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STEM Webinar Wednesday 13 November 2013
Dr Dawn Wilkinson Programme Manager (International Foundation Science, Maths and Computing)
STEM Webinar Wednesday 13 November 2013
INTO University of East Anglia Facilities
INTO University of East Anglia Two well-equipped science labs
INTO University of East Anglia Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
International Foundation pathways at INTO UEA: • FS1 – General Science • FS2 – Pharmacy, Biomedicine and Health • FS3 – Engineering, Physical Sciences and Mathematics • FMA – Mathematics and Actuarial
Sciences • FCM – Computing with Management
International Foundation pathways at INTO UEA: • FS1 – General Science • FS2 – Pharmacy, Biomedicine and Health • FS3 – Engineering, Physical Sciences and
Mathematics Core modules studied: • Foundation Biology • Foundation Chemistry • Foundation Physics • Mathematics for Science • Study Skills in English
INTO University of East Anglia Science pathways
Plus two from: • Human Physiology • Further Chemistry • Advanced Maths • Applied Physics
Time Time08:30 08:3009:00 09:00
09:30 09:3010:00 DGE 0.06 KED 2.05 10:00
10:30 10:3011:00 SFI 0.06 SFI 2.02 RWE 3.05 11:00
11:30 11:3012:00 RWE 2.02 RWE 3.05 12:00
12:30 12:3013:00 Various 4.03 RWE 2.02 13:00
13:30 13:3014:00 RWE 4.03 SFI 0.06 Various 2.02 14:00
14:30 14:3015:00 RWE 4.03 DGE 0.06 DGE 3.06 15:00
15:30 15:3016:00 RWE 2.05 16:00
16:30 16:3017:00 MHO 0.06 RWE 2.05 KED 0.06 17:00
17:30 17:3018:00 18:00
Various 4.05
Group 2 3.02
English Maths for Science (L)
UEA Hour
Seminar
Physics (L) English Biology (L)
English
English
HELPDESK English
English Chemistry (L) HELPDESK
Thursday Friday
Maths for Science (L) Biology (W)
Chemistry (L) Chemistry (W) English
Maths for Science (W)Group 2 3.02
Physics (W)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
English
Laboratory Practicals
INTO University of East Anglia Teaching approach
INTO University of East Anglia Teaching approach
• Helpdesk. • Seminars and tutorials (small
groups, discussion-based).
• Skills hotdesks (masterclasses).
• Personal Development Portfolio (PDP).
• Support classes.
• Field work.
• Residential field trip.
INTO University of East Anglia Teaching approach
• Field work. • Three-day residential field trip in
Term 1.
INTO University of East Anglia Teaching approach
INTO University of East Anglia Elective modules
Applied Physics: • Excellent module that prepares students for Environmental Sciences
and Energy Engineering degrees. • Meteorology – atmosphere thermodynamics, climate, weather. • Geophysics – Earth structure, tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes,
application of seismology in oil/gas exploration. Advanced Mathematics: • Builds on concepts taught in Mathematics for Science module,
enabling students to progress onto a range of Engineering and Mathematical degree courses.
INTO University of East Anglia Elective modules
FS2 – Human Physiology and Further Chemistry pathway • Prepares students for a range of degree courses, such as Pharmacy,
Biomedicine, Chemistry, Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Physiotherapy, Forensic Chemistry, etc.
FS1 – General Science pathway • Free choice of elective modules, thus allowing progression to choice of
more than 60 degree courses at the University of East Anglia
Coursework = laboratory reports, essays, worksheets, skills assessments, tests, presentations etc.
INTO University of East Anglia Assessment
Science and Maths modules 50% coursework and 50% final exam Coursework: • 10% = end of Term 1 tests • 5% = attendance, engagement and participation
Economics and Accounting modules 30% coursework and 70% final exam Coursework: • 10% = end of Term 1 tests
Pass mark is 40% for each module. Students must also pass the final examinations for each module. The right to resit is not automatic and resit results will be capped.
INTO University of East Anglia Specialised staff
All of the content teaching staff on the Science International Foundation pathways have PhDs and are experienced scientists and teachers
• Meteorologists
• Astronomers • Chemists/research pharmacist
• Biologists
INTO University of East Anglia Science pathway success rates
• Excellent pass rates with high progression rates to competitive degree programmes (last year 85% of students successfully passed the International Foundation programme).
