MENG30012 Engineering Management Group Project Assessment Brochure
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MENG30012
Engineering Management
Group Project Assessment Brochure
1. Course Expectations
1.1 Academic Integrity and Generative AI
Every student must read and understand the current policies regarding academic integrity before starting work on any of the assessment tasks. This page contains information about the definitions of academic misconduct (including plagiarism, collusion, contract cheating and other matters). All students should note that the use of translation tools to generate coursework content in English is considered contract cheating.
The University has defined four categories for the use of generative AI in assessments. This unit uses Category 2 (Minimal). For this assessment, you may only use AI tools in the following ways:
1. You may only use tools such as spelling and grammar checkers in this assignment, and their use should be limited to corrections of your own work rather than substantial re-writes or extended contributions.
1.2 Student Conduct & Dealing with Problems
This course has used open-ended problem-based learning in groups for several years with widespread success. However, every year sees a few groups encounter dificulties with either working in a small group, working on an open-ended problem, or both. If you or your group encounter problems linked to these issues, then please inform the unit director by email quoting your group index number and a brief description of the issue. The teaching team will be able to provide advice and support if issues are raised in a timely manner. This means that you must make us aware of problems as soon as possible. You must notify us by Monday 16 March 2026 or else it will be dificult for the teaching team to give any help before the final submission is due.
The group coursework will be comprised of content and sections written by diferent authors. It is vital that the owners/authors of sections are clearly identified and all work is attributed to someone within the group. Rewriting someone else’s work with or without their permission is expressly forbidden. This would be treated as academic misconduct. Groups will provide a work breakdown that confirms the identity of the author (or co-authors) for every main section of the report and the concept canvas.
Groups will provide evidence of good/bad teamwork practice by including records in the group’s project logbook which will be digitised and uploaded for review by the marking group.
Short extensions are permitted for group coursework with good reasons. Please follow the normal procedures to request an extension but make sure you have discussed this request with your group before you submit the request form. Extensions will not be granted simply because your group has managed their workload badly, failed to work cooperatively, sufered a computer failure or other trivial reasons.
The final unit mark is based upon the group assessment only. Everyone in the same group gets the same mark, unless there is compelling evidence of unsatisfactory attendance, engagement and performance on the group project by one or more individuals. Everyone on this course has been taught the basic principles of working in groups during their second year programme, so there is no reason for unacceptable behaviours at this point in your studies.
1.3 Marking Scheme
The assessment is marked using an adapted version of the Level 6 University Marking Criteria. A copy will be provided during the term. For students who would like to see more background information, the rubric will be based upon the University’s Level 6 Marking criteria.
A single mark will be awarded to each group. This will not be modified by any student peer assessment.
1.4 Using Feedback to Improve Your Work
The groups will be assigned 1-2 members of the teaching group to be the primary point of contact. establish a solid working relationship for the duration of the project. Feedback on this unit will come from interaction with the teaching group during workshops and drop-in sessions. Students should come to these sessions with some clearly defined questions about their coursework to get relevant and actionable feedback. The feedback on the individual concept canvas assessment may be applicable to the group project with some interpretation.
The teaching team aim to provide maximum access to knowledge for the entire cohort (which is split into three workshop groups to improve the staf/student ratio). We therefore aim to answer general questions on Blackboard within 3 working days where possible. Direct emails to staf will not be answered directly because there may be other students or groups who have the same query. The query will be posted on the public forum and answered within 3 working days.
2. What is the Assignment?
2.1 Context
Your group has been selected to bid for start-up funding for new products and/or services that will address a clear societal need within the local, regional or global communities. Funding will be provided by Bristol University Start-up Technology & Enterprise Development (BUSTED).
This is an “Angel Investment” group ofering seed funding to start-ups in the South-West of England. This year, they are looking for innovative start-ups that are looking to develop Sustainable Circular Economy enabling solutions that meet a societal need. You may pick any societal need that requires a product/product-service driven solution.
To secure funding, you must come up with a solution to a clearly defined/identified problem and explore various technical and commercial topics in some detail. Your group must communicate all of this information in an appropriate manner and in terms that are easily understood by non-technical people. Your portfolio of information can then be reviewed by the funding committee (the decision makers) who will decide if your idea will make it through the screening process.
