Standards and Regulations

Owner: Prof Peter Wilson
Number of students: 1
Formative Deadline: Friday W7

Learning Outcomes

Know the role of standards and regulations in engineering design
Find the appropriate standards or regulations relevant to a specific area of engineering
Comment on how standards and regulations can have a positive impact on sustainability in engineering

For Knowledge, you should complete the “Standards and Regulations” Moodle quiz available on this unit’s Moodle page.

The page shall be entitled ‘Standards and Regulations - Application’ using the supplied template.

The page shall include entries for all the following sections:

Specific Example Provide specific example of a standard (or regulation) defined by an engineering body (such as British Standards [BS], IET, IEC, ISO or IEEE) providing the engineering body, the standard designation number and the title of the standard. (20-50 words)
Description Provide a description of why the standard or regulation is in place, its primary purpose, and comment on its importance and relevance (50-100 words)
Example of Application: Provide an example of how a standard could be used in the design of an engineering product and how the standard would influence key design decisions (100-200 words)
Sustainability Impact Postulate where new standards or regulations might be required to improve sustainability of electronic products (50-100 words)

To claim this skill at the synthesis level, your page must include:

A substantial written piece (e.g., project report) that integrates at least 8 IEEE style references drawn from a wide range of source types (minimum 4 categories from the list: journal articles, standards, patents, conference papers, books, reports, datasheets, websites).
Justify your selection of references in relation to your overall project or system objective (why these sources were the most effective compared with alternatives). Show how referencing connected your work to the wider academic, technical, or professional context.
A critical reflection (50–100 words) evaluating the effectiveness of your referencing: -What worked well. -What could be improved. -How efficient referencing strengthened the credibility and impact of your work.