ABB301 Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
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| Unit code: | ABB301 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | (Completion of 96cp in current course and admission into AB01, AB05, EB01, EB02, EB03, EB04, EB05, ID35, ID36, UD01, SE05, ID18 or AV01) or (Completion of 96cp in current course and DYB111 or ABB103 or ABD103) |
| Equivalent(s): | UXB301 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,192 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,704 |
| International unit fee | $5,436 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ABB301 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | (Completion of 96cp in current course and admission into AB01, AB05, EB01, EB02, EB03, EB04, EB05, ID35, ID36, UD01, SE05, ID18 or AV01) or (Completion of 96cp in current course and DYB111 or ABB103 or ABD103) |
| Equivalent: | UXB301 |
| Coordinator: | Sarah Briant | s.briant@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Professionals need a range of skills and knowledge, to thrive in contemporary professional workplaces. This unit provides a suite of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences which will give you the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills acquired during your studies to further strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation.
The experiences provide particular settings to gain an understanding of professional communication protocols, codes of conduct and ethical considerations, and a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Generate a set of learning objectives with your relevant supervisor; develop strategies to help meet these; reflect on and assess your achievement of these goals.
- Critically reflect on your WIL experience, including the successes and challenges faced, and articulate how this experience shaped your understanding of the wider profession, as well as your own professional identity.
- Generate and collate a series of artefacts from your WIL experience that demonstrates how your experience enhanced your professional skills.
- Conduct yourself in line with relevant professional and ethical standards during your WIL experience
Content
This unit, generally undertaken in the penultimate or final year of your course, requires you to select a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience. The options include undertaking a self-sourced work placement or engage in ongoing professional work experience to consolidate your course-based learning, an industry based project or a study tour when available. Assessments in this unit require you to (critically analyse, report and reflect) upon your experience, considering issues and governance in your chosen field and determining a professional development plan to help guide your career.
- finding and applying for a placement, project or study tour
- re-framing skills and knowledge for proposed role, including learning aims and objectives, consideration of workplace's occupational health and safety policies and intellectual property
- observing, participating in and critically reflecting on work integrated learning experiences
- responding to ethical issues arising in a workplace setting
- professionally applying theoretical and technical knowledge including knowledge of professional code of conduct.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs reflective and inquiry-based learning to provide you with:
- Awareness of and ability to self-assess progress in your development of knowledge and skills required by graduates in your field
- Familiarity with, understanding of, and ability to interpret and apply key concepts, policies, and external guidelines (e.g., legislative or certification requirements, standards stipulated by relevant professional institute(s)) associated with Standards of Professional Practice
- Ability to reflect upon and clearly communicate work integrated learning experiences in a manner which highlights competency/skill development
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Real world experience in a workplace setting that enables you to develop as a confident and competent professional through interaction with industry professionals and peers. Whilst in the workplace setting you are encouraged to explore and experiment, to reflect on your employers' and your own work performance, to seek learning, insights and professional development opportunities.
- Independent engagement with online learning modules and vodcasts
- Online collaborative sessions to review and discuss your experiences and reflect on your professional development
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment involves an emphasis on constructive and progressive feedback structured to support your WIL experience "before" "during" and "after". Formative feedback will be offered during your engagement in a work place setting and by academic staff during the semester at key times to assist you in the development of your assessment tasks. Your performance in the unit will be assessed through three items of assessment to be completed during the semester and submitted at the specified times in the semester. The assessment items will contribute to your overall summative grade for the unit.
Assessment
Overview
As part of this unit you must:
- Complete the assessment tasks in each phase: "Before" "During" and "After" your WIL experience
- Source a placement or ongoing experience related to your course; or engage in alternative WIL experiences in the unit
- Register your placement, ongoing experience, project or study tour in InPlace (see the Faculty of Engineering WIL Community Canvas site);
- Placements: undertake and document the number of placement days required for your course (see the Faculty of Engineering WIL Community Canvas site for information on the number of days required for your course) - for reference, a day is equivalent to 7.5 hours; and
- Complete assessments as described below.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
Professional Practice Standards and Work Health and Safety Modules and Quiz:
For this assessment you will need to review a curated set of materials addressing Work Health and Safety and Standards of Professional Practice, including: Insurance; Workplace Health and Safety; Intellectual Property; Quality Assurance; and Codes of Practice and Ethical Conduct. Materials may be drawn from academic and industry resources relating to a specific Standard, external guidelines (e.g., legislative or certification requirements, standards stipulated by relevant professional institute(s)), and contemporary professional practice case studies. You will then undertake a quiz to assess your comprehension and ability to apply these standards.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is not authorised in this assessment. This is because this assessment requires you to demonstrate your awareness of critical information relating to WIL including your rights and obligations during your WIL engagement experience.
