment on page 13
1.5.9 Bicycle and car parking
Cycling in London is not easy, but there are many secure bike parking spaces on
campus. Driving a car is even more difcult and parking spaces are virtually non-
existent.
There are fve designated bike parking areas of which the closest, with 600
spaces, is under the Faculty Building (the blue box, number 22 on the Campus
map) behind the City and Guilds building.
Car parking space on the College site is very limited, and availability varies as
spaces are used for building and maintenance work. If any spaces are available
for students then they will be administered by the Student Union.
Important
Public transport links to and from the campus are excellent: we strongly advise that you do
not bring a car to the College.

RELATED LINKS
Map of bike parking facilities in the area (pdf )
Transport for London site
1.5.10 Personal protection equipment
The department has exceptionally good lab and workshop facilities. To use them,
you must be wearing suitable protective clothing most of which will be issued
to you.
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Important
It is a Departmental health and safety requirement that before using any of the workshop
machinery, you are wearing appropriate clothing.

Before you attend the Student Workshop for the frst time, you will be asked to
provide height and weight details. Shortly afterwards, you will provided with
your own personal boiler suit and safety glasses. A small charge is made on
issue, but this charge is well below cost price.
You will also be provided with a white lab-coat, which you must wear when
entering any of the laboratories in the building except the Mechatronics lab.
On every subsequent occasion that you enter the Student Workshop, you
must wear this protective equipment. You must also wear shoes sturdy
enough, and with thick enough soles, to protect your feet from any heavy ob-
ject that may fall on them or any sharp object you may tread on. Anybody
wearing open-toed shoes or sandals will be refused access.
Tip
It is your responsibility to know when you should be attending laboratory or workshop ses-
sions and to have adequate personal protection equipment available. Keep it all on-site, in
your locker!

1.6 Support for the academic transition
Students who join Imperial are all academically able, but they come from a wide
range of secondary education cultures. Adjusting to the challenge of higher edu-
cation can be tough, and we ofer some special resources to support you.
First and foremost, please take time to explore the new Imperial Success Guide
site.
This was put together from a vast amount of collective experience above all
that of many students who were asked what was needed to empower and
support them as they started university. The guide brings together informa-
tion on efective study, assessments and feedback, wellbeing, workshops and
support to ensure that you know where to look for advice and guidance on
study skills.
RELATED LINKS
The Imperial Success Guide: everything you need to support the transition from school to
university
1.6.1 English classes for overseas students
The undergraduate course involves a substantial amount of reading and writing,
as well as oral presentation. Fluency in English is vital if you are to be successful in
the course. The Centre for Academic English runs a series of English classes in the
evenings for students who need tuition and practice.
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If English is not your frst language you will be required to take an assessment
test in the second week of term. You and the Department can then decide
whether or not you need to attend the classes, which start about the middle
of October.
Caution
Failure to attend these classes could result in your not understanding the lectures and
hence failing the end-of-year exams.

RELATED LINKS
English language support ofered by the Centre for Academic English
Information on the Centre for Academic English 'English for undergraduate students' course
1.6.2 Applied Mathematics
Many students with good maths A-levels run into difculties with maths when
they arrive at university. On our programme particular problems arise with topics
in basic mechanics, which not all students have covered. An additional course is
provided to support those who need it.
The Applied Mathematics course runs in autumn term. Every student must
pass it, by one of two routes:
1. There will be an assessment test (an exam containing a series of short
questions) during the frst week: if you do well you will be deemed to
have passed immediately.
2. Those who do not do so well will need to complete the full course and
pass an assessment at the end of the autumn term.
Warning
Students who do not pass the Applied Mathematics course will be deemed to have failed
to follow the prescribed programme and must therefore expect to withdraw from the
College.

The topics covered are:
Kinematics velocity, displacement and acceleration. Constant accelera-
tion equations.
Force and acceleration, Newtons frst and second laws, multiple forces,
net force, equilibrium, acceleration due to gravity, weight.
Resolving forces.
Newtons Third Law.
Conservation of momentum and impulse.
Combining and splitting forces, resultant and component representa-
tion of forces and forces in equilibrium.
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General motion in a straight line, use of calculus. Work, energy, both ki-
netic and potential Moments and equilibrium of rigid objects.
Tip
Further support for maths is ofered by the online METRIC project, developed by Imperials
Mathematics Department. METRIC concentrates mainly on pure maths topics, and can
serve as a useful self-study aid in parallel with other subjects throughout your programme.

Please dont get discouraged about mathematics. We understand that stu-
dents have a wide range of backgrounds. You may well fnd that you are unfa-
miliar with the topics listed above or with some of the METRIC material. Our
aim is to help you to fll in the knowledge gaps during the frst year, so that
you will have the mathematical skills you will need.
RELATED LINKS
The Applied Mathematics module Moodle site
METRIC website
1.6.3 Technical communication skills
Communicating information about science and technology is a specialised skill in
which words, data and images must be used with clarity, precision and economy.
Most students will already be familiar with the necessary software but not all stu-
dents are equally skilled. We ofer a short self-taught primer to get you up to speed.
One of your frst modules in ME1 is Experimental Reporting Skills, in which you
will learn to write a report to professional standards.
You can save yourself a lot of time and struggle with what may be unfamiliar
software by putting together a Technical Communication Toolbox prefera-
bly before you arrive using this self-taught course. As well as giving you ex-
ercise in the skills you will need very often throughout the programme, this
course will save you time by providing you with ready-made, personalisable
templates.
RELATED LINKS
Technical Communications Tookit self-teaching resource (pdf )
1.7 Imperial College Union
Every student who registers at Imperial College London automatically becomes a
member of the Students Union. As well as providing an overall framework for stu-
dent representation, ICU provides a wide range of information, facilities and social
events.
Within each department, the Union has two Departmental Representatives
(Dep Reps). You elect these two from amongst the eight Year Representatives
(Year Reps, two elected by each cohort). During your frst few days at Imperial
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your cohort will need to elect its own Year Rep: for ME1 this will obviously not
be easy, and arrangements will be explained.
RELATED LINKS
Imperial College Union website
Information on Union Reps and how to become one
1.8 Support and welfare
Coming to Imperial can be quite daunting if you are moving away from home for
the frst time especially if you are also new to this country. The campus is proba-
bly bigger than any institution youve attended before, and the freedom of life in it
is immense. The culture shock can be a challenge, but there are resources at both
Department and College level to help you face it.
As well as academic support, the department has a student-led academic and
welfare network. Your departmental representatives (dep reps) will introduce
themselves in the frst week and outline how the student view is fed back to
the department to improve your time at the college. The dep reps can be con-
tacted at any time to help you with an issue to do with work or personal life.
RELATED LINKS
College welfare and advice website
Support for international students
1.8.1 The Student Hub
The Student Hub, situated in Sherfeld Building, provides a one-stop shop for all
key information and support you might need for life at Imperial.
Amongst the services and topics on which knowledgeable staf can ofer ad-
vice, support and comprehensive information are:
Accommodation
Financial support
Tuition fees
Student records
Exams
International student issues
The Student Hub can be found on Level 3, Sherfeld Building and is open Mon-
days to Fridays 09.3017.00 (10.0017.00 on Wednesdays).
RELATED LINKS
Student Hub
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1.8.2 Disability
Studying at university can be a special challenge if you have a disability. It is very
important that you let us know about any disability, specifc learning difculty or
health problem as soon as possible. We can then arrange the expert advice and
support you need to fulfl your potential and to graduate with the degree you mer-
it.
Some students who have experienced any of the issues listed below never
think of themselves as having a disability, but fnd that additional support
makes all the diference to their study experience.
Specifc learning difculties (such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, AD[H]D)
Autistic spectrum disorder (such as Aspergers)
Deafness or hearing difculties
Long term mental health difculties (such as chronic anxiety, bipolar dis-
order, depression)
Medical conditions (such as epilepsy, arthritis, diabetes, Crohns disease)
Physical disabilities or mobility impairments
Vision difculties.
The departmental Disability Liaison Ofcer should be your frst point of con-
tact. He will be able to help you with arranging whatever support is necessary
within the department. He is also the person who will apply for Special Exami-
nation arrangements on your behalf. You should contact him without delay if
you think that you may need extra time or other adjustments for your exami-
nations.
RELATED LINKS
Email Disability Liaison Ofcer
2.9.1 The Disability Advisory Service on page 51
1.9 Attendance
The College is legally obliged to ensure that its registered students are genuinely in
attendance, and it has a duty of care for them. It also requires students to follow
the prescribed course. Various checks are made to ensure that you are present, safe
and engaged in study.
The large majority of students are legally adults; however, like all adults they
have social and legal obligations. Your attendance will not be checked at lec-
tures. It will be checked, however, on any occasion at which your absence
would result in the loss of coursework marks either by yourself or, potentially,
by colleagues in a group activity. In ME1, attendance will also be checked at
tutorials.
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Important
College regulations require undergraduates to inform the Senior Tutor if they are to be ab-
sent for more than three consecutive days during term time. If the absence is due to illness
a medical certifcate must be produced within seven days.

If you are unable to attend a scheduled laboratory or workshop class through
sickness or physical incapacity the Department will make whatever alterations
are practicable to ensure that you do not lose the learning opportunity. If you
are unable to attend a scheduled laboratory or workshop class through a self-
elected absence e.g. an interview, family visit or religious observance
the Department can only make alternative arrangements which are practica-
ble and will have no negative efects on other students learning opportuni-
ties.
RELATED LINKS
2.8.6 Mitigating circumstances for assessment on page 43
1.9.1 Part-time work during term
To cope with the fnancial pressures of full-time study, many students take occa-
sional or part-time jobs. This is permitted and even recognised as a useful part of
general education, but it is essential to maintain the balance with academic work.
The status of your degree is based on the demands it makes on you: our full-
time degree programmes are a full-time job. However, we know that some stu-
dents, for various reasons, will seek part-time work and that the benefts
may be social as well as fnancial.
The College permits full-time students to take up part-time work during term-
time, but it recommends that you do not do so. If you must, you are advised to
work no more than 10-15 hours per week, mainly at weekends and never with-
in the normal working hours of the College. Ultimately the decision is yours,
but you should discuss it with your personal tutor.
Warning
Under no circumstances can a commitment to part-time work ever be claimed as a mitigat-
ing circumstance for coursework or examination assessment.

Sponsored students should note that some sponsors may not permit stu-
dents to take up work outside their studies and others may specify a limit.
International students should be advised that most visas allow students to
work no more than 20 hours a week.
RELATED LINKS
College policy on student employment during studies (pdf )
International Ofce information concerning visa restrictions on employment
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1.10 Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the presentation of another persons thoughts, words or images and
diagrams as though they were your own. It is extremely important to understand
exactly what this means before you submit your frst item of work for assessment,
because the penalties for plagiarism are very severe.
When you graduate from this Department with an MEng degree you will be a
few steps away from Chartered status in a profession. We are trusted to ensure
that you have not only the knowledge and skills but also the ethical standards
which you need to deserve that status. For this reason, and because the inter-
net ofers such free access to information, the College treats plagiarism and
cheating ofences very seriously indeed.
Within the frst week of term you will hear a lecture on plagiarism by a repre-
sentative of the College Library. Attendance at this lecture is compulsory.
The department uses the plagiarism detection site TurnItIn both to flter elec-
tronic submissions of coursework via Moodle and to check electronic dupli-
cates of printed submissions. If any signifcant level of plagiarism is detected in
any submission, the best possible outcome will be a mark of zero.
RELATED LINKS
Library information on plagiarism
plagiarism.org information site, provided by Turnitin
TurnItIn website
Policy and procedures on plagiarism and cheating
1.11 Clubs and societies
This is a demanding course and we expect you to work hard; but we hope you will
play hard as well. Opportunities range from the hundreds of student societies to
the social and cultural resources of one of the worlds greatest cities.
Since there are over 8000 undergraduate students at Imperial, it is virtually
certain that your interests however unusual will be shared by others. The
clubs and societies formed by students and supported by Union funding will
be competing to attract new members at the Union Fair on the frst Tuesday of
autumn term. More than 250 societies are afliated to the Student Union, and
every one of them will want you to join.
As a student of this department you are automatically a member of the Me-
chanical Engineering Society (MechSoc) which aims to arrange a variety of
events to enrich your time at Imperial.
London ofers an incredible range of entertainment and culture, both nearby
and further afeld. The substantial price reductions available to students make
this expensive place extremely good value.
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Take advantage of being here: few of you will have a second chance of univer-
sity education.
Caution
Be selective dont fall into the trap of trying to do too many things! There are only 168
hours in every week.

RELATED LINKS
MechSoc website
IC Union clubs and societies page
1.12 Joining the IMechE
You will receive information about the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMe-
chE), as well as a joining pack, during Welcome Week of term. We strongly encour-
age you to make use of student membership: there are no membership fees until
you graduate.
The Institution invites all frst year students to an informal evening reception
towards the end of October at its London headquarters. Further details will be
available during your frst week and a programme of other events will be pos-
ted on the IMechE notice board outside the UG Ofce.
RELATED LINKS
Register as an Afliate Member of IMechE
1.13 Vacation work
If sponsored, you will probably return to your company during the summer vaca-
tion. If not, you may seek relevant work experience elsewhere, and we can try to
help you. Either way, you should join a Monitored Professional Development
Scheme (MPDS) under which industrial experience will count towards your regis-
tration as a Chartered Engineer.
It may seem very early to begin thinking about your CEng: for the time being,
getting a degree will seem ambitious enough. However, workplace experience
which you do not record under an MPDS represents additional time which you
will have to spend doing so after graduation.
Tip
At this early stage, planning ahead to secure and use vacation placements can help get you
Chartered Engineer status up to six months earlier.

RELATED LINKS
2.10.1 What is a Chartered Engineer? on page 52
2.10 Professional development on page 52
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Chapter 2 General information
Youve successfully sailed through the frst week or two and settled into cruise
mode. Here is some more in-depth information on topics you may want informa-
tion about at any time during the course.
2.1 About the Department
The Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial has two main missions:
teaching and research.
The department has over 600 undergraduates on the four-year course and
about 70 postgraduate students on one- and two-year courses for Masters de-
grees. Most of the formal teaching lectures, laboratory classes, tutorials etc.
is carried out by the departments academic staf, of which there are about
50.
The same academic staf also carry out and/or supervise research, together
with 80 full-time research staf and about 150 postgraduate students working
for their PhD degrees. The department is managed by a Departmental Man-
agement Committee, representing both teaching and research and chaired by
the Head of Department.
The Faculty of Engineering consists of this department and eight others:
Aeronautics
Bioengineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computing
Earth Science and Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Materials
This faculty and three others make up Imperial College London: Imperial. Al-
though often just called the College, Imperial which was until 2007 a col-
lege of London University is an independent university.
This department receives an annual budget from the College of about 3.5
million and additionally receives more than 3 million from outside organisa-
tions for sponsored research.
Although Mech Eng has its own culture and ways of doing things, we share
(and rely on) many College resources, procedures and regulations.
Tip
The university and its Student Union recently collaborated to set out in a single, readable
and concise document Our Principles the ethos of the entire College community.

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Our Principles website
2.2 The Undergraduate Ofce
Until you graduate, the UG Ofce will be your main point of contact with the De-
partment.
For any general queries, the UG Ofce (room 552) is the place to start. The of-
fice is open 09:3015:30 each weekday except Wednesday, when it closes at
13:30.
You will hear a lot from the UG Ofce mostly by email during the course
of your studies. Please read emails carefully as they provide vital information
on lectures, assessment and other topics of real importance to you. We do try
to keep such alerts to a bare minimum.
Just outside the UG ofce are submission letterboxes for the submissions you
need to make in hard copy. Download a cover sheet for each item from Moo-
dle, sign it to assert that it is your own work and post your submission in the
box provided for collection at the deadline time.
Warning
The submission for all hard copy assignments is 12:00 noon, and this is an absolute dead-
line!

RELATED LINKS
ME1 coursework cover sheet
2.3 The Senior Tutor
The Senior Tutor is responsible for the welfare and academic progress of every un-
dergraduate student in the department, and works with the student representa-
tives to ensure your course is running as smoothly as possible. He can ofer person-
al advice and help to any student on both academic and non-academic matters.
The Senior Tutor is also on call during vacations but if for any reason he is un-
available, or you are unsure about who to talk to on a particular issue, please
ask any staf member in the UG Ofce and they will decide who is best able to
help you.
One responsibility of the Senior Tutors team is to maintain records for each
student so that, for example:
You can be notifed of your examination results
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You can provide evidence of problems such as ill health, for it to be pre-
sented to the Board of Examiners.
Your student fle is strictly confdential to the Senior Tutor and his team; no-
one else is allowed to consult it.
2.4 Personal Tutors
Your personal tutor will stay with you from year to year and will probably become
the staf member you know best. Both of you should maintain the relationship:
you may need their help and support, and s/he will need to know both your aca-
demic and personal qualities in order to act later as your referee.
To help your tutor get to know you, much of the coursework you submit via
the UG Ofce will be returned to him/her: this will provide one opportunity to
review and discuss your academic work and your progress during the year.
You should feel able to contact your personal tutor at any time.
2.4.1 Duties of a Personal Tutor
The duties expected of a Personal Tutor are outlined by the College but vary from
department to department. All Personal Tutors are expected to maintain an over-
view of their tutees academic progress and development, and to provide them
with regular one-to-one feedback and guidance.
The duties of a personal tutor include:
Helping frst-year students to adjust to the academic and social aspects of
university life.
Directing students towards existing resources to support their transition
to academic study.
Acting as the tutees frst port of call in the case of academic or non-aca-
demic problems.
Returning marked coursework to frst and second year students, and
thereby monitoring their progress.
Monitoring and assessing their tutees overall academic performance in
ME1-2 progress tests.
Reporting to the Senior Tutor on the progress of their tutees when re-
quested.
Reviewing and approving any tutees XPD Activity Form, so that ECTS
credits can be accrued for an extracurricular course or placement.
Helping their tutees choose ME3 DMT and ME4 Individual projects, ensur-
ing that they have done so by the specifed deadline, and attending a
meeting between each tutee and the Project Supervisor at least once per
term to monitor progress.
Attending each tutees Individual Project seminar.
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Providing written or on-line references for tutees applying for internships,
grants, awards or frst appointments. This should provide students with
the best possible reason for keeping their tutors in touch, up to date with
their CV, and generally pleased to know them.
RELATED LINKS
university
2.5 The Year Organisers
Each of the four Year Organisers is responsible for overall administration of one
year of the undergraduate course. This includes the coordination of diferent mod-
ules of the academic programme, and liaison (via the Year Representatives) be-
tween students and the staf teaching them.
RELATED LINKS
3.1 The frst two years on page 63
3.2 The third year on page 71
3.3 The fourth year on page 107
2.6 Facilities
Most of the facilities you need for your studies are available within the depart-
ments home City and Guilds building, which is now open until 24:00 (midnight).
Many more facilities are provided elsewhere on the South Kensington campus.
2.6.1 The Departmental Librarian
Like every other department, we have a Departmental Librarian to guide and sup-
port your access to central library resources.
The departmental librarian
Maintains a web page
Posts a blog (linked to the Moodle UG page), and
Ofers ofce hours for consultation: see the web page for details.
RELATED LINKS
1.5.5 Library on page 12
Email our departmental librarian
Departmental librarian's web page
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2.6.2 ICT support
Imperial College Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) provides
general assistance with IT issues from a central Service Desk situated in Sherfeld
Building (Level 4 West). You can contact the service desk personally (08.30 to 18.00,
Monday to Friday, excluding College holidays), by phone (020 759 49000, internal
49000) or by email; however, the recommended method is to use the 24 hour on-
line logging service.
RELATED LINKS
View conditions of use for IT services
View Conditions of use of the student halls network service
Email ICT service desk
Logon to Service Desk Online
Email Computer Facilities Manager (Dr Fusun Nadiri, room 791, ext 47021)
2.6.3 Copying and printing
Copying facilities across the campus can be accessed using your College ID card
and charges will be deducted from your electronic print account. An on-site con-
tractor provides facilities for more advanced tasks.
Every year, your print account card will be topped up with credit (usually 15)
for work use. Additional money can be added when needed through vending
style machines in the library or online.
Photocopiers are available in:
MED room 782-3
Central Library.
Some projects require that you design a poster to present your work. The
poster can be printed at Service Point, the Colleges on-site contractor for bulk
and professional printing.
Remember
Even if it is posted on Moodle, every document you will need for scheduled teaching activi-
ties will be printed and provided to you! These handouts are usually issued at lectures, and
only if you miss them will you need to print your own copy.

RELATED LINKS
Managing your ICTprintservice account
Directions to Service Point (pdf )
2.6.4 Workshops
The department has outstandingly good workshop facilities, situated in the adja-
cent Skempton building. As for any workshop, you must be dressed appropriately
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before you can enter, and must be properly trained before you can use any
equipment.
Important
To enter any workshop, you must be wearing a lab coat or boilersuit and relevant safety
equipment (e.g. safety glasses and footwear etc.). The IDEAs Lab does not include an area
for changing, so before attending you will need to change in some suitable area, e.g. Me-
chanical or Civil Engineering Department washrooms.

2.6.4.1 The Teaching Workshop
The Teaching Workshop will play a signifcant part in your training as a mechani-
cal engineer. It ofers a wide range of facilities, and your use of them will evolve
from year to year through the programme.
The Teaching Workshop is found on the entry foor level of the Skempton
building at its north-western corner (building 28: see Appendix A Campus
map on page 136) . Access is by swipe card. Opening hours are 08.3016.30
daily, closed 12.3013.30.
The workshop is equipped with 20 benches and a range of machine tools,
both manual and CNC (Computer Numerical Controlled). It is designed primar-
ily for manufacture from metals (steels and cast irons, aluminium and brass)
and engineering plastics, and is not suitable for wood or composites. A COSHH
(Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) safety data sheet may be re-
quired for manufacture from other materials.
A wide range of materials and stock parts can be obtained directly from, or or-
dered through, the workshop stores. Payment is made through the College
system and you will need to have a project code: ask your supervisor.
Before you can use workshop facilities, staf will need to establish your compe-
tence. Unless you can provide evidence of previous workshop training, it will
be given during the frst year Design and Manufacture course.
2.6.4.2 The IDEAs Lab
The IDEAs Lab ofers facilities which complement those of the Teaching Workshop.
It focuses less on metal-cutting and machine parts and more on the realisation of
design concepts as prototypes generally using a wider range of manufacturing
processes and materials.
The IDEAs Lab is located above the Teaching Workshop in Skempton Building.
The facilities ofered are:
The IDEAs Lab Workshop , a rapid prototyping, craft and wood-working
workshop equipped with up to 20 machine tools; and
The IDEAs Lab Project Development Area comprising approximately 40
benches.
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IDEAs Lab Workshop
This a defned space in the IDEAs Lab comprising three machine rooms and an
ofce, a machine tools area and a materials store. The machine tools include:
1. Standard woodworking machine tools;
2. Metalworking machine tools; and
3. Rapid prototyping and CAD-CAM.
The facility is designed mainly for ME34 students. Every user must undertake
a formal induction, monitored by an attendance and completion list with sign-
of by the attendee and Workshop Manager.
Training on specialist machine tools will be provided by the Workshop Manag-
er. For each machine tool a training book must be completed, with a signature
from the trainee and trainer to sign of that the former has achieved sufcient
competence. A system of coloured dots is used to identify which machine
tools a given student is authorised to use.
Technical advice on specialist rapid prototyping and CAD-CAM (Computer
Aided Design/Manufacture) techniques will be provided by the IDEAS Lab Co-
ordinator.
IDEAs Lab Project Development Area
Qualifying students can access this facility on weekdays from 08.0022.00;
technical support, supervision and selected power tools will be made availa-
ble by the IDEAs Lab Workshop between 10.0017.30.
This area contains about 40 benches. A limited number of toolkits are available
for sharing and a small selection of electrical power tools for loan, under the
Workshop Managers supervision. You will be responsible for ensuring that
they are returned as received as issued, and any loss or damage will be charg-
ed to the project or to you.
Storage
Storage space in the IDEAs Lab is extremely limited. Items may only be stored
if, and where, agreed in advance by the IDE Workshop Manager and if clearly
marked with the owners name, the supervisors name and relevant contact
numbers along with dates defning the period of storage.
Chemicals cannot be stored in the IDEAs lab without the prior agreement of
the IDE Workshop Manager and the completion and signing of of a COSHH
assessment.
Given the range of users and the lack of storage facilities, appropriate clearing
and cleaning during and after any IDEAs lab activity is absolutely essential. IDE
Workshop staf will inspect daily and tidy as necessary: any items left out will
be subject to disposal.
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RELATED LINKS
Email IDEAs Lab Coordinator
Download COSHH form
2.6.4.2.1 IDEAs workshop: facilities and services
Capability Access method
General access to workshop Students may only use the IDEAs workshop
after completing a safety induction and a rec-
ognised period of skills training.
Suitable training is provide for all ME1 and
IDE1 as part of the teaching programme.
For all others including AME MSc, PhD and
Exchange students, training must be organ-
ised separately.
Laser Cutting and Etching (LaserCam A2
60 W).
For light materials such as plywood and MDF
up to 6 mm, plastics and acrylics, card etc. No
metals.
Request to Technician.
Provide own materials and .dxf fle of profle
or outline. Service is free for all ME taught
courses
*
, charged for non-ME students and
researchers.
3D Printing (Z Corp)
Starch powder and binder visualisation mod-
els only. Some post impregnation but low
strength.
Provide solid model fle of object. Service is
free to all ME taught courses
*
, charged for
non-ME students and researchers.
CNC Router (Unimatic)
For producing 3D machined models and
parts in light materials such as model board
and foam.
Provide own materials and solid model fle of
object. Service is free to all ME taught cour-
ses
*
, charged for non-ME students and re-
searchers.
Vacuum Forming
Small format vacuum forming in light ther-
moformable polymers up to 6 mm in thick-
ness.
Provide own materials and discuss mould
tool manufacturing method with technician.
Service is free to all ME taught courses
*
,
charged for non-ME students and research-
ers.
Resin Room
For paint or solvent spraying and working
with epoxy resins etc.. Any activity requiring
ventilation or fume extraction.
Technician supervised activity, only available
during working hours.
Students must complete short induction and
provide COSHH/MSDS safety data sheets for
materials and technical specifcation sheet.
Toolkits
8 Tool boxes containing a selection of me-
chanical assembly tools are available.
During supervised hours tool boxes and
cordless tools are made available upon re-
quest.
Both items are provided on longer term loans
by a booking system. Individuals are then re-
sponsible for losses or damage of items.
Cordless hand tools
A selection of cordless tools are available for
use. Battery charging points are provided in
the store room.
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Dust Extraction
For sanding and shaping material within
IDEAs workshop.
Workshop has 2 provisions:
1. Downdraught air benches for desktop
work must be used for all small and port-
able objects
2. Portable vacuum units are available for all
larger immovable items.
Project storage
Project work is not to be left out on benches
without the explicit permission of the IDEAs
workshop technicians.
Small storage boxes are provided for all indi-
vidual and group projects and are allocated
on request to a technician.
Rack space is provided for larger format
project work.
Consumables
A selection of project assembly consumables
such as screws, nails, pins, adhesives, tapes
etc. are freely available.
All these items are kept in the central store
room. The room is open during supervised
hours and accessible by door combination
outside of supervised hours.
Door combination number is available upon
request.
Caution
Do not wedge door open outside super-
vised hours.

Hand tools
A selection of hand tools are available for use.
Machine tools
A range of saws, drills, sanders and routers
are available.
All machine tools in both the STW and IDEAs
workshops are colour coded:
RED spot
For use only by workshop technicians only
(e.g. circular saws, CNC machine tools).
AMBER spot
For use by students under the supervision
of a technician and after the completion of
the necessary training and induction (e.g.
band saws, lathes, milling machines).
GREEN spot
For use by students without the supervi-
sion of a technician but after the comple-
tion of induction (e.g. Cordless power
tools).

* This includes ME2, ME3 and ME4, AME, IDE and GID enrolled students working on cour-
sework projects.

2.6.5 Breakout student space
There is a student breakout space, suitable for informal study, on Level 2 of the
Skempton Building. It comprises PC/laptop benching, comfortable seating and
meeting spaces and is provided with drinking water, vending machines, copiers
and a recycling station. Access it from the south end of level 2, near Room 203.
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2.6.6 Quiet study space
The City and Guilds Building is entering a period of major refurbishment: until this
is complete, it will lack study space like that of the Central Library Reading Room.
Teaching space which is not booked for scheduled classes will normally be left
open for quiet study.
By agreement with Security, the following spaces should remain open for
study outside hours and at weekends:
649-652 Drawing ofces
749-752 Drawing ofces
759B-C Design studio
Tip
If you fnd any of these rooms locked and would like them opened, please contact Security
(tel. 48910).

