EGH490-2 Research Project 2
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| Unit code: | EGH490-2 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | EGH400-1 or EGH490-1 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,192 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $5,364 |
| International unit fee | $6,684 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGH490-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGH490-1 OR EGH400-1 |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. You will be required to identify engineering challenges and carry out comprehensive projects to address them using a rigorous research and investigation approach in a team setting. In this second of two integrated capstone units of your Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree you will hone your knowledge and skills bases in preparation for graduate work or further studies. You will learn engineering project design, methodology and management, advancement of discipline knowledge and skills, risk, sustainability and ethics in a project environment, and reporting and defence of final delivery. This unit follows EGH490-1 Research Project 1 and together build upon your learning throughout your engineering core and Study Area A.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate a solution to an engineering problem using a process that displays rigorous research and investigation practice and accounts for risk, ethics and sustainability considerations at a mastered level.
- Practise professionally in the collaborative environment of an engineering project at a mastered level.
- Report a project delivery that addresses an engineering problem using written communication and defend that delivery using oral communication at a mastered level.
Content
1. Working as a professional engineer- self management and management of the project, negotiating and setting expectations around documentation and information management with your supervisor, and professional conduct.
2. Exploring the current state of engineering knowledge in your research project area- identifying gaps in knowledge through literature review.
3. Sustainability, ethics and risk management in light of Engineers Australia competency standards.
4. Using your project to contribute to your professional development.
5. Communicating professionally through technical writing and presentations.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures (in weeks 1, 2, 5, and 10 for a total of 10 hours) from experienced engineering research academics to give you insight into professional engineering research knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
To complement these timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to assist you in completing your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the semester, you will be reminded of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a self-directed manner throughout the semester to arrange, prepare for, and attend weekly meetings with your academic supervisor and where relevant industry supervisor, where you will demonstrate your progress and discuss your ongoing work with your project team.
- Undertake work independently outside of your timetabled activities and supervision meetings to complete your work.
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently through the semester and meeting the due dates that are published on the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During weekly meetings with your academic supervisor (and industry supervisor for industry projects), you will share your formative ideas for your assessments and you will receive feedback from your supervisor. You will share the findings of your project work with your supervisor/s for marking and feedback, and you will give an oral defence of your project delivery with your supervisor/s with classmates. View this team as a learning community and share and discuss emergent ideas in the engineering research and investigation process and your understandings of engineering professional practice. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards that will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback given by the markers against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessments take the form of reports, a work performance assessment and a presentation. The final report at the completion of EGH490-2 is not a thesis.
You must achieve a passing mark in EGH490-2 as well as the requirement for achieving a passing mark in EGH490-1.
Your final mark for both EGH490-1 and EGH490-2 will be calculated as: 0.4 × (Overall mark for EGH490-1) + 0.6 × (Overall mark for EGH490-2).
This final mark will be on a QUT 7-point grade, and you will be awarded the same grade for EGH490-1 and EGH490-2.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Work Performance
Your academic supervisor will observe your individual participation and work performance during meetings and interactions throughout EGH490-1 Research Project 1 and EGH490-2 Research Project 2. You are encouraged to ask for feedback on your progress at any time. Your academic supervisor will take account of the records of your project, contained within a reporting system either prescribed by the Unit Coordinator (e.g. Microsoft Teams) or as agreed with your supervisor. In some cases, your supervisor will ask industry partners or other project stakeholders to provide feedback on your individual work performance.
Assessment: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
You will submit an individual report that documents your project delivery, whose form will be negotiated with your academic supervisor as appropriate for your project topic, such as a white paper or business case.
With your student project team you will give an oral defence of your project delivery to your academic supervisor, industry supervisor where applicable, and members of your class.
The Project Delivery Report is not a thesis. The Project Delivery Report is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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.
Resources
Learning material in this unit will be managed from its Canvas site.
There are no set texts for this unit. Access to laboratories, computer facilities, workshops, project materials, and other resources shall be negotiated with the unit teaching staff at the commencement of the semester/project.
