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Research StudentshipsIn addition to our core research activities, the engCETL funds/partly funds six PhD. research studentships working on various projects throughout the engineering faculty. |
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The impact of work placements on transferable skills - Yussuf Ahmed
PhD Awarded June 2009
An investigation into the acquisition of transferable skills before, during and after work placements, the effect of work placements on academic performance and whether or not the type and duration of work placement affects the acquisition of transferable skills.
The impact of industrial sponsorship on students, academia and industry - Fakhteh Soltani-Tafreshi
An investigation into the impact of sponsorship on students, academic departments and industry in order to develop sustainable models of effective practice for further dissemination. Aims to capture existing practice across sponsored programmes within the Faculty of Engineering at Loughborough University, evaluate the benefits to the three stakeholders, assess the barriers that limit further sponsorship, and propose strategies for future developments.
Closing the Distance: Development of a web-based Telelaboratory for Process Control Education - Mahmoud Abdulwahed
Aims to enhance the teaching and learning of the process dynamics and control subject, by developing an interactive software environment in Labview that combines the concepts of virtual and remote real experiments. The educational software tool will simulate an industrial operating interface and will support active learning through extensive help, automatic feedback and interactive exercises using simulated and laboratory experiments, which will be performed remotely through the Internet.
Appraising the Benefits of Project-Based Learning in Engineering Design - Ming Yi (Marian) Gao
Aims to study the benefits of project-based teaching in learning and cognition, addressing the following research questions:
- What are the specific circumstances and subject areas for which project-based learning is more effective than traditional learning?
- How can these benefits be measured in order to help develop and assess future project-based teaching programmes?
An Investigation into the Curriculum for the Study of Digital Industrial Design (DID) - Noor Al-Doy
The Use of Real-time Data Capture and Display in the Teaching of Electrical Machine Theory - David Kockelbergh
Linking three-dimensional space based quantities with related time based quantities is consistently difficult, and existing teaching techniques do not enable easy visualisation of the relationships. By using real-time data acquisition and display techniques it is hoped that these relationships can be taught better and higher levels of student understanding achieved.