2.7 Study
The study techniques which brought you success in your school qualifcations may
not work so well at University. The Imperial Success Guide site ofers excellent gen-
eral advice on study skills for higher education, but some of it may need to be
adapted for this particular department.
Teachers want to educate their students, not spoon-feed them; however, the
pressure on school teachers to score high success rates in some national ex-
ams can be irresistible. Higher education, on the other hand, is designed to
give you lifelong skills for learning autonomously, taking responsibility for
your own assessment. The transition from being taught can be a difcult one,
and will take 34 years. Steady and efective study from the beginning is es-
sential if you are to build a sure foundation for ME2 and beyond.
Warning
In your previous studies (e.g. for A-levels) you may have done virtually all your work near
the end of the year. In higher education, this technique is extremely unlikely to work.

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2.7.1 Teaching and learning methods
Several main methods of teaching and learning are used in undergraduate pro-
grammes. The mix varies widely between modules and from year to year and is
specifed in detail in the module description.
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Lectures
Classes for core lecture courses are usually large: typically 150 or more. At
any one time you will be studying more subjects than at school, each in a
diferent style. All the outline handouts you require will be provided, but
expanding and annotating them in a way which works for your own style
of learning is essential to the lecture experience. Learning does not
mean merely memorising lecture notes you need to achieve a good
understanding and this will also involve private reading.
During 2013-14 the Faculty of Engineering will be trialling the Panopto
Focus Lecture Capture Software in some Lecture Theatres. Panopto ena-
bles staf members to record lectures as audio and/or video presenta-
tions for on-demand playback by students. We are in the early stages of
using this system (which is installed only in 342) and uptake is likely to
be gradual, but you should be aware that some lectures you attend may
be recorded.
Important
If a session is being recorded and for any reason you do not wish to be part of that
recording, please sit in the designated of camera areas. Reserve any questions and
address them to the lecturer after the recording has stopped.

Tutorials
Engineering is about solving problems. Each examined lecture course
will be supported by 710 sheets of tutorial problems for you to work on
in your own time. Solving these problems reinforces the work of the lec-
tures and keeping up to date with them should be one of your top priori-
ties.
Important
Make legible records of your own solutions and keep them organised. They will help
you revise before exams and will be essential to show a tutor where you had got to,
and how, when you got stuck.

Because getting stuck is a natural part of the learning process, timeta-
bled tutorials are provided at which academic staf or graduate teaching
assistants (GTAs) can debug your solution and get you back on the road.
Discussing your solution method with a tutor is both an efective learn-
ing activity and a good model for team work in real engineering projects.
Important
ME1 tutorials are an integral part of each course and you are expected to attend. In
general we also expect that ME2 students who are going to maximise their changes
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Progress tests
Although they are not held under formal examination conditions, these
short (typically 50 minute) tests must be taken very seriously. As you pro-
gress through the course their role will change from a crucial indicator
both to you and to the Senior Tutor of whether your lecture/private-
study/tutorial methods are working or not and even of whether you
have chosen the right subject, to an integral part of learning to learn.
Lab exercises
Youve chosen to study engineering, and will want to see things working.
The primary objective of lab classes is to make engineering principles
and models real, but they will also give you material to exercise report-
writing skills and to analyse, understand and present experimental data.
The proportion of individual, hands-on work may vary from relatively lit-
tle (i.e. a demonstration) to 100%, e.g. for mechatronics.
Exam revision support
In ME1 and ME2, each examined module normally ends with revision lec-
tures supported by clinic tutorials open tutorials stafed by subject
specialist tutors. At least three past exam papers will be provided on the
module Moodle site.
Caution
Dont allow your revision to rely on past papers: they are provided as a guide for
what style and level to expect, not what questions to expect. Focus on the module
learning outcomes and problem sheets and aim at understanding the material rath-
er than memorising it.

2.7.2 Late or absent teaching staf
Illness, misunderstandings, timetable confusion or a simple error can sometimes
result in teaching staf not arriving when and where expected. In most cases, quick
action by students can save everybodys time.
If no lecturer or tutor arrives for a timetabled class, check your timetable to
fnd out who should have been there, and use the teaching staf lists to con-
tact them directly and/or by email and phone. In many cases the teacher has
been caught out by an out-of-sync timetable, a communications problem or a
memory lapse and will then arrive quickly.
If this action fails to deliver, contact the UG Ofce. Any staf member who has
been given leave of absence will have provided the ofce with details of sub-
stitute staf who can cover each teaching duty. It may be this substitute who is
missing.
If neither the timetabled staf member nor the substitute can be found, the ac-
tivity will normally have to be re-scheduled. Avoiding this outcome is to the
beneft of everyone concerned.
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2.7.3 Professional Skills
In addition to its own core technical knowledge and skills, every profession shares
a common set of transferable skills ranging from communication and teamwork
to professional ethics. These are taught in a thread which runs throughout the
core programme and has links to many teaching and learning activities.
Technical writing skills
ME1 Experimental Reporting Skills teaches the writing of a standard-
pattern technical report along with the recognition and treatment of
experimental errors and uncertainty through two lab-based case
studies involving risk and safety issues.
Oral presentation skills
ME2 Technical Presentation Skills teaches the basics of Powerpoint-
type presentation through individual preparation and delivery of a 10-
minute talk on a theme chosen from a closed list.
Teamwork skills
You will begin to exercise teamwork skills with a warm-up exercise be-
fore the ME1 programme even begins and will further exercise them dur-
ing ME1 and ME2 Design and Manufacture. The underlying theory of
group dynamics and organisations is treated in ME2 Management and
Business for Engineers; students then tackle the main Design Make
and Test Project in ME3. The DMT module itself begins with a half-day
teamwork exercise illustrating how the theory is put into practice, and al-
so includes Assessment Centre Skills workshops to exercise the use of
these skills in employer interviews and in the workplace itself.
Engineering Ethics
After ME1 Experimental Reporting Skills has introduced the ethical di-
mension of engineering through that of Scientifc Ethics, ME2 Manage-
ment and Business for Engineers analyses the much-discussed subject
of Corporate Social Responsibility. You will then be faced in the ME3 DMT
module with a half-day business game, delivered by Shell International,
presenting corporate social responsibility issues in the extraction of
crude oil in a fctional foreign state.
2.7.4 Humanities and languages evening classes
The Centre for Co-curricular Studies ofers evening classes in a broad selection of
subjects outside science and technology. Fees are normally due, but the Depart-
ment will normally reimburse students registered on the Year Abroad programme
for courses in the language of their chosen exchange country.
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Centre for Co-curricular Studies information on evening classes
2.7.5 Student representation
Each undergraduate cohort annually elects two representatives. These Year Reps
serve a general mediating role with academic staf when issues arise and, if neces-
sary, at the periodic meetings of the Student-Staf Committee.
Two departmental representatives (Dep Reps) manage the Year Reps and
provide a communication channel to the Student Unions Academic Afairs Of-
ficer. The Union manages the online process by which reps are nominated and
elected.
For teaching staf to maintain both quality of delivery and pace of innovation,
they need engaged and constructive feedback from students. If issues arise on
either side, they can be most speedily resolved by direct contact between the
Year Rep and the responsible member of staf involved.
If the issue cannot be resolved at this level, or its resolution could beneft from
wider discussion, it can be raised at the Staf Student Committee.
RELATED LINKS
Student Union student representation website
2.7.6 The Staf Student Committee
This departmental committee, which is chaired by a student, normally meets four
times per session. It reports to the Courses Committee on academic, administrative
and social matters relevant to all ME students on taught courses.
Any aspect of taught courses can be discussed at an SSC meeting, and all reps
are expected to ensure that all students have the opportunity to get their
views expressed at these meetings. The agenda is fxed in advance, although
issues can be raised under any other business.
Undergraduates are represented by a departmental rep and both reps from
each of the four years of the course. Since MSc students on Advanced Mechan-
ical Engineering course share many of the same taught courses, their repre-
sentative sits on the same committee.
The meeting minutes are posted on Moodle.
2.7.6.1 Staf Student Committee members
List of members by post.
The Committee is normally chaired by one of the Departmental Representa-
tives.
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Post Holder
Email
Phone
@imperial.ac.uk
Departmental Representative Dmitri Ivanov dmitri.ivanov11
Departmental Representative Parikshat Singh parikshat.singh12
ME1 Representative Piranavan Kirupakaran piranavan.kirupakar-
an13
ME1 Representative Neeraj Seoran neeraj.sheoran13
ME2 Representative Robert O'Keefe robert.okeefe12
ME2 Representative Fabian Sorce fabian.sorce12
ME3 Representative Seyed Alemohammed seyed.alemoham-
med10
ME3 Representative Tobi Danmole oladamola.dan-
mole11
ME3 Representative David Katz david.katz11
ME4 Representative Leonardo Paoli leonardo.paoli10
ME4 Representative tba nobody
AME Representative Angelique Deny angelique.deny13
Director of Undergraduate Studies Pat Leevers p.leevers 47088
Senior Tutor Fred Marquis a.marquis 47040
Director, AME MSc course Ulrich Hansen u.hansen 47061
First year organiser Maria Charalambides m.charalambides 47246
Second year organiser Guillermo Rein g.rein 47029
Third year organiser Daniel Balint d.balint 47084
Fourth year organiser Ambrose Taylor a.c.taylor 47149
2.7.7 Student surveys
Your feedback is important to this department, the College and Imperial College
Union. Three College-wide surveys provide regular opportunities to provide it.
The two College-level surveys are:
UG SOLE lecturer/module survey
This survey, which runs at the end of the autumn and spring terms, is
your chance to tell us your opinion of the modules you have attended
and the lecturers who taught them.
Alongside exam and coursework results, SOLE (and especially the free-
text comment boxes) provide our main source of information for manag-
ing course development.
Important
When entering free text, please be absolutely specifc (with names!) about who or
what you are commenting on.

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Student Experience Survey (SES)
Run at the same time as the autumn term UG SOLE lecturer/module sur-
vey is the Unions Student Experience Survey (SES). This survey will cover
your induction, welfare, pastoral and support services experience.
Motivations for taking the programme,
Depth of learning
Organisation
Dissertation and
Professional development.
You will receive during spring term an email providing a link to the sur-
vey.
Important
Imperial surveys are absolutely anonymous. The more students that take part the more rep-
resentative and useful the results, so please take a few minutes to give your views.

National Student Survey (NSS)
While in the fnal year of your programme, you will be invited to take part
in the National Students Survey (NSS). NSS asks all fnal-year undergradu-
ates to rate a range of elements related to their student experience such
as:
Academic support
Learning resources and
Assessment and feedback.
This nationwide survey compiles year-on-year comparative data for high-
er education institutions, with its results being made publicly available.
RELATED LINKS
Visit Unistats websit to see Imperials National Student Survey results
Read examples of student survey response at Union website
Find out more about Registry surveys and see previous results
Email Registry Survey Support team
2.7.8 Studying abroad
We have exchange arrangements with some of the best technological universities
in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia and the USA. If you are
on the Mechanical Engineering with a Year Abroad programme, and your aca-
demic record and (if necessary) foreign language skills are good enough, you can
spend your fourth year abroad.
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Many studies have shown that travel broadens the mind and deepens aca-
demic abilities not only in your chosen subject but also in linguistic and inter-
cultural skills, self-reliance and self-awareness. Many employers are well aware
of the benefts and value such a period abroad highly, enhancing employabili-
ty and job prospects.
The Exchange Coordinator gives an open introductory lecture outlining the
scheme.
You must bear in mind that to reach the required language level for certain
placements, you will need to start a language course in year 1. Generally, the
way you study and the rate you study at will need to match your individual
case. For example, if you have a good A or AS level language and your spon-
soring company is arranging for you to work in the relevant country during a
long vacation, formal language classes here during term may not be necessary
at all. However, if you have only GCSE level French or German you would be
well advised to take one of the intensive language classes ofered by the Hu-
manities Department during term, and to work/travel abroad in the summer
vacation(s).
Caution
It is important to be aware from the outset that places on exchange schemes are very limi-
ted, competition is ferce and academic selection criteria are exacting. Many students who
are registered on the programme cannot ultimately be ofered a place.

Studying abroad in this way is no soft option but it is a very rewarding experi-
ence, as those students who have done it confrm.
RELATED LINKS
3.4 The year abroad on page 129
2.7.9 Unenrolling from a Moodle course
When you complete a course or your interest in it ends, you may wish to unenroll
so that you no longer receive associated emails, forum posts etc..
To unenroll, you need to be logged in to Moodle.
1. Go to your Home page
2. Select the course from which you wish to unenroll
3. In the left sidebar, select Settings (note: this may be minimised to a Set-
tings box in the top left-hand corner)
4. Under Course administration select Unenroll me from ...
5. When asked Do you really want to unenroll yourself from course [course
name] click Continue
You are now no longer enrolled.
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2.8 Assessment
The qualifcations you are studying for are widely envied, and widely respected by
employers. We work hard to maintain the fairness, accuracy and rigour of the as-
sessment system which underpins them and you must work hard to earn them
but there is no set pass rate and every student is capable of getting a good de-
gree.
2.8.1 Progression
Mechanical Engineering MEng programmes consist of four successive, one-year
parts. You must pass the assessments for each of them in order to progress to the
next.
The four parts of the programme, and the cohorts of students registered on
them, are referred to as ME1 to ME4 (you will also still hear some staf use the
older terms 1M4M). Your progress will be assessed each year by a mixture
of examinations and coursework. The ME1 result is qualifying-only, determin-
ing only whether you proceed or not. The ME2, ME3 and ME4 marks contrib-
ute 1/4, 3/8 and 3/8 of the total for the degree.
Full details are specifed in the Scheme for the Award of Honours; this
scheme changes slightly from year to year, but the version which applies to
you is the one which was in force the year you initially registered.
When all assessments for the year have been marked and the marks collated, a
series of meetings collectively known as the Examiners Meeting reviews
the results and allocates an overall pass code to each student. For Parts 2-4
these results are passed to Registry, which records them for release to stu-
dents in early July.
The large majority of students pass frst time. Candidates who do not satisfy
the examiners, either in the summer examinations or after Supplementary
Qualifying Tests, will be asked to withdraw from the College permanently.
RELATED LINKS
Appendix E Schemes for the Award of Honours on page 145
2.8.11 Supplementary qualifying tests (SQTs) on page 47
2.8.2 Coursework
The purpose of coursework is to reinforce lecture material and to develop your
skills in laboratory work, computing, design etc.. Most coursework is assessed, and
contributes towards your degree.
Coursework exercises include lab reports, project reports, computing exercises
and progress tests which are completed and handed in during the year. Each
piece of coursework will have a specifed submission date, set in advance and
published in the module description. This submission date is a hard deadline:
work submitted after that date may be marked to provide feedback, but you
will not be given any credit for it.
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Warning
Being awarded zero marks for a major coursework item due to late submission could lead,
in the worst case, to a lower degree classifcation or even total failure.

For many assignments you will need to submit an item of individually auth-
ored work, which will be assessed and will count towards your degree. You will
be required to declare sole authorship of every such item, and plagiarism is
taken extremely seriously.
Warning
Do not under any circumstances use any copied or pirated coursework, or allow your
work to be copied by others.

The College treats such cheating on coursework exercises exactly the same
way as cheating in examinations. If any student is suspected of cheating, of at-
tempting to cheat or of assisting someone else to cheat, the facts will be re-
ported to the College. If found to have done so, s/he may in consequence be
disqualifed from all future examinations of the Imperial College.
RELATED LINKS
1.10 Plagiarism on page 20
College disciplinary procedures
2.8.3 Feedback to students
The principal objectives of setting coursework are to assess your progress and to
help you improve it. Unless your work could hardly be better (or is too poor to de-
serve the efort), you can expect explicit and timely guidance from the marker on
areas to work on and you should aim to act on it.
The form of feedback will vary widely, depending on the nature of the submis-
sion. A common form is an itemised list of criteria with a tick-box grade for
each, along with some written indication of the reason for credit being lost.
Every efort is made to return marked assessments as quickly as possible, and
certainly before the feedback is needed to guide a subsequent submission.
Note
Unless otherwise specifed, you should expect marked coursework to be returned within 14
days of the submission deadline: if this hasn't happened speak to your year rep, who can
make enquiries on your behalf.

2.8.4 Revision for exams
Each examined module provides at least the last three exam papers, with answers,
on Moodle. These provide a useful guide for paper and question style, but cannot
be relied on to guide your revision. Defning what you must be able to do in an
exam is the job of the intended learning outcomes given in the module descrip-
tion.
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Although students are generally well practiced in exams and most already
have their own strategies, the Imperial Success Guide site provides several
useful tips on revision. Two are especially important:
1. Past papers should be used to study question style and to practice under
exam conditions. However, relying heavily on past papers is a bad idea:
your goal must be deep learning to underpin future learning and to
avoid being thrown by a question posed from a fresh angle.
2. Dont just try to learn the material provided by heart: engage with it and
re-shape it in a way which makes sense to you as an individual.
Exam stress is an intrinsic part of assessment, and learning to cope with it is
an intrinsic part of the learning experience. Even if you never sit another exam
after leaving Imperial, professional life will bring you many examination-like
experiences. Excellent advice on coping with exam stress and further ad-
vice on revision strategies is provided on the College Health Centre web-
site.
RELATED LINKS
university
Health centre website on exam stress
2.8.4.1 Revising for combined subjects in ME1-2
In ME1 and ME2, related subjects in Thermofuids and in Solid Mechanics are grou-
ped together. However, you cannot write of any examination against another in
its group for which you expect a higher mark. You must study, and revise, to mas-
ter every subject.
The knowledge and skills learned in ME1 and ME2 form the foundations of
your education as an engineer. They span a range of subjects, but some are
clustered in groups Solid Mechanics and Thermofuids which share fun-
damental concepts.
Our published Schemes for the Award of Honours specify that in order to pro-
gress from ME1 into ME2 and from ME2 into ME3, you must satisfy the examin-
ers in all examinations. You can recover from narrow failure in one examina-
tion by further study over summer and a successful Supplementary Qualifying
Test (SQT or re-sit) in September.
In both ME1 and ME2, some of these core subjects are aggregated. The idea of
an aggregated examination pass is that if you achieve marginally below 40%
in (for example) ME1 Stress Analysis you can still pass the ME1 Solid Mechanics
examination overall and progress as of right if your Mechanics mark sufcient-
ly exceeds 40%. This aggregation recognises that the individual subjects share
many fundamental concepts as you will remember from the frst few weeks.
However, because the individual examinations assess core subjects, the Exam-
ining Board will not allow you to progress automatically if you demonstrate so
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little mastery of one (e.g. Stress Analysis or Mechanics) that they consider you
to be at high risk of failing the following year. The minimum required degree
of mastery in individual subject examinations is assessed by the Examining
Board on a year by year basis.
Warning
Dont abandon any Solid Mechanics or Thermofuids subject in favour of a related subject
which in which you excel! In ME1 and ME2, you must study to pass every exam.

RELATED LINKS
Schemes for the Award of Honours
2.8.5 Examinations
Most written examinations take place early in the summer term. There is no set
failure rate and therefore no reason why every candidate should not pass at the
frst attempt.
How papers are written
Exam papers are written and checked, both internally and externally, by a
process which begins several months before you sit them. Each paper is frst
independently solved (usually by the Associate Lecturer), then reviewed cold
by a small internal committee of academics in the same subject area. It is then
sent out for review by one of the two External Examiners. These are highly-re-
garded academics from outside Imperial, appointed by the University for a pe-
riod of four years, who monitor the remainder of the assessment process
culminating in a visit for the fnal Examiners Meeting.
Sitting the exam
Most examinations take place in the double-glazed and air-conditioned draw-
ing ofces on levels 67.
Important
You must carry your College identity card, so that your CID number can be noted and your
identity checked.

You will be able to take in pens, pencils, erasers and rulers but, for a Closed
Book examination, nothing else. You will be provided, if necessary, with:
1. The Handbook of Data and Formulae edition issued to you: you cannot use
your own copy, but you should learn your way around it
2. A basic scientifc calculator you will not be allowed to take your own,
or any peripheral equipment. The Casio FX83ES provided has all the usu-
al scientifc functions. If you need to familiarise yourself with this model,
the UG Ofce will issue one on overnight loan (dont leave this until the
last-minute rush).
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College examination conditions and rules e.g. the absolute rule against
speaking to neighbours are stated in the Instructions to candidates for ex-
aminations and are similar to those for any other public exams.
Important
The instructions on the front page of the answer book fll in a list of questions attemp-
ted, start each question on a new page etc. are there for your protection. Read and obey
them!

Choice of questions
Because core courses lay the foundations for an engineering education, they
do not ofer a choice of questions. Elective modules usually do. If you answer
more questions than you were asked to, only those most highly marked within
the rules will count towards the total.
RELATED LINKS
Registry instructions to exam candidates
2.8.5.1 Open-book exams
Some examinations, especially at M level, are open-book. To encourage appropri-
ate preparation, the quantity of material which candidates can take into the exam
room is limited.
The rubric for each examination papers is reproduced in the corresponding
Module Descriptor and for some modules it contains the phrase This is an
OPEN BOOK Examination. For these exams you can take into the examination
room, in addition to those items permitted for a Closed Book exam, the follow-
ing:
One A4 sized ring binder, no more than 75 mm thick and containing writ-
ten and/or printed material only, and
A maximum of two textbooks.
2.8.6 Mitigating circumstances for assessment
Circumstances beyond your control may prevent you from submitting coursework
on time, or may seriously afect your performance in an exam. If you want us to
take these circumstances into account, you must let us know the details as soon as
possible.
Download and complete the form in full and return it to the UG Ofce. Please
give as many details as possible and provide evidence where possible: College
policy requires that any details you provide remain confdential as far as possi-
ble.
Important
For minor items of coursework, submit only Appendix 2 of the form: for these, no medical
certifcation is required.

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The College Health Centre can certify illness only for absence from College
lasting more than one week, or absence from an Examination.
Submit the form as soon as you can.
Warning
To be considered, the Mitigating Circumstances form must be received within 5 working
days of the relevant examination or coursework submission date.

RELATED LINKS
Mitigating Circumstances form (docx)
Exams and religious obligations (pdf )
2.8.7 Examination feedback
As soon as you submit an exam script for marking, it becomes the property of the
College and you renounce any right to access it: in fact, allowing you such access
would contravene the Data Protection Act. Arrangements can be made (on pay-
ment of a fee) to access any markers comments, but more efcient ways have
been devised to provide appropriate feedback.
Most students are well practised at written examinations, and get the results
they expect. Sometimes this is not the case and even more rarely the
surprise is a unwelcome one.
Important
There is no automatic right of appeal against the marks awarded at examination. Students
may only appeal against exam results on the grounds of administrative or clerical error and
papers will not be remarked.

The fear most commonly expressed by students is that a question, a page or
an entire answer book has been overlooked. Because the nature of written
scripts makes this possibility a real one, it has been virtually eliminated by
straightforward, systematic checking procedures.
Another common concern, where a student accepts that s/he has arrived at
the wrong answer, is the attribution of method marks. Awarding marks for in-
termediate results is expected: a marking scheme which does so makes mark-
ing a much easier task. Each paper is marked by two independent examiners,
and the frst is expected to alert the second that the student is proceeding cor-
rectly after an earlier error, by means of a comment on the script such as Fol-
lows.
Students have the right (on payment of a fee) under the Data Protection Act to
sight of any such written comments or annotations. Request must be made to
the College Secretariat, with payment of a fee, and annotations will then be
transcribed to a separate document for access under carefully supervised con-
ditions.
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Since this method ofers no real beneft, each department has pursued an al-
ternative feedback method which suits its subject. Our Examination Feedback
document has been required for each examined course for many years and is
now published. It provides a statistical breakdown of the response rate, aver-
age marks and standard deviations for each question and comments, for fu-
ture examiners, on question efectiveness and student performance.
2.8.8 Grades and numerical marks for exams and coursework
Every department at Imperial assesses undergraduate examinations and course-
work submissions on the same scale of correspondence between percentage
mark, letter grade A to E and degree honours class.
All grades and numerical marks issued during the academic year are provision-
al: they are issued to provide feedback and to provide an indication of pro-
gress. Final marks are awarded only after work has been moderated. Ultimate-
ly these marks, appropriately weighted, will be used (perhaps after further dis-
cussion and moderation at a meeting of the internal and external examiners)
to determine which degree class is awarded so there is therefore also a cor-
respondence between mark and degree class.
These correspondences are shown the Table below.
Grade
letter
corresponds to mark: and to degree class:
A* % 85
First class honours
A 70 % < 85
B 60 % < 70 Upper second class honours
C 50 % < 60 Lower second class honours
D 40 % < 50 Third class honours
E <40 Not up to honours level
2.8.9 Moderation
ME3 DMT, ME3 Literature Research and ME4 Individual project reports contribute
signifcantly to the fnal degree mark. All are independently double marked, and a
special procedure is used to reconcile diferences between the frst and second
markers.
Because the projects which are subject to second marking are so diverse, inde-
pendent assessors sometimes award signifcantly diferent marks. This is espe-
cially true of the individual project fnal report, which also serves to assess
how well the student has explained his/her work to someone who can be ex-
pected to be knowledgeable about the general feld but not about the partic-
ular topic.
The moderation process is intended to ensure fair and accurate marking and
to resolve discrepancies in project report marks between the supervisor and
the independent marker.
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1. If the discrepancy in marks is less than 10 percentage points, the two
marks are averaged and moderation is unnecessary.
2. Where the discrepancy is equal to, or greater than 10 percentage points,
the supervisor and the independent marker are invited to:
Discuss the discrepancy; and
Agree a single mark and notify the course leader of it by email. For
the record, specifc justifcations must be recorded for the change.
3. If no single mark can be agreed by a prescribed date, the students report
and copies of all marksheets are sent to a Moderator, who will recom-
mend a mark to the Moderation Panel.
4. A Moderation Panel is formed, considers, and decides a fnal mark for:
a. These disputed cases;
b. Reports by students identifed as being potentially on degree class
borderlines; and
c. Reports originally given unusually high or low marks.
The panel also arbitrates on marks requested to compensate for Special
Difculties. Individual cases are carefully chosen to be considered by dis-
interested parties excluding for example the students personal tu-
tor.
5. After the panel meeting the course leader forwards the recommended
project marks, and minutes of the panel meeting, to the Examination Of-
cer.
2.8.10 Getting your results
After the Final Examiners Meeting, results for the session are made available
frst as grades and later, via Registry, as authorised percentages.
Table 2.8-1 Key dates for the publication of examination results
Event Date Time
SQT/resit decisions emailed Friday, 03 July, 2015
Exam grades posted Monday, 06 July, 2015
SQT/resit exam week begins Monday, 07 September, 2015
If you are a sponsored student and need your exam results sent to your spon-
sor, please submit your sponsorship details by the end of Term Week 35 by vis-
iting this site by clicking [respond to this survey].
1. If you will be required to re-take the year or to sit one or more papers in
September, you will be informed by email. If you have not been so noti-
fed by the end of the working day you can assume that you have passed.
The timetable for re-sits and SQTs will be made available during July.
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2. Overall result grades will be posted on Moodle (in the UG Course Informa-
tion section) and, by CID number, on the notice board outside the UG of-
fice.
3. Those who have passed the year will not receive a letter of confrmation,
but detailed course marks will be released via Student e-Service by the
end of July.
2.8.11 Supplementary qualifying tests (SQTs)
If you pass coursework but marginally fail a qualifying exam, you may be ofered
an SQT in that subject. If successful you proceed directly into the next year of the
course. However the pass requirements for an SQT are higher than for the main
exam, and the marks carried forward may be capped.
Your exam result may be classed as deferred, meaning that your summer ex-
am results alone did not convince the examiners that you were ready to pro-
gress to the next part of the programme. The most common reason is a mar-
ginal fail in one subject. In this case you will be ofered the chance to sit a Sup-
plementary Qualifying Test in efect, a second examination in Septem-
ber.
Note
SQTs must be taken at Imperial College London: the College cannot make arrangements for
them to be taken abroad.

You must use this opportunity to study the subject intensively over summer.
Attention
Because some students take the September paper as their main examination the course
syllabus and all teaching materials made available to support it, including past papers
remain frozen until it has run.

Marks gained at SQTs are not added to your total for the year unless your ex-
amination aggregate was below 40% in which case only sufcient marks are
added to bring your examination aggregate to precisely 40%.
In ME3, SQTs are ofered to MEng students only in core subjects, and in the
fnal year of your programme they are not ofered at all.
2.8.12 Re-sitting the year
If you fail to progress from any year of the programme and have to repeat it, you
will be required to withdraw either (depending on the conditions) until summer
term begins, or until the next set of year-end exams.
Although all of your coursework marks are carried forward from the year you
failed, re-sitting end-of-year exams is a major challenge. Since you can only do
this once, you must succeed and many do. It is departmental policy to sup-
port you in any way we can as long as our eforts do not disadvantage stu-
dents who are in attendance.
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Important
As soon as you have received defnitive examination results and made outline plans for the
year ahead, you must discuss study/revision plans with the Senior Tutor, the Academic Tu-
tor and your Personal Tutor.

