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This document provides details on the Engineering Mathematics 6 module offered at the Manufacturing Engineering department. The 48-hour, one semester module aims to provide students with statistical skills to interpret data and make decisions. It involves lectures, practical workshops, and tutorials. Students will learn descriptive and inferential statistics, hypotheses testing, and use of IT tools to analyze data. Assessment includes projects, computer-based tests, and a final exam worth 60%. Recommended reading and online resources are also listed.

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This document provides details on the Engineering Mathematics 6 module offered at the Manufacturing Engineering department. The 48-hour, one semester module aims to provide students with statistical skills to interpret data and make decisions. It involves lectures, practical workshops, and tutorials. Students will learn descriptive and inferential statistics, hypotheses testing, and use of IT tools to analyze data. Assessment includes projects, computer-based tests, and a final exam worth 60%. Recommended reading and online resources are also listed.

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Department:

Manufacturing
Engineering

ModuleCode:

MATH71004

Level:

Level7

ContactHours:

48

Duration:

1Semester

DirectedStudyHours: 24

EffectiveTerm:

2010/11

Indep.StudyHours:

Credits:

28

PrerequisiteKnowledge:

EngineeringMathematics1

ModuleDescription/Aims:

Themoduleisdesignedtoensurethatstudentswillhaveappropriateskillsto
interpretnumericalandgraphicalinformationanddescribedataappropriately.
Itisintendedtoenablestudentstosolveproblemsandmakedecisionsbased
onlogicalimpartialstatisticaltestsinengineeringandinfurtherresearch

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ContactType
Lecture

Hours
2PerWeek

Practical/Workshop 1PerWeek
Tutorial

1PerWeek

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Onsuccessfulcompletionofthemodule,thelearnerwillbeableto:
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Description/LearningOutcomes
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Defineanduseintheirpropercontextkeystatisticalterms(statistics,
variables,populations,samples,datatypesandlevels,hypothesis,standard
error,pvaluesetc.)

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Explainthedistinctionbetweendescriptiveandinferentialstatistical
techniques.

Describe,explainandcomparesetsofdatausingvariousdiagrams,tables
andgraphs

Effectivelyusehypothesistestsandregressionandcorrelationfordecision
making

UseIT(egstatisticalmodeoncalculator,spreadsheetegMicrosoftExcel,
StatisticalpackagesegSPSS)topresentdataandforcalculationsrequired
forstatisticaltestsandinterpretfindings

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LearningStrategies
Thestudentwillengagewiththecontentofthemodulethroughamixtureof
lecture,tutorialandpracticalwork.<br>Acknowledgingtheperceiveddifficultyof
statisticsthismodulewillcontextualisecorecontenttotheirfieldofstudy
throughoutandapplythecontenttoreallifeproblemsolvingsituations.<br>The
approachwillmakeuseofcontextspecificproblembasedworksheetsforstudents
topracticetheprocedures.<br>

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Content
Detail
Descriptive DesignofExperiments,PresentationofData,ExploratoryData
Statistics
Analysis(MeasuresofCentralTendency,Dispersion,Graphic
representationofdata,percentilesandpercentilegroupings,
frequencydistributions
Standard
Introductiontostandardnormaldistribution(SND):Zscores,area
Normal
propertiesoftheSND,probability,samplingerror,StandardErrorof
Distribution
Mean

Hypothesis Confidenceintervals,pvalues,thestudentizedtdistribution,degrees
Testing
offreedomandttests
concepts
Inferential
Statistics

ConfidenceIntervalsforpopulationmeans,hypothesistestingwith1
and2sample(s),CorrelationandRegression,Pearsons`r
correlationcoefficient

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AssessmentStrategies

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Avarietyofassessmentmethodsshouldbeemployedincludingshortanswer,open
ended,closedquestionsintasksheets,testsandassignments.

Acomputerlaboratoryassessmentwillbeundertaken.
RepeatAssessmentstrategywillconsistofrepeatingthewrittenexaminationforthe
moduleatthenextavailablesitting.Thisresultwillbecombinedwiththeexisting
CAresult.

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Learning Assessment
AssessmentMethod
Outcome
Category
3,5
Continuous
ProjectIndividual
Assessment
3,4,5

Continuous
Assessment

1,2,3,4 FinalExam
(Scheduled)

Additional
Information

%
alloc
20

Computerbased
Individual

20

FinalWrittenExam

60

ReadingList showdetail>>

Recommended 0861219805

UnderstandingStatistics
J.Reilly
Folens

1997

Library
Link

Essential

ElementaryStatistics9ed
MarioE.Triola
AddisonWesley

2003

Type

ISBN


0201614774

TitleAuthorPublisher

Year Edition

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Type
Description
CourseMaterial MathematicsandStatisticsResourcesModuleon
Blackboard

Website

www.mathcentre.co.uk
Curricularinformationissubjecttochange

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