Proposal for a New Programme
This form
is available for downloading from admin/ar/templates/new_prog - spaces can be
expanded as required.
This proposal is in
Strategic Phase
Operational
Phase
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1. Name of Department and Departmental contact
AAE: Mr R H Gillard |
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2. Award and Title of proposed new programme (see
* below) M.Sc in Advanced Methods in Aeronautical
Engineering |
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3. Month and Year of first intake to the
programme October 2004 Will the programme be offered as: full-time part-time full-time
and part-time |
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4. If the proposed new programme is a revised
version of an existing programme, state how this will be phased in, i.e. -
year(s) that Parts B, C, D will commence; pathway for students currently on
placement/leave of absence and resit students |
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5.
List
the numbers of any new modules proposed. TTP220 Project Design and Feasibility
Study TTP221 Project |
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6. Is it intended that any modules will be available
by full/partial Distance Learning? Yes No Is it intended that the programme will
be fully Distance Learning? Yes No Guidelines on
full/partial DL provision are available on the intranet at: https://internal.lboro.ac.uk/admin/registry/uniwide/ QAA Guidelines on
the Quality Assurance of Distance Learning should be followed and are
available at: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/public/dlg/contents.htm |
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7.Reasons for the proposal: its purpose and relevance; how
it will enhance calibre of teaching and learning; implications for existing
programmes and modules in the department (see * below) The proposal has arisen from a request last year via the RAF to provide an M.Sc for a serving officer in the Royal Jordanian Air Force. It is clear that, following the DTUS agreement, the RAF wishes to recommend Loughborough to overseas air forces for postgraduate study. Further investigation by the Department indicates that there is potential to recruit home students who are seeking to improve their career prospects and to recruit students from the newly joined EU States around the Baltic/Eastern Europe. The programme is designed to introduce career engineers to
recent advances in aeronautical engineering. Existing postgraduate modules
which share a common taught element with Part D modules are to be used. The
modules have an enhanced coursework content to satisfy the learning outcomes
of postgraduate study. Thus the taught element of the programme will be
delivered each year irrespective of the number of registered Masters
students. There are no implications for existing modules in AAE. |
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8. Expected student numbers Initially 2 per annum rising to six per
annum. |
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9. Staffing implications - adequacy of
existing departmental resources; net increase/reduction in staff teaching
effort or demands on support staff All the taught elements are already
delivered and will not require additional teaching resources. There will be a
small increase in staff time to mark student coursework. Project supervision
will be required although it is anticipated that projects will be compatible
with staff research interests and will not require additional capital
expenditure. |
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10. Additional Library requirements None apart from possible a few advanced
texts will be purchased from the Department’s library budget. |
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11. Additional Computing Support required :
none. Network/Software (please elaborate): |
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12. Other resource implications, e.g. - lecture
room, lab and other space requirements; equipment, materials; timetabling
constraints (block-teaching for example); any special residential
requirements The students will join existing Part D
classes. |
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13. Implications for other departments both
providing and receiving None. |
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14. Evidence of demand and suitability; views of
lecturers; current/prospective students; external examiners/ assessors,
professional/industrial bodies etc. Proven demand from overseas air forces
via the RAF and DTUS. Promise of one student per year from
Estonia. Anticipated demand from Industry and the
RAF. The programme has been discussed with
staff, External Examiners and the Accreditation Panel. All were supportive of
the proposal. |
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15. Implications for employability: we
anticipate that most students will be on secondment from their employers and
undertaking the programme to enhance their career prospects. |
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16.
Any
other relevant information
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*....... A department proposing a group of new programmes/titles with a higher proportion of common modules, or proposing to add a new programme/title to an existing group of this kind, should produce information clearly defining the award pathways and justify the differentiation of the award titles. Proposals of this type should be flagged up during the strategic phase, bearing in mind that the case may be driven by non-pedagogic issues (such as marketing, recruitment or administration).
OPERATIONAL
PHASE
Programme Regulations attached
(with any Distance Learning Modules identified)
Programme Specification attached
New Module Specifications (CIS versions) attached
(to include for each a completed proposal form for
new modules as used for
the Annual Update process, excluding the Approval
Route page for signatures)
Module by module summary of assessment requirements
attached
Evidence of External Support attached
Consultation forms attached and considered:
........... Other Academic Departments (none involved)
........... (Please list)
........... Library
........... Careers Service (all candidates are
expected to be already in employment)
........... Computing Services
P
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........... Media Services
........... Professional Development
(where appropriate for the development,
........... support and provision of
distance learning)
Quality Assurance Statement attached (for
collaborative proposal only)
Head of
Department Signature:…………………………………………………………….
Date: 20 April 2004
Comments from the
Associate Dean (Teaching):
This proposal can now be submitted to Curriculum
Sub-Committee
Associate
Dean (Teaching) Signature:
………………………………………………………..
Date: ……………………………………