Engineering Internship Research Project

Course aim

To enable students to gain the skills required by engineering professionals to negotiate, plan, undertake and communicate the results of an engineering project whilst working in an industry placement.

Course content

There will be no formal syllabus as the students will work with their academic and industry supervisor. The project topic will be based on the needs of industry. The project must be undertaken individually and cover project formulation to completion.

The course entails placement of the student within an industry or research internship for a period of 12-15 weeks full-time equivalence. This placement may be full-time, part-time, or some combination thereof.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Students will need to have completed 99 units of their engineering degree and achieved a GPA of 5.5 to be able to undertake this industry placement course.

Corequisite(s)

Students must enrol in the course Engineering Research Practice simultaneously with this course (usual) or have completed the course Engineering Research Practice.

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Final report , Initial report describing problem, Presentation ["Technical Defence"] to Industry and Academics

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.375
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.