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Accessibility statement
In this module, you’ll take the first steps in your personal development planning. As part of the skills development, you’ll participate in practical engineering activities delivered via home experiment kits and a one-day online project school. You’ll work both on your own and in a small team, under the guidance of experienced tutors, exploring real-world engineering phenomena and solving problems. You’ll also gain practical skills in taking measurements, analysing data, seeking and evaluating information, modelling, and making presentations. This module also explores the professional practice of engineers, including ethics and safety.
In this module, you’ll be able to develop the skills to support you in attaining your chosen qualification in engineering. By focusing on a real-life engineering sector, you’ll explore the professional practice of engineers, including their ethics and approaches to safety.
You’ll also gain invaluable practical skills: measuring, data analysis, research and information evaluation, modelling, presenting, designing, and decision making. You'll develop these skills independently and in a small online team through home experiments and a one-day online project school. You’ll define your learning needs and plan ways of meeting them with the support of experienced tutors.
To pass the module, you must participate satisfactorily in the practical engineering component. You’ll have a selection of dates in June and July to attend the online project school. If you have any concerns about the practical engineering aspects of this module, contact your Student Support Team to discuss your options.
You should complete Engineering: origins, methods, context (T192) before studying this module.
Typically, you’ll also have passed or be studying Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production (T193).
You’ll get help and support from an assigned tutor throughout your module.
They’ll help by:
Online tutorials run throughout the module. While they’re not compulsory, we strongly encourage you to participate. Where possible, we’ll make recordings available.
Course work includes:
You’ll have access to a module website, which includes:
Additionally, the website includes:
We also provide physical:
The OU strives to make all aspects of study accessible to everyone, and this Accessibility Statement outlines what studying T176 involves. You should use this information to inform your study preparations and any discussions with us about how we can meet your needs.
To find out more about what kind of support and adjustments might be available, contact us or visit our Disability support website.
Engineering: professions, practice and skills 1 (T176) starts once a year – in February.
It will next start, for the final time, in February 2027.
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