Risk Assessment Statement
You may (depending upon the nature of your project) be required to access QUT laboratories or workshops. You will have to specifically request access to these facilities and approval will only be grated on a case-by-case basis when specific criteria are met. Access will require you to have completed any relevant safety courses and hold any relevant safety cards. You must follow all relevant workplace health and safety rules, and follow the instructions of laboratory or workshop staff.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGH490-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGH490-1 OR EGH400-1 |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. You will be required to identify engineering challenges and carry out comprehensive projects to address them using a rigorous research and investigation approach in a team setting. In this second of two integrated capstone units of your Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree you will hone your knowledge and skills bases in preparation for graduate work or further studies. You will learn engineering project design, methodology and management, advancement of discipline knowledge and skills, risk, sustainability and ethics in a project environment, and reporting and defence of final delivery. This unit follows EGH490-1 Research Project 1 and together build upon your learning throughout your engineering core and Study Area A.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Formulate a solution to an engineering problem using a process that displays rigorous research and investigation practice and accounts for risk, ethics and sustainability considerations at a mastered level.
- Practise professionally in the collaborative environment of an engineering project at a mastered level.
- Report a project delivery that addresses an engineering problem using written communication and defend that delivery using oral communication at a mastered level.
Content
1. Working as a professional engineer- self management and management of the project, negotiating and setting expectations around documentation and information management with your supervisor, and professional conduct.
2. Exploring the current state of engineering knowledge in your research project area- identifying gaps in knowledge through literature review.
3. Sustainability, ethics and risk management in light of Engineers Australia competency standards.
4. Using your project to contribute to your professional development.
5. Communicating professionally through technical writing and presentations.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures (in weeks 1, 2, 5, and 10 for a total of 10 hours) from experienced engineering research academics to give you insight into professional engineering research knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
To complement these timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to assist you in completing your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the semester, you will be reminded of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a self-directed manner throughout the semester to arrange, prepare for, and attend weekly meetings with your academic supervisor and where relevant industry supervisor, where you will demonstrate your progress and discuss your ongoing work with your project team.
- Undertake work independently outside of your timetabled activities and supervision meetings to complete your work.
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently through the semester and meeting the due dates that are published on the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During weekly meetings with your academic supervisor (and industry supervisor for industry projects), you will share your formative ideas for your assessments and you will receive feedback from your supervisor. You will share the findings of your project work with your supervisor/s for marking and feedback, and you will give an oral defence of your project delivery with your supervisor/s with classmates. View this team as a learning community and share and discuss emergent ideas in the engineering research and investigation process and your understandings of engineering professional practice. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards that will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback given by the markers against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessments take the form of reports, a work performance assessment and a presentation. The final report at the completion of EGH490-2 is not a thesis.
You must achieve a passing mark in EGH490-2 as well as the requirement for achieving a passing mark in EGH490-1.
Your final mark for both EGH490-1 and EGH490-2 will be calculated as: 0.4 × (Overall mark for EGH490-1) + 0.6 × (Overall mark for EGH490-2).
This final mark will be on a QUT 7-point grade, and you will be awarded the same grade for EGH490-1 and EGH490-2.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Work Performance
Your academic supervisor will observe your individual participation and work performance during meetings and interactions throughout EGH490-1 Research Project 1 and EGH490-2 Research Project 2. You are encouraged to ask for feedback on your progress at any time. Your academic supervisor will take account of the records of your project, contained within a reporting system either prescribed by the Unit Coordinator (e.g. Microsoft Teams) or as agreed with your supervisor. In some cases, your supervisor will ask industry partners or other project stakeholders to provide feedback on your individual work performance.
Assessment: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
You will submit an individual report that documents your project delivery, whose form will be negotiated with your academic supervisor as appropriate for your project topic, such as a white paper or business case.
With your student project team you will give an oral defence of your project delivery to your academic supervisor, industry supervisor where applicable, and members of your class.
The Project Delivery Report is not a thesis. The Project Delivery Report is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
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.
Resources
Learning material in this unit will be managed from its Canvas site.
There are no set texts for this unit. Access to laboratories, computer facilities, workshops, project materials, and other resources shall be negotiated with the unit teaching staff at the commencement of the semester/project.
Risk Assessment Statement
You may (depending upon the nature of your project) be required to access QUT laboratories or workshops. You will have to specifically request access to these facilities and approval will only be grated on a case-by-case basis when specific criteria are met. Access will require you to have completed any relevant safety courses and hold any relevant safety cards. You must follow all relevant workplace health and safety rules, and follow the instructions of laboratory or workshop staff.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Work Performance, Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence - Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Delivery Report and Oral Defence