Engineering Honours Project A

Course aim

To introduce the fundamental concepts and practice of engineering research and enable students to undertake a major research project in a specialist area of engineering.

Course content

Students will learn about why research is carried out and how undertaking it results in establishing new knowledge, products, and processes in all fields of engineering. They will gain an understanding that the reliability and, therefore, impact of knowledge is determined by how it is developed, including the choice of methods and maintaining research integrity. This requires researchers to be aware of what is already known (context and literature), carefully design the approach (i.e., methodology and methods), and correctly interpret their results to develop conclusions that can be relied on. They will learn how to write a project proposal that identifies the research questions / hypotheses, aims and objectives, methods of data collection and analysis, ethics and safety, and a research plan.

Students are expected to continue the same project started in this course when undertaking the subsequent related project course.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Students must have completed 99 units of an Engineering degree.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture	2 hours x 6 weeks
Workshop	2 hours x 6 weeks
Directed Study	N/A 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

Literature review, Proposal, Report, Test/Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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.