• Approximately 70% of science students progress to their first choice of course at their preferred university.
• For example, 37 out of 43 students progressed to pharmacy courses last year.
INTO University of East Anglia Unique selling points
• PhD qualified science teaching staff. • Supportive environment with small
group teaching. • Interactive and integrated learning –
plenty of hands-on experience in practicals and field work.
• Personal development and transferable skills.
• Research projects.
Dr Lawrence Coates Senior Lecturer (School of Engineering)
STEM Webinar Wednesday 13 November 2013
Energy Engineering
Energy Engineering
Degrees in Energy Engineering with Environmental Management
• MEng - 4 years
• BEng - 3 Years
• BEng with a Year in Industry - 4 Years
Transfer from BEng to MEng programmes up to the end of second year is possible if you are performing well.
Energy Engineering How do our degrees help?
We produce engineering graduates who: • Understand how to operate sustainably • Understand the political, economic, social and
technological influences on energy choices • Are prepared to engage with ethical and risk issues • Can communicate their concerns effectively to a wide
range of audiences • And who have well-developed transferable skills of team
working, IT, problem-solving and numeracy, to make them widely employable.
Energy Engineering with Environmental Management BEng and MEng course profile
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Energy Engineering Revolution Circuits and Systems Electricity Supply Wind Energy
Engineering
Engineering Principles and Laws
Energy Engineering Principles
Nuclear and Solar Energy
Wave, tidal & hydro engineering
Engineering Practice Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels – Oil and Gas Energy Futures
Maths for Scientists A Maths for Scientists B
Individual Energy Project Team Energy project
Engineering Maths & Mechanics Maths for Scientists C
Environmental options Environmental options Env or Maths Options Env or Maths
Options
Year 1 Energy Engineering
Revolution Mini-projects and case studies using visiting speakers with an energy focus
Engineering Principles and Laws
Basics of Materials, Structures, Fluids, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics. Hands-on Labs and technical reports.
Engineering Practice Design, Professional Ethics, Engineering Drawing, Sustainability, CAD, Sketching, Business. Mini projects.
Maths for Scientists A Calculus, vectors, ODEs – using MATLAB
Engineering Maths & Mechanics
Estimation, graphics, errors, practical geometry, numerical methods and FEM, practical exercises
Environmental theme Earth’s Chemical processes & Atmosphere and Ocean
Energy Engineering with Environmental Management BEng and MEng course profile – year 1
Energy Engineering The design theme includes model testing
Energy Engineering ‘Expedition Workshed Catastrophe’
Energy Engineering Sketching is a key skill that can be learned
Energy Engineering Some of our industry partners
Energy Engineering Industry keeps our degrees current: Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)
Industry representatives: • Energy Engineering Visiting Professor – Paul Rijks (Chair) • Chairman of Aquaterra Energy – Mark Boyd • Director RED – John Moore • Director Gardline – John Morse • Engineering Director Tamar Energy – Dan Poulson • Financial Director (Adapt) – Gregory Luxford
Academic representatives: • Senior Lecturer in Engineering – Lawrence Coates (Vice-chair) • Head of School of Mathematics – David Stevens • Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching (Science) – Ben Milner • Careers and Employability Advisor – Isla Hosking
Energy Engineering Wave Engineering Laboratory
ENERGY CHANGES
REACTION TURBINES
HYDROPOWER BASICS
WAVE ENERGY
Energy Engineering Lewin Electricity Lab
Energy Engineering Engineering Learning Laboratory
Year 2
Circuits and Systems A hands-on approach to understanding electronics and electricity.
Energy Engineering Principles
Uses wind, wave, solar, hydro, gas etc as vehicles for structures, fluids, thermodynamics principles etc.
Renewable Energy Contributions to the mix from wind, wave, tidal, solar, GSHP, AD etc. Legislation, subsidies and politics
Maths for Scientists B vector calculus, time series and spectral analysis and fluid dynamics.
Maths for Scientists C matrix algebra and numerical methods, second order partial differential equations, and solid mechanics.
