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Welcome to GEC 2026!�

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Photos and video recordings may take place during project weeks

If you “do not wish to be included” please “inform the Hub Facilitator or filming person”

Photo and Filming Alert!

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Fire procedure

What to do if you hear the fire alarm?

Follow green exit signs
Do not use lift
Exit quickly and in an orderly fashion

Where is the muster point?
Are there any planned fire alarm tests?
Where are the nearest fire extinguishers?
Where are the nearest fire alarm call points?

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Respect the room

We use lots of rooms across the campus during the exam weeks - this is difficult to organise!
Be respectful of the space - keep it tidy, throw away rubbish…etc.
Some of the rooms will be used for other things, for example labs.
DO NOT TOUCH anything in the room other than the furniture you have been provided with. If you are in a lab, there may be dangerous equipment or chemicals. These will be left in a safe state, but only if they are not tampered with.

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Your Facilitator

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What you can expect from your facilitator

Deliver sessions clearly and answer questions to help your understanding
Assess your work fairly, based on the marking criteria on Blackboard
Be available:

In your hub
Via email, but remember that we may not be able to get back to you until our working hours.

Any issues that cannot be resolved in your groups can be brought to facilitators.
Where appropriate, facilitators may escalate any issues to the faculty Project Week’s team who can answer any queries beyond that.

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ICEBREAKER

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Name & department

3 surprising facts about you:

2 true and 1 false

Where you come from

Can your group work out fact from fiction?

Exercise : Icebreaker.

Aim: Get students talking to each other

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Activity Instructions:

Working as individuals write down on a piece of paper

Name and department
Where you come from
Three facts (skills or achievements) about yourself – two true, one false

As an example:

My name is ………..,

I am in Dept of …………..

I have ……………………

I can …………………….

I have ………………………

Which of these is false?

You have just three minutes to write down your facts

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Facilitator does random breakout groups Approx 6 per group – not teams.

Take turns – use the order that the names appear in the participant list. Facilitator to give example: Facilitator training use this as the icebreaker so they have something prepared

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Global Engineering Challenge

Why?

How?

Develop skills needed in industry

Tackle a real-world problem

Work in a multidisciplinary team

Communicate, defend and question ideas

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In your hub and your team

We will have hub discussions, so get involved

say as much as you can

Judgement-free
No idea too silly
Make sure your ideas are heard!

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Visible Outputs

Knowledge and skills to achieve them

Report & Presentation

Engineering Skills

Factual Knowledge

Process Knowledge

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Timetable Expectations

Everyone expected to attend all sessions.
Mixture of teaching delivery, facilitated learning and self led project work time.
Your team is collectively responsible for sharing any missed information from afternoon sessions with team members who cannot attend.
The timetable will let you know when your facilitator, industry mentors and faculty staff will be present. Make sure your team is ready at those points.
7 hours work per person per day. 35 hours through the week
If you miss a session you need to catch up on the material and put in the equivalent time on your project.

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How to access information

Everything you need is on your Blackboard sites.
Much of the content is linking to our website.
We use the design cycle to anchor the timetable, topics, assessment and content.

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Design Cycle

Details of the phases are in the “content” area of the website, here https://mee.group.shef.ac.uk/ProjectWeeks/designCycle/designCycle_teachingNotes.html

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Timetable

The main page to access: You should use your timetable to know what to be doing at any point during the week

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Current phase of the design cycle

Type of session (who is leading session)

Session name

Session deliverables

Session description - what to do - and links to content

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Content

Taught content is provided in the content area of hte website. Select a card to expand out and find details of the topics.

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Phase of the design cycle

Content title

Content description

Content available

Description of the design cycle

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FAQs

The majority of questions you have will not be new. We have a comprehensive FAQ section of the website.
Expand to see answers

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Assessment overview

This may seem like a lot - but there is allocated time in the timetable to complete all these tasks. You don’t need to work beyond the module time.

Zero credit pass/fail module - the grade you get won’t influence your degree classification.
This provides an opportunity to be creative/daring/adventurous without fear of performing poorly on the module.

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Individual Assessments	Group Work
Inclusive practice reflection Design process test Presentation test Design evaluation test Project evaluation reflection	Team operating agreement Group report (80%) Interim presentation Final presentation (20%)

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Assessment details

Details are on the website.

Deadlines
Requirements
Templates
Marking rubrics.

Check here and the FAQs if there are questions not answered on the assessment page
💡Tip! Keep up to date with individual assessments daily