Higher Nationals BTEC 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 Issue Date Formative Date Submission Date Unit 35: Professional Engineering Management L/615/1503 2023-2024 Praneeta Phadke 1 - Energy Vista Group (EVG) 20/5/2024 11/6/2024 25/6/2024 IV Name & Date Chris Parker 18/4/2024 Submission Format: This submission is in the form of; A written report for developing an engineering services delivery plan 1,000 words, to include; 500 。 completed project proposal (template in Appendix 2) O an evaluation of the plan and any risks or challenges O an evaluation of management tools to create the plan and evaluate risk Unit Learning Outcomes: LO1 Evaluate the risk evaluation theories and practices associated with the management of projects for the production of current and developing technology. LO2 Produce an engineering services delivery plan that meets the requirements of a sector-specific organisation. 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 - • Hybrid Solar and Wind turbine systems Mini hydropower systems 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 Produce an engineering services delivery plan for the design changes that you undertook for your digitalised system (using the design from your Research Project). This plan will explain how your new design will be introduced into production, how it will be supported and how it will help to meet the new managing director's objectives. Your report must; • Explain the input needed from different departments, both engineering and non-engineering, to implement your new design • Complete a Project proposal (see Appendix 2), that must be agreed with your tutor. Identify and evaluate how your plan will contribute to meeting company objectives of improving quality, reducing costs and digitalizing the system Discuss the engineering management tools you needed to create your plan Critically evaluate the plan for risks or events that could lead to failure, and how to avoid or overcome them. NOTE: Important and useful guidance has been written to help you with this activity, which can be found at the end of this assignment brief (see Appendix 1). Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria: Learning Outcome 1 Evaluate the risk evaluation theories and practices associated with the management of projects for the production of current and developing technology. 2 Produce an engineering services delivery plan that meets the requirements of a sector-specific organisation. Pass P1 Evaluate the risk evaluation theories and practices associated with the management of engineering projects P2 Assess elements and issues that impact the successful management of engineering activities P3 Develop an engineering services delivery plan applying the appropriate sector-specific requirements P4 Determine the engineering management tools needed for designing an engineering services delivery plan Merit M1 Critically evaluate the main elements and issues that impact the successful management of engineering activities M2 Evaluate how each step of the delivery plan developed meets the requirements of a sector specific organisation Distinction D1 Specify and analyse the challenges encountered when meeting the requirements for successfully managing engineering activities and make justified recommendations to overcome these challenges D2 Critically evaluate contingencies that might prevent the delivery plan meeting the requirements of a sector-specific organisation APPENDIX 1: Guidance Guidance for Students You should read this information before starting to define your proposed area of focus and refer to it as you complete the work for this unit. • Develop a methodical proposal (see below for an example of a proposal brief). As you will need to include an engineering service/s delivery plan as an integral part of your submission, you should be simultaneously considering the impact on stakeholders and what performance measures you envisage employing. • Select a topic of personal interest in your chosen specialism. The topic chosen should allow a sufficient and suitable degree of research through the existence of adequate background information. You will need to ensure it relates to the theme set by Pearson for the relevant year of study. • • A good proposal should meet the following criteria: о Covers an area with sufficient source material. ○ Extends a current line of learning that will lend itself to further rigorous scrutiny. There should be sufficient breadth to allow you to demonstrate the knowledge and skills you have learned within the unit, but it should not be unwieldy so that you are unlikely to be able to see it through to completion. Agree both your proposal and the format that your engineering service/s delivery plan will take with your tutor before beginning the main body of your research. • Conduct your underpinning background research as outlined in the proposal agreed with your tutor. • Communicate your findings and proposals in a manner appropriate to your audience. You will also be expected to justify any appropriate recommendations that you make. • You must complete a coherent engineering service/s delivery plan in order to complete your work for this unit. You will need to reflect on your own performance at the end of the unit with the inclusion of self-evaluation by means of reflective practice (see following section)