Course overview
This course will provide students with the opportunity to integrate the learning that they have gained in the first three years of their study in a project that simulates working in the commercial environment. Students will solve technical challenges requiring intellectual and research skills alongside the people challenges of working in inter-disciplinary teams using their organisational and inter-personal skills. The course is designed around problem based learning activities and skills and self directed learning strategies to achieve solutions to a series of multidimensional technical, social and environmental problems. It also includes strategies dealing with teamwork and self reliance in order to achieve an optimum solution.
Course learning outcomes
- Design solutions to a 'real world' problem to the satisfaction of the client
- Plan and execute tasks as an efficient and cohesive team thereby providing a truly professional service to a client
- Compile and communicate a plan for the development of a real site that will appeal to the needs of the community, stakeholders and potential investors
- Reflect on the requirements needed to operate as part of a multi disciplinary team
- Reflect on the value of experiential learning to the individual's learning environment