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Qualification dates
StartEnd
11 Sept 2026Jun 2027
22 Jan 2027Oct 2027
This module develops the essential professional engineering skill of working collaboratively. There are two residential schools; you’ll form a small project team at the first. Projects will tackle contemporary issues requiring a broad range of engineering knowledge and skills, exchange of ideas, creativity, design inputs and analysis within a cooperative environment. Your team will meet regularly online and use a shared virtual workspace under your tutor's guidance to produce a ‘solution’. Your team will present its work to the rest of the cohort and tutor assessors at the second school. In the remaining weeks, you’ll submit a team report.
This module allows you to explore an engineering problem in depth, working as part of a small team. Your team will choose its problem from several options, each with a particular engineering focus but all involving a broad range of engineering knowledge and skills, from design through structural and control engineering to sustainability. A central aspect will be the contribution of your engineering practice within the team and the need to apply skills such as analytical design and engineering analysis.
You will attend two compulsory residential weekends that run over three days, from Friday to Sunday. At the first one, which takes place at the very start of the module, you will learn about functioning effectively as a team and get to know each other by confronting a variety of practical and intellectual challenges. You will join fellow students to form a team of four or five. Your team will select their project from those on offer and refine it by developing an appropriate aim and SMART objectives.
After the first weekend and working at a distance from the other team members, you will individually and jointly pursue agreed lines of enquiry on your engineering project. Your progress through the project is recorded in your team wiki, in online records of team meetings and in team and individual reports, submitted as tutor-marked assignments.
All the teams will report back at the second weekend, some 20 weeks later. This will allow you to discuss with other students and staff members before developing a plan for your final project report, your end-of-module assessment (EMA). This is submitted several weeks later.
This is not a content-focused module. Instead, you and your team will be responsible for gathering together the information you need to pursue your project. You will be given a project brief with background material about group working and project management. You will have access to a full range of information resources through the internet and online or conventional libraries. You will keep in touch with your tutor and work collaboratively with your fellow team members through frequent online meetings and your team wiki.
You must be studying towards one of the qualifications listed below and have completed the required modules.
You may register on T885 while still studying the last required 30-credit module. However, we’ll cancel your registration if you have not passed it before T885 starts.
Once you’ve reserved a place, we’ll check that you meet these entry requirements and contact you if we need to discuss anything. If you don’t meet these entry requirements, we must cancel your reservation/registration.
You’ll get help and support from an assigned tutor throughout your module.
They’ll help by:
Course work includes:
Two of the assignments will be joint submissions from your team, and two will be personal accounts of your achievements and contributions to the team's work. The end-of-module assessment also consists of a group and individual project reports, together with an assessed presentation and technical summary document from the second weekend.
This module has two residential weekends.
The module starts with the first ‘team forming' weekend; attendance is compulsory. If you don’t attend, you’ll be unable to continue with the module (you would need to withdraw and register on the next start).
A crucial part of the module assessment takes place at the second weekend – your team’s presentation of its progress so far. So, it’s important for you and your team that you attend. You’ll not automatically fail the module if, for good reason, you cannot be there in person. In any case, you must contribute your share of effort to your team’s presentation over the weekend.
The residential weekend dates for the September 2026 start are as follows:
The residential weekend dates for the January 2027 start are as follows:
You’ll have access to a module website, which includes:
Written transcripts of audio components and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) versions of printed material are available. Some Adobe PDF components may not be available or fully accessible using a screen reader. Alternative formats of the study materials may be available in the future.
To find out more about what kind of support and adjustments might be available, contact us or visit our disability support pages.
Team engineering (T885) starts twice a year – in September and January.
It will next start in January 2027 and September 2027.
We expect it to start for the last time in September 2030.
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