Environmental options Low Carbon Energy, Environmental Politics and Policy Making
Energy Engineering with Environmental Management BEng and MEng course profile – year 2
Energy Engineering UEA campus Biomass plant
Energy Engineering Kings Lynn Power Station
Energy Engineering Site visits to live engineering jobs
SEAJACKS JACK-UP BARGE IN PORT
Energy Engineering Further laboratory work
Energy Engineering BEng Energy Engineering with Environmental Management with a Year in Industry
• University mentor and industrial supervisor agree a work schedule.
• Arrange details with student between January and June.
• 36- to 45-week placement from June/July after second year.
• University mentor makes at least two but usually more visits.
• Student maintains a diary/logbook, identifies learning outcomes and plan, submits quarterly reports to line manager.
• A specific project element is agreed. • Student produces a short report when back at UEA on
learning outcomes achieved and project completion.
Year 3
Electricity Supply Generation, transmission and distribution. Grid issues.
Nuclear and Solar Energy
Technology, Risk Management, EIAs, Economics, Health and Safety, Social and Planning
Fossil Fuels – Oil and Gas
Tools for finding underground oil and gas and associated procedures and reports
Individual Energy Project
Project management & research skills, team working, report-writing, applied design process
Env or Maths Options
The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change | Atmospheric Composition: Measurement and Modelling | Fluid Dynamics | Continuum Mechanics and Elasticity | Electricity and Magnetism | Free Surface Flows
Energy Engineering with Environmental Management BEng and MEng course profile – year 3
Energy Engineering Breakfast meeting in industry context
Energy Engineering Salle sub-station connects Sheringham Shoal Wind Farm the to the National Grid
Energy Engineering Understanding the commercial climate
Year 4 Wind Energy Engineering
Aerodynamics, Boundary layers, site selection, noise, costs & subsidies, scale, offshore, practical issues
Wave, tidal & hydro engineering
History, technology, practicalities, costs, policy, legislation, design codes, ROCs, site visits etc.
Energy Futures Materials and Chemistry of Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics, Solar Fuels, Hydrogen Storage and Biofuel Cells – supported by Energy Materials Lab
Team Energy project (Including 10 credits of
taught material)
Based on real industrial projects. Feasibility, concepts, scheme, team presentations and reports, individual detailed designs, support from practising engineers
Env or Maths Options
Theory and effectiveness of environmental assessment | Dynamical Oceanography | Slow Viscous Flow | Fluid-Solid Interaction
Energy Engineering with Environmental Management MEng course profile – year 4
Energy Engineering Flagship interdisciplinary team projects
Interdisciplinary projects, for real clients, by mixed teams of engineering and science students
Limeworks extension Coventry & Derby STW
New CHP plant Methyl Chloride plant
Paper effluent AD and CHP
Energy Engineering Just some of the staff team
Prof Jan Alexander ENV Earth Sciences Dr Matt Alexander ENG Materials and Renewables Dr Alan Bond ENV Environmental Risk Assessment Dr Konstantinos Chalvatzis NBS Energy and Business Dr Lawrence Coates ENG Marine Energy Dr Mark Coleman BIO Biofuels Prof Stephen Cox CMP Electricity Mr Peter Haynes VL Commercial Aspects and Risk Prof Alexander Korobkin MTH Engineering Mathematics Dr Rudy Lapeer CMP Thermodynamics Dr Ben Milner CMP Electrical Distribution Dr Jane Powell ENV Energy and Society Dr Graeme Richards CMP Structures Prof Paul Rijks VL Commercial Aspects and Risk Dr Congxiao Shang ENV Energy and Hydrogen Prof David Stevens MTH Statistics
Energy Engineering Energy Institute (EI) accreditation
An EI panel visited in July 2012 and in September 2012 confirmed accreditation of our MSc Energy Engineering with Environmental Management as a route to Chartered status. We have a very good relationship with EI. They have offered advice on what would be required for accreditation. It is very unlikely that they will not accredit the BEng/MEng. Our Affiliate Member status means that our students get free membership and two free e-magazines: Energy World and Petroleum Review.
Energy Engineering Unique selling points
• Excellent industrial support and sponsorship. • Importance of technical and mathematical skills. • Emphasis on accurate writing and communication skills. • Strong engineering design theme. • Embedded commercial awareness from day one.
