The overall purpose of the project is to provide students with moderately scaled industry project simulation opportunities that provide a platform for career preparation. The specific objectives of the project are that the students learn to organise, sustain and report on a substantial piece of work over a period of several months, to apply the theoretical knowledge they have learned on taught modules to a realistic problem or product area then to develop a solution/product from initial conception through to viable prototype/deliverable in accordance with a professional methodology.