Threshold Assessment:
The modules and quizzes are required to be completed by all students undertaking a WIL unit at QUT. The quizzes allow students to resubmit until all quiz answers are correct as 100% is required for all quizzes. When completed students will receive a satisfactory against the assessment.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
Reflect on your WIL experience and evaluate how it has affected and shaped your understanding of the wider profession, as well as your own personal and professional identity.
Ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. Assessment 2 details in Canvas specify the conditions for this use.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Portfolio and presentation
Collate and present a series of artefacts from your WIL experience that demonstrates your learning during the semester and highlights your achievement of the experience learning objectives. In your portfolio, and during a multi modal presentation, articulate how the experience has developed your professional skills and identity.
Ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. Assessment 3 details in Canvas specify conditions for this use.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions. For approved extensions, students are to submit a link to a recording of their verbal and visual presentation in the reflective portfolio.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Please note, if you are working with children or youth under the age of 18 as part of your work placement, a blue card may be required. Please refer to the Student Blue Card site here for more information: Blue cards - Student - QUT Portal.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit. Items selected by the unit coordinator will be made available online to you for your use throughout the unit.
Relevant readings and other resources will be uploaded onto the unit Canvas website.
You are also required to use the following:
- The unit website on QUT's Canvas
- QUT Library Databases
- You can access QUT cite/write online at QUT Cite| Write
Risk Assessment Statement
All commencing Faculty of Engineering students are required to complete the Mandatory Safety Induction
There are no extraordinary risks associated with the classroom/lecture activities in this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.AB01 Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours)
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines and specialist knowledge and skills in one built environment area.
Relates to: Reflective Journal - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation
AB05 Bachelor of Architectural Design
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills in architecture.
Relates to: Reflective Journal - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative architectural solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Communicate architectural knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ABB301 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | (Completion of 96cp in current course and admission into AB01, AB05, EB01, EB02, EB03, EB04, EB05, ID35, ID36, UD01, SE05, ID18 or AV01) or (Completion of 96cp in current course and DYB111 or ABB103 or ABD103) |
| Equivalent: | UXB301 |
Overview
Professionals need a range of skills and knowledge, to thrive in contemporary professional workplaces. This unit provides a suite of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences which will give you the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills acquired during your studies to further strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation.
The experiences provide particular settings to gain an understanding of professional communication protocols, codes of conduct and ethical considerations, and a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Generate a set of learning objectives with your relevant supervisor; develop strategies to help meet these; reflect on and assess your achievement of these goals.
- Critically reflect on your WIL experience, including the successes and challenges faced, and articulate how this experience shaped your understanding of the wider profession, as well as your own professional identity.
- Generate and collate a series of artefacts from your WIL experience that demonstrates how your experience enhanced your professional skills.
- Conduct yourself in line with relevant professional and ethical standards during your WIL experience
Content
This unit, generally undertaken in the penultimate or final year of your course, requires you to select a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience. The options include undertaking a self-sourced work placement or engage in ongoing professional work experience to consolidate your course-based learning, an industry based project or a study tour when available. Assessments in this unit require you to (critically analyse, report and reflect) upon your experience, considering issues and governance in your chosen field and determining a professional development plan to help guide your career.
- finding and applying for a placement, project or study tour
- re-framing skills and knowledge for proposed role, including learning aims and objectives, consideration of workplace's occupational health and safety policies and intellectual property
- observing, participating in and critically reflecting on work integrated learning experiences
- responding to ethical issues arising in a workplace setting
- professionally applying theoretical and technical knowledge including knowledge of professional code of conduct.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs reflective and inquiry-based learning to provide you with:
- Awareness of and ability to self-assess progress in your development of knowledge and skills required by graduates in your field
- Familiarity with, understanding of, and ability to interpret and apply key concepts, policies, and external guidelines (e.g., legislative or certification requirements, standards stipulated by relevant professional institute(s)) associated with Standards of Professional Practice
- Ability to reflect upon and clearly communicate work integrated learning experiences in a manner which highlights competency/skill development
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Real world experience in a workplace setting that enables you to develop as a confident and competent professional through interaction with industry professionals and peers. Whilst in the workplace setting you are encouraged to explore and experiment, to reflect on your employers' and your own work performance, to seek learning, insights and professional development opportunities.