Dr Richard Herd Senior Lecturer (School of Environmental Sciences)
STEM Webinar Wednesday 13 November 2013
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences Degree options
• Environmental Sciences • Geography • Environmental Earth Science • Environmental Geophysics • Meteorology and Oceanography • Climate Science • Environmental Geography and International Development • Environmental Geography and Climate Change • + year abroad (USA, Europe, Australasia) • + year in industry • + MSci
Environmental Sciences What is an Environmental Scientist?
Geographer Physicist Chemist Biologist Geologist Oceanographer Meteorologist Politician Economist Linguist…
=> Communicator
Environmental Sciences Building blocks: the Earth’s surface
VOLCANOES HAVE ENORMOUS
DESTRUCTIVE POTENTIAL
HOW CAN WE
PREDICT WHEN THEY WILL ERUPT?
Environmental Sciences Building blocks: the Earth’s atmosphere
CAN WE UNDERSTAND WEATHER SYSTEMS
AND PREDICT CLIMATE CHANGE?
TROPICAL CYCLONE LARRY
Environmental Sciences Building blocks: the oceans
SEA LEVELS ARE PREDICTED TO
RISE 0.88 METRES BY 2100.
HOW SHOULD WE
RESPOND?
Environmental Sciences Building blocks: the Earth’s surface
CAN WE BETTER UNDERSTAND AND
MITIGATE EARTHQUAKES?
Environmental Sciences Impacts
SAN FRANCISCO, 1906
PAKISTAN, 2007
SUMATRA, 2004
Environmental Sciences Our Honours modules 2013-14
Aquatic Ecology; Soil Processes and Environmental Issues; Interactions and Populations; Biological Oceanography and Marine Ecology; Natural Resources and Environmental Economics; Field Course to East Africa; Biodiversity Conservation and Human Society
Biodiversity
Environmental Politics and Policy Making; Climate Change: History, Economics and Governance; Low Carbon Energy; Fossil Fuels; Pollution Toxicology and Chemistry; Hydrology and Hydrogeology; Theory of Environmental Assessment; Catchment Water Resources
Sustainable Use of Natural Resources Sedimentology; Ocean Circulation; Waves,Tides and Shallow Water Processes; Chemical Oceanography; Marine Sciences
Fieldcourse;Biological Oceanography and Marine Ecology; Earth and Life; Global Environmental Change; Geodynamics; Palaeoclimatology
Earth System Science
Climate Change: Science and Policy; Meterology I and II; Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Change; Modelling Environmental Processes; Global Environmental Change; The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change; Palaeoclimatology; Atmospheric Composition
Climate System
Meteorology I and II; Earthquake and Volcanic Hazards; Global Environmental Change; Geosciences Fieldcourse; Geodynamics; Hydrology and Hydrogeology; Waves, tides and Shallow water processes; Solid Earth Geophysics
Forecasting/Mitigation Hazards
Environmental Sciences First year field work at Slapton
Environmental Sciences First year field work at Slapton
Environmental Sciences East African field course
Environmental Sciences East African field course
Undergraduates interview local people who own Shambas to evaluate environmental impact of the farming method and the economic value – on poor land on the hillside (above) compared to more productive land on the floor plain (right)
Environmental Sciences Marine sciences field course
Environmental Sciences Geosciences Greece
Geosciences field trip to Greece demonstrating relative motion of tectonic blocks and seismic moments on Skinos Beach (left) and geothermal vents (below)
Environmental Sciences Geosciences Greece
Environmental Sciences About our School
• 70 faculty • 507 undergraduates
• 81 modules (+ field course variants)
• Academic advisor system
• Staff:student ratio 1:8
Environmental Sciences About our School
• Some degrees joint with the School of Mathematics and the School of International Development.
• Flexible course structure enables you to study topics of your choice alongside core modules.
• Many optional field trips.
• Optional study abroad or industry experience.
• Lectures, seminars, practical classes and fieldwork.
• Assessed through a combination of coursework and end-of-year examinations.
Find out more Who to contact
• University direct entry enquiries: [email protected]
• INTO University of East Anglia: [email protected]
• www.uea.ac.uk/engineering • www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences • www.intohigher.com/uea