Engineering and Environmental Masters Design Project

Course aim

To 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.

Course content

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.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Completion of the first year of the program.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Seminar	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	3 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External	N/A x 13 weeks

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

Assessment

Group assignment, Group project, Presentation

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.250
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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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.