Overview

This is a project-based unit in which students work in teams to apply a solution to an industry driven challenge. The project will have a substantial emphasis on technology application. Teams of students will have a staff member as a ‘facilitator’ whilst working on this project. Student teams will be allowed to select a project from a range of industry oriented application projects aligned to their chosen specialisation or course discipline.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Select and apply appropriate technologies and sources of information to provide cost-effective solutions to real-life problems in the context of a technology application project
  • Appraise the technology challenges by independently performing ethical, scholarly and applied research
  • Select and apply proper research methods and practices to interpret and critically appraise data ethically acquired during technology application
  • Plan, design, develop and present solutions for a real-life project in a team environment that demonstrates scholarship in one field relevant to technology application that takes into account ethics and cyber security
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between the knowledge studied in technical units and its practical application in a real-life organisational setting, through reflective practice, and self and peer evaluation
  • Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of ethical and professional behaviours as well as social and cultural perspectives in an organisational context

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
Live Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
On-campus
Workshop		2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Group Meetings		1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		18.00 12 weeks 216
TOTAL300

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Final ProductionIndividual 35% 2,3,4,5,6 
Progress EvaluationIndividual 15% 1,2,3,4,5 
Project Demonstration/PresentationGroup 15% 4,5,6 
Project ReportGroup 20% 3,4,5,6 
Project: Concept DesignGroup 15% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Technical content in the selected specialisation or course discipline
  • Technology application techniques relevant to the selected specialisation or course discipline
  • Identification and application of discipline-specific research methods
  • Identification and implementation of appropriate experimental designs and research strategies
  • Digital technology integration techniques
  • Ethics and cyber security
  • Interdisciplinary team dynamics
  • Technology project management
  • Professional technical writing
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
  • Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.