During the following session, you will have access to:
1. Current material on Moodle, including newly posted material
2. The Senior Tutor, Academic Tutor and Personal Tutor for advice
3. The UG Ofce for course administration queries.
With the explicit agreement of the Senior Tutor and/or Academic Tutor, you
may be permitted:
1. Attendance at a reasonable number of lectures this will depend on the
total number of re-sitting students, their demand and the size of the
timetabled lecture theatre
2. Reasonable access to computer rooms this will depend on the total
number of re-sitting students, their demand and resource availability.
You will not normally be allowed access to:
1. Coursework elements, e.g. laboratory classes or workshop courses
2. Coursework based module classes, e.g. Computing
3. Regularly timetabled tutorials.
2.8.13 The Deans list
Because Imperial graduates compete in an international market, Imperial has
matched the USA practice of recognising the top 10% of A-graded students on a
Deans list and marking this achievement on the transcript of graduating stu-
dents.
The conditions are:
1. Achieving an overall mark of 70% or greater during the previous 12
months, and
2. Being placed within the top 10% (rounded up) of students in their cohort
e.g., of their year and programme.
2.8.14 Student prizes and awards
Various bequests, donors and sponsors (including the Department itself ) have fun-
ded annual prizes to students for special achievement. These are awarded at an
informal ceremony in the Department, to which parents are invited, on Gradua-
tion Day.
Table 2.8-2 Annual awards ofered
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Frank Turner Wilson
First Year Prize
Three prizes, each up to the value of 500, for
annual award to the most outstanding stu-
dent in the frst year of the undergraduate
course in Mechanical Engineering. The
awards to take into account academic ach-
ievement, practical abilities and contribution
to departmental activities.
ME1
C F Rae Grifn Book
Prize
For annual award to a second year under-
graduate student in the Department of Me-
chanical Engineering for excellence in practi-
cal course work. In making recommenda-
tions, Departments are asked to bear in mind
that the objective of the prize is to recognise
excellence in the practical coursework i.e.
a real fair for practical engineering.
ME2
Frank Turner Wilson
Second Year Prize
dent in the second year of the undergraduate
ME2
Frederic Barnes Wal-
dron Award of the In-
stitution of Mechani-
cal Engineers
For annual award to the best overall student
in Mechanical Engineering who has comple-
ted at least two years of an accredited degree
programme and who is an afliate member
of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering.
Value 200.
ME2
National Power Prize
in Mechanical Engi-
neering
For annual award to the best overall student
at the end of the second year. Value 100.
ME2
Neil Watson Memorial
Prize
For annual award to up to four undergradu-
ate students in the second year of any course
in Mechanical Engineering for excellence in
oral communication of technical information.
Value 100 each.
ME2
Sir Bruce White Labo-
ratory Prize in Me-
chanical Engineering
For annual award to the undergraduate stu-
dent in Mechanical Engineering with the
most meritorious performance on the labora-
tory course in the second year. Value 100.
ME2
Improvers Prize A Departmental award to the undergraduate
student in Mechanical Engineering who has
shown greatest improvement in the second
year. Value 50.
ME2
Frank Turner Wilson
Third Year Prize
dent in the third year of the undergraduate
ME3
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Award Citation and value Notes
Governors BEng Prize
in Mechanical Engi-
neering
For annual award to the student of greatest
merit in the fnal undergraduate year of the
BEng course. Value 100.
ME3
Renishaw Prize For annual award to the undergraduate stu-
dent on the four year course in Mechanical
Engineering who produces the best project
during the third year of the course. Value
100 each.
ME3: normally one
prize awarded to
each student in best
DMT project group
Mechanical Engineer-
ing Student Centena-
ry Prize
For annual award to the undergraduate stu-
dent who is adjudged to have submitted the
most meritorious work in the third or fnal
year. Value 200.
ME34
Bramwell Medal For annual award to the student at the top of
the Final year class list in Mechanical Engi-
neering. Medal.
ME4
Governors MEng
Prize in Mechanical
Engineering
For annual award to the student of greatest
merit in the fnal undergraduate year of the
MEng course. Value 100.
ME4
Henry Ford II Scholar
Award in Mechanical
Engineering
For annual award to the student with the
best academic record based on the fnal frst
degree examinations in Mechanical Engi-
neering; 1000 to be awarded to the student
at the end of his/her degree course, and the
remaining 1500 to be made available to the
department for allocation to the same stu-
dent for an approved academic purpose.
ME4
Institution of Me-
chanical Engineers
Prize
For annual award to the student in the fnal
year of an accredited degree course who
completes an outstanding research, develop-
ment or design project in Mechanical Engi-
neering. Value 100.
ME4
2.9 Support and welfare
A single website now coordinates access to the entire range of support and welfare
services ofered by the College and the Students Union.
The main areas covered are:
Academic appeals and regulations
Careers Advisory Service
Chaplaincy
College Hardship/Access to Learning Funds
College Tutors
Director of Student Afairs
Disability Advisory Service
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English language support
Equality
Health Centre
ICU Advice Centre
ICU student representation
International student support
Maths support (METRIC)
NHS Dentist Student
Counselling Service
Wardens.
RELATED LINKS
Imperial Student Welfare and Advice site
2.9.1 The Disability Advisory Service
The departmental Disability Liaison Ofcer can provide advice, support and refer-
ral to the College-wide Disability Advisory Service.
The Disability Advisory Service works with individual students, no matter what
their disability, to ensure that they have the support they need. It can also help
if you think that you may have a previously unrecognised study problem such
as dyslexia. The service is both confdential (information about you is only
passed on to other people in the university with your agreement) and individ-
ual in that any support is tailored to what you need.
Disabled Students Allowance (DSA). If you are classifed as a Home student for
fees and have a disability you can apply for a grant called the Disabled Stu-
dents Allowance, which can pay any extra costs that are a direct result of disa-
bility. This fund is not means-tested and is also a grant not a loan so any home
student with a disability can apply and will not be expected to pay it back.
Note
Students with unseen disabilities such as mental health difculties, dyslexic type difculties
or long term health problems are also eligible for DAS support.

RELATED LINKS
Disability Advisory Service
Disabled Students Allowance
Email Disability Liaison Ofcer
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2.9.2 Coping with stress
Stress an adverse reaction to excessive pressure from work and your environ-
ment afects many of us, staf included. Coping with it efectively is an essential
life skill, and learning to do so will be a valuable part of your education. The Col-
lege ofers extensive help.
Support is on hand at a number of levels.
The workload at Imperial is high, and is likely to be a major factor in how you
feel especially, of course, as exams approach. If you are struggling, talk to
your personal tutor frst. Both the Academic Tutor and the Senior Tutor can
help you to untangle the work and personal factors on you.
Remember
Dont leave things too late! Seek help before things get on top of you: there's nothing to be
ashamed of in doing so.

Exams, of course, are stress concentration factor number one. The Health Cen-
tre ofers a wide range of resources to manage exam stress and anxiety, in-
cluding even general guidance on revision and study techniques. It also runs
Exam Stress Workshops from November onwards, allocating places on a frst-
come, frst-served basis.
2.10 Professional development
Many of our graduates never work as professional mechanical engineers, but vir-
tually all easily fnd employment because the programme is widely regarded as
rigorous and exacting. Each student can do much to still further enhance their de-
gree by beginning professional development at an early stage especially via in-
dustrial experience.
2.10.1 What is a Chartered Engineer?
The title Chartered Engineer (CEng) is protected by UK civil law and is internation-
ally one of the most widely recognised of engineering qualifcations. In the UK, it is
awarded by the Engineering Council.
The benchmark for CEng is UK-SPEC: the UK Standard for Professional Engi-
neering Competence. UK-SPEC, published by the Engineering Council, tries to
specify the essential attributes of a professional engineer. It was developed,
and is regularly updated, by panels representing UK professional engineering
institutions, employers and educators.
To become a Chartered Engineer, you will need:
1. The Educational Base: an MEng or equivalent degree from a recognised
(accredited) degree programme like ours; and
2. An extended period of Initial Professional Development (IPD): work-
based training and/or experience under the guidance of a Mentor.
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A professional institution like the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMe-
chE) acts as an agent for the Engineering Council: it both accredits degree pro-
grammes and, through a network of suitably qualifed mentors, monitors the
subsequent IPD process.
RELATED LINKS
Engineering Council information on CEng registration
IMechE information on registration as CEng
Engineering Council website
Institution of Mechanical Engineers website
UK-SPEC with download
2.10.2 Industrial placements
Industrial placements can contribute greatly to your training as an engineer. Even
if you are not registered on the Year in Industry programme, one or more relevant
vacation placements can greatly enhance your education and employability as a
mechanical engineer.
Placements are a useful way to try out diferent engineering disciplines to see
which one is for you. They also add extra colour to your CV which will be
useful when you are trying to stand out from the crowd when you graduate.
Applying for a placement has no guarantee of success and it is therefore sensi-
ble to apply for more than one opportunity.
The Department recognises industrial placements, provided they are at least
10 weeks in length, through the IMechE Monitored Professional Development
Scheme, so the time you spend on industrial placement can be counted to-
wards your Chartered Engineer status when you graduate. For example taking
a placement during the summer holidays will accrue 1/4 of a year experience
towards CEng.
The Department also supports year-long student internships where you really
get to know a company/industry in intimate detail. If you perform well on a
placement it is also common for the company to make conditional ofers of
either future placements or graduate positions. Very occasionally the compa-
ny will also sponsor your remaining study years with a bursary in conjunction
with a graduate ofer.
2.10.3 UROP placements
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme matches students with
research internships, either within or outside Imperial. A UROP placement ofers
work experience within a research environment; the work is usually paid; some
bursaries are available; and ECTS credits can be earned via the XPD scheme.
The UROP scheme at Imperial is coordinated within Registry, and is described
in detail on the College web page. However, perhaps the best way to initiate a
placement within Imperial will be to contact a research-active staf member
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whose work interests you. If you do agree a placement by this informal route it
should still be set up formally, otherwise you will be unable to earn ECTS cred-
its.
Most UROP placements are paid, but not all supervisors have sufcient re-
search funding available. Some research sponsors, even relatively generous
ones, put tight restrictions on the way in which funds can be spent. Under
these conditions supervisors may be able to ofer exciting projects bringing
close interaction with potential employers, but unable to support bursaries for
them.
RELATED LINKS
College web page on the UROP scheme
2.10.4 What is a Monitored Professional Development
Scheme?
An MPDS provides a framework for recent engineering graduates to systematically
record the Initial Professional Development (IPD) needed for registration as a
Chartered Engineer. Because we operate an MPDS ourselves, you can record extra-
curricular experience during vacations or a year in industry while still an under-
graduate.
Essentially, a Monitored Professional Development Scheme provides:
1. A network of mentors who are suitably qualifed to provide guidance and
assessment; and
2. A management system for recording and documenting the IPD process.
As well as being accredited by IMechE to award degrees which provide the
Educational Base for CEng registration, this department is also accredited to
provide an MPDS. If you fnd vacation work in an organisation which already
has an MPDS scheme, you should use it; if not, you should use ours. If you are
with a company that requires use of the online system (i.e. company managed
MPDS), you may need to pay registration fees; otherwise, the scheme is free.
RELATED LINKS
Download MPDS Toolkit
2.10.5 Registering for MPDS
To register for MPDS you must complete an IMechE form provided either by the
provider of your industrial placement, or by the Department.
Before completing the MPDS Registration Form, you will need:
Afliate membership of the IMechE this is free for UG students
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A mentor who is registered as a CEng or IEng. By default, your mentor will
be your personal tutor, but if your personal tutor is not a CEng then the
Industrial Liaison Coordinator will stand in.
1. Download the form from Moodle.
2. You are applying as an Undergraduate student on an accredited uni-
versity scheme.
3. Forward the registration form to the UG Ofce.
RELATED LINKS
Download IMechE/Imperial MPDS registration form
IMechE information for students
2.10.6 Recording Monitored Professional Development
Having registered on MPDS, you must submit a report for each quarter during
which you wish to record professional development.
If your industrial placement provider has a company managed MPDS and re-
quires you to register on its online system, you should work towards the UK
SPEC competence framework.
For our departmental MPDS you should work towards Training Objectives;
you will progress to the UKSPEC competence framework after graduation.
1. At the beginning of the quarter defne your objectives, making some ref-
erence to the training objectives or competence framework
2. At the conclusion of each placement, complete a paper Quarterly Report
and a paper Assessment Report on the standard templates
3. Add each MPDS report to a private portfolio for use after you graduate.
If you are on a company managed MPDS, you do not need to get anything
signed of at Imperial.
If you are on our own MPDS, you should get your quarterly reports signed of
by your line manager at your work placement AND your MPDS mentor.
Important
On graduation, make sure that your MPDS mentor has signed all of your quarterly and as-
sessment reports, and send a copy of each to IMechE. You will need show the originals to
your new mentor when you take up employment.

After graduation you can continue with MPDS but you will need to reregister
on the MPDS as a graduate, pay registration fees and start using the online
system. Do this within two months of starting work, or some of the time spent
with that company may not be counted.
It is possible to continue MPDS at an organisation that does not have an ac-
credited scheme, provided you initially completed at least 9 months of MPDS
on an accredited scheme.
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Appendix F MPDS Training Objectives on page 153
2.11 Credit transfer using ECTS
ECTS units are currency in which UK students can transfer credit to another HE
institution within the European Higher Education Area (HEA) of 46 other countries.
By signing the 1999 Bologna agreement, the European HEA countries agreed
to harmonise their very diferent higher education systems and to recognise
each others degrees. A student should, for example, be able to
1. Carry credits from modules of a degree programme in one country to a
suitable degree programme in another; and/or
2. Take a BEng, an MSc and a PhD in two or three diferent countries.
To make (1) possible, HEA countries use the ECTS (European Credit Transfer
System). One ECTS unit is equivalent to about 25 hours of assessed study.
To make (2) possible, HEA countries must award comparable degrees in the
following order:
1. A frst-cycle (Bachelors or Higher, H) degree, requiring at least 180 ECTS;
2. A second-cycle (Masters, M) degree, requiring at least 90 ECTS;
3. A third-cycle Doctoral degree.
RELATED LINKS
Download ECTS Users Guide (pdf )
2.11.1 The integrated masters credit gap
The UK Integrated Masters (MEng) degree is regarded in some countries as being
30 ECTS short of a Masters degree.
A 30-week UK academic year can count as no more than 60 ECTS credits,
whereas a full-year MSc degree is equivalent to 90 ECTS.
The MEng or MSci Integrated Masters (or Undergraduate Masters) degree
is a UK invention. Without pausing to be awarded a Bachelors degree an
MEng student continues directly into the fourth 30-week year and, on com-
pleting it successfully, is awarded a Masters degree.
Integrated Masters degrees are recognised by UK universities and professional
institutions, e.g. IMechE, as the norm. They are widely respected and with-
out the disruptions of changing course after 3 years they are highly ef-
cient. The concept of specifying modules and programmes by learning out-
comes as we do, rather than by hours of study as ECTS does, is also interna-
tionally accepted.
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However: 4 times 60 is 30 ECTS less than 180 plus 90. Some European HEA
countries and universities therefore do not accept MEng (or MSci) degrees as
real 2nd cycle degrees. They may, for example, require completion of an addi-
tional one-year Masters degree before accepting an MEng graduate for a PhD
programme.
2.11.2 What is the Extracurricular Professional Development
(XPD) scheme?
The Extracurricular Professional Development scheme, which is voluntary and
which you can join at any stage in the programme, ofers a solution to the 30-ECTS
Integrated Masters credit gap and other substantial benefts. Under the XPD
scheme you can simultaneously accrue both Initial Professional Development time
and additional ECTS credits.
Engineering is such a broad and socially-engaged career that activities which
students choose to do outside College time, e.g. learning a language or study-
ing a subject unrelated to engineering, can contribute directly to professional
development. The College will therefore recognise some such activities by al-
locating them ECTS and noting them on the degree transcript. In this way a
student can accrue the additional 30 ECTS for a Bologna-compatible MEng de-
gree. The activities are in efect assessed, but do not contribute towards the
degree classifcation.
Tip
Because this Department already has an MPDS scheme (on which this scheme is based), the
IMechE has agreed that the time spent on activities for which the College will award ECTS
will also be counted towards Initial Professional Development: the limit of 30 ECTS will be
recognised as equivalent to at least six months.

2.11.3 Registering for the XPD scheme
For the time being at least, you must complete two separate forms, containing the
same information, to count the same activity both for ECTS which Registry will
annotate on the degree certifcate and for Initial Professional Development
which IMechE will record to count towards CEng status.
The XPD scheme is voluntary, and you may join it or leave it at any stage. Be-
fore deciding to register, you may want to discuss with your tutor whether it is
right for your circumstances. For example:
Students intending to study for a higher degree in Europe are likely to
fnd the additional ECTS particularly important.
Some international students, on the other hand, do not wish to obtain
Chartered Engineer status.
Tip
No visa issues arise from international students accepting summer placements while regis-
tered at Imperial.

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Having decided to register:
1. Complete the College Personal Development Planning course, iPlan.
PDP should get you into the habit of thinking about your career develop-
ment long before you actually begin a career. The habits and practices it
encourages will seem strange at frst but they are found, in one form or
another, throughout present-day working life. They will become even
more important in the future.
2. Register with the IMechE Career Development (MPDS) scheme.
3. Plan your strategy. The scheme relies on your initiative, and in the frst
year or so of your course you will have plenty to think about. Neverthe-
less, you can both plan your own development and recognise appropri-
ate opportunities when they arise.
You can now proceed to select, plan and arrange the activities which will pro-
gress your Personal Development Plan and earn you ECTS credits.
RELATED LINKS
2.10.4 What is a Monitored Professional Development Scheme? on page 54
Register for iPlan Personal Development Planning
IMechE MPDS website
2.11.4 Activities eligible for ECTS credit
Only specifc extracurricular activities for annotation on the degree transcript. In
order for an activity to be assessed as worthy of ECTS credits, it must have clearly
defned objectives and criteria for assessment which the student must satisfy.
The activities currently eligible for XPD are:
College extracurricular courses
These must be:
Complete, assessed College courses ofered by the Centre for Co-
Curricular Studies, and
Undertaken at lunchtime.
ECTS: 6 credits per course
For completed and assessed extracurricular courses taken in evenings,
the credit awarded is:
ECTS: 2 credits per course.
Industrial internships and placements
These must be:
Directly related to engineering or its industrial or business context;
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Sufciently demanding in nature to exercise a range of interperso-
nal and intellectual skills;
Between 6 and 12 full-time (37h) weeks, or their equivalent part-
time, in duration; and
External to the College.
ECTS: 1.5 credits per full working week.
UROP or other research placements
These must be:
Sufciently demanding in nature to exercise a range of analytical
and intellectual skills;
Between 6 and 12 full-time weeks in duration; and
Undertaken during vacations at the end of the second and third
years of study.
ECTS: 1.5 credits per full working week, 15 maximum on a single project.
Important
The College initially considered student-led activities, e.g. E.quinox, ineligible for
ECTS accrual; this decision is currently under review.

RELATED LINKS
Humanities UG courses website
Business School UG courses website
Careers Advisory Service work experience website
Imperial UROP website
Placements Abroad Handbook (pdf )
2.11.5 Completing an XPD Activity Plan
Arranging any extracurricular activity is, by defnition, your own choice and re-
sponsibility. However, to ensure that it is eligible for ECTS, learning outcomes must
be defned and assessed. Under the XPD scheme these are provided by Training
Objectives, as in an MPDS report.
Before you undertake the activity, you must ensure that:
1. It will progress your Personal Development Plan
2. It is eligible under the XPD scheme.
Important
For UROP or industrial placements you must choose a project with the potential for pro-
gress towards learning outcomes in which you have not already achieved a pass.

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For modules taught within the College and taken by students under the XPD
scheme as an extracurricular activities, learning outcomes are defned in the
usual academic terms and assessed by the usual methods.
For industrial placements, IMechE has already identifed an equivalent set of
attributes and skills as training objectives and these are assessed using the
MPDS Assessment Report Student Placement document. These attrib-
utes and skills are referenced to UK-SPEC but relatively low expectations are
set because you are unlikely to see much progression against UK-SPEC in your
frst year of development.
Since the XPD scheme covers only this frst year, it uses the MPDS Training Ob-
jectives. Each is assessed on a 1-4 scale. As a rule, IMechE regards it as unlikely
that individuals in year 1 of development would be scoring at level 3. Thus, in
efect, 2 is a pass and 1 a fail with 3 corresponding to A* grade.
For each extracurricular placement you must identify fresh Training Objec-
tives, in advance, as intended learning outcomes.
1. Download and complete an XPD Activity Plan form. Almost all of the in-
formation you write here will also be needed for IMechE documentation.
2. Submit the plan to your Personal Tutor for signature, and arrange a time
to discuss and/or collect it.
3. Download the IMechE MPDS Assessment Report Student Placement and
review the Training Objectives.
4. Identify your designated placement supervisor (who will become your
Delegate Mentor) and agree a brief defnition for the planned task.
5. Select at least the specifed number of Training Objectives, avoiding
those on which you achieved a Level 2 assessment during any previous
placement.
a. For a 6-8 week placement, choose three training objectives.
b. For an 9-12 week placement, choose four training objectives.
6. Enter the chosen Training Objectives on your XPD Activity Plan.
7. Submit a COPY of the Plan form, with Sections 1-3 completed, to the Un-
dergraduate Ofce.
RELATED LINKS
Download XPD Activity Plan form
Careers Advisory Service work experience website
Imperial UROP website
Appendix F MPDS Training Objectives on page 153
IMechE MPDS Assessment Report form
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2.11.6 UROPs: completing Registry Form B
To register a UROP placement under XPD, you should complete Form B and ap-
pend it to the Activity Plan in order to set up the bursary.
The advantage of Form B is that it includes information for the UROP ofce to
set up bursary payments.
Some of the terms and questions difer a little from the XPD scheme:
Director of Undergraduate Studies is our Director of Courses
Departmental Teaching Committee is our Courses Committee
1. For Current Degree Programme enter MEng.
2. If the placement is full-time, Expected number of ECTS credits will be 1.5
times the number of weeks.
3. For Expected Learning Outcomes, enter See XPD Activity Plan.
4. Leave Section C blank.
5. Add the descriptive Appendix (250 words will usually sufce).
6. Return Form B with the XPD Activity Plan to the UG Ofce.
The UG Ofce will now process this form through Registry to set up your UROP
placement and (if relevant) your Bursary.
RELATED LINKS
Download UROP Form B (docx)
Download UROP Form B (pdf )
2.11.7 Reporting your XPD activities
You should complete a short report on each activity, in a standard form compati-
ble with your development plan.
The reporting required for an XPD activity depends on its nature and the ECTS
you have accumulated.
1. Complete any assignments necessary for assessment of the activity. For
an extracurricular College course the Course Leader will manage this. For
a research (e.g. UROP) or industrial placement you must write a report
(using the style defned, with examples, by the IMechE MPDS scheme) to
demonstrate to your supervisor that the learning outcomes you cited at
the outset have been achieved, and this should be signed by your indus-
trial supervisor (i.e. Line Manager or section leader) and by your Personal
Tutor.
2. If you have passed the assessment you must complete a quarterly report
for the IMechE, with a copy to the UG Ofce (who will copy it to your Per-
sonal Tutor). If you have completed a research or industrial placement,
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simply re-use your assessment report. This report must be countersigned
by the MPDS Scheme Administrator.
If you have also passed the threshold of 30 ECTS, you have completed the XPD
scheme and satisfed College requirements for a Bologna-compatible degree.
The details will be forwarded to Registry for transfer to your academic record.
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Chapter 3 The programme year by year
As you progress through the 4-5 years of our degree programmes, there are man-
aged transitions from the learning of fundamental skills to the exercise of judge-
ment in individual project work, and from a prescribed syllabus to a choice of spe-
cialisations.
A schematic overview of the academic curriculum is given by Appendix B Pro-
gramme modules mapped by year and TSG on page 138.
Every teaching and learning activity is part of a module, which is taught in a
specifc year of the course (ME1 to ME4, the horizontal time axis on the map)
and is managed within a specifc Teaching Subject Group (arrayed on the ver-
tical axis). Each module is self-contained and separately assessed although, of
course, its subject matter will be linked to that of other modules.
Note
In general use the term course denotes sometimes an entire degree programme and
sometimes an individual, examined course of study i.e. what we refer to here as a mod-
ule.

The Programme Specifcation provides a rather dry defnition of the entire
programme in standard form, as required by the government standards body
which oversees higher education.
3.1 The rst two years
The frst two years of your programme lay the foundations for your training as a
professional engineer.
ME1 Organiser
Dr Maria Charalambides
Room 215
Email m.charalambides@imperial.ac.uk
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Chapter 3 The programme year by year 63
ME2 Organiser
Dr Guillermo Rein
Room 711
Email g.rein@imperial.ac.uk
RELATED LINKS
2.5 The Year Organisers on page 25
3.1.1 Structure of the ME1-2 programme
The programme consists of a number of self-contained modules on diferent sub-
jects, most of which run all year and are examined during summer term.
The structure of the frst-year course is shown in Table 3.1-1 ME1-2 modules on
page 64. Most modules run through the entire academic year and will be ex-
amined in May. Each will consist of a mixture of lectures and tutorials, a pro-
gress test and perhaps laboratory, design and/or project work.
Table 3.1-1 ME1-2 modules
ME1 module ME2 module Subject group
Experimental Reporting Skills Technical Presentation Skills
Design and
Projects
Management and Business for En-
gineers
Design and Manufacture Design and Manufacture
Mechatronics Mechatronics
Control
Dynamics
Mechanics
Solid Mechanics Stress Analysis Stress Analysis
Materials Materials
Thermodynamics Thermodynamics
Thermofuids Heat Transfer
Fluid Mechanics Fluid Mechanics
Computing Computing
Maths and Com-
puting
Mathematics Mathematics
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A detailed module descriptor for each of these modules can be found both on
the web and on Moodle where course materials are also available.
RELATED LINKS
ME1 module descriptors
ME2 module descriptors
Moodle course materials
3.1.2 Key dates and attendance in ME1-2
The College has both a duty of care towards its students, and regulations to ensure
that they follow the prescribed programme of studies. For these and other reasons
there are a number of points during the year at which your absence will be repor-
ted to the Senior Tutor.
ME1
Attendance is monitored at:
All study group tutorials
Weekly personal tutorials
Lab sessions
Workshop assignments.
All coursework submissions are registered.
Table 3.1-2 Key dates this session: ME2
Event Date Time
Autumn term begins Monday, 06 October, 2014 09:00
Autumn term ends Friday, 19 December, 2014
Spring term begins Saturday, 10 January, 2015
Spring term ends Friday, 27 March, 2015
Summer term begins Saturday, 25 April, 2015
ME1-2 exams begin Monday, 18 May, 2015
ME1-2 exams end Wednesday, 27 May, 2015
Workshop course 1 Tuesday, 02 June, 2015
Workshop course 2 Friday, 05 June, 2015
Workshop course 3 Wednesday, 10 June, 2015
Workshop course 4 Monday, 15 June, 2015
Workshop course 5 Thursday, 18 June, 2015
Workshop course 6 Tuesday, 23 June, 2015
Summer term ends Friday, 26 June, 2015
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Attention
For all coursework submission deadlines, key dates and late-breaking news associated with
specifc modules, please check the calendar on the corresponding Moodle page.

ME2
All study group tutorials
Autumn DMF Design, Make and Test project
Fortnightly personal tutorials
Lab sessions
Workshop assignments.
Event Date Time
ME1-2 exams begin Monday, 18 May, 2015
ME1-2 exams end Wednesday, 27 May, 2015
Attention
For coursework submission deadlines, key dates and late-breaking news associated with

Caution
You are required to attend College until the end of session because the External Examiners
may wish to interview you during the last week. You should therefore avoid any commit-
ment other than those forming part of the course which could prevent you attending
College during term-time.

RELATED LINKS
Term dates for next two years
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3.1 The rst two years 66
3.1.3 Managing your time and workload
One reason why engineering graduates are highly sought-after outside the profes-
sion is that an engineering education provides excellent training for self-organisa-
tion, time management and team working. Like any form of intensive training, de-
veloping these skills will stretch you especially during the frst two years.
The Imperial Success Guide site provides excellent general advice on dividing
your time between work and leisure, and fnding an overall work/life balance.
Within the course workload you will often fnd yourself having to time-share
and multi-task, perhaps balancing time and efort between coursework sub-
missions while keeping up with lecture courses.
This is how professional life is, and learning these skills through practice will
give you a competitive advantage.
Tip
Refecting on and recounting the workload management challenges you met and over-
came is one of the subjects which employment interviewers will fnd much more interest-
ing than (for example) the marks you gained in Maths.

