MAT6305   Group Projects and Developing Research   (15 credits)

Description

In this module students will develop individual research project proposals and then work as a team to develop a select number of these as grant applications suitable for research councils or as industrial proposals suitable for seed funding or venture capital. The emphasis of this module will be on students developing skills in project planning, group communication and management, enterprise, research development and transfer of research into the industrial environment. The module will cover research methodologies, philosophy and principles, ethics, experiment design, managing research progress, literature searches and information retrieval, data analysis and presentation, technical and scientific writing, patent law, IPR, innovation, entrepreneurship and exploitation of research and components covering advanced knowledge and advanced skills;

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