CENG0093 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT BRIEF 2025-26
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT BRIEF 2025-26
Core Information
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Module code/title |
CENG0093 |
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Module lead |
Research Skills |
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Due date |
21 January 2026 |
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Submission time |
8:59am (term-time) |
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Word/page limit |
5 pages, Using size 11 or 12 font and single line spacing. Margins should be minimum 2cm. |
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Footnotes, appendices, tables, figures, diagrams, charts, computer codes included in/excluded from word/page limit? |
The page limit includes all tables, figures and footnotes etc. There must be no appendices submitted. |
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Bibliographies, reference lists included in/excluded from word/page limit? |
Bibliography/reference list is not included in the page limit |
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Penalty for exceeding word/page limit? |
If your submission exceeds the specified word or page limit, a penalty of 10 percentage points will be applied to your total mark (i.e. If the maximum mark is 100, your score will be reduced by 10 points). The penalty will not lower your mark below the pass mark. If your coursework is both over-length and submitted late, the greater of the two penalties will apply. |
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Penalty for late submission |
Standard UCL penalties will apply, please refer to: Deadlines & Late Submissions |
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) category |
Category 2 - Assistive |
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If AI can be used in assistive role, which specific use if permitted? |
AI tools can be used in an assistive role for the following purposes only: proofreading and structuring your submission. If considerable changes have been made to your content, then this could be considered academic misconduct. Background research may be performed using GenAI but it is expected that any information obtained from GenAI is critically evaluated and validated using literature sources. Where you have used GenAI for proofreading it is still recommended to do final proofreading yourself as often technical terms can be changed altering the meaning completely. If you do use GenAI then you must acknowledge the use of it. |
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Submitting your assessment |
Assessment and Feedback tab, under Submission Points heading |
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Anonymity of identity. Normally, all submissions are anonymous unless the nature of the submission is such that anonymity is not appropriate, e.g. presentations. |
Anonymity is required, use candidate number in filename |
Task
Write a subsection of a literature review to be submitted to the International Journal of Mining Science and Technology under the overall title:
Critical Mineral Demand and Sustainable Resource Development
This overarching topic is broad and cannot be fully addressed within the page limit. You must therefore select a specific sub-topic within this theme and provide your own sub-title that reflects your focus.
Possible directions include (but are not limited to):
• Examining demand trends for a specific critical mineral (e.g. lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements).
• Evaluating supply chain challenges and geopolitical risks associated with critical minerals.
• Assessing environmental or social sustainability in critical mineral extraction or processing.
• Analysing technological innovations for mineral recycling, substitution, or efficiency.
• Exploring the role of policy and/or circular economy strategies, in securing critical mineral supply.
Structure and Content
Your literature review should include (note these are not indicative subheadings, you should instead use subheadings relevant to your own writing):
1. Introduction: Briefly introduce the broad context of critical minerals
2. Sub-topic Overview: Clearly define your chosen focus area and justify its relevance. You may wish to define a research question you will be addressing.
3. Critical Analysis: Synthesize and critically evaluate existing literature on your sub-topic. Discuss key debates, knowledge gaps, and methodological approaches. Aim to compare perspectives rather than simply summarising individual studies.
4. Conclusion: Summarise key insights and identify potential areas for future research.
Additional Information
Your audience is a technically literate reader (e.g. someone with a PhD in science or engineering) who is not an expert in the resources sector, so clarity and accessibility are important. You may wish to include tables and figures to support your argument.
As a guide we would expect ~15-20 references. Please use the referencing style of the journal ‘International Journal of Mining Science and Technology,. You must find the appropriate style from their author guidelines. The idea here is that you are writing a review paper to be submitted to this journal, and so are required to follow their referencing guidelines. If you use the wrong referencing style, even if you have put appropriate references in, then you will lose marks.
Please refer to the cover sheet for details on page limit and what is and is not included. There will be no penalty for under length work, though note that work that is substantially under the page limit is unlikely to meet the rubric effectively.
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