1. The description for each module (posted at the head of the Moodle page)
shows an ECTS rating. Multiply this by 25 to get a realistic estimate, in
hours, of the total time you should spend on the module.
2. An academic year is equivalent to 60 ECTS. About 1500 hours of work
should be enough to progress from one year of the programme to the
next. This works out to about 50h per term week, but some term time
hours cannot be used efectively and you should expect to work during
winter and spring vacations.
3. To make every hour count for examined subjects, use your learning op-
portunities. Try hard to follow lectures even if you dont keep up to date
with problem sheets. But attend tutorials even if you are way behind:
your tutors will understand. They wont take it personally if you are stuck
on Sheet 1 they are there to unstick you.
4. To maintain the reputation and accreditation of your degree, we already
apportioned your 60 ECTS appropriately between subjects and activities.
We took into account that coursework is assessed on aggregate, as are
some pairs of examined subjects.
Tip
You can rely on the way we have designed the balance of workload: ration your own
time accordingly!

If you consistently work less than the recommended time you will probably
fall behind and the work will get on top of you.
If you fnd that you have to spend more than the amount suggested just to
keep up with the work you may be attempting to do too much or you may be
studying inefciently; you should discuss this with your personal tutor.
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RELATED LINKS
Module descriptions
university
2.6.6 Quiet study space on page 31
3.1.4 Progress tests
A feature of examined modules in ME12 is a progress test, counting towards your
total coursework mark. These are designed both to motivate you and maintain the
pace, and as an early warning system for your personal tutor and the Senior Tutor.
An integrated Masters degree programme has a lot to achieve in four years,
and you will need to pick up speed quickly.
ME1 progress tests are run during the week immediately before the Christmas
vacation. Satisfactory performance is important and the results are taken very
seriously.
Warning
A student who comprehensively fails progress tests will be deemed as having failed to fol-
low the prescribed programme; any such student will be ineligible for the end of year ex-
ams and must expect to be asked to leave.

ME2 progress tests generally take place during spring term.
3.1.5 Books
Each module specifes a list of books which you are recommended and in a few
cases required to purchase.
The course description for each module gives a list of recommended books.
Few of these are identifed as essential for purchase. You should buy these
few: the library holds additional copies but they are usually booked out, the
loan period is short and you may need them for an urgent submission. Some
of these textbooks will be suitable for more than one year and useful to keep
as long term reference books. More detailed advice will be given during the
frst few lecture of each course.
Tip
In 2013-14 the Faculty of Engineering will be piloting a scheme for eBook access, probably
to a single ME1 textbook. More details will be given as they are fnalised.

Copies of recommended books may be purchased from the Blackwells book-
shop which will be in the Concourse of the City and Guilds building during the
frst month of term. You will get details of this during the frst week. There is
also a Blackwells branch on the main walkway at the South Ken campus
where you will be able to purchase the books you require.
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RELATED LINKS
Module descriptions
3.1.6 Foreign language classes
The College runs intensive foreign language classes. If you are on a Year Abroad
programme, remember that for certain foreign placements you should begin the
relevant language course in your frst year in order to reach required level by
fourth year.
Classes are given at the rate of 3 hours of classes per week, and will also re-
quire private study. This is a big commitment, not recommended for students
on other Mechanical Engineering courses. Assessment of language classes can
contribute to the degree mark in ME3, but not in any other year.
If you want to study a foreign language at a less demanding rate, consider tak-
ing one of the many foreign language evening classes on ofer. These involve
a class of about 2 hours one evening each week during term. There is a charge,
but the Department will refund this for students who eventually do study
abroad provided that they get a report of satisfactory attendance. Naturally,
this only applies to languages that would enable students to study abroad in
one of the countries at which places are ofered.
Note
As part of the Imperial Horizons programme, every ME1 student will have the opportunity
of taking a beginner-level course in one of eight diferent languages.

Further information about language courses and how to register for them will
be available at the beginning of term.
3.1.7 The year in industry
Students who chose the Year in Industry programme will normally take the indus-
trial year between ME2 and ME3, when its ability to enrich the academic course
and the ME3 group project will probably be greatest.
All the information you need for this year is provided in the separate Guide to
Industrial Training.
RELATED LINKS
A guide to industrial training (pdf )
3.1.8 Imperial Horizons
Looking to get the most out of your degree? Imperial Horizons is a programme de-
signed to broaden your undergraduate education, inspire your creativity and en-
hance your professional impact. The courses are popular and highly rated by stu-
dents: make your choice and sign up quickly!
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You can choose from more than 20 diferent course options in the following
four felds of study:
Business & Professional Skills
Global Challenges
Science, Culture and Society
Languages and Global Citizenship
Some student opinions
I'd never really thought about the ethical side of science before, so
I've learnt a lot, and a new way of thinking about the science from
my degree too
[Global Challenges student, 2013-14]
Very friendly and helpful teacher. Extremely enthusiastic; made
classes very enjoyable
[Languages and Global Citizenship student, 2013-14]
This class has been truly fantastic, not only has it been stimulating
and highly engaging but has also generated more perspective and
enthusiasm for my core engineering that I would previously have im-
agined possible.
[Science, Culture and Society student, 2013-14]
The content of the course is very well-structured, and clear learning
objectives are given at the beginning of each session. The course
covers a wide variety of topics, all of which have been interesting... I
have thoroughly enjoyed the course, and would recommend it to a
peer or friend.
[Business and Professional Skills student, 2013-14]
Key benets
Give yourself a unique edge
These courses will give you opportunities to develop your skills in com-
munication, problem-solving and teamwork.
Make your degree transcript stand out
Imperial Horizons courses are included on your degree transcript as a
valuable selling point for employers.
Study for free during normal teaching hours
All Departments have set aside time for Imperial Horizons:
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3.1 The rst two years 70
First Years: 16.00-18.00 on Tuesdays
Second Years: 16.00-18.00 on Mondays
Third and Fourth Years: 16.00-18.00 Thursdays
Important
Register your course preferences on the Imperial Horizons website during Welcome Week,
before the deadline:
Event Date Time
Imperial Horizons enrolment closes Monday, 13 October, 2014 24:00

RELATED LINKS
Further information on Imperial Horizons courses
3.2 The third year
As you begin your third year, youve mastered most of the of the knowledge and
skills which every mechanical engineer needs. This year focuses on gathering these
together to analyse machine and energy systems, and on developing the group
working skills you need to create such systems yourself. You will also begin to study
in greater depth specialised subjects which particularly interest you.
ME3 Organiser
Dr Mike Bluck
Room 747a
Email m.bluck@imperial.ac.uk
You should check the ME3 Moodle site and notice board (on level 7, by the
lifts) frequently during term time. Notices and emails are usually the only prac-
ticable means of communication in ME3.
RELATED LINKS
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3.2 The third year 71
3.2.1 Structure of the ME3 programme
The core elements of ME3 are one lecture-based module on each of the two main
subject areas, a group project and a literature research project. The remainder
consists of electives which should be selected with the following year in mind.
The two core lecture modules each running in autumn and spring terms,
consisting of lectures and tutorials and assessed by a written examination
are:
Machine System Dynamics, which completes core material in the Con-
trol and Solid Mechanics subject areas, and
Thermodynamics and Energy, which completes core material in the
Thermofuids subject area.
Two further core modules are assessed by coursework only:
The Literature Research Project, which is undertaken in autumn term
and submitted in Week 8, and
The Design, Make and Test Project, which runs throughout the session.
You must also take fve elective modules, choosing them according to fxed
rules.
3.2.2 Key dates and attendance in ME3
that that they follow the prescribed programme of studies. For these and other
reasons there are several points during the year at which your absence will be re-
ported to the Senior Tutor.
Minuted DMT Project meetings
Weekly personal tutorials
The Ethics course
Event Date Time
ME3-4 exams begin Monday, 27 April, 2015
ME3-4 exams end Friday, 15 May, 2015
DMT report due Thursday, 04 June, 2015 12:00
Project seminar week begins Monday, 08 June, 2015
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3.2.1 The third year 72
Event Date Time
ME3-4 elective choices submitted Monday, 13 July, 2015 17:00
Attention
For coursework submission deadlines, key dates and late-breaking news associated with

Caution

3.2.3 Choosing ME3 electives
The ME3 programme includes two core modules and several required coursework
elements. The remainder consists of more specialised optional courses (electives)
which, within certain constraints, can be chosen at will.
RELATED LINKS
DSS
3.2.3.1 Types of ME3-4 electives
Electives are classifed by level and by subject, so that the selection rules can en-
sure a balanced curriculum.
Table 3.2-2 Elective level codes
Level code Description of level
H Equivalent to fnal-year Bachelors degree (Level 6)
M Equivalent to Masters degree (Level 7)
Table 3.2-3 Elective subject codes
Subject code Levels Description of syllabus
Technical H, M Directly related to mainstream engineering science
Design and Manage-
ment
H, M Concerning the application of engineering principles in
society and in industry
Humanities H only Languages, cross-disciplinary subjects and broader cul-
tural disciplines
IDX M only Related to the disciplines of other Faculty of Engineering
departments, and provided by them under the Inter-De-
partmental Exchange scheme.
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3.2.3.2 Registering for ME3 electives
The elective courses ofered change from year to year and because space and
timetable slots are limited, allocating places can be difcult. Although most stu-
dents succeed in getting the electives they hoped for, the selection process can be
difcult and must be started early.
1. If you wish to take a Horizons course, register for it as soon as they are
announced early in the previous summer term. Places are still available
on some modules until considerably later, so do check the Imperial Hori-
zons website.
2. After all ME summer examinations are over, registration will open for ME
electives only (except Advanced Applications electives). Register your
preliminary choices at any time before the deadline, using DSS: this is not
a frst-come, frst-served process.
Event Date Time
Warning
If you choose more than fve electives, your preferences will not be taken into account
at all! You are not making a fnal commitment, but we need to know your preferences
for our planning.

Note
Staf and timetable changes beyond our control may still afect the electives ofered:
places on your preferred courses cannot be guaranteed or confrmed.

Important
Some modules have limited capacity and there will be a registration process for
them. You will be informed of this by e-mail and/or in the frst lecture.

3. New ME4 students should investigate the Advanced Applications elec-
tives on ofer, and make a preliminary choice after a special presentation
during the frst week of autumn term.
4. During the autumn term you may attend other electives for which you
are not already registered, and you may be able to register for them via
the UG Ofce.
If you were not successful with all your previous choices, you will
now be able, to select other electives where places are available, in
order to satisfy the selection rules.
If you were successful with all your previous choices but wish to
change them or to add to them, discuss your plans with your person-
al tutor frst.
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3.2.3.2 Choosing ME3 electives 74
5. In the middle of ME4 spring term you will be asked to complete an Exam
Registration form, indicating the courses you have selected and attended
throughout the year.
Warning
Only marks for electives listed on the Exam Registration Form can be counted towards
the total Examination mark. It is your responsibility to select enough modules to fol-
low the prescribed course, and complete any necessary coursework.

3.2.3.2.1 Registering for elective modules using DSS
The Departmental Student Services System (DSS) can be used to register and mod-
ify your selection of elective modules online.
DSS remains under development, and in some respects it shows. One feature
of special importance has yet to be implemented:
Warning
DSS is unaware of the rules and constraints which limit the electives you can select, and
cannot implement them. It is your responsibility to register for enough elective modules of
the right kind to progress or graduate at the end of the year!

The current (online) Student Handbook and the module descriptions accessi-
ble through it should provide you with enough information to choose be-
tween the elective courses on ofer to your cohort.
1. Login to Departmental Student Services.
2. In the My Courses window which opens, ensure that the correct Academ-
ic Year is selected in the top pane. The second pane of this window
should list any Core Courses, and the Selected Course Options pane be-
low it will list your chosen electives. A fourth pane provides basic Instruc-
tions.
3. The courses available to you are listed in the ffth and fnal pane (some
may already be full, and greyed out). Click the box next to each course
you wish to take.
4. Click on [Submit] to transfer your choices to the Selected Course Options
pane.
5. To deselect a module which you have chosen, click the box next to it in
the Selected Course Options pane.
6. When your choices have been registered, click on [Back].
Your choice of electives has now been registered, but at any time up to the
date set you can modify it by following the same procedure.
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3.2.3.2.1 Registering for ME3 electives 75
Important
Event Date Time
Elective selection closes Friday, 21 November, 2014 17:00

RELATED LINKS
Login to DSS
3.2.3.3 Rules for selection
General conditions
Important
Read this section carefully! It is your responsibility to ensure you remain eligible for your
degree by observing the rules.

1. No credit will be given for any elective unless you have registered for it.
2. You may not register for any M-level elective until you have progressed to
ME4.
3. No more than one Horizons elective in total can count towards your de-
gree.
4. No more than two IDX electives in total can count towards your degree.
5. No more than three Design and Management electives in total can count
towards your degree.
Requirements for BEng or MEng in Mechanical Engineering
To progress from ME3 or graduate with a BEng degree, you must complete
fve H-level electives.
Modules difer widely in assessment mode and timing. Using the module de-
scriptors, try to select a distribution which suits you.
Some ME4 modules have pre-requisite ME3 modules, so it is worth trying to
plan ahead.
Warning
We cannot absolutely guarantee, more than a few months in advance, to run any specifc
M-level module.

You can, of course, attend one or two H-level electives for which you are not
registered. It may later become possible for you to register on another elective
before assessments begin. If you are thinking of doing so, you must frst dis-
cuss with your personal tutor the potential efects on your workload and on
the balance of subjects you are studying.
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If you are able to take on an additional course, then at the end of the year we
will select your best results according to the General Conditions.
Warning
You cannot carry forward to ME4 marks from additional modules taken in ME3 but not
counted towards the ME3 Examination total.

Requirements for MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineer-
ing
To qualify for this degree you must register for it, and your electives must in-
clude both
Introduction to Nuclear Energy and
Nuclear Chemical Engineering.
3.2.3.4 Electives available to ME3 this session
This list will be updated from year to year.
3.2.3.4.1 H-level Technical electives
BEng fnal-year level electives on technical subjects ofered to Mechanical Engi-
neering undergraduate students this session.
Code Module ECTS
ME3-HCCM Computational Continuum Mechanics 6
ME3-HECM Embedded C for Microcontrollers 6
ME3-HFMX Fluid Mechanics 6
ME3-HFEAA Finite Element Analysis and Applications 6
ME3-HFFM Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics 6
ME3-HNUCN Introduction to Nuclear Energy 6
CHE-430
Nuclear Chemical Engineering
*1
6
ME3-HMTH Mathematics 6
ME3-HSTAT Statistics 6
ME3-HSAN Stress Analysis 6
ME3-HSPAP Structure, Properties and Applications of Polymers 6
ME3-HMTM
Manufacturing Technology and Management
*2
6
ME3-HTRB Tribology 6

*1 Available to students on the Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering pro-
gramme only.
*2 Formerly Integrated Design and Manufacture

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3.2.3.4.2 H-level Design and Management electives
BEng fnal-year level electives on design and management topics ofered to Me-
chanical Engineering undergraduate students this year.
Code Module ECTS
ME3-HDAC Design, Art and Creativity 6
ME3-HDNVC Design-led Innovation and New Venture Creation 6
ME3-HTBM Technology, Business and the Market 6
ME3-HSDP System Design and Optimisation 6
BS0815 Business Economics 6
BS0808 Finance and Financial Management 6
Note
BS0815 and BS0808 are provided by the Business School under its BPES programme.

RELATED LINKS
ME3-HDAC module description
ME3-HDNVC module description
ME3-HTBM module description
ME3-HSDP module description
Further information on Imperial College Business School BPES
3.2.3.4.3 H-level Horizons electives
The Imperial Horizons programme has been extended to 3rd and 4th year stu-
dents, providing a broad range of elective courses on humanities, languages and
other general topics.
The courses ofered are listed at the Imperial Horizons website. All are deliv-
ered at the same time: Thursday, 16;00-18:00. Any of those currently available
can be chosen, within our own general conditions and those of the College.
Only one can count towards your degree, and if it is a language course it must
be taken at Level 2 or higher.
Tip
Any Horizons module which you take and pass, but which cannot count towards your de-
gree, will be recorded on your transcript and will count for 6 additional ECTS.

RELATED LINKS
Horizon course options available for ME3 and ME4
3.2.4 ME3 Design, make and test project
An introduction to the DMT module and to these notes.
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3.2.3.4.2 Electives available to ME3 this session 78
Your DMT project is the largest single assignment in ME3, carrying the most
marks. You will work in a team of up to fve to design, create and test an engi-
neering device or system. Each project is supervised by two members of staf:
a Supervisor and an Associate Supervisor, who will also be the customers for
your product. DMT projects generally involve practical work, either within the
Supervisors research group, the IDEAs Lab or the Formula Student pit garage.
An important objective of the DMT project is that through it you learn how to
manage an engineering project. You must therefore incorporate aspects of En-
gineering Quality Management in your project reports, and these will carry a
proportion of the total available marks. If well thought out, they will also be a
crucial factor in determining your success.
A lecture on Managing Your DMT Project will be given early in the year (see
module calendar). It is crucial that you attend this lecture, which will explain
how to set about defning and implementing the management and quality as-
pects of your project and will also describe the required content of the Plan
Report and Progress Report.
3.2.5 Choosing and planning your project
The frst phase of your project consists of building a team, defning the task and
developing a Quality Plan.
3.2.5.1 Building a DMT team
Your project will need to begin by transforming a self-selected group into a Team.
Before bidding for a project you should form a group of 34 (certainly no more
than 5). This may not be easy if for example youve just spent a year in
industry. To help you join a group (or to fnd members to expand one), a
Group Meeting Point forum is provided on the DMT Moodle site.
Warning
Although the core of each DMT group will be self-selected, we will need to add individual
members. For various reasons, a number of ME3 students were not in ME2 the previous
year. Collaborating with them and helping them to re-integrate is an opportunity to learn
an essential professional skill!

RELATED LINKS
Link to online MBTI questionnaire
Link to Moodle Group Meeting Point forum
3.2.5.2 Intellectual property
Project work may generate or may use ideas or products which are patenta-
ble. On registering as a student at Imperial, you agreed to the Colleges Intellectual
Property policy: this limits how far you can protect intellectual property, but also
limits your responsibility for maintaining that of others.
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If your project supervisor sets up a project supported with or without fund-
ing by industry, you may need information to work on it which the sponsor
does not wish to divulge publicly. You should not do this yourself: your super-
visor will arrange for a representative of the department to sign a standard
College contractual agreement for you. The agreements may just relate to
confdentiality (a non-disclosure agreement, NDA) but it may be signifcantly
broader.
Warning
Never sign any agreement that could potentially make you personally liable.

Your supervisor will ensure that such an agreement is in place and will make
you fully aware at the outset of any potential limitations on your work. For
example, a DMT project poster may require your project sponsors prior appro-
val of its content, and this can take several weeks.
As part of their initial registration at College, you agreed to be bound by the
terms of student IP Policy. College therefore signs agreements on their behalf.
You may be asked to acknowledge the terms of an agreement, but liability still
rests with the College.
RELATED LINKS
Information about College policy on intellectual property
British Library website on intellectual property
Link to Intellectual Property Ofce page for higher and further education
Imperial College intellectual property policy
3.2.5.3 Choosing a DMT project
Supervisors post DMT project proposals during Week 1, but will not allocate them.
Having formed a group, you need to agree on a shortlist of projects and submit a
bid for them. Projects will be allocated to groups centrally.
Most DMT projects originate from individual staf members who devise brief
descriptions before the session begins. Students may propose their own
but they will need to fnd an academic willing to supervise them. A list of
projects will be posted to Moodle during Week 1.
Caution
Read this procedure carefully! It has two stages, and you must submit a diferent form at
the end of each.

Tip
Be realistic about your choice shortlist. If you know that every other group is likely to go for
your frst choice, choose something more obscure and left-feld for number 2: it could well
turn out to be more interesting.

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1. When the list of projects is published, take some time over the next few
working days to investigate the ones which interest your group. Dont
promise any supervisor to take on their project, or believe any supervisor
who promises to keep a project for you!
2. Select a shortlist of at least three projects.
3. To register this list, download a DMT Project Choice form, complete it,
and hand it in to the UG Ofce before the advertised deadline
4. A project (hopefully your frst choice) will be allocated to your group
within a day or so.
5. Complete a DMT Project Registration form to seal the contract with
your Supervisor. Keep one copy of this form, and submit the original to
the UG Ofce.
6. Fix a regular meeting time with your supervisor.
You are now ready to launch your project.
Note
Team projects, e.g. those associated with projects such as Imperial Racing Green, follow a
separate procedure which will be announced.

RELATED LINKS
Project Choice Form (pdf )
Project Registration form (pdf )
3.2.5.3.1 Team DMT projects
Several DMT projects run as Team Projects, under an additional layer of supervi-
sion. These projects can demand more of student groups than others but they can
ofer more in return; Imperial Racing Green should be considered by any student
interested in automotive or motorsport careers.
Organisation of Imperial Racing Green (IRG) projects begins with an open
meeting held during the frst two weeks of session. The projects on ofer are
presented and a question-and-answer session follows.
If your group is then interested in a specifc project, it will be interviewed by
the existing team. The team then forwards its preferences to the DMT Course
Leader and they along with other factors are taken into account during
the allocation process.
Important
Every group must submit a Project Choice form. Standard and Team DMT projects are pos-
ted and selected using the same procedure, and each group can select both types.

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3.2.5.4 The Sharepoint team site
Following what has become almost universal practice in industry, each group will
be allocated a Sharepoint team site. This provides a document library and lists for
managing announcements, calendar items, tasks and discussions.
A recent survey of our Industrial Academic Board members, who represent a
diverse group of graduate employers, revealed that all were making extensive
use of collaboration software specifcally, of Microsoft Sharepoint. You
should regard an ability to use Sharepoint as a necessary transferable skill,
equivalent to that of SolidWorks or Microsoft Ofce.
Sharepoint is supported centrally by the college, and is securely backed up.
The user interface is generally intuitive, and extensive online help is integra-
ted.
Tip
Your use of Sharepoint will not be assessed; be aware, however, that your project supervi-
sor is a member of the team, has Sharepoint permissions equivalent to your own and has
been asked to review the team site.

3.2.5.5 Keeping a log book
Following standard practice in industry, each DMT group member must keep an
individual log book.
Although now being supplanted by mobile devices, log books are still routine-
ly maintained in industry. Their primary uses for a collaborative project are:
1. To provide a contemporaneous record of meetings and other real-time
events, complementing the shared library of electronic documents
2. To record and develop individual thoughts, analyses, sketches etc..
Important
Ensure that your Supervisor takes a look at your log book, signs and dates it at least once
per month.

When the fnal report is submitted for assessment, every group members log
book must be submitted as well. Some marks will be awarded for how efec-
tively each log book was maintained (but not for neatness: a log book does
not have to be tidy or beautiful, just legible and useful).
3.2.5.6 The project budget
Your group will be responsible for budgeting within a specifed total.
Each DMT project supervisor is allocated 150 per student, and this amount is
paid to the Academic Supervisors budget account. Some Supervisors might
supplement the total from their research funds.
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There are special arrangements for team projects (Imperial Racing Green etc.).
For these the Department pays 150 per student to a central budget,
managed by the team.
When costing parts and materials from external suppliers, remember that VAT
is payable.
3.2.5.7 COSHH forms
For any hazardous substance used in your project, a COSHH (Control Of Substan-
ces Hazardous or Harmful to Health) form must be completed. Suppliers of materi-
als are obliged to provide you with a data sheet which explains any handling or
contact hazards, and defnes any necessary precautions.
RELATED LINKS
Download COSHH form
3.2.5.8 Risk assessment
If you feel that any element of your project involves risk, that risk must be formally
assessed. The Technical Head of your Supervisors Research Division can advise
you, and will help you complete the necessary form.
RELATED LINKS
Download Risk Assessment form
3.2.5.9 The Project Plan report
This jointly authored report, submitted by the group in November, must defne a
Product Design Specifcation and a Quality Plan. It will probably need to be
about 8-10 pages long in total.
This report should consider (perhaps by reference):
Product specifcation
Procurement matters
Group responsibilities
The Quality Plan can be modifed and corrected as necessary, but you will
have to do what it says so think before writing! Use QFD1 and QFD2 or PDS,
using a pro-forma table. There is no need for both a PDS and QFD1/2.
You must also provide a Gantt chart. GanttProject, a simple project planning
and Gantt chart application, is now available on the UG cluster.
RELATED LINKS
ME2 DMF notes on Decision Making in Design (pdf )
ME2 DMF notes on Product Design Specifcation (pdf )
GanttProject web site
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Project Plan Report marksheet (pdf )
3.2.5.9.1 The quality plan
A quality plan for a product or contract is a document (or set of documents) which
defnes and sets quality standards for the intended deliverables and identifes the
resources fnancial, personnel, services, information etc. which will be em-
ployed to realise it.
In general, each organisation develops its own, specialised quality plan tem-
plates. There are a number of structured methods and formally defned tools
(e.g. Quality Function Deployment, Failure Mode Efects Analysis etc.) for creat-
ing them. The DMT project requires a quality plan, but not a formal one.
Elements which the plan should normally include are:
Identication
Project title, plan version number and history (showing changes).
Project personnel
Names of team members and their responsibilities, supervisor and asso-
ciate supervisor, with basic contact information.
External organisations
Details of individuals, groups or industrial or research organisations ex-
pected to contribute to the project.
Project scope
A summary of the task making reference to the Product Design Speci-
fication and budget.
Deliverables
List of required submissions including the product itself, documentation,
reports and presentations.
Schedule
Gantt chart, list of milestones.
Quality materials
Resources provided to support delivery of the project: course documen-
tation, software used, workshop facilities, test facilities, Sharepoint site
details, VLE, relevant standards, purchasing systems, copying facilities
etc.
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Quality events
Dated references to events which provided support to your project work:
report writing, design and presentation courses, training events, meet-
ings, lectures (e.g. introductory, health and safety) etc.
RELATED LINKS
Generic legacy Project Quality Plan (pdf )
Sample Quality plan: DRM Associates advanced product (pdf )
Sample Quality Plan: OGC template (pdf )
Sample Quality Plan: soil biodiversity (pdf )
ME2 DMF notes on Quality Functional Deployment (pdf )
3.2.6 Making and testing the product
Competition for manufacturing facilities and assembly space can be ferce.
If you are working on a Team project, you have access to the Pit Garage.
Some supervisors may be able to provide access to their research facilities, but
this is a rare privilege; otherwise, you will be working in the IDEAs Lab.
To borrow any lab equipment you need for testing, ask your Supervisor or the
Technical Head of your Supervisors Research Division.
3.2.6.1 Obtaining parts and materials
ME Stores holds a limited stock of mild steel, aluminium and stock components
and should be used where possible. Purchases can be made from College-recom-
mended external suppliers using a project account number; for other suppliers or
shops you must use cash, credit or debit card and reclaim the money afterwards.
RELATED LINKS
Presentation on Purchasing (pdf )
List of stock items available from ME Stores
Email Storekeeper (Mark Holloway, tel 47016)
Full list of College recommended suppliers
3.2.6.1.1 College suppliers of materials and components
A selection of College-recommended suppliers for basic materials and compo-
nents.
Tip
Most material suppliers impose carriage charges of around 20 per order. If possible, group
orders for diferent materials together from a single supplier.