2.2 Summary
. The assessment simulates the processes used for managing the design and development of
manufactured products and systems. Groups will be tasked to produce a portfolio of documents that would (in a real organisation) be used to inform decision-makers whether to fund the development project or not.
. Groups will produce documents that contain enough information to justify their decisions,
conclusions and recommended actions for the development of a prototype (or batch of prototypes) that would be tested for market/user readiness. Groups are not expected to produce any working hardware or software as part of this unit.
. Choose a complex customer need and develop a concept solution for the group project.
Brainstorm some alternative concepts within the group that must have no direct links to any of the individual concept canvas submissions within the cohort. Make sure that there is no overlap whatsoever between the group project and any of the individual concept canvas ideas.
. Submit the Group Concept Confirmation Form on Blackboard by 13:00 on Thursday 05-Feb-2026. This will help your group focus eforts on developing the concept sketch and preliminary data for the group coursework in parallel with the individual activities. This will help us ensure that your selection is going to be viable for the purposes of the unit assessment.
. Develop the chosen concept to provide greater depth and detail across all topic areas.
. Follow routine working practices on your project. Attend the weekly workshop and drop-in session to get support from the teaching group while your coursework develops.
. Produce an A3 Concept Sketch (A3 template provided) to outline the core features and benefits of the chosen solution
. Produce a Group Report (using the basic framework supplied) to demonstrate the required depth of knowledge and teamwork skills required to pass this assessment.
. Maintain and publish a digital logbook using templates and frameworks provided in the Engineering Management Toolkit (or similar resources) . This will record all group activities, meeting notes, decisions, actions and formative peer feedback on group activities.
. Submit the complete portfolio (group report and group logbook).
2.3 Choose A Concept for the Group Project
Everyone in the group (between five and six people) is producing an individual concept canvas for a separate assessment. This process will equip everyone with the core skills required for the group task. The group must work together on this group task in parallel with the solo task.
The group must consider diferent solutions to a common problem. The choice of the common problem is up to the group. They must propose solutions that are aligned to the principles of a sustainable circular economy and increased social accessibility to afordable technological solutions. You may pick any societal need that requires a product/product-service driven solution.
2.4 Submit The Group Concept Confirmation Form
One member of the group must complete the group project selection form. This must be submitted by 13:00 on Thursday 05-Feb-2026 for approval. The teaching team will review all the selections to ensure that the selection has the scope to meet the intended learning outcomes for the unit and to ensure no significant overlap between diferent groups or with the individual assessment. Once confirmed, the group cannot change their selection.
This milestone has been introduced to help groups make a good start to the main work package in the unit. In previous years, some groups have spent weeks debating various concepts and eventually ran out of time to produce a satisfactory coursework. It is in the best interest of student wellbeing to pull work forwards rather than push it towards the end of the teaching block when there could be conflicting priorities and completion dates for coursework on other units.
The form will also include the group’s decisions about workshare within the group. Each individual will contribute to the final deliverables and produce content that is entirely their own work. This workshare agreement must be countersigned by everyone in the group. Changes will not be permitted unless there are exceptional circumstances.
2.5 Follow Routine Project Working Practices
Students are expected to record attendance at every timetabled session that they attend (excluding drop-in sessions which will be excluded from monitoring data). Switching between workshop sessions will not be permitted. They are also expected to record their attendance at group meetings held in their own time.
There are two significant project units running in parallel during TB2. This means that students will be working with diferent people in diferent groups. This may increase pressure and anxiety in some people. Routine working practices will make this simpler and easier to complete. Groups should agree how often they will meet and work together, and also agree how much can be done independently.
The teaching team will be available every week during the term to provide routine and ad hoc support to groups in case there are any dificulties establishing and maintaining a healthy project work routine.
2.6 Produce The Concept Sketch/Layout
The group must provide a visual representation of their concept solution. This must fit on a single sheet of A3 and include enough technical data to inform the reader about the form, functions and key benefits of the proposed solution. This may be easier to visualise for hardware/product solutions, but system diagrams and logic trees are acceptable for software/application proposals. Illustrations can be hand-drawn or CAD models but they must not be produced by any form of generative AI.
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