Course overview
This course will enable graduates to develop advanced skills required by civil engineering and environmental science professionals in negotiating, planning, designing, constructing, researching, and reporting civil engineering and environmental management developments or schemes. Utilisation of a real industry project. Tender preparation, feasibility study and execution of detailed design for a real industry project. Community consultation, contract preparation and environmental management plan of an engineering project. The course is undertaken by the class acting as consulting companies with the management and organisation of that company being the responsibility of the students. Teams will have regular meetings with the lecturers and industry clients to review project progress. Each class company will be required to submit a complete concept design and reports on specified components of each project. Significant emphasis will be placed on the social, environmental, international, political and economic contexts applicable to each project.
Course learning outcomes
- Consult in a professional manner with an industry client to establish a brief which aims to achieve broadly-stated final objectives in the fields of civil engineering and environmental science.
- Critically review national projects and similar international projects and apply judgement to situations where the requirements of development and the need to conserve the environment come into conflict to reach appropriate decisions.
- Research and obtain, where possible, all data, surveys, reports, standards and codes of practice needed to achieve an agreed objective.
- Use prior technical knowledge and current industry tools, combined with research into new knowledge areas to develop and design a feasible solution to problems that are beyond the scope of those previously encountered in earlier courses.
- Summarise and report outcomes of investigations in a concise and professional manner acceptable to a client in oral, drawn and written modes.
- Demonstrate teamwork and develop team leadership skills including critical reflection and appraisal of self and peer learning and contributions to achieving final outcomes.
- Generate complex solutions that benefit the community following the community consultation plan for the project.