Item Company
Mild steels Parkside steel
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Item Company
Non-ferrous metals, stainless steel Dor Metal Services
Stainless steel and aluminium Orion Alloys
Wood Jennor Timber
Builders materials (bricks, sand, cement etc.) Travis Perkins
Mechanical, electrical, electronic and fuid
power
RS Components
Electronics One-Stop Electronics
Lab supplies VWR International
RELATED LINKS
Parkside steel website
Dor Metals website
Orion Alloys website
Jennor Timber website
Travis Perkins website
RS Components website
One-Stop Electronics website
VWR International website
3.2.6.1.2 Raising a College purchase order
If the required materials or components are available from a College-recommen-
ded supplier, purchases can be made directly through the College iProcurement
system.
The supplier must already have been registered: registering new supplier is
neither quick nor easy, and a strong supporting case must be made. Your su-
pervisor must have already have approved the purchase and provided an ac-
count number for payment.
If your project is running in the Tribology group, please contact Ms.
Chrissy Stevens.
If your project is running in the Mechanics of Materials group, please
contact Ms. Valerie Crawford.
Otherwise, proceed as follows.
1. To purchase either materials, or any product from the RS catalogue: iden-
tify, with the assistance if necessary of your Project Supervisor and/or
his/her Divisional Technical Head, the supplier, the product specifcation
(material size and type, or RS part code) and the price.
2. E-mail these order requirements and the project account number (ask
your supervisor) to the Storekeeper with a copy to your Supervisor.
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3. The supervisor must either counter-sign a hard copy of the e-mail or for-
ward an acknowledgement of their purchase approval to the storekeeper,
who will then place the order.
4. When the order is placed, electronic copies of the purchase order will be
copied to both you and your supervisor.
5. When the order is delivered to Stores, the Storekeeper will e-mail you to
advise you to collect.
3.2.6.1.3 Buying for the project using personal funds
Justifable project expenses which you incur outside the College purchasing sys-
tem e.g. in a shop or on eBay can be reclaimed against a receipt.
In many cases, the cheapest and fastest (if not the only) option for obtaining
goods or services is to buy them yourself and then reclaim the cost.
Before making any purchase for project work, check with your supervisor that
the expense is necessary and that recovering the cost will be allowed.
1. Ask your supervisor for the project account code, identifying the account
to which project support funds will have been transferred.
2. When making the purchase, make sure you get a VAT receipt showing:
a. The company name (letterhead)
b. A description of the goods or service
c. The amount paid
d. The company VAT number.
3. Submit the receipt with an Expenses Claim (E1) form, with the Depart-
mental Authorisation box completed by your supervisor, to reclaim your
expenses.
The cost will be repaid into your nominated bank account.
3.2.6.1.3.1 Completing an expenses claim form
The new (March 2013) Excel claim form should be used wherever possible. Al-
though printed versions of the older pdf form will continue to be accepted, they
may take longer to process.
It is useful to save a personalised master copy of the form, populated with
your name and CID. If you are not a full-time student or employee (SRI, SRF,
DRF, Academic Visitor) of the College you should also complete date of birth,
address and bank details as these will need to be entered on every copy you
submit.
1. Enter a clear and succinct Purpose of Claim (e.g. meeting at XXX, YYY
Conference, DMT project) omitting unnecessary phrases such as expen-
ses relating to, or reimbursement of.
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2. Complete details of each activity and item. The form should automatically
help to populate key felds like analysis codes. If you are claiming for more
items than you have lines, just enter the total on one line, and list individ-
ual receipts on a separate page.
3. Add the account code details below each section:
a. Cost Centre is a 4-letter code beginning with ME (e.g. METH for
teaching)
b. Activity/Project No. consists of six letters and digits (e.g. P12345,
G12345, NS1234)
4. For a return journey entered under Travel (general), tick the Return box
and enter total, not one-way costs.
5. For a return journey entered under Travel (car mileage), tick the Return
box and enter the total distance.
6. Under Entertainment/Hospitality name the principal guest, organisa-
tion represented and number of guests, and if any guest is from outside
College, tick the box in column 7.
7. Check that all details are correct, save a copy of the form in case any is-
sues require correction, then print it.
8. Carefully read, then sign the Claimants declaration (right-hand box).
9. Obtain secondary Main Departmental Authorisation (left-hand box)
from the account holder or line manager.
10. Attach (ideally, to the back) any necessary receipts.
11. Leave the completed form in the tray in the Finance Ofce (Room 460).
Employees will receive payment into the same account their salary is paid into.
Warning
Expenses claims forms are coming under increasing College scrutiny at College level, and
the information supplied in them must be accurate in every detail.

RELATED LINKS
Download expenses claim form (pdf )
3.2.6.2 Workshop access and use
Even if your Supervisors research division has its own workshop, departmental
rules do not allow you to access it. For all manufacture you will need to use the ME
Student Teaching Workshop or the IDEAs Workshop. Access is timetabled and
competition, especially later in the year, is ferce.
If you need only a generic risk assessment form for bench-top hand tool, light
power tool and assembly work, please:
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Download and read the operating rules for the Student Teaching Work-
shop (Skempton Room 150) and the IDEAs Workshop and IDEAs Lab
Project Development Area (Skempton Room 238).
Download the pre-flled bench work risk assessment form,
Fill in the names of your group members under section 11, and
Get the form signed by your supervisor.
RELATED LINKS
Download bench-work risk assessment
Download workshop rules
Download workshop timetable
3.2.6.2.1 Submitting a job for CNC machining
The procedure for submitting jobs to the CNC queue.
To have CNC machining done in the Student Training Workshop, you must
1. Produce a SolidWorks model
2. Produce a fully dimensioned drawing
3. Obtain the material
4. Download, print and complete a CNC Request form
5. Submit the model, drawing, material and request form to the CNC Techni-
cian.
Post Holder
Email
Phone
@imperial.ac.uk
CNC machining technician Graham Brooks g.brooks 47015
You are now on the waiting list for CNC processing.
RELATED LINKS
Download CNC Request form
3.2.6.2.2 The IDEAs workshop
This facility provides a craft environment where you can complete project work in
wood, moulded resins and other materials not suited to the Student Teaching
Workshop.
Situated on the frst foor of Skempton Building, above the Student Teaching
Workshop, it is open 08.0022.00 every day except College closure days, and is
stafed Monday to Friday 08.3012.30 and 13.3016.15.
Access is by swipe card, to be arranged individually with Security (Level 1,
Sherfeld).
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In addition to conventional woodwork workshop processes, the IDEAs Work-
shop provides a staf service for CNC routing, rapid prototyping (3DP), vacuum
forming and resin moulding.
Warning
Outside supervised hours no use of mains powered tools or equipment is permitted.

Your Supervisor will be responsible for providing any COSHH assessment
forms and/or Risk Assessments necessary for project activities (e.g. test rigs).
The IDEAs suite also provides a project build area. This is unsupervised and ac-
cessible outside working hours 7 days a week, 08.00 to 22.00. Your DMT
project work can be stored in this space, but strict rules apply to any other ac-
tivities.
RELATED LINKS
Download IDEAs Workshop Rules
3.2.6.2.2.1 IDEAs workshop: facilities and services
General access to workshop Students may only use the IDEAs workshop
after completing a safety induction and a rec-
ognised period of skills training.
Suitable training is provide for all ME1 and
IDE1 as part of the teaching programme.
For all others including AME MSc, PhD and
Exchange students, training must be organ-
ised separately.
Laser Cutting and Etching (LaserCam A2
60 W).
For light materials such as plywood and MDF
up to 6 mm, plastics and acrylics, card etc. No
metals.
Provide own materials and .dxf fle of profle
or outline. Service is free for all ME taught
courses
*
, charged for non-ME students and
researchers.
3D Printing (Z Corp)
Starch powder and binder visualisation mod-
els only. Some post impregnation but low
strength.
Provide solid model fle of object. Service is
free to all ME taught courses
*
, charged for
non-ME students and researchers.
CNC Router (Unimatic)
For producing 3D machined models and
parts in light materials such as model board
and foam.
Provide own materials and solid model fle of
object. Service is free to all ME taught cour-
ses
*
, charged for non-ME students and re-
searchers.
Vacuum Forming
Small format vacuum forming in light ther-
moformable polymers up to 6 mm in thick-
ness.
Provide own materials and discuss mould
tool manufacturing method with technician.
Service is free to all ME taught courses
*
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charged for non-ME students and
researchers.
Resin Room
For paint or solvent spraying and working
with epoxy resins etc.. Any activity requiring
ventilation or fume extraction.
Technician supervised activity, only available
during working hours.
Students must complete short induction and
provide COSHH/MSDS safety data sheets for
materials and technical specifcation sheet.
Toolkits
8 Tool boxes containing a selection of me-
chanical assembly tools are available.
During supervised hours tool boxes and
cordless tools are made available upon re-
quest.
Both items are provided on longer term loans
by a booking system. Individuals are then re-
sponsible for losses or damage of items.
Cordless hand tools
A selection of cordless tools are available for
use. Battery charging points are provided in
the store room.
Dust Extraction
For sanding and shaping material within
IDEAs workshop.
Workshop has 2 provisions:
1. Downdraught air benches for desktop
work must be used for all small and port-
able objects
2. Portable vacuum units are available for all
larger immovable items.
Project storage
Project work is not to be left out on benches
without the explicit permission of the IDEAs
workshop technicians.
Small storage boxes are provided for all indi-
vidual and group projects and are allocated
on request to a technician.
Rack space is provided for larger format
project work.
Consumables
A selection of project assembly consumables
such as screws, nails, pins, adhesives, tapes
etc. are freely available.
All these items are kept in the central store
room. The room is open during supervised
hours and accessible by door combination
outside of supervised hours.
Door combination number is available upon
request.
Caution
Do not wedge door open outside super-
vised hours.

Hand tools
A selection of hand tools are available for use.
Machine tools
A range of saws, drills, sanders and routers
are available.
All machine tools in both the STW and IDEAs
workshops are colour coded:
RED spot
For use only by workshop technicians only
(e.g. circular saws, CNC machine tools).
AMBER spot
For use by students under the supervision
of a technician and after the completion of
the necessary training and induction (e.g.
band saws, lathes, milling machines).
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GREEN spot
For use by students without the supervi-
sion of a technician but after the comple-
tion of induction (e.g. Cordless power
tools).

* This includes ME2, ME3 and ME4, AME, IDE and GID enrolled students working on cour-
sework projects.

3.2.6.3 Maintaining progress
Your project Supervisor and Associate Supervisor award some marks for how ef-
fectively and conscientiously you set about the project work, and achieve your
own planned goals.
1. You may fnd it helpful to appoint a Project Manager within your group.
This is up to your group, perhaps in consultation with your Supervisor.
The role cannot carry any extra marks.
2. Make sure you hold and attend regular group co-ordination meetings.
3. Spend about 12 half days per week in the Autumn term, and 46 half
days per week in the Spring term, working on your project. Although you
will have the two weeks or so between the exams and the fnal report
submission date to fnish of the project, do not rely too heavily on this: it
is too short a time for you to overcome any unforeseen delays or prob-
lems and is best reserved for writing and polishing the fnal report.
4. During the progress of the task, prepare for the seminar and main report,
i.e. take photographs of prototypes, prepare relevant slides etc. It is often
easier to do this while the project progresses than after you have fnished
practical work.
5. Discuss as openly as possible the division of labour and the contributions
to be made by each member. Do not allow one or more of the group to
be carried by the others for very long without addressing the problem.
Discuss this amongst the group and, if necessary, with the project Super-
visor.
3.2.6.4 The Project Progress report
This 1015 page report must be submitted by the DMT group at mid-project (see
module calendar).
This is where you should put into practice more of what you learned in ME2
DMF about Quality Management (see Related Links). Having already agreed a
Quality Plan with your Supervisor/Client, you should provide in your Progress
Report:
1. A record of at least one Design Review including defciencies and correc-
tive actions where relevant.
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2. A review of progress against the original schedule.
The examples of published Quality Plan and Design Review documents linked
below should be used as inspiration, rather than slavishly copied or used as
templates!
For Team Projects, the design requirements must be compatible with those of
the team but need not be dictated by them for example, you may be doing
an of-line design for future (or even just potential) inclusion in the current
builds.
RELATED LINKS
Download sample Design Review procedure: General Atomics
Download sample Design Review procedure: NASA QP
Download sample Design Review procedure: Colorado University
Download sample Design Review procedure: US Navy
Link to IBIS Compendium web site
Download Progress Report marksheet
3.2.7 Product delivery and documentation
The project is completed when with the product delivered and tested the de-
sign process is fully documented and presented to your clients and an astonished
world. Your group must submit a written report and make a joint presentation.
The fnal report will consist of:
1. A jointly-written documentary record of the design process and its prod-
uct
2. A set of critiques written separately by the individual group members.
Highly-marked past reports will be available for browsing in the UG Ofce.
Two identical copies of your own group report must be submitted to the UG
Ofce, under a Departmental cover sheet signed by all members.
3.2.7.1 Project feedback and assessment
Although the team supervisor will guide the DMT project throughout the year, it is
assessed at the three main milestones. Seven individual items are assessed, some
of them via Self and Peer Assessment.
Seven aspects of your project are assessed to obtain your overall project mark.
Submission Feedback Submission date
(approx.)
Percentage of to-
tal marks
Project plan report Returned, with written com-
ments, via supervisor
November 7.5
Interim report Returned, with written com-
ments, via supervisor
February 7.5
Log book Mark/grade only May 7.5
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Submission Feedback Submission date
(approx.)
Percentage of to-
tal marks
Final report Mark/grade only May 47.5
Poster presenta-
tion
Written notes afterwards May 7.5
Seminar None June 7.5
Conduct of task
and delivery
Mark/grade only n/a 15
The frst six items correspond to milestones for the project Gantt chart. Sub-
mission deadlines for these will be posted on the module Moodle site.
3.2.7.1.1 Assessment criteria for project reports
Markers are asked to assess DMT project reports on a list of criteria. However, be-
cause projects difer widely in nature and scope, the weighting of these criteria in
the fnal mark cannot be prescribed.
Project markers are provided with a list of assessment criteria, but advised
that:
These factors are unweighted and should not be summed, but their
distribution should help guide you towards a suitable overall mark.
Guidance for the overall mark is provided as a general statement of outcomes
by which all project work can be rated in terms of the equivalent degree class.
Table 3.2-4 DMT project plan report assessment criteria
Criterion Ranging from to
Overall clarity and or-
ganisation
Turbid or turgid Readable, informative
Assignment of re-
sponsibilities
Inappropriate, vague or absent Fitting and unambiguous
Product Design Speci-
fication
Spurious, missing, lacking engi-
neering content
Clear and appropriate engineer-
ing attributes
Quality Plan Silly, rambling or incoherent Sensible, concise, auditable
Table 3.2-5 DMT progress report assessment criteria
Clarity, style and or-
ganisation
Muddled, pompous, boring Clear, informative
Design Review Irrelevant, too late, design as-
pects not specifed or defcien-
cies not recognised
Thorough; timely; corrective ac-
tions taken
Test Requirements Missing; impractical; impossible;
trivial
Clear; feasible; refect customer
requirements.
Progress No apparent activity Ahead of plan; risks identifed
and addressed
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Conclusions Missing; feeble Convincing; literate.
Table 3.2-6 DMT fnal report assessment criteria
Content
Abstract None/uninformative Publishable
Scene setting/back-
ground
Scant, trivial Comprehensive, publishable
Description of meth-
od/ protocols
Inadequate/incomprehensible Perfectly clear
Description of results Inadequate/incomprehensible Perfectly clear
Quality of graphical
tabular data/program
listing
Scrufy/non-existent Well chosen/labelled
Discussion Very shallow Publication standard
Conclusions None/trivial/misleading Clear/concise/accurate
Number/layout of ref-
erences
Hardly any/useless Complete and full details
General
Overall structure of
report
Disorganised/turgid Professional quality
Overall presentation
of report
Messy Professional quality
Correctness/clarity of
English prose and
spelling
Difcult/impossible to follow Very high quality
Quantity of work
done
Very little A great deal
Understanding
shown
Very little Research level
Evidence of originali-
ty
Negligible Clear innovation
3.2.7.1.2 Online peer evaluation
The DMT fnal report is assessed using the WebPA online peer evaluation system,
based on ratings from the group members and supervisor. Group member input
includes text feedback to other members.
Shortly after the project ends, we ask you to assess the contribution of each
group member including yourself. The online system used, WebPA, was de-
veloped at Loughborough University and is endorsed by and hosted at Imperi-
al.
A feature added for DMT, by student request, is a text box to give your fellow
team members the same level of feedback you would like to be given by us.
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Tip
Use the full range of assessment the weighting parameter values have been selected on
the assumption that you will do so.

Event Date Time
DMT peer assessment opens Friday, 12 June, 2015 17:00
DMT peer assessment closes Wednesday, 17 June, 2015 17:00
RELATED LINKS
Link to provide peer assessment using WebPA
3.2.7.2 The group report
The Departments Writing a Report resource gives general advice on writing a
joint report for a group project.
This report should include, after the initial summary, a few paragraphs written
by the group as a whole, stating the main contributions of each member of
the group to the work and to its reporting.
Including appendices but excluding the individual critiques, the report must
not exceed 80 pages. Aim at 40 pages of text (in 12pt font with 1.5 line spac-
ing) and dont exceed 60.
You must include a full defnition of the fnished design. This will normally re-
quire:
1. An assembly drawing;
2. A Bill of Materials including a list of all component parts;
3. A detail drawing (or drawings) of a part (or parts) complicated enough to
demonstrate your groups skills in engineering design for manufacture. If
the nature of your project means that youll need to re-interpret this re-
quirement, be sure to discuss with your supervisor a solution which will
satisfy both him/her and the unidentifable, independent second marker.
You need not print drawings of all component parts in an assembly: place
them in a folder named drawings on your Sharepoint site and cite the URL ap-
propriately in your report.
The College regulations on plagiarism are severe and if serious plagiarism is
detected in your project this may lead to your failing to be awarded a degree.
In this project you may fnd yourself needing to include material in a later re-
port on which you were assessed in an earlier (Plan or Progress) one: this is
perfectly acceptable provided that you clearly delineate that material and ref-
erence the earlier report.
RELATED LINKS
Link to College policy on plagiarism
Final report marksheet
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3.2.7.3 The individual critiques
Each group member should also write a short (1 to 2 page) critique of the project.
This critique should be written individually without collaboration with the oth-
er students in the group.
Even if you do not plan a career in engineering, the experience of this major
group project can greatly enhance your employability. To maximise the bene-
ft, it is very important to refect now before you forget on the lessons
learned, so that you could discuss them in an interview.
Refect on what you have learnt about your ability to work collaboratively
within a group. This is a topic which you studied academically in ME2 Man-
agement and Business for Engineers. Now you have put it into practice, and
the skills you have gained or reinforced will be important not just in your fu-
ture career but also more immediately in the assessment centres run by
organisations which you apply for employment.
Begin your critique by making an appraisal of how the project went, how ef-
fectively organised and executed it was and how, in retrospect, things might
have been improved.
Now focus on your own performance:
Evaluate your own contribution and impact on the efectiveness of the
team, including information on how you helped the whole group achieve
its goal.
Summarise have you learnt about good project management and about
behaviour that constitutes efective group working.
What, in hindsight, might you do diferently in your next group project to
ensure you contribute to efective group performance?
The critiques should be inserted into the Final Report but:
You do not need to paginate them and
They do not need to be included in the maximum page limit.
3.2.7.4 The project seminar
Your group must plan and present, during Seminar Week (usually the third from
last week of summer term), a seminar reporting on the project, its progress and its
achievements.
DMT project presentations are interleaved with the 25-minute ME4 Individual
Project presentation slots, and each of them occupies two slots. Thus each
should last 50 minutes, including 5-10 minutes for questions. Each group
member must contribute, but will probably speak for less than 10 minutes.
The skills you need were taught in ME2 Technical Presentation Skills.
No specifc seminar ground plan is recommended, but a plan should exist and
each group member should know it. A typical format refects the structure of
the project and the division of the work between group members. This usually
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works well, but it is important to plan for transitions between individual sec-
tions to be quick and seamless. Practice!
Important
You should attend the entire seminar session both halves within which your group is
scheduled. This gives you an opportunity to compare the strengths and weaknesses of your
groups seminar with those of others, and to make the hard work of preparation worthwhile
for everyone concerned.

Departmental laptops running Windows and Powerpoint will be provided, but
your group can bring its own.
3.2.7.5 The Design Make and Test Exhibition
An exhibition of DMT projects will take place throughout the project seminar
week. Each group will need to produce an A1 sized poster and use a 500 by
500 mm plinth to present the work of the group and artefacts to illustrate it.
During the year your group will, in efect, work as a small design consultancy
team working on a single project. Even if you work within a larger project such
as Imperial Racing Green, the group will need to present its own work impres-
sively, and to sell itself as an efective unit.
During Seminar Week normally the third before summer term ends the
work of every DMT group will be displayed in the style of a trade exhibition.
You must produce an A1 (landscape or portrait) sized colour poster. This will
be mounted on a display board, and your group should use the adjacent
plinth space in whatever way best illustrates its work.
Attention
Dont postpone the task of designing the poster or the plinth display! Keep them in mind
throughout the project, discarding nothing which might help explain your work to others.

Photos of some typical small and medium-sized stands from engineering
trade exhibitions are linked below.
RELATED LINKS
Exhibition stand with small plinth.
Exhibition stand with simple components mounted on large plinth.
Exhibition stand: large stand with foor-mounted engines.
3.2.7.5.1 Design of technical posters
Technical posters cover the spectrum from a product advertisement providing
basic data with strong visual impact to a self-contained research summary
which is sufciently complete to initiate informed discussion. In any case and
whatever its size, it should remain readable when reduced to A4 size.
Because we all now receive most of our information via the web and read it on
a screen, the visual grammar and style of technical posters is much more
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familiar. It is very diferent from that of print, which remains essential as a ref-
erence medium. Like a web page, a poster needs to
Attract and hold the attention
Guide the reader through a clearly structured layout of text and image
blocks, and
Present text information through a well defned hierarchy of statement-
like headings, short paragraphs, numbered lists and bulleted lists.
There are several good poster design sites, of which the most highly recom-
mended is that hosted by North Carolina State University.
RELATED LINKS
Poster design guidelines from North Carolina State University
3.2.7.5.2 Printing a poster
Posters must be submitted electronically, via Moodle.
You can prepare your poster using any graphics package.
Important
Some applications can generate artwork which is layered and which, when these layers
are printed in succession, builds a rich and visually striking image. Because this process is
too slow and expensive to allow onsite printing, we must disallow it for all posters submit-
ted for assessment so that none can purchase an unfair advantage by getting them printed
outside.

1. Save the artwork to a fat PDF fle at A1 size (either landscape or portrait).
2. Ensure that one group member uploads the PDF fle to Moodle-DMT be-
fore the deadline specifed in the course calendar.
Your poster will be displayed on the concourse.
Important
We pay for the posters, so we get to keep them!

3.2.8 Online peer evaluation
The DMT fnal report is assessed using the WebPA online peer evaluation system,
based on ratings from the group members and supervisor. Group member input
includes text feedback to other members.
Shortly after the project ends, we ask you to assess the contribution of each
group member including yourself. The online system used, WebPA, was de-
veloped at Loughborough University and is endorsed by and hosted at Imperi-
al.
A feature added for DMT, by student request, is a text box to give your fellow
team members the same level of feedback you would like to be given by us.
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Tip
Use the full range of assessment the weighting parameter values have been selected on
the assumption that you will do so.

Event Date Time
DMT peer assessment opens Friday, 12 June, 2015 17:00
DMT peer assessment closes Wednesday, 17 June, 2015 17:00
RELATED LINKS
Link to provide peer assessment using WebPA
3.2.8.1 Self and peer assessment
Students must sometimes be marked individually on their contribution to a group
project. There are well-established algorithms for doing this in a fair, transparent
and robust manner using input from both supervisor and group members. Data
can be collected from students using the College based WebPA system.
When a group of N students have submitted a group report on a collaborative
project, the marker can always arrive at a group mark M
G
using conventional
criteria. However, the problems of indiscriminately awarding equal marks to
leaders and to passengers in a group are well known.
Supervisor assessment
Close supervision will allow the marker to distinguish the relative contribution
of each individual student j on any consistent scale (e.g. 010), attributing an
individual mark M
Ti
. The relative weight of the individuals contribution is then
represented by
W
Ti
=
M
Ti
1
N
i
M
Ti
and a suitable mark for each student can be calculated using
M
i
= f
1
+ 1 f
1
W
Ti
M
G
where the constant 0 f
1
1 credits each student with a fat proportion of
the group efort, the remainder being scaled by the supervisor.
Note
The value of f
1
must be chosen to account both for the range of the supervisors assess-
ment (is it truly 0 to 10, or is it E = 40% to A = 70%?) and for his/her confdence in its
accuracy.

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Self and peer assessment
Group project students can gain both increased confdence in the criteria of
assessment and valuable experience of self-evaluation by participating in a
self and peer assessment (SPA) process.
When the project is complete each student i attributes a numerical mark M
Si j
to every member j of the group, including his/herself.
Important
Both the criteria for each assessment (skill, knowledge, efort, cooperation or a combination
of these) and the meaning of points on the scale must be made as clear and transparent as
possible.

A simple example of a single assessment question and response scale might
be:
Please grade each team member on their contribution through skill, knowledge,
efort and cooperation throughout this project.
Assessment of contribution Numerical value, M
S
Virtually none at all 0
E grade: unacceptably low 1
D grade: poor 2
C grade: sufcient 3
B grade: good 4
A grade: very good 5
A* grade: couldnt be better! 6
The NN matrix of results can be processed either by hand or using the Web-
PA system provided by the College. The mark for each student is now calcula-
ted as:
M
i
= f
1
+ 1 f
1
f
2
W
Si
+ 1 f
2
W
Ti
M
G
where the value of f
1
still gives each student that fat proportion of the group
mark M
G
, but a proportion f
2
of the individually assessed part is now scaled
by the students weighting W
Si
, the rest still being scaled by the supervisors
weighting W
Ti
.
Tip
Students should be encouraged to use appropriately the full range of assessment
provided: M
S
= 0 should means zero contribution, which can occasionally happen. the val-
ue of f
1
puts a limit on how much any individual student can be afected.

The University of Bristol scheme previously used calculated W
Si
as :
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W
Si
=

j
M
Si j
1
N
j
M
Si j
using f
1
= 0.3 and f
2
= 0.4.
WebPA recommends (and uses by default):
W
Si
=
j
M
Si j
i
M
Si j
which compensates for the diferent average generosity of each student,
measured as the total assessment s/he awarded. If N
0
students in a group do
not submit any assessments at all, each W
Si
is scaled up by N/ NN
0
.
The scaling efect of student weightings W
Si
and tutor weightings W
Ti
on the
fnal mark for an individual student is illustrated in Figure 3.2-1 Infuence on
the mark scaling factor for an individual student of the averaged grading giv-
en by student group colleagues, W
Si
, and by the tutor, W
Ti
, for typical parame-
ter values. on page 102 for the coefcient values used at Bristol (f
1
= 0.3,
f
2
= 0.4) and for f
1
= 0.4, f
2
= 0.3.
Tutor grading
S
t
u
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e
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t

g
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a
d
i
n
g
For f
1
= 0.3,
f
2
= 0.4:
M
i
/M
G
=
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
0 0.5 1.0
Tutor grading
S
t
u
d
e
n
t

g
r
a
d
i
n
g
For f
1
= 0.4,
f
2
= 0.3:
M
i
/M
G
=
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
0 0.5 1.0
Figure 3.2-1 Infuence on the mark scaling factor for an individual student of the averaged grading giv-
en by student group colleagues, W
Si
, and by the tutor, W
Ti
, for typical parameter values.
RELATED LINKS
WebPA User Guide
WebPA peer assessment data entry
3.2.8.2 Providing written peer review
The WebPA system used for Self and Peer Assessment in group projects allows you
to provide anonymous text feedback to support your numerical rating of collea-
gues. Both providing constructive feedback and using it for your own development
are valuable professional skills.
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In most professions, formal feedback on performance can be expected not on-
ly from above but every direction of your immediate work circle (360 degree
feedback). The skills of self-assessment, and of constructively assessing others
so that they can perform more efectively, are just as valuable as those of ac-
cepting such evaluation from others and of using it to plan your path for de-
velopment.
Important
The project supervisor does not see any peer assessments. Normally, only the Course Lead-
er and the subject of the assessment will see it, and only the Course Leader will know who
wrote each one.

1.
Warning
You must avoid any comment which could be interpreted as infringing College poli-
cies on harassment or respect for others.

Use the text feedback box to provide constructive feedback on each
group members contribution to the project giving guidance, where ap-
propriate, on where and how it might be improved.
Very soon after the WebPA submission point closes, each student will receive
the anonymous reviews of his/her group colleagues.
Tip
You can do what you like with these anonymous assessments, of which most are usually
positive. If you are pleased with yours, why not forward them to your personal tutor who
might fnd them useful for reference letters?

RELATED LINKS
College policies on harassment and respect
3.2.9 Undergraduate Teaching Assistants
As in other faculty departments, some undergraduates who are doing well in later
years are invited to tutor students in earlier years during scheduled tutorials.
The use of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in the Faculty of Engineering
was piloted in Computing and adopted by several other departments, mainly
for teaching mathematics. All departments who tried the scheme reported
that it was enthusiastically welcomed.
Students were generally less inhibited in asking questions from tutors
closer to their peer group
Undergraduate tutors gained not only fnancially (being paid at the
standard GTA rate) but also in experience of teaching and in enhanced
mastery of the subject material.
The department implemented a pilot scheme for ME1 Mathematics, employ-
ing UTAs to support the academic or GTA tutors already appointed, in 2012-13.
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Candidates were identifed from ME3-4 cohorts and vetted by asking them to
discuss with, and apply through, their personal tutor. The personal tutor ap-
plied on the candidates behalf to the Director of Courses, providing a brief ref-
erence.
3.2.9.1 Claiming payment for undergraduate teaching work
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants are paid by the College at a standard rate, and
must go through a standard procedure to formalise their employment and record
teaching hours. Claims must then be made monthly.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) are paid as casual workers, and
must complete a few formalities before being eligible.
Important
You must claim payment monthly: you cannot carry over hours into the following month.

