BTEC Higher Nationals Assignment Brief - BTEC (RQF) HND Electrical & Electronic / Mechanical Engineering 603/0451/0 Student Name /ID Number Unit Number and Title Academic Year Unit Assessor Assignment Title

Submission Format: Unit 34: Research Project J/615/1502 2023-2024 1 Project Proposal - Energy Vista Group (EVG) The submission is in the form of an individual research project proposal. The proposal should be written in a concise, formal academic style using single spacing, Arial font and font size 12. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections and in-text referenced sources. You should provide all references and a bibliography using the Harvard referencing system. Your proposal should be 1000 words long, plus diagrams, references, bibliography and any appendices. You will not be penalised for exceeding the suggested 1000-words. You will be required to include explicit evidence that you have kept, and continue to keep, an acceptable Research Project Logbook in an appendix. Please note that you must also include a signed Student Declaration Form in your submission, either as the first page or as an appendix. Unit Learning Outcomes: LO1 Conduct the preliminary stages involved in the creation of an engineering research project. Scenario, Assignment Brief and Guidance: Scenario You are an Electro-Mechanical Engineer, working for Energy Vista Group (EVG), a company that designs and supplies renewable energy systems. The company has a new managing director who wants your team to work on an Efficient Home Renewable Energy Systems Project, to let clients enjoy digitalization of electric power using real-time analysis. Your director wants you to develop a digital power system that monitors and controls vital aspects of the network, such as status of equipment and diagnosing faults, a virtual representation, complete with interconnected sub-systems and device information. For this, your team will be working on various renewable energy projects depending on your skills and expertise, such as - ● ● ● ● ● Solar Electric Systems Small Wind turbine systems Your team will analyse the current electricity usage of the client's home, consider applying different energy efficient measures to reduce costs ● Hybrid Solar and Wind turbine systems Mini hydropower systems use intelligent analysis to monitor, change parameter settings, making it easier and convenient for customers to harness the power of the sun and take control of their energy usage. You will then submit your project proposal to your Technical Manager (your tutor) for approval. Digitalization Definition: Digitalisation means "Transforming business processes by leveraging digital technologies, ultimately resulting in opportunities for efficiencies and increased revenue". "Together, digitalisation and sustainability are the two most powerful forces that we are going to see in manufacturing over the next decade." - The Institution of Engineering (IET) and Technology, 2022 "The increasing digitalization of all aspects of engineering requires the up-skilling and re-skilling of engineers and technicians." - Royal Academy of Engineering, UK Assignment Brief and Guidance Your task is to produce a Research Project Proposal, of up to 1000 words, in the form of a written report for the Technical Manager of your company to evaluate. It is also important that your chosen system, and its parts, satisfies the scenario above, will be easy to install, replace, repair and maintain. The theme of this year's Research Project is digitalisation, and you should include a section on how you will include ideas to digitalise your energy system. For example; how cost-effective your system is, ease of resource availability, storage options, easy access to real-time data on energy production and consumption, optimization of energy usage, etc. Your research also needs to focus on how new technologies, production processes and materials that can be utilised and integrated into the design process and how these potential developments would impact on current manufacturing processes. ● ● ● Your first task is to produce an initial project proposal identifying the resource requirements and estimate of time required to complete the project Your second task is to identify your key project objectives; what it is you are setting out to achieve, how you intend to achieve it, the resulting goals and rationale Identify and justify your selection of the essential elements of the project specification and undertake a SWOT analysis and feasibility study to determine any potential risks associated with the project ● Finally, you need to produce a comprehensive project proposal, based upon your initial research, which justifies the rationale for your research You should include an appendix to your project proposal, which contains your project logbook. The logbook will contain notes, sources of information, sketches and lots more (see the college VLE for guidance on how to create and keep a logbook) Use 'Appendix 1' at the end of this document as guidance on the format of your proposal. Further information and guidance can be found on the college VLE. Use 'Appendix 2' as a template for your Project Proposal. Appendix 3 contains useful information and references for digitalisation. Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria: Learning Outcome 1 Conduct preliminary stages involved in the creation of an engineering research project Pass P1 Produce a research project proposal that clearly defines a research question or hypothesis P2 Discuss the key project objectives, the resulting goals and rationale Merit M1 Analyse the project specification and identify any project risks Distinction D1 Analyse Produce a comprehensive project proposal that evaluates and justifies the rationale for the research APPENDIX 1: Guidance Guidance on the format of your proposal Title Page State the report title clearly at the beginning of the assignment, the unit title ("Research Project") and your name as the author of your proposal. Include the college name, and the date you issue your report. Summary A summary (sometimes referred to as an abstract) should be provided so that an interested reader can see, at a glance, what the report is about. A summary details your report's key findings, conclusions and recommendations. The summary should be positioned immediately after the title page in your report. Contents Page Page numbers as well as section/chapter titles should be included. If the report incorporates any appendices, their titles should also be listed Acknowledgements A list of the names, and the organisations (if relevant), of all of those who helped you in compiling your report should be included in this section and how they assisted you. Introduction This section should provide some of the background of the subject that forms the principle theme of your report. If the report is designed to solve a 'problem' or scenario, the history of the 'problem' can be stated here. Main Body This is likely to comprise many paragraphs or sections. Use logical and useful subheadings. Structure this section around the key themes of your Proposal. Use diagrams, figures, tables, charts, as necessary, to illustrate your ideas clearly. Conclusions Clearly and succinctly state your proposed design solution and what work/research is required to successfully implement it. Bibliography / References/Appendices All references in the report should be listed in the 'Harvard format.' Include a list of references (sources that are actually cited in the report itself). Do not include anything that isn't used in the proposal. Proof of Logbook Appendix You must also include proof that you have been keeping your Research Project Logbook in an appendix. To do this you may include photographs of the all the relevant pages of your Research Project Logbook in one of your Report Project Proposal's Appendices.