- Independent engagement with online learning modules and vodcasts
- Online collaborative sessions to review and discuss your experiences and reflect on your professional development
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment involves an emphasis on constructive and progressive feedback structured to support your WIL experience "before" "during" and "after". Formative feedback will be offered during your engagement in a work place setting and by academic staff during the semester at key times to assist you in the development of your assessment tasks. Your performance in the unit will be assessed through three items of assessment to be completed during the semester and submitted at the specified times in the semester. The assessment items will contribute to your overall summative grade for the unit.
Assessment
Overview
As part of this unit you must:
- Complete the assessment tasks in each phase: "Before" "During" and "After" your WIL experience
- Source a placement or ongoing experience related to your course; or engage in alternative WIL experiences in the unit
- Register your placement, ongoing experience, project or study tour in InPlace (see the Faculty of Engineering WIL Community Canvas site);
- Placements: undertake and document the number of placement days required for your course (see the Faculty of Engineering WIL Community Canvas site for information on the number of days required for your course) - for reference, a day is equivalent to 7.5 hours; and
- Complete assessments as described below.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
Professional Practice Standards and Work Health and Safety Modules and Quiz:
For this assessment you will need to review a curated set of materials addressing Work Health and Safety and Standards of Professional Practice, including: Insurance; Workplace Health and Safety; Intellectual Property; Quality Assurance; and Codes of Practice and Ethical Conduct. Materials may be drawn from academic and industry resources relating to a specific Standard, external guidelines (e.g., legislative or certification requirements, standards stipulated by relevant professional institute(s)), and contemporary professional practice case studies. You will then undertake a quiz to assess your comprehension and ability to apply these standards.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is not authorised in this assessment. This is because this assessment requires you to demonstrate your awareness of critical information relating to WIL including your rights and obligations during your WIL engagement experience.
Threshold Assessment:
The modules and quizzes are required to be completed by all students undertaking a WIL unit at QUT. The quizzes allow students to resubmit until all quiz answers are correct as 100% is required for all quizzes. When completed students will receive a satisfactory against the assessment.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
Reflect on your WIL experience and evaluate how it has affected and shaped your understanding of the wider profession, as well as your own personal and professional identity.
Ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. Assessment 2 details in Canvas specify the conditions for this use.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Portfolio and presentation
Collate and present a series of artefacts from your WIL experience that demonstrates your learning during the semester and highlights your achievement of the experience learning objectives. In your portfolio, and during a multi modal presentation, articulate how the experience has developed your professional skills and identity.
Ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. Assessment 3 details in Canvas specify conditions for this use.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions. For approved extensions, students are to submit a link to a recording of their verbal and visual presentation in the reflective portfolio.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Please note, if you are working with children or youth under the age of 18 as part of your work placement, a blue card may be required. Please refer to the Student Blue Card site here for more information: Blue cards - Student - QUT Portal.
Blue Card
A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.
Resources
There is no set text for this unit. Items selected by the unit coordinator will be made available online to you for your use throughout the unit.
Relevant readings and other resources will be uploaded onto the unit Canvas website.
You are also required to use the following:
- The unit website on QUT's Canvas
- QUT Library Databases
- You can access QUT cite/write online at QUT Cite| Write
Risk Assessment Statement
All commencing Faculty of Engineering students are required to complete the Mandatory Safety Induction
There are no extraordinary risks associated with the classroom/lecture activities in this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.AB01 Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours)
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines and specialist knowledge and skills in one built environment area.
Relates to: Reflective Journal - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Communicate knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation
AB05 Bachelor of Architectural Design
- Apply theoretical, practical and cultural knowledge and skills in architecture.
Relates to: Reflective Journal - Design and critically evaluate sustainable and creative architectural solutions to social, economic, technological and environmental challenges.
Relates to: Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Communicate architectural knowledge, ideas and creative solutions in diverse modes, for a range of contexts and diverse audiences.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation - Reflect on feedback and experience, and display professional and ethical judgment and initiative.
Relates to: Quiz/Test, Reflective Journal, Portfolio and presentation