Overview

This is a project-based unit in which students work in teams to innovate a solution to an industry driven challenge. The project will have a substantial emphasis on engineering technology innovation. 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 innovation projects aligned to their chosen major. This unit forms part of the student major selection if their course undertaken has a choice of major.

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:

  • Apply a systematic approach to engineering technology innovation (A3, A4, A5, K2, K3, K4, K6, S1, S2)
  • Apply knowledge of innovation fundamentals to engineering technology challenges (K3, K4, S1, S2, S3)
  • Identify, organise, and make decisions on a range of topics related to engineering technology innovation (A4, K3, K4, S1, S2)
  • Use technology to develop and present innovation solutions (A2, K2, K3, S3)
  • Demonstrate reflective practice, and use self and peer evaluation (A1, A5, A6, A7)
  • Communicate within teams and stakeholders using appropriate verbal, written and technological approaches (A2, A7, K5, K6, S4)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Seminar
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Workshop
2.00 12 weeks 24
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
8.50 12 weeks 102
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual/Group 100% 1,2,3,4,5,6 

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:

(i) achieve an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more, and(ii) complete the project to an acceptable standard. A rubric will be used to determine if students have met the acceptable standard. The rubric is available on Canvas. Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (i) and (ii) in full, will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

  • Technical content in the selected major
  • Management Theory
  • Team dynamics
  • Public speaking

Study resources

Reading materials

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