Overview

This unit aims to provide students with the opportunity to apply knowledge, techniques and skills gained from units taught within the program in solving problems relevant to industry.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Plan and manage an entrepreneurial engineering group project
  • Research a complex problem within the project, including appraising current literature and developments, and applying research principles and methods
  • Demonstrate effective professional written and oral communication to a variety of audiences
  • Reflect on professional engineering practice and your role as a professional
  • Work collaboratively in diverse teams

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
2.00 12 weeks 24
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PresentationGroup 20 - 30% 3,5 
ProjectGroup 10 - 15% 1,2,3 
Project ReportIndividual/Group 40 - 60% 1,2,3,5 
Reflective PieceIndividual 10 - 15% 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more

Content

  • Professional engineering practice
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business & Finance
  • Communication & Teamwork skills

Study resources

Reading materials

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