Course overview
This course develops your ability to execute and deliver engineering projects. It is the first in a series of research project courses where students solve authentic engineering problems supported by academic supervisors in small groups. In Part A, students will work to develop a project plan, literature review, and methodology, for an identified engineering project and build their professional practice skills in engineering management alongside oral and written communication. Students continue the same project in Part B. These project courses must be undertaken in consecutive teaching periods and acceptable progress is required to continue to Part B.
- Project Management/Processes And Logistics
- Technical Writing And Communication
- Presentation
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to execute a project plan, critically reflecting on the progress of the project, reminder of the work, ensuring progress at key milestone and alignment with project goals
- Generate research and technical engineering outputs by applying appropriate methods, resources and modern engineering tools for their assigned project including generating appropriate evidence via reproducible methods that enable sound conclusions to be drawn
- Critically evaluate project findings, and develop evidence-based arguments to support conclusions and recommendations
- Demonstrate the ability to work effectively and cooperatively as a member of a team to achieve project outcomes, contributing to team leadership as the situation requires, using effective self and/or team management, review and improvement practices
- Use and manage information in a professional context and be aware of common document identification, tracking and control procedures
- Synthesise and effectively communicate the rationale, progress and outputs of an engineering project through written and oral means to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Critically assess the issues surrounding the conduct of an identified engineering project including, ethical, cultural, safety, social, environmental and economic impacts, as appropriate
- Convincingly defend and demonstrate critical inquiry into a research position (including justification, methodological decisions, reasoning and findings) as well as project and team management decisions or interactions
Degree list
The following degrees include this course