Before applying for payment, you must already have a National Insurance
Number.
1. Before beginning work, download and complete a Casual Worker joining
form (Pay 8a)
2. Visit the UG Administrator or PG Administrator with the Pay 8a form and
original documentary evidence (e.g. a passport) of your eligibility to work
in the UK:
a. A copy of this evidence will be made and forwarded to the College
Payroll ofce.
b. Complete and sign a Letter of Understanding recording your details.
3. At the end of each subsequent month in which you have worked:
a. Complete section A of a Pay 8b form.
b. Download and complete (electronically, so that the payment
amount is calculated) a Work Record Form.
c. Ask the Course Leader to confrm the work you have done by signing
the Work Record form.
4. Take the completed Pay 8b and Work Record forms to the UG Ofce.
Payment will be made directly into your bank account.
RELATED LINKS
Download Pay 8a form
Download Pay 8b form
Download Work Record form form
Union guidance for international students on getting a National Insurance number
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3.2.10 Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering
With most of the core mechanical engineering completed, you are in a strong posi-
tion to specialise in Nuclear Engineering. This gives you the opportunity to gradu-
ate in a feld of resurgent international importance, without sacrifcing any of the
breadth or fexibility of your main degree subject.
The need to break the developed worlds dependence on fossil fuels has led to
rapid expansion in the sustainable energy and nuclear industries.
The Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials depart-
ments have responded to the need for graduates specialised in nuclear engi-
neering by launching degree programme variants.
Like the other two, the Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering
MEng programme difers from the parent degree only in requiring fve specifc
elective modules to be taken in ME3 and ME4:
1. ME3 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (ME)
2. ME3 Nuclear Chemical Engineering (CE)
3. ME4 Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CE)
4. ME4 Nuclear Reactor Physics (ME)
5. ME4 Nuclear Materials (MM).
You can transfer your registration to the Nuclear specialisation at any time un-
til the frst term of ME3. Modules (1) and (5) are taught by Mechanical Engi-
neering, the others by Chemical Engineering (CE) and Materials (MM).
Important
The Nuclear Chemical Engineering module must be taken in ME3, and will not be available
to you as an elective for credit until you have transferred degree registration.

To transfer, please write to the Senior Tutor. If you were previously registered
for Mechanical Engineering with a Year in Industry, you can register for and
graduate with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineering
and a Year in Industry.
RELATED LINKS
Brochure on nuclear programmes (pdf )
3.2.11 Transfer from MEng to BEng
Students who wish to join Innovation Design Engineering or another Masters pro-
gramme after their third year or whose second year exam total suggests that
they might not manage an MEng if they continue can transfer registration and
leave with an unaccredited BEng degree.
The BEng programme ofers a frst-cycle exit for students who do not need to
or might fail to complete an Integrated Masters programme.
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The BEng exit is intended primarily for students who have been accepted on
the Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) double Masters (MA + MSc) pro-
gramme, which we run jointly with the Royal College of Art. Students heading
for IDE do not need either to complete the research-type individual project or
to pass the advanced engineering science modules which make up most of
ME4.
A small number of students who do not achieve 50% on examination aggre-
gate in ME2 and are at risk of failing to graduate at MEng level need to transfer
to BEng registration. Most will recover and pass the M-level core courses, but
those who do not will still have satisfed the criteria for graduation after three
years.
While the BEng is a valid degree it does not, in itself, provide an accredited
base for CEng registration. Graduates who wish to change direction have a sol-
id degree and a guaranteed set of adaptable skills. Those who do not can ap-
ply immediately to IMechE for IEng (Incorporated Engineer) status which
may or may not require an additional period of monitored, work-based learn-
ing.
Why is our BEng programme unaccredited?
Accreditation of the BEng programme would require a full individual project in
ME3. Students who graduate at this point do not need it anyway, because ei-
ther:
They already have a place on a Masters course elsewhere (e.g. IDE itself ),
or
They need more extra study to reach M level than a single additional year
would provide.
The evidence of their individual attainment is, as always, provided by the de-
gree class and transcript.
Why isnt it possible to enrol on the BEng programme directly?
This is the countrys leading Mechanical Engineering department, attracting a
high and increasing number of the very best candidates.
To maintain the quality of the programme we have to restrict our intake, but
to provide the engineers which the profession needs we must maximise our
output at potential Chartered Engineer level. We therefore do not accept entry
from students who plan to leave at BEng level and to ensure that candi-
dates do not limit their choices elsewhere we will no longer ofer enrolment
on the programme via UCAS.
At what point may students transfer to the BEng programme?
At the end of their second year, students have completed the most of the core
engineering science modules and almost all of their learning in design. At this
point potential IDE students will apply for entry and may transfer to BEng reg-
istration.
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Year 3 includes two compulsory courses on core engineering science subjects
at Masters (M) level but BEng students need only pass these at 40% on ag-
gregate, and can plan their learning accordingly.
RELATED LINKS
Innovation Design Engineering MA/MSc course website
3.2.12 Transfer from BEng to MEng
If your ME2 exam total was not high enough to keep you on the MEng programme
but you still wish to graduate with an MEng degree, it may be possible to transfer
back when you have successfully completed your third year.
Part II of our course is tough, and the results count for 25% of the fnal MEng
degree marks (40% of those for BEng). To get back on track for MEng gradua-
tion, a student will need to do well in Part III. Fortunately, many do.
A student who achieves an aggregate total of at least 40% on the two core
ME3 modules AND at least 55% on Part III examination total AND satisfes all
other criteria (e.g. coursework) for progression to Part IV of the MEng degree
may be invited to transfer back. This remains at the discretion of the Examin-
ers.
Important
If you do not transfer back to MEng, please dont assume that you cant achieve a lower
second class degree. Having just failed to make 50% in Part II but just failed to make 55% in
Part III, it is certainly possible; such cases would be few, but near misses would be consid-
ered carefully at the Examiners meeting.

3.3 The fourth year
Entering ME4, the fnal year of the MEng programme, you have the educational
base you need to be employed as an engineer. For most students, this year will be
dominated by the search for employers and by the individual project which will
demonstrate your abilities to them.
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ME4 Organiser
Dr Ambrose Taylor
Room 214
Email a.c.taylor@imperial.ac.uk
RELATED LINKS
3.3.1 Structure of the ME4 programme
There are two core elements in ME4: the Individual Project, and the Advanced Ap-
plication Course; for each, you must choose the instance of your choice. The re-
mainder of the programme consists of electives.
The largest single element in ME4 is the Individual Project, which counts for
42% of the marks. The other core element is a double-length Advanced Appli-
cations course: all of these are constructed on the same template, but they
specialise in diferent industrial sectors.
3.3.2 Key dates and attendance in ME4
that that they follow the prescribed programme of studies. For these and other
reasons there are a number of points during the year at which your absence will be
reported to the Senior Tutor.
Project supervision meetings
Occasional personal tutorials.
Event Date Time
Individual project list opens Monday, 06 October, 2014
Individual project selection closes Friday, 17 October, 2014
Commemoration Day Wednesday, 22 October, 2014
Individual project defnitions due Friday, 07 November, 2014 17:00
ME3-4 elective selection closes Friday, 14 November, 2014 17:00
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Event Date Time
Individual project plan report due Friday, 28 November, 2014 12:00
Individual project progress report due Friday, 06 February, 2015 12:00
Attention
For all coursework submission deadlines, key dates and late-breaking news associated with

Caution

3.3.3 Choosing ME4 electives
The selection rules for ME4 electives are designed to provide a broad spread of
knowledge and skills, while providing the necessary minimum proportion of M-
level curriculum for an accredited MEng degree.
3.3.3.1 Registering for ME4 electives
The elective courses ofered change from year to year and because space and
timetable slots are limited, allocating places can be difcult. Although most stu-
dents succeed in getting the electives they hoped for, the selection process can be
difcult and must be started early.
1. Register for Horizons courses early in the previous summer term. Places
may still remain on certain modules: please check the Imperial Horizons
website if you need to.
2. After summer examinations are over, registration will open for ME elec-
tives only. Register your preliminary choices at any time before the dead-
line, using DSS: this is not a frst-come, frst-served process.
Event Date Time
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Warning
If you choose more than fve electives, your preferences will not be taken into account
at all! You are not making a fnal commitment, but we must know your preferences for
our planning.

Note
Staf and timetable changes beyond our control may still afect the electives ofered:
places on your preferred courses cannot be guaranteed or confrmed.

Important
Some modules have limited capacity and there will be a registration process for
them. You will be informed of this by e-mail and/or in the frst lecture.

3. During the autumn term you may attend other electives for which you
are not already registered and may be able to register for them via the UG
Ofce.
If you were not successful with all your previous choices, you will
now be able, to select other electives where places are available, in
order to satisfy the selection rules.
If you were successful with all your previous choices but wish to
change them or to add to them, discuss your plans with your person-
al tutor frst.
4. Your Advanced Applications module can be chosen after introductory
presentations when the session begins.
5. In the middle of ME4 spring term you will be asked to complete an Exam
Registration form, indicating the courses you have selected and attended
throughout the year.
Warning
Only marks for electives listed on the Exam Registration Form can be counted towards
the total Examination mark. It is your responsibility to select enough modules to fol-
low the prescribed course, and complete any necessary coursework.

3.3.3.2 Rules for selection
General conditions
Important
Read this section carefully! It is your responsibility to ensure you remain eligible for your
degree by observing the rules.

1. No credit will be given for any elective unless you have registered for it.
2. You may not register for any M-level elective until you have progressed to
ME4.
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3. No more than one Horizons elective in total can count towards your de-
gree.
4. No more than two IDX electives in total can count towards your degree.
5. No more than three Design and Management electives in total can count
towards your degree.
Requirements for BEng or MEng in Mechanical Engineering
To progress from ME3 or graduate with a BEng degree, you must complete
fve H-level electives.
Modules difer widely in assessment mode and timing. Using the module de-
scriptors, try to select a distribution which suits you.
Some ME4 modules have pre-requisite ME3 modules, so it is worth trying to
plan ahead.
Warning
We cannot absolutely guarantee, more than a few months in advance, to run any specifc
M-level module.

You can, of course, attend one or two H-level electives for which you are not
registered. It may later become possible for you to register on another elective
before assessments begin. If you are thinking of doing so, you must frst dis-
cuss with your personal tutor the potential efects on your workload and on
the balance of subjects you are studying.
If you are able to take on an additional course, then at the end of the year we
will select your best results according to the General Conditions.
Warning
You cannot carry forward to ME4 marks from additional modules taken in ME3 but not
counted towards the ME3 Examination total.

Requirements for MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear Engineer-
ing
To qualify for this degree you must register for it, and your electives must in-
clude both
Introduction to Nuclear Energy and
Nuclear Chemical Engineering.
3.3.4 Electives available to ME4 this session
This list will be updated from year to year.
RELATED LINKS
3.2.3.4.1 H-level Technical electives on page 77
3.2.3.4.2 H-level Design and Management electives on page 78
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3.2.3.2.1 Registering for elective modules using DSS on page 75
3.3.4.1 M-level Advanced Applications electives
Double-length courses on industry-specifc topics ofered to Mechanical Engineer-
ing students this year.
Code Module ECTS
ME4-MAET Aircraft Engine Technology 12
ME4-MMPT Metal Processing Technology 12
ME4-MPPT Polymer Processing Technology 12
ME4-MVPT Vehicle Propulsion Technology 12
RELATED LINKS
ME4-MAET module description
ME4-MPPT module description
ME4-MVPT module description
3.3.4.2 M-level Technical electives
Masters level electives on technical subjects ofered to Mechanical Engineering
students this year.
Code Module ECTS
ME4-MASA Advanced Stress Analysis 7
ME4-MCNTL Advanced Control 7
ME4-MAVE Advanced Vibration Engineering 7
ME4-MCMB Combustion 7
ME4-MCFD Computational Fluid Dynamics 7
ME4-MFEAA Finite Element Analysis and Applications 7
ME4-MMCTR Mechanical Transmissions 7
ME4-MNDP Interfacing and Data Processing 7
ME4-MNURP Nuclear Reactor Physics 7
RELATED LINKS
ME4-MAFF module description
ME4-MASA module description
ME4-MCNTL module description
ME4-MAVE module description
ME4-MCMB module description
ME4-MCFD module description
ME4-MFEAA module description
ME4-MNDP module description
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3.3.4.1 Electives available to ME4 this session 112
ME4-MNURP module description
3.3.4.3 M-level IDX electives
The modules ofered by other Faculty of Engineering departments to ME4 students
this year. They are all classed as M-level when taken on this cross-disciplinary ba-
sis, and will generally require some preparatory study.
Code Module ECTS
AE3-414 Applications of Fluid Dynamics 7
BE4-HHCARD Computer Assistive and Rehabilitative Devices 7
CHE-429 Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics 7
CHE-431 Transport Processes for Biological Systems 7
CO4-22 Computational Finance 7
EE4-47 Modelling and Control of Multi-Body Mechanical Systems 7
EE4-50 Sustainable Electrical Systems 7
MSE-312 Nanomaterials 7
MSE-315 Biomaterials 7
MSE-414 Nuclear Materials 7
MSE-417 Advanced Biomaterials 7
RELATED LINKS
IDX courses
3.3.5 The ME4 individual project
An individual project, requiring the student to report identifable original work or
analysis, is an essential component of any Integrated Masters (MEng) degree pro-
gramme. The ME4 Individual Project module is in efect a scaled-down Masters
project, forming the largest component of every MEng students fnal year.
Mechanical Engineering projects can be experimental, computational, analyti-
cal, design-centred or any combination of these. An accredited MEng
project should have a strong engineering content, using knowledge and skills
acquired in previous years of the programme and should, ideally, refer to and
integrate topics from other areas of engineering. It may also involve non-tech-
nological, e.g. economic, safety and sustainability aspects.
Each individual project is supervised by an academic member of staf and
most are conducted within a research group. An associate supervisor is nomi-
nated to take over in an emergency. A fundamental requirement, however, is
that the student takes full responsibility for the work.
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3.3.5.1 Choosing an individual project
Employers will see your work in this part of the course as a key indicator of your
potential as a Mechanical Engineer, and assessment is a correspondingly large
part of the degree. Choose your project carefully.
Projects can be set up in either of two ways:
1. An open project is ofered to all students, applied for by those interested
and allocated centrally
2. A reserved project is proposed by the student and accepted by an aca-
demic supervisor.
3.3.5.1.1 Choosing an open project
Projects are ofered and selected online. The procedure is designed to give you a
relatively unhurried period to research and compare the proposals on ofer, before
submitting a shortlist of preferences.
Table 3.3-1 Individual project selection dates this session
Event Date Time
Individual project list opens Monday, 06 October, 2014
Individual project selection closes Friday, 17 October, 2014
Staf members submit brief project descriptions on the Individual Project
Moodle site, before the session begins.
Attention
A diferent procedure is used for team projects, e.g. Imperial Racing Green.

1. As soon as the list opens, note the titles and named supervisors of every
project which suits your interests and abilities.
2. Seek advice from your personal tutor who knows you and knows your
potential supervisors.
3. Contact your selected project supervisors, in person or by email, for any
further information before making your choice.
4. Decide on your three favourite projects, and their order of preference.
Tip
Dont be afraid to choose a project which you know will be popular. If you do, though,
seek out a wild card project which you think may be less popular; this will reduce the
risk of getting none of your choices.

5. Return to the Individual Project Moodle site and upload your choices.
6. Click [Save Project Selection] to save your choices; you can return to
modify them at any time before the closing date.
Projects are allocated according to an algorithm:
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1. If your frst choice project is uncontested, it is allocated to you
2. If your frst choice is also that of other students then the supervisor choo-
ses and/or may choose to ofer variants of it
3. Steps 1-2 are repeated for second, then third choices.
You will be informed of the result within the frst three weeks of the session.
If you could not be allocated a project (e.g. because all your choices were very
popular):
1. The list will be re-opened to make unallocated projects available.
2. You will be able to approach supervisors working in your areas of interest,
with the aim of formulating a reserved project which interests both of you.
RELATED LINKS
https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/engineering/studentprojects/MechEng/2014-15/MEProjectsSe-
lect.php
3.3.5.1.2 Devising a reserved project
You may, perhaps in collaboration with a sponsoring company or team, devise
your own reserved project. You will then need to identify a member of staf with
the interests and expertise needed to guide the project and convince them to
supervise you.
Before seeking a project supervisor, satisfy yourself that the project you pro-
pose is well-defned and that it has a high probability of success. You may
need to devise a Plan B.
1. Draft a project description, using the same ground plan used for open
projects.
2. Identify a potential supervisor: ask around, consult staf members web
pages and look at the projects they have already proposed.
3. Having convinced your chosen supervisor, ask them to post a reserved
project description for you on the ME4 Individual Project site.
If you are nominated for a reserved project, do not choose an open
project.
To confrm the project you must still accept it during the allocated period.
Important
If for any reason you no longer wish to take the project reserved for you, you must let the
supervisor know.

RELATED LINKS
Individual Project website
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3.3.5.1.3 Team projects
Most ME4 students interested in an individual project under the Team Project um-
brella will have completed a related DMT project in ME3. Some projects will be
ofered by team management, but one can also be devised independently and ar-
ranged as a reserved project with an interested supervisor.
As in ME3 DMT, team projects can demand more than other projects, but do
ofer more in return. You should certainly consider an Imperial Racing Green
project if you are aiming for employment in the automotive or motorsport in-
dustries.
The only way to guarantee involvement is to suggest your own project and
contact with the team as early as possible. The most successful projects
Address a core research issue
Do not depend on the success of the current years team, but
Are motivated by potential benefts to the team if things do go well.
Marking criteria for individual projects explicitly allow work put in on manage-
ment of the project to be recognised, if this is clearly and formally reported.
If you are interested in getting involved, contact the team project organiser or
the relevant team leader.
Post Holder
Email
Phone
@imperial.ac.uk
Academic Leader, Team Projects Greg Ofer g.ofer 47072
Formula Student team leader Alexander Holland alexander.holland09
Isle of Man team leader Yan Zhao yan.zhao10
RELATED LINKS
Imperial racing Green website
3.3.5.1.4 Dening project objectives
The project begins when you and your supervisor have completed a Project Def-
nition form. You will need to agree some specifc objectives and identify any nec-
essary safety information. Your supervisor needs the signature of an Associate Su-
pervisor and approval from the head of his/her research division.
The Individual Project Defnition Form is a sort of non-legally-binding contract,
like the one your group signed for the DMT project. Having more carefully de-
fned the objectives, the supervisor needs to verify that the project is feasible
(e.g. does not require space or technician support which cannot be guaran-
teed) and undertakes to supervise you. Given that assurance, you can commit
yourself to undertaking the project but not to achieving the unachievable.
The form must be signed and submitted to the UG Ofce before the adver-
tised deadline.
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Tip
Keep a copy of the Project Defnition form.

Event Date Time
Individual project defnition forms due Friday, 14 November, 2014 17:00
3.3.5.2 Planning the project
Your project is a major task, spanning the entire fnal year. Initially, success may
seem easy because the deadline for completion is so distant. Unless you plan your
activities and apportion your time for them right from the beginning, you will run
out of time and achieve little.
As soon as the project objectives are defned, draw up a Gantt chart to com-
plete them. Working within the framework of submission deadlines, estimate
additional milestones (e.g. literature search completed, initial rig design, pre-
liminary experiments) so that you will realise if things are falling behind sched-
ule.
Your work may deviate from this plan, perhaps because of delays or because
the results open up new perspectives or change its focus.
Tip
Agree with your supervisor, early on in the project, three or four dates at which you can
thoroughly review the projects progress.

Table 3.3-2 Key dates this session for Individual Project planning
Event Date Time
3.3.5.2.1 Project plan report
This 23 page report should defne the project objectives and outline a plan for
their achievement. It should not attempt to report any progress to date.
The plan report should contain:
1. A title page.
2. A brief, scene-setting introduction to the context of the project.
3. A clear statement of the projects objectives.
4. A project plan in some appropriate diagrammatic form with milestones
5. Details of the students personal timetable for autumn and spring terms,
indicating times allocated to working on the project.
Event Date Time
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Event Date Time
Individual project report due Friday, 05 June, 2015 12:00
3.3.5.3 Maintaining progress
Your project supervisor will support your project work where necessary and possi-
ble, but will ultimately assess how efectively and conscientiously you manage it.
It's your project.
Some suggestions:
Dont rely too much on others e.g. your project supervisor, his/her PhD
student, a technician or a collaborating company: the only person over
whose activity (or lack of activity) you have full control is yourself.
Be assertive in seeking help and support.
Assess and manage risks: imagine what could go wrong, and plan avoid-
ing action.
Do as much as you can as soon as you can especially in assembling any
equipment and ordering items with long lead-times. This will increase
your self-confdence.
Dont rely too much on the post-exam period: its too late to accommo-
date things going wrong, and facilities and personnel will be too busy.
Regard this primarily as a rounding-of and writing-up period.
Sketch an outline for your fnal report as soon as you begin the project.
Prepare continuously for the seminar and fnal report as you progress, e.g.
take photos of prototypes, outline slides etc..
Finally, think about your project. Dont expect to just turn up in the lab now
and then and take up where you left of. Its when you are ofsite and your
mind has switched into standby mode that you are more likely to have a fash
of inspiration or organise your project most clearly.
3.3.5.3.1 The log book
Throughout your project you should keep a log book: a hard cover bound, A4-sized
notebook in which you record all the details of your project work.
The log book will essentially be a journal of your project activity. Each time
you work on the project you should note the date and record relevant activity
(thoughts, analysis, contact details, references, sketches, experimental data).
You can also stick in computer output, graphs etc.
The primary aims of the log book are:
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To keep all the work on a project together (to avoid scraps of paper that
get lost and so that the project can be completed by someone else in the
event of illness),
To provide a record of work which can be used as legal evidence of when
work was done (e.g. in patent disputes)
To record, for future reference, the reasoning behind decisions which
were made.
The log book should also contain notes from each meeting with your supervi-
sor(s) and any others involved in the project.
and, at least fve times per term, must be signed by your supervisor as being
an accurate record.
3.3.5.3.2 Intellectual property
Project work may generate or may use ideas or products which are patenta-
ble. On registering as a student at Imperial, you agreed to the Colleges Intellectual
Property policy: this limits how far you can protect intellectual property, but also
limits your responsibility for maintaining that of others.
If your project supervisor sets up a project supported with or without fund-
ing by industry, you may need information to work on it which the sponsor
does not wish to divulge publicly. You should not do this yourself: your super-
visor will arrange for a representative of the department to sign a standard
College contractual agreement for you. The agreements may just relate to
confdentiality (a non-disclosure agreement, NDA) but it may be signifcantly
broader.
Warning
Never sign any agreement that could potentially make you personally liable.

Your supervisor will ensure that such an agreement is in place and will make
you fully aware at the outset of any potential limitations on your work. For
example, a DMT project poster may require your project sponsors prior appro-
val of its content, and this can take several weeks.
As part of their initial registration at College, you agreed to be bound by the
terms of student IP Policy. College therefore signs agreements on their behalf.
You may be asked to acknowledge the terms of an agreement, but liability still
rests with the College.
RELATED LINKS
Information about College policy on intellectual property
British Library website on intellectual property
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3.3.5.3.3 Budgeting
The Department credits the supervisors personal account with 150 for each stu-
dent supervised. This will not cover the full cost of all projects, but most supervisors
fnd their undergraduate students work useful to research. It is normally up to
them to cover shortfalls.
Imperial College, like every other public institution, is obliged to manage its
fnances with care. It is important to maintain, throughout the project, a full
record of expenditure on the project. A simple Excel spreadsheet, maintained
by the student or group, should be sufcient.
Note
Circumstances can arise in which a project signifcantly overspends through circumstances
beyond its control. If this happens, the Course Leader should be alerted as soon as possible
so that a solution can be found which does not compromise the project work of the group.

Team projects, e.g. Imperial Racing Green, manage budgeting diferently. The
team organiser will normally pool the per capita income and distribute it
amongst projects according to need.
3.3.5.3.4 Progress report
This concise (typically 36 page) report, reporting progress of the project to date,
must be submitted around the middle of spring term.
The progress report should contain:
1. A title page and summary (a contents list should be unnecessary).
2. An introduction and background to the area of work of the project.
3. A description of each of the main achievements to date (e.g. literature
survey, rig design, analysis etc.), including at least some evidence of re-
sults.
4. A statement of how the achievements to date match (or fail to match) the
original plan and an indication of the main barriers to progress.
5. A proposal for future work and, if necessary, a revised plan.
6. Conclusions.
7. References.
A copy of the original project plan should be included as an Appendix, and re-
ferred to where appropriate.
Event Date Time
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3.3.5.4 Completion
There is normally a period of 3-4 weeks between the last ME4 examination and the
report submission deadline.
Event Date Time
3.3.5.4.1 Final report
The Final Report carries more than half of the total available Individual Project
marks. It will be assessed not only by your supervisor, but by at least one other aca-
demic who was not involved in any way with the project but who must fnd the
report equally understandable.
You should have been working towards your fnal report throughout the
project. Without including log-book detail this report should provide a full and
frank account, including the difculties encountered as well as the successes.
Before you begin to write the fnal version, put together an outline of it (i.e. a
contents list) and discuss this outline and the contents with your supervisor.
Important
Beyond this point, the report must be your own work. Your supervisor will sincerely want to
help you do well, but the reputation of your degree rests heavily on this report being a true
refection of your abilities not his/hers. Do not expect a practice assessment!.

The Final Report should not be more than 50 pages long, including appendi-
ces. This is a maximum; 20-40 pages will probably be fne. For body text use a
12-point sans serif font (e.g. Arial), with 1.5 line spacing.
Remember
The Writing a Report guidelines on Moodle still apply and are updated every year by the
staf who will mark your work.

