DA5113 - Professional Practice and the Design Team

Most of your learning on this degree apprenticeship module will be in your workplace. Your involvement in civil engineering tasks will enable you to put into context the theoretical material that you will study at University, thereby cementing your understanding. You will do this in conjunction with your workplace mentor, appropriate members of your team, and with the assistance of your University workplace coach.

The module will include a range of learning materials and opportunities, such as online presentations, notes, workshop/tutorial questions, video links and digital reading materials. All these resources will be arranged in a convenient learning journey, giving you a clear expectation of the content to be studied and tasks you will complete on a weekly basis.

During your normal working day, your industrial mentor will support your learning through the allocation of appropriate work tasks relevant to the theoretical content of the module, allowing you to contextualise and cement your knowledge. The University will monitor this educational process.

University academic staff will support you in formally scheduled teaching. This arrangement will give you ample opportunity to ask questions to clarify and deepen your understanding of the module content, as well as to seek specific help, for example, with your preparation for assessment. At other times, you will have access to University academic staff via telephone, email, and the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE). These media will allow you to access and make full use of the support and guidance available to you.

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 (K&U):
K&U –
MLO1: Identify risks of mental health issues, ethical issues and EDI issues.

MLO2: Evaluate the limit of your own competence and understand when to escalate decision making to a higher level.

Intellectual/Professional skills & abilities (IPSA):
IPSA –
MLO3: Contribute to the design, development and implementation of civil engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle.

MLO4: Adopt a holistic and proportionate approach to the mitigation of security risks.

MLO5: Manage and comply with relevant codes of practice, policies, procedures and regulation within your own area of responsibility.

MLO6: Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of civil engineering solutions.

MLO7: Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
PVA –
MLO8: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader of a team, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

MLO9: Communicate effectively on complex engineering matters with technical and non-technical audiences

MLO10: Plan and record self-learning and development as the foundation for lifelong learning/CPD

Summative assessment will be by a presentation worth 10% of the module marks and covering module learning outcomes 3 and 5 in part; and by coursework covering the remaining module learning outcomes and worth 90% of the module marks. The coursework will include discussion based on individual apprentices’ workplace activities.

Formative assessment will be by verbal or written (digital) support from University academic staff. In line with the workplace approach of a degree apprenticeship, you will be expected to take on-board verbal feedback from your workplace mentor, which is the case generally with employee performance.

Assessment feedback will be mapped between summative assessments from different modules, so that you receive clear guidance on improving work, based on performance in assessments in different modules. This will be made explicit to you via digital pro-forma as well as verbally.

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In this module you will learn how to apply the technical knowledge you have developed from earlier in your apprenticeship to the process of design for civil engineering, interpreted in its widest sense. Working in a team at your workplace, you will be engaged in tasks such as structural, geotechnical or hydraulic design of new assets, temporary works or of upgrades or demolition of existing assets, or you will be engaged in specifying management, monitoring, or maintenance regimes for civil engineering. You will work with others, applying your knowledge to your own contribution and understanding how this interacts with other team members’ contributions, and you will focus strongly on sustainability and on communication and abiding to regulations, codes of practice and your own company procedures, learning how these interrelate and facilitate successful civil engineering work. You will also learn techniques of self-learning and development through your work. Assessment is by coursework.