Considerations for Sustainability and Transferable Skills

Sustainability considerations

Climate and sustainability literacy

In this project week, you will have the opportunity to claim the climate and sustainability literacy skill at the knowledge level.

To claim this skill, you must either:

Link this project to elements of the climate and sustainability literacy frameworks, for that you can either:
- Link the project to element of the climate literacy framework. It could be:
  - Discussing how human activities causes has consequences for the climate (in relation to this project).
  - Explaining how contemporary climate change is increased because of some factors (in relation if this project).
  - Discussing the CO2 footprint related to the project.
- Link this project to elements of the sustainability literacy framework, for that you can either:
  - Explain how the project fits the sustainability trends.
  - Link at least 2 Sustainable Development Goals to this project
Reflect on the climate and sustainability impact of this project.

All the above points were discussed in the lecture about “Climate and Sustainability Literacy” as part of Design Skills in week 3. (You can review this content on Moodle week 3).

You should include this content in a section entitled “Climate impact” in your e-portfolio, this section should be between 200 and 500 words.

Electronics enhancing sustainability.

In this project week, you will be able to claim the ‘Electronics enhancing sustainability’ skill at the knowledge level.

To claim this skill, you must:

Describe the operation of the electronic system in this project.
Explain how sustainability is enhanced thanks to the electronic system. For that, as mentioned in the lecture about “Electronics enhancing sustainability” on Design skill Moodle week 3, you should be able to allocate this specific electronic system to at least one of the 4 main ways that electronics enhance sustainability (monitoring, energy harvesting, replacing fossil fuels, lower energy consumption).

Everything listed above should be included in a section entitled “Electronics enhancing sustainability” in your e-portfolio and should be between 200 and 500 words.

Transferable skills considerations

Communication

For this project, you will be able to claim the efficient social media communication skill at the knowledge level. As mentioned in the lecture about this topic in week 4 (material on Moodle week 4), you will need to use the jab, jab, jab right hook theory.

You need to build a communication plan that has the following objective:

Increase awareness of the curriculum in the University of Bath

You will aim to post on the EEE Facebook page.

Your communication plan should include:

3 jabs
1 right hook

A reminder that a jab is:

A short post.
An appealing post for your audience (entertaining videos, inspiring stories, informative infographics, or images).

And a right hook is:

A longer post.
It includes more information.
It gives specific details.
It could provide links to webpages.

For the project week, you will submit your proposed post on Moodle: https://moodle.bath.ac.uk/mod/board/view.php?id=1265522

Each group needs to propose all 4 posts to be able to claim the skill.

You will need to propose:

The first Jab by Tuesday 12.00
The second Jab by Wednesday 12.00
The third jab by Thursday 12.00
The right hook by Friday 2.00pm

Once all the posts have been proposed, everyone will vote for the best one. You will have until 4pm to vote each day. The best one of each day will go live on the EEE Facebook page.

Note that to claim the skill, the posts need not be published; only planned.

Design and development -Problem solving

For this project week, you will be able to claim the problem-solving skill at the knowledge level.

To claim this skill, you must:

Define concisely the problem of this project.
Define the starting point/initial data of this project.
Define the required outcome of this project.
Describe the methodology you are using for getting from the starting point to the outcome.
Break the problems in steps.
You can use a flowchart if you think it is appropriate.

Everything listed above should be included in a section entitled “Problem solving” in your e-portfolio.

Management

For this project week, you will be able to claim 2 management skills at the knowledge level:

Effective project management
Effective teamwork

Effective project management

For the effective project management skill, you will need to:

Define concisely the objectives of the project.
Make the objectives SMART where possible (The SMART system was defined in the lecture about “Effective project management” in week 4).
Divide the project into steps to achieve the objectives (if you are planning to also claim the “Problem solving” skill, this part could be common to both sections in your e-portfolio).
Each step or task is concisely defined.
Steps/tasks are prioritised (you should discuss dependencies and importance/urgency to prioritise the tasks/steps, you could eventually discuss resources as well). The different levels of priorities are defined clearly.
Steps/tasks are allocated to the relevant people (explain why they are the relevant people)
Link each task or step to the defined objectives of the project.

Everything listed above should be included in a section entitled “Project management” in your e-portfolio and should be between 200 and 500 words.

Effective teamwork

For the effective teamwork skill, you will need to:

Create a skill matrix for this project and your team (the skill matrix is explained in the lecture about “Effective teamwork”). The skill levels ranking is clearly defined.
Fairly distribute the task among your team members based on the skill matrix (fairly means that the task needs to go to the right person and that the number/difficulty of task should be equivalent for all team members)
You should include further details about the teamwork including:
A description of the interaction between members during meetings (you can find tips for the meetings in the lecture notes about “Effective teamwork” from week 4).
A description of the engagement of each team member (you can find what counts as engagement in the lecture notes about “Effective teamwork”).

Everything listed above should be included in a section entitled “Teamwork” in your e-portfolio and should be between 200 and 500 words.