This module aims to develop an understanding of the role of customer needs in design and to provide practice in designing and testing to meet those needs. You will also be taught to take a systems approach to the process of design. Using projects as a base, you will learn about constraining factors in engineering such as environmental and sustainability limitations; ethical, health, safety, security and risk issues; intellectual property; codes of practice and standards. This module teaches and assesses (SM3b) (EA4b) (D3b) (D2) (D4) (P3) (D5) (P2) and develops (P1-P11) (G1-G4) of the AHEP3 requirements for CEng.

Taught (T), Developed (D) and Assessed (A).