KB6057 - Sustainable Energy Systems

Active learning sessions will allow you to engage with and appraise advanced material and assist you in exploring and critiquing key concepts and topics within the module. Sessions will involve a combination of content delivery and practical learning exercises to enable you to apply your learning to complex and authentic engineering problems. A problem-solving focused curriculum will allow you to explore and analyse solutions to complex challenges where wide-ranging and conflicting constraints require innovative discovery and enterprise. Learning activities will enable students to work collaboratively and practice and reflect upon the effectiveness of teamwork and communication skills, and the facilitation of creative thinking approaches to solve open-ended engineering problems.

During your active learning sessions, academic support will be available to facilitate your exploration of the problem-solving activities. Formative feedback will be provided by the module team, including answering student queries and providing guidance concerning the module such as assessments and your academic progress. The electronic learning platform (eLP) provides a comprehensive resource for integrated learning incorporating learning materials and reading lists that will facilitate directed and self-directed learning. Contact with academic tutors and your peers outside formal teaching hours is encouraged through dedicated ‘office hours’, discussion boards and messaging systems within the eLP. Professional support staff, such as Ask4Help, provide the first point of contact for a range of queries, including, for example, those concerning assessment submission, late submission/extensions, and other administrative issues.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
MLO1 – Appraise knowledge of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles to the solution of complex problems. Some of the knowledge will be at the forefront of the field of energy systems.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
MLO2 - Select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to model complex problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed.

MLO3 - Use practical laboratory and workshop skills to investigate complex problems relating to sustainable energy systems.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
MLO4 - Apply creativity and curiosity to analyse complex sustainable energy-based problems to reach substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principles.

MLO5 - Evaluate the environmental and societal impact of solutions to complex problems and minimise adverse impacts.

Formative Assessment
Academic staff on the module will assess you in a formative manner to help build your confidence and highlight any misunderstandings you may have of the theoretical and professional concepts presented in the module. Your formative feedback will be given to you either verbally by academic staff on the module during formally scheduled teaching sessions or using the eLP. Your formative feedback aims to help you learn and prepare for the submission of your summative assessment.

Summative Assessment
Academic staff on the module will assess you in a summative manner by two pieces of assessment:
Component 1 to assess your knowledge and understanding, practical and theoretical, of computational and analytical techniques, to model and recognise their limitations in complex sustainable energy systems problems (MLOs 1-3) through completing an industry compatible written submission.
Component 2, will evaluate your ability to apply creativity and curiosity to solve complex problems in sustainable energy systems reaching substantiated conclusions which recognise their environmental and societal impacts (MLOs 4 & 5) in an industry compatible written submission.

Feedback will be provided electronically through the eLP or student email within 20 working days of the date of submission.

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This module allows you to evaluate the themes of energy systems within the context of global expectations relating to sustainable development and the impact of energy resource use. Using applied engineering principles, you will judge the ways in which energy conversion systems can operate and the impact they have upon society around the globe. Issues associated with an increasing global demand for energy and the ways in which this may be addressed that meet with professional expectations of engineers in developing solutions will be discussed and investigated in the module. In the module, you will be encouraged to investigate and gain confidence in research and critical thinking through the application of appropriate knowledge and methodologies to tackle complex problems. Active learning sessions will allow you to engage with and appraise new material and assist you in exploring and critiquing key concepts and topics within the module. Sessions will involve a combination of content delivery and practical learning exercises to enable you to apply your learning to authentic engineering problems. The module utilises the electronic learning platform (eLP) to provide a comprehensive resource for integrated learning incorporating learning materials and reading lists that will facilitate directed and self-directed learning.