Submit to the UG Ofce, for marking, a package bound together with a strong
rubber band and including:
1. TWO identical hard copies of the Final Report, using the special light and
dark green covers provided to distinguish them
2. Previously marked copies of the Project Plan and Progress Reports
3. Your log book.
Each report should have an appropriate ME4 Coursework cover sheet
You must also submit an electronic copy of the Final Report, which will be
checked for plagiarism.
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Event Date Time
RELATED LINKS
'Writing a Report'
3.3.5.4.2 Seminar
Towards the end of the session, fve successive days of project seminars are organ-
ised. During this period you will be scheduled to present your project work to a
small audience of staf, students and (perhaps) visitors from industry.
Presentations are scheduled at 25 minute intervals, and you should allow fve
minutes for questions and a few more minutes for the handover.
Plan your seminar carefully, in discussion with your supervisor. Ideally, try to
arrange a private rehearsal.
A common mistake is to forget that at least some of your seminar audience
will know little or nothing about the topic. Plan to devote a substantial part of
the presentation to scene-setting and remember to defne special terms.
Most of the audience will be more interested in the results, conclusions and
implications of the work than in the details of experimental procedure or of
the model used. If they are interested in the details, theyll ask at the end.
Event Date Time
RELATED LINKS
Link to Moodle Technical Presentation Skills course
3.3.5.5 Moderation
ME3 DMT, ME3 Literature Research and ME4 Individual project reports contribute
signifcantly to the fnal degree mark. All are independently double marked, and a
special procedure is used to reconcile diferences between the frst and second
markers.
Because the projects which are subject to second marking are so diverse, inde-
pendent assessors sometimes award signifcantly diferent marks. This is espe-
cially true of the individual project fnal report, which also serves to assess
how well the student has explained his/her work to someone who can be ex-
pected to be knowledgeable about the general feld but not about the partic-
ular topic.
The moderation process is intended to ensure fair and accurate marking and
to resolve discrepancies in project report marks between the supervisor and
the independent marker.
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1. If the discrepancy in marks is less than 10 percentage points, the two
marks are averaged and moderation is unnecessary.
2. Where the discrepancy is equal to, or greater than 10 percentage points,
the supervisor and the independent marker are invited to:
Discuss the discrepancy; and
Agree a single mark and notify the course leader of it by email. For
the record, specifc justifcations must be recorded for the change.
3. If no single mark can be agreed by a prescribed date, the students report
and copies of all marksheets are sent to a Moderator, who will recom-
mend a mark to the Moderation Panel.
4. A Moderation Panel is formed, considers, and decides a fnal mark for:
a. These disputed cases;
b. Reports by students identifed as being potentially on degree class
borderlines; and
c. Reports originally given unusually high or low marks.
The panel also arbitrates on marks requested to compensate for Special
Difculties. Individual cases are carefully chosen to be considered by dis-
interested parties excluding for example the students personal tu-
tor.
5. After the panel meeting the course leader forwards the recommended
project marks, and minutes of the panel meeting, to the Examination Of-
cer.
3.3.6 Finding employment
For many students, ME4 is dominated by the search for employment. To supple-
ment the advice given by the Careers Centre, members of our departmental Indus-
trial Academic Board have ofered advice specifcally oriented towards the engi-
neering and related industries.
The Industrial Academic Board (IAB), which meets twice a year, brings together
representatives of the department with representatives from a few of the com-
panies which employ our graduates. Its aim is to ensure that graduates are
well prepared for the needs of industry, while keeping employers abreast of
developments in our teaching programmes.
RELATED LINKS
College Careers Advisory Service website.
3.3.6.1 Technical interviews
Some basic dos and donts for success in technical interviews for employment in
engineering.
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Preparation: before you attend
Make sure you understand the role you are applying for: plan for ques-
tions on technical and people aspects; challenges that the employer is
facing; health, safety, environment and legislation.
Ask yourself what you have to ofer: what are your skills/competencies?
How is your background relevant to the role?
Ask before the interview (usually your contact would be from the HR
dept, but not always) if there is a particular structure to it, or aspects that
will be covered; this may help to focus your mind.
Review background information on the fnancial status of the company
applied to (all company accounts are public domain).
Read up on the relevant industry: what are the challenges? Does your
prospective employer have any key suppliers and customers? What are
their strengths?
Ensure you are up to date with at least public-domain knowledge of the
particular company interviewing you. It should be obvious by your ques-
tioning that you have visited their website and are up to date with latest
public announcements. Perhaps pick up on something of interest from
the website and ask them a question on it.
Make sure you understand project costing and show an awareness of the
need to keep projects within budgets. At least be able to describe how
you would arrive at a project cost what would you include and ex-
clude.
Check any work permit or visa requirements which depend upon nation-
ality, and understand what (if any) help an employer might give. This in-
formation is usually freely available on company recruitment websites or
in application packs.
Prepare some questions to ask on, for example, terms and conditions,
mobility, progression, training provided, whether the company support
development to CEng and, if so, how
Think about what development needs you have (everyone has them at
every stage of their careers).
Recognise the need to demonstrate reasonable technical depth and
breadth at the interview: dont forget the fundamentals.
Remember: the interview is two-way, and they are actually being inter-
viewed by you as well. Listen to what they are saying critically and think
about whether you would be comfortable working for them.
At the interview
Arrive on time: 10 minutes early is a good guide. If you expect to be held
up call your contact as soon as possible.
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Dress appropriately.
Turn of your mobile, or set it to silent.
Be positive and enthusiastic: you need to convey that you actually want
the job.
Remember body language and posture; sit upright and look alert. Make
good eye contact with the interviewers. Try to avoid using poor lan-
guage, slang or pause-words (like etc. ) during your discussion.
Be prepared to talk about a University project both its technical as-
pects and the softer aspects such as team working. This approach can be
used to put the candidate at ease and to get them talking about some-
thing they feel comfortable with. What was the project about? What hur-
dles did you overcome? Did it work? What were the fndings/benefts? Be
prepared to communicate this for, say, 5 minutes.
Formulate a clear idea about how you would like your career to develop
hopefully it will match the companys. Consider technical and manage-
rial routes for career progression but also career enrichment opportuni-
ties. Be realistic about your ambitions: we cant all be or wouldnt want
to be the CEO.
Dont worry about being nervous. Having some nerves is probably good
and is perfectly natural the interviewers will understand.
Ask for clarifcation if you dont understand a question.
Ask intelligent questions about the job, company, training or industry.
Be yourself. They want to employ you, not somebody else. If you dont
get the role applied for they may consider that you are better suited to
other roles (which may not be widely advertised).
Discussions about salary and benefts usually occur at the end. Only ini-
tiate a discussion if the interviewer omits to do so.
DONT regurgitate details from the company website during the inter-
view.
DONT expect to derive complex equations.
Dont worry if you cant answer a question: its best to be honest and re-
spond that you dont know, or are not sure. But do follow up with a ques-
tion or two: this shows interest and will improve your understanding, if
nothing else.
DONT be negative about past internships or industrial experiences; rec-
ognise positive points and what you have gained from the experience.
DONT rely on your CV to do the selling for you. No matter how good your
grades, scores and qualifcations are, you will need to sell yourself to the
interviewers.
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3.3.6.2 Assessment centres
Information about assessment centres and tips on doing well at them.
Assessment centres may be preceded by a telephone interview. If so, dont just
phone see elsewhere for advice, and prepare.
Preparation: before you attend
Find as much as you can about the assessment centre in advance. The compa-
ny should provide some briefng information; if they dont or you feel that you
need further information, then just contact them and ask. Each companys for-
mat will difer and the following is provided for general guidance.
Make sure you understand the challenges faced by the employer and
those relevant in their industry. There should be plenty of information
readily available on the internet dont just repeat details from the com-
pany website.
Prepare to talk about some of the softer skills that are needed in an em-
ployee if possible, with some examples based on your experiences
(working in a team, working with difcult people, how to meet deadlines
etc.).
Prepare to discuss Health and Safety: What is your approach? What mat-
ters to the employer? Do you have any examples?
Assessment centres are usually facilitated by the company HR department,
with staf from the company attending to act as observers. At the end of the
assessment centre the company observers meet to provide an assessment of
the candidates and to make recommendations. The observers will have been
trained prior to the event and will be working to a well defned set of assess-
ment criteria.
The event itself will typically involve some or all of the following elements:
Interview;
Team event;
Numerical and verbal reasoning tests, psychometrics etc.;
Presentation.
Interview
Scope/guidance should be provided before joining the assessment centre: see
elsewhere for advice.
Team event
One scenario could be that teams of four are formed and the team event
spans the day. This is an attempt to replicate a working day where the fow of
work will be interrupted. Expect a brief to be provided: for example it may in-
clude some data to be assessed along with other disparate pieces of
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information, with a deadline to discuss at a meeting at some point later in the
day. Expect to be provided with some late-breaking news that may have
some impact on your conclusions. Some time is usually provided for your
team to have discussions during the day, you may then have to discuss your
fnding in a meeting, whilst being observed. The purpose of the observers is
to try to obtain an understanding of your behaviour and interaction within a
group.
Raise points and contribute, even if it is to add strength to a point raised
by another member of the team.
Allow others to speak.
If someone is reticent to speak then try to bring them into the conversa-
tion by asking for their views.
Be prepared to summarise the groups understanding at some stage, and
seek agreement.
If somebody else summarises for the group then be prepared to ask ques-
tions to test the fndings
DONT be afraid to say anything.
DONT feel you have to be the loudest or most talkative to be noticed.
Numerical and verbal reasoning tests, psychometrics
Dont worry about the numerical and verbal reasoning tests. Students often
do much better at these than staf in post.
Presentation
This provides you with an opportunity to display your ability to interpret infor-
mation in a short period of time, and to present some concise conclusions. You
will be provided with time to review data and prepare a 10 min presentation,
usually using PowerPoint. Note; some companies will require a longer presen-
tation, up to 20 minutes and to senior managers followed by technical and
non-technical questions.
Work to your brief (read it carefully).
Introduce yourself, your topic, time allocation etc. and stick to your
time.
Specify whether you would prefer to be questioned during the presenta-
tion, or after it.
Present concise, clear slides.
Ensure that the presentation starts with a clear statement of what you are
providing in your presentation, i.e. a short summary of the question or is-
sue under discussion.
State a clear conclusion.
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Be prepared to be challenged on your conclusions so think about the
alternative view.
Aim on providing a professional presentation even though time may well
be very limited.
DONT Look at slides or the computer too much during the presentation:
talk to the audience and make good eye contact.
DONT Be defensive when you answer .
DONT Be too soft-spoken: a more forceful voice projects confdence
DONT Answer questions with a simple yes or no. Explain whenever
possible. Reviewers check not only how much you understand or know
but also how you respond to a question.
DONT let your mobile phone sound during the presentation switch it
of or set it to silent.
There is normally a wash-up session at the end, to which candidates are not
invited. Observers try to identify facts about each candidate during the day,
usually facilitated by HR. Its not foolproof but does provide a means of assess-
ing candidates on the day.
3.3.7 Further study
Many students fnd that the sense of individual achievement and discovery gener-
ated by a successful ME4 Individual Project gets them hooked on research. Since
you are already here and your track record is known it will certainly be easier to
fnd a project which suits you even if it is ofered in a diferent department.
Probably the best place to start looking for a PhD project will be with your
ME4 (or perhaps ME3) project supervisor. Your personal tutor, and PhD stu-
dents with which you will have made contact through their work as GTAs, are
other good sources of inside information: ask around. Projects are posted pub-
licly on Moodle, the Departmental web pages and on a several open web sites.
Imperial runs a Postgraduate Open Day each December. Each department
has an information stand with staf who can advise you on available research
opportunities and Masters programmes. Designed primarily for visitors from
outside the College who plan to study here, this event can also be a useful
source of information if you are thinking of studying in another department or
even another university.
RELATED LINKS
PhD studentships ofered on Moodle
PhD studentships ofered on Department website
FindAPhD website
Imperial College Postgraduate Open Day
Email Postgraduate Secretary (Claire Dempster, Rm. 549)
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3.4 The year abroad
The Department runs exchange agreements with a several international universi-
ties. These arrangements allow selected students to replace ME4 with a year of
study abroad, at institutions carefully chosen to ofer equivalent degrees; they also
bring us overseas students from programmes with diferent styles of teaching.
The year abroad programme provides a fantastic opportunity to experience
engineering education in another country and a diferent cultural setting. It is
a unique opportunity to travel and get to learn in a diferent environment.
Demonstrating versatility and adaptability as well as communication and lan-
guage skills can be a key advantage when you seek employment.
Another beneft is that while abroad you can save money. Living costs at most
exchange partner universities are less than in London and the college waives a
proportion (under review) of its fees for exchange students. No tuition fees
need be paid at the host institution: you remain registered as an Imperial Col-
lege Student.
You can also apply for grants, e.g. Erasmus mobility grants, to cover travel and
other costs.
RELATED LINKS
Email Exchange Coordinator (Dr Frederic Cegla, R662)
Placements Abroad Handbook (pdf )
3.4.1 Exchange partners
The Mechanical Engineering with a Year Abroad programme ofers exchanges
both with European universities (via Erasmus) and, on the basis of agreements at
institutional level, with non-European universities.
European universities
These exchanges are managed as part of the Erasmus Exchange Programme:
1. Rheinisch-Westflische Technische Hochschule, Aachen (RWTH Aachen,
Germany)
2. Ecole Centrale Lyon (France)
3. Ecole Centrale Paris (France)
4. Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft, Netherlands)
5. Eidgenssische Technische Hochschule Zrich (ETH Zurich, Switzerland).
Non-European universities
These exchanges take place within institutional exchange agreements made
at University level:
1. University of Melbourne (Australia)
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2. University of California (US)
3. National University of Singapore (NUS)
RELATED LINKS
Aachen University website
EC Lyon website
EC Paris website
TU Delft website
ETH Zurich website
UC Melbourne website
University of California website
National University of Singapore website
3.4.2 Academic and other pre-requisites
Students are expected to be of a good academic standing before taking a year
abroad but its not just academic qualities which are important. Both exchange
partners need to be sure that you will be right for the programme and that it will
be right for you.
The requirements that this department imposes are:
To be registered on the Mechanical Engineering with a Year Abroad
(H304) programme (if you were not on H304 initially, you can still even
in ME3 change your registration by application to the Senior Tutor)
To have a minimum overall grade total of 65% on completing ME3
For partner universities teaching in other languages i.e. Aachen, Zur-
ich, Lyon and Paris to demonstrate Humanities level 4 or equivalent
language skills
To show evidence of being a good ambassador for Imperial College Lon-
don and its exchange programme
To demonstrate motivation and organisational skills
To complete, independently, all the necessary formalities:
Registering
Presenting an acceptable study plan
Completing the application form etc..
Caution
Satisfying these requirements does not guarantee acceptance by the partner university
which retains the right to refuse any application, and occasionally does so.

RELATED LINKS
Information on co-curricular language courses
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3.4.3 The Year Abroad application process
Although many students register for the Year Abroad course on arrival, not all will
go. Some will change their minds; some will not be academically strong to face the
challenge. Finally, the need to balance incoming and outgoing student numbers
makes a careful selection process essential.
Figure 3.4-1 The application process for exchange programmes on page 131
shows an approximate timeline for the entire process. The procedure for an in-
dividual student depends on whether the exchange will be within Europe (fa-
cilitated by Erasmus) or farther afeld.
Figure 3.4-1 The application process for exchange programmes
RELATED LINKS
3.4.4 The study plan on page 133
3.4.3.1 Applying for an exchange outside Europe
The exchange schemes for institutions farthest from the UK are also the most pop-
ular and competitive. Once the Department has selected its candidates, special
administrative procedures related to immigration/visa issues etc. require the in-
volvement of the International Ofce, and slow the process down.
Demand for exchanges to universities outside Europe is very high: there are
often 10 candidates for each place at the University of California and 3-4 for
each at the University of Melbourne. A careful selection process is therefore
essential, but the nomination must be forwarded to the Registrys Internation-
al Ofce by late November so that they can run the student through the ad-
ministrative application process by late January/early February.
1. Attend the ME3 information session (also open to interested students
from ME12) in week 2 or 3. This meeting presents general information
about exchanges explains the selection process.
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2. Write a motivation letter to the exchange coordinator, summarising your
motivation for being selected. The deadline for receipt is usually one
week after the information session.
a. Explain why you want to go
b. Suggest why you would be a good representative of Imperial
c. Where do you want to go, and why?
d. How does it ft in with your career plans?
e. Why do you deserve it?
3. Soon after the deadline for submission of these letters, three candidates
selected on the basis of them will be invited for interview.
4. Interviews take place about three weeks after submission. The panel will
consist of at least three staf members including the exchange coordina-
tor, at least one other academic and either a further academic or a mem-
ber of the UG Ofce administrative staf.
5. As soon as possible afterwards, you will be told whether you have been
selected for nomination.
Following nomination, the successful candidate(s) are further guided through
the application process by the International Ofce. The exchange coordinator
remains in touch to ensure that the student produces an acceptable study
plan and completes a Learning Agreement.
3.4.3.2 Applying for an exchange within Europe
These exchanges are handled within the more straightforward Erasmus frame-
work. There is usually no shortage of available places and all outgoing students
can attend their university of choice; if not, a procedure similar to that for ex-
changes outside Europe must be followed.
1. After the initial ME3 information session, indicate your interest to the ex-
change coordinator.
2. Following the second, European exchange information session in Janu-
ary/February, review the information on available courses (and applicable
restrictions) at your chosen institution.
3. Complete the application forms, devise a study plan and send them to
the exchange coordinator so that a Learning Agreement can be comple-
ted and signed.
4. Submit the application (deadlines are usually around April/May for start
in September/October) and await confrmation and acceptance by the
partner institution. The host institution always reserves the right to reject
any application they are not obliged to accept any of our candidates.
5. Following acceptance, your instructions as an incoming exchange stu-
dent will issued by the host institution.
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RELATED LINKS
Erasmus website
3.4.4 The study plan
An essential component of any inter-university exchange is a Study Plan. This is
agreed by both universities so that credit can be transferred back to the host (de-
gree-awarding) university i.e. Imperial.
The general requirements for a student studying abroad, who seeks to transfer
credit back to count towards his/her Mechanical Engineering H304 degree
back at Imperial College are:
1. The candidate completes a work load worthy of 60 ECTS credit points
2. 80% of the subjects taken for credit have engineering content and the
majority of those are at Masters level
3. Within that 80%, the student must complete a fnal year project worth at
least 14 ECTS
4. There may be particular restrictions associated with each partner univer-
sity.
Note
The department may, depending on the specifc circumstances arising at a particular ex-
change partner institution, accept variations to these conditions. It can only participate in
credit-transferring exchanges, i.e. a student cannot go abroad without transferring credits
back.

3.4.5 Completing a Year Abroad
It is obviously very important that Imperial receives an ofcial transcript of results
from the partner university as soon as possible after completion of the year
abroad.
Warning
It is your responsibility to ensure that the transcript is sent to the exchange coordinator.

If it arrives any later than early September, we cannot guarantee a place at the
graduation ceremony for which places for exchange students are, normally,
reserved.
3.5 Interruption of studies
The MEng programme, its examination structure and its marking scheme are de-
signed for continuous attendance. Interruption of Studies efectively, tempora-
ry withdrawal can be arranged for on medical, fnancial or personal grounds,
but can create signifcant problems especially for international students.
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If you wish to take time out from your course of study, speak to your personal
tutor frst. S/he will refer you to the Senior Tutor, but it is important for us to
understand your particular case and all aspects of why you wish to take the
gap. If you plans are to work, for example, there may be options for integrat-
ing them with your current degree programme or for transferring to another.
Temporarily ceasing to be a student can create signifcant problems: details of
these are given on the Registry website.
RELATED LINKS
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/registry/currentstudents/registrationchanges
3.6 Graduation
With your fnal-year taught modules examined and your project work written up
and presented, the degree programme is over. Academic and administrative staf
now integrate all of the module marks and any other relevant information to de-
cide, at a fnal meeting, the degree class to award.
3.6.1 The Examiners Meeting
In reality a series of three meetings interspersed with fact-fnding activities and re-
views, this procedure leads to a fnal mark for graduating students and to a deci-
sion on progression for all others.
The process begins with the collection of all marks registered during the year
for every student except, in some cases, those who have yet to complete their
year abroad. Checks are made at this stage to ensure that each student has a
mark for each module for which s/he was registered.
Verifed marks are next input to a master database which contains the marks
brought forward from previous years for each registered student. Finally a pro-
gram which implements the progression rules for each students year of entry
is run to update the database and arrive at a mark for the current year.
The First Examiners Meeting, attended by a core group of senior academics
and administrators, takes an overview of the years results. Special cases are
discussed and exam or coursework marks for modules which may require
moderation are identifed.
At the Second Examiners Meeting, the same group considers preliminary
outcomes for individual students, considering them anonymously. In particu-
lar, College regulations require every candidate who is within 2.5% of a degree
class boundary (e.g. who has a mark between 67.5% and 70%) to be consid-
ered for promotion. At this stage mitigating circumstances are considered and
a decision is made on:
1. Whether to carry the information forward to the following year
2. Whether to recommend to the fnal meeting that a graduating student is
awarded an appropriate compensation in marks.
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The two External Examiners senior academics from other UK universities
now arrive. They spend a day reviewing all marked examination scripts and
coursework marked during the year, concentrating on individual project re-
ports and (for BEng students) DMT project results for students who might be
considered for degree class promotion.
Warning
The External Examiners may decide, for this reason or any other, that they wish to interview
a student in person.

The Final Examiners Meeting is attended by all academic staf (who assess
students and are therefore Examiners), the External examiners and a repre-
sentative from Registry to advise on procedures and regulations. This is the oc-
casion on which degrees and degree classes (honours) are formally agreed.
Note
At no stage is the proportion of results in each degree class used to implement a quota, or
taken into account in any way at all. In theory every student could get a frst!

3.6.2 The graduation ceremony
On what the College calls Commemoration Day in late October after your fnal
year, you will arrive at the graduation ceremony as an undergraduate, participate
as a graduand and emerge as a graduate.
Event Date Time
Commemoration Day Wednesday, 22 October, 2014
Invitations are issued during August. Attendance is not required your de-
gree will be awarded anyway! but few graduands manage to resist the al-
lure of the occasion and the pressure of family and peers.
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Appendix A Campus map
1. Beit Quadrangle
2. Imperial College Union
3. Ethos Sports Centre
4. Princes Gardens, North Side
5. Weeks Hall
6. Blackett Laboratory
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7. Roderic Hill Building
8. Bone Building
9. Royal School of Mines
10. Aston Webb
11. Bessemer Building
12. Goldsmiths Building
13. Huxley Building
14. ACE Extension
15. William Penney Laboratory
16. Electrical Engineering Building
17. Business School
18. 53 Princes Gate
19. Eastside
20. Sherfeld Building (for Student Hub)
21. Grantham Institute for Climate Change
22. Faculty Building
23. 58 Princes Gate
24. 170 Queens Gate
25. Central Library
26. Queens Tower
27. Skempton Building
28. City and Guilds Building
29. Southside
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Appendix C ME1-2 coursework marks
distribution
In each of ME1 and ME2, all marks for coursework are aggregated into a single,
large pass/fail element so that a student who fails the year needs only to resit ex-
aminations. The allocation and distribution of coursework marks within each
module is stated on the course description.
Table C-1 Distribution of coursework marks in ME1
Module
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Module Activity Marks Total
ME1-HCPT Computing Matlab exercise 1 15
Matlab exercise 2 15
TOTAL 30
ME1-HDMF Design and Manufacture Group project report 30
Visual diary 10
CAD modelling 10
TOTAL 120
ME1-HERS Experimental Reporting
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Report 1 draft 05
Report 1 fnal 10
Log book 05
Abstract writing task 04
Writing assessment 04
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ME1-HMTH Mathematics Progress test 04
TOTAL 04
ME1-HFMX Fluid Mechanics Progress test 04
Lab report 05
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ME1-HTHD Thermodynamics Progress test 04
Lab report 07
TOTAL 11
ME1-HMCX Mechanics Progress test 04
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ME1-HSAN Stress Analysis Progress test 04
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ME1 coursework TOTAL 240
Table C-2 Distribution of coursework marks in ME2
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elements
An ECTS element, the smallest unit which a student can fail and re-take is
equivalent to a Registry unit of assessment. Since exchange students usually
wish to transfer credit in modules rather than in Registry units, there is a mapping
between ME modules and the elements to which they contribute.
The following tables show, for each ME module, the total ECTS value both as
an item in itself (if passed, for example, both on examined and coursework as-
sessments) and as a contributor to Registry units of assessment (elements). If
an element consists of just one module, there is no distinction and the ele-
ment takes the code of that module; otherwise, the element code is distin-
guished by having no level descriptor H or M following the hyphen.
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MTX SM MATL TF HMTH CW
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ME1-HMTX 5.5 5 0.5
ME1-HMCX 5.5 5 0.5
ME1-HSAN 5.5 5 0.5
ME1-HMATL 5.5 5 0.5
ME1-HTHD 5.5 5 0.5
ME1-HFMX 5.5 5 0.5
ME1-HCPT 3 3
ME1-HMTH 12 12
ME1-HMTHA 0
Total 60 5 10 5 10 12 18
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ME2-HMTX 5.5 5 0.5
ME2-HDYN 4.5 4 0.5
ME2-HSAN 5.5 5 0.5
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ME3-Helective4 6 6
ME3-Helective5 6 6
ME3-HLTR 4 4
ME3-MDMT 14 14
Total 60 12 30 18
Note
Business School BEST and Humanities modules are equivalent to H-level electives, at 6
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ME4-MPRJ 16 16
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These schemes defne the conditions under which students may progress through
each programme and accumulate marks for the classifcation of their degree.
From time to time, these schemes change. Nevertheless, each student carries
with them the scheme which was in force when they began the programme:
only students who began after any change will be afected by it.
E.1 Progression and graduation
The Sub-committee of Examiners in Mechanical Engineering decides annually
whether each student should progress to the next year of the programme or, after
the fnal year, to graduation. Although the examiners will exercise discretion in in-
dividual cases, their decision is based primarily on coursework and examination
marks.
The decisions available to the Examiners for each student are:
Pass
In order to progress normally, a student must satisfy the requirements for
each Part of the programme, as shown in the following tables.
Deferred
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fails to achieve a pass mark in any individual Part I or II examination will
normally, at the discretion of the Examiners, be ofered one or more Sup-
plementary Qualifying Tests (SQTs) in September if s/he:
1. Achieved the stated pass mark on Examination Total, but failed to
achieve the pass mark in up to two individual examinations; OR
2. Failed to achieve the stated pass mark on Examination Total and
failed to achieve the pass mark in up to two individual examina-
tions, and could achieve the stated pass mark on Examination Total
by achieving, in each SQT, a mark at least 10% higher than the sta-
ted pass mark for each failed examination.
SQT and pass
At the discretion of the Examiners a student may progress, following a
Deferred decision, if the mark for each SQT taken under condition 2 is at
least 10% higher than the pass mark for the corresponding examination
which the student had failed. If the examination aggregate mark would
thereby increase from below to above 40%, it is capped at 40%.
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Resit
A student who had achieved the pass mark for coursework but does not
pass the examinations for any Part of the BEng or MEng may re-enter the
failed examination on one further occasion.
Fail
A student who fails to achieve the pass mark for coursework, or who is
no longer eligible to re-sit a failed examination, is required to withdraw.
E.2 MEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2014-15
This is regarded as the basic scheme, on which all others are variants.
One mark contributes equally towards the degree in every year except the
frst, and the fnal degree class is determined by simple addition of marks
awarded in Parts II to IV. Thus the four year totals, when expressed as percen-
tages, contribute successively zero, 25%, 37.5% and 37.5% towards the total
degree mark.
E.2.1 Part I
Examination Max. mark Pass mark ECTS
Mathematics 140 40% 12
Thermofuids 140 40% 10
Solid Mechanics 140 40% 10
Materials 70 40% 5
Mechatronics 70 40% 5
Design and Manufacture 70 40% 5
EXAMINATION TOTAL 630 40% 47
COURSEWORK: Comprising Mathematics 4, Thermo-
fuids 20, Solid Mechanics 8, Mechatronics 18, Mate-
rials 12, Design and Manufacture 50, Computing 30,
Experimental Reporting Skills 28.
170 40% 13
PART I TOTAL MAXIMUM MARKS 800 60
Note
A student who achieves the pass marks shown will qualify for progression to Part II. The
marks will be noted on the fnal degree transcript and used to determine the Deans List,
but will not be counted towards the fnal degree classifcation.

Note
If a candidate passes Thermofuids or Solid Mechanics on aggregate having failed either
of the two constituent papers the Examining Board may, against criteria determined on a
year by year basis, record a Deferred Decision and require a Supplementary Qualifying
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fuids 48, Solid Mechanics 62, Mechatronics 44,
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PART II TOTAL MAXIMUM MARKS 1600 60
Note
A student who fails to achieve 50% on Part II Examination Total will be required to transfer
to BEng degree registration.

E.2.3 Part III
Machine System Dynamics 200
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Thermodynamics and Energy 200
Five other courses chosen within specifed con-
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COURSEWORK
Engineering Ethics 30
Literature Research Project 170 }18
Design, Make and Test Project 800 40%
COURSEWORK TOTAL 1000 40% 18
PART III TOTAL MAXIMUM MARKS 2400 60
Note
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ing all other criteria for progression to Part IV will be invited to graduate with the award of
a BEng Degree.

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One Advanced Applications module 400 12
Five modules chosen within specifed constraints each 200 32
COURSEWORK
Individual Project 1000 40% 16
PART IV TOTAL MAXIMUM MARKS 2400 60
Note
In order for an MEng degree to satisfy the academic requirements for Corporate Member-
ship of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, marks for at least four Part IV courses (in-
cluding the Advanced Applications course) must equal or exceed 40%.

E.3 MEng in Mechanical Engineering with Nuclear
Engineering, 2014-15
This programme difers from the basic MEng only in requiring students to take the
fve nuclear-themed modules in ME3-4.
awarded in Parts II to IV. Thus the four year totals, when expressed as percen-
tages, contribute successively zero, 25%, 37.5% and 37.5% towards the total
degree mark.
E.3.1 Part I
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Machine System Dynamics 200
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Thermodynamics and Energy 200
Introduction to Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Chemical
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Note
An MEng student who achieves a Part III examination total of less than 50% while satisfy-
ing all other criteria for progression to Part IV will be invited to graduate with the award of
a BEng Degree.

E.3.4 Part IV
One Advanced Applications module 400 12
Five modules chosen within specifed constraints each 200 32
COURSEWORK
Individual Project 1000 40% 16
PART IV TOTAL MAXIMUM MARKS 2400 60
Note
The examination total for Parts III and IV must include marks for Introduction to Nuclear
Energy, Nuclear Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics, Nuclear Reactor Phys-
ics and Nuclear Materials modules. If it does not but the candidate satisfes all other crite-
ria, the student may graduate with an MEng Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Note
In order for an MEng degree to satisfy the academic requirements for Corporate Member-
ship of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, marks for at least four Part IV courses (in-
cluding the Advanced Applications course) must equal or exceed 40%.

