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The dissertation engages the engineering student with professional engineering practice, and develops the skill of working under their own direction on a large project. It will involve working with uncertainty: solving problems that don’t have prior known solutions. There are six main types of project: computation-based design feasibility studies, experimental, theoretical and test and evaluation There will be three people mainly involved in a dissertation project: the student (who will do most of the work), the supervisor and for many projects, a client . This chapter also defines the main terminology used in dissertation projects.
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Gratton, P., Gratton, G. (2020). What is the Dissertation?. In: Achieving Success with the Engineering Dissertation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33192-4_1
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