Technical essays

Model answers written as technical essays. Each assessment type rewards something slightly different, and the annotations here focus on what this one is actually marked on.

4 samples Undergraduate · BSc level c. 2,000 words each

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The four samples

Each card links to the annotated page for that assignment, where two or three passages are quoted and the reasoning behind them written out.

Process Safety Model answer

Overfill Protection in Bulk Hydrocarbon Storage: A Critical Evaluation of HAZOP and Layer of Protection Analysis

MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering · c. 2,720 words · Harvard

A 2,720-word MSc process safety essay that asks why structured hazard analysis failed at two sites that had it. Three annotated extracts show how to turn a method description into an argument about where the method breaks.

  • Critique generated from the student's own worked HAZOP table
  • Swiss-cheese model used to do work, not as decoration
  • Quantitative ALARP anchors, correctly labelled as guidance
Machine Learning Model answer

Convolutional Neural Networks versus Vision Transformers for Object Detection in Mobile Robot Perception

MSc Robotics and Artificial Intelligence · c. 2,097 words · Harvard

A 2,097-word MSc essay that compares two architectures and then questions whether the benchmark everyone cites means anything for a robot. Three annotated extracts show how to interrogate your own evidence base.

  • Questions whether its own benchmark measures the right thing
  • Converts 100 ms of latency into 15 cm of travel
  • Comparison table whose first row explains the others