EGH400-2 Research Project 2
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| Unit code: | EGH400-2 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | EGH400-1 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,680 |
| International unit fee | $5,784 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGH400-2 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGH400-1 |
| Coordinators: | Yateendra Mishra | yateendra.mishra@qut.edu.au Yanming Feng | y.feng@qut.edu.au Jay Rajapakse | jay.rajapakse@qut.edu.au Akhilandeshwari Ravichandran | akhilandeshwari.ravichandran@qut.edu.au Yilin Gui | yilin.gui@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 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 EGH400-1 Research Project 1 and together build upon your learning throughout your engineering core and Study Area A. You will demonstrate that you have completed the work placement required by Engineers Australia.
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.
- Compile a Work Placement Experience Report that meets the QUT Engineering Work Placement Experience and Certification Guidelines.
Content
1. project design
2. project methodology
3. project management
4. advancement of discipline knowledge and skills
5. reporting of project final delivery
6. oral defence of project final delivery
Learning Approaches
This unit is the second part of the research project. You are expected to continue the project you conducted in EGH400-1.
In this unit, there is no timetabled lectures, however, at the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator.
You are expected to:
- Manage your time to engage with online resources. These resources 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 and with your student project team 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 and with your student project team outside of your 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/s and your student project team. As part of an effective team you will share the findings of your project work with your supervisor/s for marking and feedback, and you will share your project progress presentation with your supervisor/s with members of your class. You are encouraged to view this team as a learning community and to 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
Assessment in the unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. The due dates of assessments represent a series of coordinated milestones within an engineering project that spans 26 weeks (for EGH400-1 and EGH400-2 in whole). You will work as a member of a cohesive team with your academic supervisor (and industry supervisor for industry projects) and your student project team, which will be assessed by your academic supervisor in your work performance assessment, and which you will reflect in your project delivery report and oral defence. You will deploy work practices that align to professional practice (such as teamwork, project management, ethics, risk management, stakeholder and audience engagement).
To successfully complete EGH400-2, it is compulsory for you to achieve a Satisfactory grade for your Work Placement Report. Your final grade for EGH400-1 and EGH400-2 will be withheld until you have met this requirement.
Your final mark for both EGH400-1 and EGH400-2 will be calculated as:
0.4 × (Overall mark for EGH400-1) + 0.6 × (Overall mark for EGH400-2).
This final mark will be converted to a QUT 7-point grade, and you will be awarded the same grade for EGH400-1 and EGH400-2.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
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 (40% individual). This part of the assessment is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
With your student project team you will give an oral defence of your project delivery to a panel comprised of academic staff in Faculty of Engineering and members of your class (10% individual, 10% group). This presentation is not an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Work Performence
Your academic supervisor will observe your individual participation and work performance during meetings and interactions throughout EGH400-1 Research Project 1 and EGH400-2 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 prescribed by the Unit Coordinator (e.g. Microsoft Teams). In some cases, your supervisor will ask industry partners or other project stakeholders to provide feedback on your individual work performance.
Assessment: Work Placement Report
You are required to submit a Workplace Report along with a Work Log, Certificate of Time Worked (signed by workplace supervisor) and InPlace Approval email.
Your Workplace Experience Report will conform to a template and be 2 pages long. It will take the form of a Career Episode statement, linking to the competencies of the
Engineers Australia (EA) Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
.
This task will be marked as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Satisfactory completion is requirement for finalisation of your grade for EGH400-2 and graduation.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties 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.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGH400-2 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGH400-1 |
| Coordinators: | Yanming Feng | y.feng@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 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 EGH400-1 Research Project 1 and together build upon your learning throughout your engineering core and Study Area A. You will demonstrate that you have completed the work placement required by Engineers Australia.
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.
- Compile a Work Placement Experience Report that meets the QUT Engineering Work Placement Experience and Certification Guidelines.
Content
1. project design
2. project methodology
3. project management
4. advancement of discipline knowledge and skills
5. reporting of project final delivery
6. oral defence of project final delivery
Learning Approaches
This unit is the second part of the research project. You are expected to continue the project you conducted in EGH400-1.
In this unit, there is no timetabled lectures, however, at the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator.
You are expected to:
- Manage your time to engage with online resources. These resources 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 and with your student project team 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 and with your student project team outside of your 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/s and your student project team. As part of an effective team you will share the findings of your project work with your supervisor/s for marking and feedback, and you will share your project progress presentation with your supervisor/s with members of your class. You are encouraged to view this team as a learning community and to 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
Assessment in the unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. The due dates of assessments represent a series of coordinated milestones within an engineering project that spans 26 weeks (for EGH400-1 and EGH400-2 in whole). You will work as a member of a cohesive team with your academic supervisor (and industry supervisor for industry projects) and your student project team, which will be assessed by your academic supervisor in your work performance assessment, and which you will reflect in your project delivery report and oral defence. You will deploy work practices that align to professional practice (such as teamwork, project management, ethics, risk management, stakeholder and audience engagement).
To successfully complete EGH400-2, it is compulsory for you to achieve a Satisfactory grade for your Work Placement Report. Your final grade for EGH400-1 and EGH400-2 will be withheld until you have met this requirement.
Your final mark for both EGH400-1 and EGH400-2 will be calculated as:
0.4 × (Overall mark for EGH400-1) + 0.6 × (Overall mark for EGH400-2).
This final mark will be converted to a QUT 7-point grade, and you will be awarded the same grade for EGH400-1 and EGH400-2.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
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 (40% individual). This part of the assessment is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
With your student project team you will give an oral defence of your project delivery to a panel comprised of academic staff in Faculty of Engineering and members of your class (10% individual, 10% group). This presentation is not an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Work Performence
Your academic supervisor will observe your individual participation and work performance during meetings and interactions throughout EGH400-1 Research Project 1 and EGH400-2 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 prescribed by the Unit Coordinator (e.g. Microsoft Teams). In some cases, your supervisor will ask industry partners or other project stakeholders to provide feedback on your individual work performance.
Assessment: Work Placement Report
You are required to submit a Workplace Report along with a Work Log, Certificate of Time Worked (signed by workplace supervisor) and InPlace Approval email.
Your Workplace Experience Report will conform to a template and be 2 pages long. It will take the form of a Career Episode statement, linking to the competencies of the
Engineers Australia (EA) Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
.
This task will be marked as satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Satisfactory completion is requirement for finalisation of your grade for EGH400-2 and graduation.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties 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.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.