E.4 BEng in Mechanical Engineering, 2014-15
Marking scheme for exit with BEng.
awarded in Parts II and III. Thus the three year totals, when expressed as per-
centages, contribute successively zero, 40% and 60% towards the total degree
mark.
E.4.1 Part I
Materials 70 40% 5
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Thermodynamics and Energy 200 6
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COURSEWORK
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Note
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and Thermodynamics and Energy AND at least 55% on Part III Examination Total AND sat-
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Appendix F MPDS Training Objectives
IMechE MPDS Training Objectives, which are adopted without modifcation for
student placements under the XPD scheme
Personal development
1. Self Management the ability to control and direct own training, ca-
reer and eforts
Level Assessment
4 Confdent, able to negotiate own requirements and accept responsibility
3 Works towards personal goals using available resources, with minimum guid-
ance
2 Accepts responsibility but requires prompting to work towards goals
1 Has difculty identifying personal goals and appropriate resources
2. Communication skills the ability to give a complete and concise ac-
count of a situation, either orally or written
Level Assessment
4 Always clear and accurate, high standard of presentation; can communicate
with people at all levels
3 Reasonable presentation and generally accurate in content; rarely has difculty
making a point
2 Usually easy to understand; has difculty presenting to people at all levels
1 Tendency to be inaccurate and has difculty conveying information in any
form
3. Comprehension the ability to understand and interpret instructions
Level Assessment
4 Understands well at frst attempt, readily grasps new ideas and concepts
3 Does not normally require additional information or explanation to complete a
task
2 Sometimes requires additional information or explanation
1 Frequently needs additional information or explanation and takes time to
grasp new ideas and concepts
4. Personal/social skills the ability to work with others and gain respect
Level Assessment
4 Works well in a group or team and establishes good relationships with people
at all levels
3 Works in a group or team, good relationships at own level
2 Attempts to mix and make a contribution
1 Prefers to work alone and has difculty establishing good relationships
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Technical development
1. Engineering practice the ability to apply sound engineering practices
Level Assessment
4 Fully able to select materials, processes and components to customer specif-
cation
3 Able to advise on suitable materials, processes and components
2 Able to select and specify from organisations own capabilities of manufacture
1 Has difculty selecting suitable materials, processes and components
2. Engineering principles the ability to apply sound engineering princi-
ples and technical judgement
Level Assessment
4 Fully able to apply engineering principles to design, development and research
activities
3 Able to apply established procedures
2 Needs some guidance on the application of engineering principles
1 Needs frequent guidance on the application of suitable engineering principles
3. Problem solving the ability to originate new and improved uses of
people and resources
Level Assessment
4 Excellent problem solver; can propose innovative solutions
3 Good understanding and useful innovator
2 Puts forward some ideas but has difculty with decisions
1 Usually able to follow set procedures but shows little capability at proposing
new solutions
4. Technical achievement the ability to translate knowledge and skills
into achieving results
Level Assessment
4 Quickly develops skills and achieves excellent results without prompting
3 Achieves well with little supervision
2 Average ability in achieving results but hesitant with little initiative
1 Usually needs supervision and assistance to achieve tasks
Business development
1. Commercial and fnancial implications the ability to see engineering
in a business environment
Level Assessment
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2. Organisation skills the ability to structure circumstances to a given
objective
Level Assessment
4 Fully aware of the importance of planning and scheduling dependent on
changing circumstances and tasks
3 Usually organises well but sometimes needs guidance on some areas of plan-
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Tables of teaching staf, keyed by surname.
G.1 Academic staf and Assessors
Keyed by surname.
Name Initials Room Tel. Email@imperi-
al.ac.uk
Dept.
Amis, Prof Andrew A AAA 323 47062 a.amis ME
Aurisicchio, Dr Marco MA 478 47095 m.aurisicchio ME
Balint, Dr Daniel DB 216 47084 d.balint ME
Berlof, Dr Pavel PB p.berlof MA
Blackman, Dr Bamber R BRB 476 47196 b.blackman ME
Bluck, Dr Michael J MJB 747a 47055 m.bluck ME
Brand, Andrew AB 000 00000 andrew.brand ME
Cann, Dr Philippa PMC 334 47027 p.cann ME
Cawley, Prof Peter PC 460b 47000 p.cawley ME
Cegla, Dr Fred FC 662 48096 f.cegla ME
Charalambides, Dr Maria MC 215 47246 m.charalambides ME
Childs, Prof Peter R N PRNC 478 47049 p.childs ME
Cinosi, Dr Nicolas NC 205A 49681 n.cinosi ME
Costall, Dr Aaron AC 211 41618 a.costall ME
Crofton, Dr P Shaun J PSJC 567B 47085 s.crofton ME
Davies, Dr Catrin M CMD 218 47035 catrin.davies ME
Dear, Prof John P JPD 219 47086 j.dear ME
Di Mare, Dr Luca LDM 324 47076 l.di.mare ME
Dini, Dr Daniele DD 332 47242 d.dini ME
Eaton, Dr Matthew ME 742 47053 m.eaton ME
Fenner, Prof Roger T RTF 550 47060 r.fenner ME
Fitz-Simon, Dr Nicola NFS tba n.ftz-simon MA
Flora, Mr Harminder HF 321 47170 h.fora ME
Giuliani, Dr Finn FG 326 41249 f.giuliani MM
Gosling, Mr Graham GG 759a 47099 g.gosling ME
Hansen, Dr Ulrich N UNH 324 47061 u.hansen ME
Hardalupas, Prof Yannis YH 337 47057 y.hardalupas ME
Hooper, Dr Paul PAH 308 47128 p.hooper07 ME
Huthwaite, Dr Peter PEH 211 43794 p.huthwaite ME
Isherwood, Dr Paul D DPI 321 47009 p.isherwood ME
Jefers, Dr Jonathan JJ 325 45471 j.jefers ME
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Name Initials Room Tel. Email@imperi-
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Dept.
Jones, Prof William P WPJ 331 47037 w.jones ME
Kadiric, Dr Amir AK 315 41717 a.kadiric ME
Kinloch, Prof Anthony J AJK 501c 47081 a.kinloch ME
Leevers, Dr Patrick S PSL 548 47088 p.leevers ME
Lin, Prof Jianguo JL 540 47082 jiango.lin ME
Lindstedt, Prof R Peter RPL 339 47039 p.lindstedt ME
Lowe, Prof Michael J MJL 461A 47071 m.lowe ME
Marquis, Dr A J (Fred) AJM 551 47040 a.marquis ME
Martinez-Botas, Prof Ricardo RMB 338 47241 r.botas ME
Masen, Dr Marc MAM 336 47066 m.masen ME
Myant, Dr Connor W CWM tba 47236 connor.myant05 ME
Nadiri, Dr Fusun FN 222 47021 f.nadiri ME
Navarro-Martinez, Dr Salvador SNM 329 47163 s.navarro ME
Nikbin, Prof Kamran KN 221 47133 k.nikbin ME
Ofer, Dr Gregory GO 217 47072 gregory.ofer ME
Pimenta, Dr Soraia SP 211 57093 soraia.pimenta ME
Reddyhof, Dr Thomas TR 330 43840 t.reddyhof ME
Rein, Dr Guillermo GR 340 47036 g.rein ME
Rigopoulos, Dr Stelios SR 643 47108 s.rigopoulos ME
Ristic, Dr Michael MR 743 47048 m.ristic ME
Rodriguez y Baena, Dr Ferdi-
nando
FRB 326 47046 f.rodriguez ME
Ross, Dr Jan-Michael JMR 45105 jan.ross BS
Schwingshackl, Dr Christoph W CWS 565B 41920 s.chwingshackl ME
Sheldrake, Dr John JS 321 41610 j.sheldrake ext
Spikes, Prof Hugh A HAS 314 47063 h.spikes ME
Taylor, Dr Ambrose C ACT 214 47149 a.c.taylor ME
Taylor, Prof Alex M K P AMT 335 47042 a.m.taylor ME
Touber, Dr Emile ET 341 47041 e.touber ME
Vahdati, Dr Mehdi MV 566 47073 m.vahdati ME
Vaidyanathan, Dr Ravi RV 327 47020 r.vaidyanathan ME
Van Wachem, Dr Berend BVW 333 47030 b.van-wachem ME
Varley, Dr Juliet JV 549 47089 j.varley ME
Walker, Dr Simon P SPW 746 47058 s.p.walker ME
Wang, Dr Liliang LW 211 43648 liliang.wang ME
Williams, Dr Benjamin BW 343 45859 benjamin.williams ME
Wong, Dr Janet JW 313B 48991 j.wong ME
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Keyed by surname.
Name Initials Room Tel. Email @imperial.ac.uk Dept.
Alvarez Feito, Dr Diego DAF d.alvarez-feito08 ME
Arora, Dr Hari HA 393 47128 hari.arora04 ME
Burton, Dr Thomas TB thomas.burton SC
Carnevale, Dr Mauro MC 566 m.carnevale ME
Charalampous, Dr Georgios GC 211 57052 georgios.charalampous02 ME
Choi, Dr Wonjae WC w.choi ME
Correa, Dr Tomas TC t.correa ME
Fowell, Dr Mark T MF 585 mark.fowell04 ME
Geraldes, Dr Diogo DG geraldes ME
Glover, Dr James JG 312 41986 j.glover ME
Le Rouzic, Dr Julien JLR j.le-rouzic ME
Leinov, Dr Eli EL 47227 e.leinov ME
Mohammed, Dr Idris Kevin IM idris.mohammed03 ME
Pal, Dr Bidyut BP 636 57101 bidyut.pal ME
Pesiridis, Dr Apostolos AP 41618 apostolos.pesiridis ME
Petersen, Dr Joshua JP j.petersen ME
Ramaswamy, Dr Kumara G KGR 760 k.ramaswamy ME
Romagnoli, Dr Alessandro AR 670 a.romagnoli ME
Salles, Dr Loc LS l.salles ME
Secoli, Dr Riccardo RS r.secoli ME
Soulopoulos, Dr Nikolaos NS 211 57072 nikolaos.soulopoulos0 ME
Stapelfeldt, Ms Sina SS sina.stapelfeldt05 ME
Vail, Dr Jennifer JV j.vail ME
Vogiatzaki, Dr Konstantina KV k.vogiatzaki05 ME
Wang, Mr Zhihua ZW z.wang09 ME
Xi, Dr Xiaoyu XX x.xi ME
Yang, Dr Mingyang MY m.yang09 ME
Zachariadis, Dr Zacharias-
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G.3 Graduate Teaching Assistants
Keyed by surname.
D: Demonstrator
A: Assessor
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Agarwal, Mr Akshat akshat.agarwal08 ME A
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Akridis, Mr Petros petros.akridis10 ME A
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Baxter, Mr Weston w.baxter13 M A
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Betts, Mr Charles charles.betts03 ME A
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Brauner, Mr Timothy t.brauner11 ME A
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Chong, Mr Huang Ming huang-ming.chong07 ME A
Christodoulias, Mr Athanasios a.christodoulias12 ME A
Cooper, Mr Sam samuel.cooper08 ME A
Corcoran, Mr Joseph joseph.corcoran07 ME A
Cornish, Mr Andrew a.cornish09 ME A
Da Conceio Pereira, Ms Glaucia g.da-conceicao-pereira10 ME A
Darton, Ms Hannah hannah.darton07 ME A
De Laurentis, Mr Nicola n.de-laurentis12 ME A
Del Linz, Mr Paolo p.del-linz10 ME A
Dimela, Ms Nefeli nefeli.dimela11 ME A
Dobson, Mr Jacob jacob.dobson08 ME A
El Fakir, Mr Omer omar.al-fakir07 ME A
Fond, Mr Benoit b.fond10 ME A
Franco, Mr Enrico e.franco11 ME A
Gao, Mr Haoxiang haoxiang.gao09 ME A
Haith, Ms Misty misty.haith09 ME A
Halewood, Ms Camilla c.halewood ME A
Hampp, Mr Fabian f.hampp11 ME A
Hawke, Mr Trevor t.hawke12 ME A
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Isla, Mr Julio j.isla13 ME A
Jarvis, Mr Rollo r.jarvis13 ME A
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Jin, Mr Andi andi.jin10 ME A
Jurisch, Mr Martin m.jurisch11 ME A
Kakavas, Mr Ioannis i.kakavas11 ME A
Kapadia, Mr Priyesh p.kapadia10 ME A
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Marx, Mr Nigel nigel.marx11 ME A
Meor Zulkifi, Mr Meor m.meor-zulkifi12 ME A
Merla, Mr Yu yu.merla09 ME A
Millar, Mr Tino tino.millar08 ME A
Minoux, Mr Edouard edouard.minoux08 ME A
Morad, Mr Samir samir.morad10 ME A
Narayanan, Mr Aditiya aditya.narayanan06 ME A
Nasser, Mr Mustafa mustafa.nasser12 ME
Nikita, Ms Christina c.nikita12 ME A
Noh, Mr Dongwon dongwon.noh10 ME A
Pesmazoglou, Mr Ioannis ioannis.pesmazoglou06 ME A
Phillips, Mr Richard r.phillips13 ME A
Pimentel de Lamo, Ms Dehydys dehydys.pimentel-de-lamo06 ME A
Plant, Mr Dan d.plant07 ME A
Politis, Mr Dennis denis.politis06 ME A
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Sewerin, Mr Fabian f.sewerin13 ME A
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A table of teaching staf, listed by initials as used on timetables.
H.1 Academic staf and Assessors
Listed by initials as used on timetables.
Initials Name Room Tel Email Dept
AAA Amis, Prof Andrew A 323 47062 a.amis ME
AB Brand, Andrew 000 00000 andrew.brand ME
AC Costall, Dr Aaron 211 41618 a.costall ME
ACT Taylor, Dr Ambrose C 214 47149 a.c.taylor ME
AJK Kinloch, Prof Anthony J 501c 47081 a.kinloch ME
AJM Marquis, Dr A J (Fred) 551 47040 a.marquis ME
AK Kadiric, Dr Amir 315 41717 a.kadiric ME
AMT Taylor, Prof Alex M K P 335 47042 a.m.taylor ME
BRB Blackman, Dr Bamber R 476 47196 b.blackman ME
BVW Van Wachem, Dr Berend 333 47030 b.van-wachem ME
BW Williams, Dr Benjamin 343 45859 benjamin.williams ME
CMD Davies, Dr Catrin M 218 47035 catrin.davies ME
CWM Myant, Dr Connor W tba 47236 connor.myant05 ME
CWS Schwingshackl, Dr Christoph W 565B 41920 s.chwingshackl ME
DB Balint, Dr Daniel 216 47084 d.balint ME
DD Dini, Dr Daniele 332 47242 d.dini ME
DPI Isherwood, Dr Paul D 321 47009 p.isherwood ME
ET Touber, Dr Emile 341 47041 e.touber ME
FC Cegla, Dr Fred 662 48096 f.cegla ME
FG Giuliani, Dr Finn 326 41249 f.giuliani MM
FN Nadiri, Dr Fusun 222 47021 f.nadiri ME
FRB Rodriguez y Baena, Dr Ferdi-
nando
326 47046 f.rodriguez ME
GG Gosling, Mr Graham 759a 47099 g.gosling ME
GO Ofer, Dr Gregory 217 47072 gregory.ofer ME
GR Rein, Dr Guillermo 340 47036 g.rein ME
HAS Spikes, Prof Hugh A 314 47063 h.spikes ME
HF Flora, Mr Harminder 321 47170 h.fora ME
JJ Jefers, Dr Jonathan 325 45471 j.jefers ME
JL Lin, Prof Jianguo 540 47082 jiango.lin ME
JMR Ross, Dr Jan-Michael 45105 jan.ross BS
JPD Dear, Prof John P 219 47086 j.dear ME
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JS Sheldrake, Dr John 321 41610 j.sheldrake ext
JV Varley, Dr Juliet 549 47089 j.varley ME
JW Wong, Dr Janet 313B 48991 j.wong ME
KN Nikbin, Prof Kamran 221 47133 k.nikbin ME
LDM Di Mare, Dr Luca 324 47076 l.di.mare ME
LW Wang, Dr Liliang 211 43648 liliang.wang ME
MA Aurisicchio, Dr Marco 478 47095 m.aurisicchio ME
MAM Masen, Dr Marc 336 47066 m.masen ME
MC Charalambides, Dr Maria 215 47246 m.charalambides ME
ME Eaton, Dr Matthew 742 47053 m.eaton ME
MJB Bluck, Dr Michael J 747a 47055 m.bluck ME
MJL Lowe, Prof Michael J 461A 47071 m.lowe ME
MR Ristic, Dr Michael 743 47048 m.ristic ME
MV Vahdati, Dr Mehdi 566 47073 m.vahdati ME
NC Cinosi, Dr Nicolas 205A 49681 n.cinosi ME
NFS Fitz-Simon, Dr Nicola tba n.ftz-simon MA
PAH Hooper, Dr Paul 308 47128 p.hooper07 ME
PB Berlof, Dr Pavel p.berlof MA
PC Cawley, Prof Peter 460b 47000 p.cawley ME
PEH Huthwaite, Dr Peter 211 43794 p.huthwaite ME
PMC Cann, Dr Philippa 334 47027 p.cann ME
PRNC Childs, Prof Peter R N 478 47049 p.childs ME
PSJC Crofton, Dr P Shaun J 567B 47085 s.crofton ME
PSL Leevers, Dr Patrick S 548 47088 p.leevers ME
RMB Martinez-Botas, Prof Ricardo 338 47241 r.botas ME
RPL Lindstedt, Prof R Peter 339 47039 p.lindstedt ME
RTF Fenner, Prof Roger T 550 47060 r.fenner ME
RV Vaidyanathan, Dr Ravi 327 47020 r.vaidyanathan ME
SNM Navarro-Martinez, Dr Salvador 329 47163 s.navarro ME
SP Pimenta, Dr Soraia 211 57093 soraia.pimenta ME
SPW Walker, Dr Simon P 746 47058 s.p.walker ME
SR Rigopoulos, Dr Stelios 643 47108 s.rigopoulos ME
TR Reddyhof, Dr Thomas 330 43840 t.reddyhof ME
UNH Hansen, Dr Ulrich N 324 47061 u.hansen ME
WPJ Jones, Prof William P 331 47037 w.jones ME
YH Hardalupas, Prof Yannis 337 47057 y.hardalupas ME
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Listed by initials as used on timetables.
AP Pesiridis, Dr Apostolos 41618 apostolos.pesiridis ME
AR Romagnoli, Dr Alessandro 670 a.romagnoli ME
BP Pal, Dr Bidyut 636 57101 bidyut.pal ME
DAF Alvarez Feito, Dr Diego d.alvarez-feito08 ME
DG Geraldes, Dr Diogo geraldes ME
EL Leinov, Dr Eli 47227 e.leinov ME
GC Charalampous, Dr Georgios 211 57052 georgios.chara-
lampous02
ME
HA Arora, Dr Hari 393 47128 hari.arora04 ME
IM Mohammed, Dr Idris Kevin idris.moham-
med03
ME
JG Glover, Dr James 312 41986 j.glover ME
JLR Le Rouzic, Dr Julien j.le-rouzic ME
JP Petersen, Dr Joshua j.petersen ME
JV Vail, Dr Jennifer j.vail ME
KGR Ramaswamy, Dr Kumara G 760 k.ramaswamy ME
KV Vogiatzaki, Dr Konstantina k.vogiatzaki05 ME
LS Salles, Dr Loc l.salles ME
MC Carnevale, Dr Mauro 566 m.carnevale ME
MF Fowell, Dr Mark T 585 mark.fowell04 ME
MY Yang, Dr Mingyang m.yang09 ME
NS Soulopoulos, Dr Nikolaos 211 57072 nikolaos.soulo-
poulos0
ME
RS Secoli, Dr Riccardo r.secoli ME
SS Stapelfeldt, Ms Sina sina.stapelfeldt05 ME
TB Burton, Dr Thomas thomas.burton SC
TC Correa, Dr Tomas t.correa ME
WC Choi, Dr Wonjae w.choi ME
XX Xi, Dr Xiaoyu x.xi ME
ZW Wang, Mr Zhihua z.wang09 ME
ZZ Zachariadis, Dr Zacharias-Ioan-
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Index
Symbols
3D printing.......................................................29,90
A
Aachen
RWTH exchange....................................... 129
absence................................................................... 43
absencelate arrival
teaching staf............................................... 33
accommodation.................................................. 17
account................................................................... 85
account code........................................................ 87
appeals
academic........................................................50
applied maths.......................................................15
assessment............................................................ 93
feedback on.................................................. 40
self and peer...............................................100
assessment centre...............................................79
ATM...........................................................................13
attendance........................................ 18,65,72,108
awards..................................................................... 48
B
banking................................................................... 13
BEng degree....................................................... 105
boilersuit.................................................................26
boiler suit................................................................13
breakout space.....................................................30
budget.....................................................................82
budgeting............................................................120
C
California
University exchange................................129
careers advice....................................................... 50
cash machine........................................................ 13
chartered engineer............................................. 52
cheating.................................................................. 20
choice
form................................................................. 80
procedure...................................................... 80
clinic tutorials........................................................31
clubs......................................................................... 20
CNC...........................................................................89
CNC router....................................................... 29,90
co-curricular studies...........................................34
co-curricular study.......................................... 3,69
Commemoration Day......................................135
committee
student-staf................................................. 35
computer
purchase of................................................... 10
computers.............................................................. 10
consumables
computer....................................................... 10
COSHH............................................................... 27,89
COSHH form.......................................................... 83
counselling............................................................ 50
coursework....................................................39,139
credit transfer........................................................56
critique.................................................................... 97
D
deadline.................................................................. 39
Deans list................................................................48
deferred decision.............................................. 145
degree class........................................................ 134
quotas for.................................................... 134
Delft
TU exchange.............................................. 129
dentist......................................................................50
design review........................................................92
Disability Advisory Service...............................51
Disability Liaison Ofcer............................. 18,51
Disabled Students Allowance........................ 51
DMT project...........................................................72
dss............................................................................. 75
E
ects......................................................................... 142
ECTS..............................................................53,56,57
activities eligible for...................................58
elective
selecting................................................ 76,110
electives.................................................................. 73
advanced applications........................... 112
choosing........................................................ 73
choosing in ME4....................................... 109
H-level design and management......... 78
H-level technical..........................................77
IDX................................................................. 113
me3.................................................................. 77
registration........................................... 74
me4............................................................... 111
registration........................................ 109
M-level technical...................................... 112
Index
Index 165
nuclear......................................................... 105
registering choices..................................... 75
types of...........................................................73
email........................................................................... 9
redirection of.................................................. 9
employment
part-time, during studies......................... 19
energy systems.................................................... 71
English classes...................................................... 14
entertainment...................................................... 20
etching.............................................................. 29,90
exam
open-book.....................................................43
examination.......................................................... 39
combined subjects.....................................41
failure............................................................145
resit................................................................145
examination pass.............................................. 145
Examiners Meeting.......................................... 134
Examiners meeting............................................ 39
exams.................................................................17,42
failure rate..................................................... 42
setting of........................................................42
exam stress............................................................ 52
exchange
Erasmus........................................................129
institutional................................................ 129
exhibition............................................................... 98
expenses, incurring............................................ 87
expenses claim..................................................... 87
external examiners........................................... 134
F
feedback
by students................................................... 36
on examinations......................................... 44
to students.................................................... 40
fees
payment on arrival....................................... 2
fnal report...........................................................121
fnancial support..................................................17
forum
group meeting.............................................79
fourth year........................................................... 107
further study....................................................... 128
G
Gantt chart.......................................................83,93
GanttProject.......................................................... 83
graduation.................................................. 134,135
group....................................................................... 79
Group Meeting Point forum............................ 79
H
hardship fund....................................................... 50
health......................................................................... 8
health and safety
IDEAs Lab....................................................... 27
IDEAS Lab...................................................... 27
health centre......................................................... 50
Horizons......................................................... 76,110
humanities courses.............................................34
I
ICT....................................................................... 11,26
ID card........................................................................ 1
IDEAs lab...........................................................85,88
facilities.....................................................29,90
IDEAs Lab................................................................27
Coordinator...................................................27
Director...........................................................27
project development area.......................27
projects room...............................................27
workshop....................................................... 27
Workshop Manager................................... 27
IDEAs workshop................................................... 89
IDX.................................................................... 76,110
illness....................................................................... 43
IMechE............................................................... 21,52
Imperial Horizons.......................................3,69,78
Imperial Racing Green...............................81,116
individual critique............................................... 96
individual project..................................... 108,114
open.............................................................. 114
reserved....................................................... 122
induction...................................................................2
initial professional development................... 52
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, see IMe-
chE
integrated masters degree...............................56
intellectual property.................................. 79,119
international students....................................... 17
internet..............................................................11,26
internship............................................................... 53
IRG.............................................................................81
Isle of Man bike team...................................... 116
L
lab coat..............................................................13,26
lab exercises.......................................................... 31
language classes..................................................69
language courses................................................ 34
laser cutting.....................................................29,90
lectures....................................................................31
Index
Index 166
attendance at............................................... 18
letters......................................................................... 9
librarian
departmental............................................... 25
library.......................................................................12
lockers..................................................................... 13
log book......................................................... 82,118
Lyon
Ecole Centrale exchange....................... 129
M
machine systems................................................. 71
machining.............................................................. 89
mail............................................................................. 9
map........................................................................ 136
marking scheme...............................146,148,150
marks
coursework................................................. 139
materials................................................................. 85
purchase of................................................... 85
MBTI questionnaire.............................................79
ME3........................................................................... 72
key dates........................................................ 72
ME4........................................................................ 108
key dates..................................................... 108
mechanics.............................................................. 15
MechSoc................................................................. 20
Melbourne
University exchange................................129
mentor.....................................................................54
milestone................................................................93
milestones........................................................... 121
mitigating circumstances................................. 43
accounting for........................................... 134
moderation
of project marks.................................. 45,122
Moodle.................................................................9,10
unenroll from course................................. 38
MPDS..................................................................54,55
registering for.............................................. 54
N
New Students website......................................... 1
non-disclosure agreements, see NDA
notice boards.......................................................... 9
NSS............................................................................36
nuclear electives................................................105
nuclear engineering...................................76,110
O
open-book exams............................................... 43
P
Panopto.................................................................. 31
Paris
Ecole Centrale exchange....................... 129
parking
bicycle.............................................................13
car.....................................................................13
part-time work..................................................... 19
password................................................................ 10
past papers............................................................ 40
PDS........................................................................... 83
peer assessment
secondary_term....................................... 102
peer evaluation.............................................. 95,99
personal tutor....................................................5,24
duties.............................................................. 24
personal tutorials................................................ 65
PhD
study for.......................................................128
photocopying....................................................... 26
Pink Room.............................................................. 27
pit garage............................................................... 85
placement
in industry..................................................... 53
research.......................................................... 53
plagiarism.........................................................20,39
self.................................................................... 96
planning............................................................... 117
project............................................................ 79
poster.......................................................................98
design of........................................................ 98
printing...........................................................99
primary
secondary_term..................................81,116
primary_term, see secondary_term
printing................................................................... 26
from a College computer.........................10
prizes........................................................................48
professional development......................... 54,57
professional skills................................................ 34
progress report.................................................. 120
progress tests..................................................31,68
project
individual.................................................... 114
planning...................................................... 117
project defnition.............................................. 116
project manager.................................................. 92
protective clothing............................................. 13
public transport................................................... 13
purchase
by credit card............................................... 85
purchase order..................................................... 86
Index
Index 167
Q
QFD...........................................................................83
quality plan................................................ 83,84,92
R
receipt......................................................................87
refectories.............................................................. 12
reference.................................................................24
references................................................................. 5
registration
form................................................................. 80
report
fnal.................................................................. 96
MPDS...............................................................55
progress................................................. 92,120
project plan.......................................... 83,117
representative
student........................................................... 35
reserved project................................................ 115
re-sitting a year.................................................... 47
results...................................................................... 39
examination..................................................46
revision....................................................................40
risk assessment...................................27,83,88,89
S
safety.................................................................... 2,13
safety glasses.................................................. 13,26
safety shoes........................................................... 13
scheme for award of honours......146,148,150
security...................................................................... 3
self and peer assessment............................... 100
seminar................................................................... 97
Senior Tutor........................................................... 23
SES............................................................................ 36
Sharepoint............................................................. 82
Singapore
NUS exchange........................................... 129
skills
professional.................................................. 34
societies.................................................................. 20
software.................................................................. 10
SOLE......................................................................... 36
solid mechanics................................................... 41
space
quiet study.................................................... 31
SQT................................................................... 47,145
staf student committee................................... 35
storage
for ME3-4 projects...................................... 89
stores
workshop....................................................... 27
stress........................................................................ 52
exams.............................................................. 52
student experience.............................................36
students records.................................................. 17
study........................................................................ 31
abroad.............................................................37
quiet space for............................................. 31
study plan............................................................ 133
subjects
aggregated................................................... 41
supplementary qualifying test, see SQT
supplier................................................................... 85
recommended............................................. 85
surveys.................................................................... 36
swipe card................................................................ 3
T
teaching assistant
undergraduate.......................................... 103
teaching workshop............................................. 27
Team Building exercise......................................79
team projects............................................... 92,116
team site................................................................. 82
teamwork............................................................... 34
technical communication skills......................16
test
supplementary qualifying....................... 47
textbooks............................................................... 68
theft............................................................................ 3
thermofuids..........................................................41
time management.............................................. 67
toolkits, for student loan...................................27
transcript
for year abroad.......................................... 133
transfer
BEng to MEng............................................ 107
MEng to BEng............................................ 105
tuition fees............................................................. 17
tutor
personal...................................................... 5,24
tutorial.................................................................. 103
tutorials................................................................... 31
attendance at............................................... 18
personal......................................................... 65
U
UG ofce................................................................. 23
Index
Index 168
UK-SPEC.................................................................. 52
undergraduate teaching assistant..............103
see UTA
union........................................................................16
unit of assessment............................................142
UROP.................................................................. 17,53
registration under XPD............................. 61
UTA......................................................................... 104
payment for tutoring.............................. 104
V
vacation work....................................................... 21
vacuum forming............................................ 29,90
VAT............................................................................ 82
W
WebPA............................................................... 95,99
weighting of years........................... 146,148,150
welfare....................................................................... 8
workload.................................................................67
workshop................................................................88
teaching......................................................... 27
Workshop Apprentice........................................27
workshops..............................................................26
X
XPD..................................................................... 57,58
activity plan.................................................. 59
registering for.............................................. 57
reporting activities..................................... 61
XPDS.........................................................................53
Y
year abroad................................................... 34,129
application..................................................131
application for exchange outside Eu-
rope...................................................... 131
application for exchange within Europe.
................................................................132
year in industry.................................................... 69
year organiser....................................................... 25
fourth year.................................................. 107
year reps................................................................. 35
Z
Zurich
ETH exchange............................................129
Index
Index 169

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