Year No. Offer Mode Description Cred. Pts 96 70810 S12 D PROJECT 1.00
Project units offered by the Faculty have limitations on their use as indicated below. The Council of the University of Southern Queensland, its Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, and the staff of the University of Southern Queensland, do not accept any responsibility for the material associated with or contained in this Project. Persons using all or any part of the Project do so at their own risk, and not at the risk of the Council of the University of Southern Queensland, its Faculty of Engineering and Surveying or the staff of the University of Southern Queensland. The sole purpose of the unit entitled "Project" is to contribute to the overall education process which may assist the diplomate or graduate enter the workforce at a level appropriate to the award. The Project Report is the end of an educational exercise and the report, associated hardware, drawings, and other appendices or parts of the Project should not be used for any other purpose and, if used, are used at the risk of the user.
Projects are intended to apply the student's total formal knowledge to a real problem. In this sense they test the ability to define and analyse the problem, to develop solutions to the problem, to make the necessary decisions, convert ideas into hardware and to cope with the unexpected problems encountered in testing. All of this must be accomplished against a tight timescale. In short, the project is a good test of overall engineering ability.
Description Weighting(%)
- Students will tackle an individual, generally open ended 100.00 task which will encompass a range of engineering skills appropriate to the student's major study. These will include some (or all) of the following : . planning and management . investigation . feasibility assessment . experimental work and trialling . fieldwork . data analysis . design . prototype construction and testing . simulation and modelling . financial analysis The work will be undertaken with the guidance of a supervisor or supervisors, normally appointed from the academic staff of the Faculty. Sponsors and supervisors external to the Faculty may also by involved.
The project will require full use of the resources of the Library eg
literature searches, research papers, journals and trade literature
files.
"Guidelines and Requirements for the Preparation and Submission of the
Project Report", (available from the Examiner in August).
ACTIVITY HOURS Tutorials/Workshops 10 Seminars 10 Project Work 125 Report Writing 30
No *F/S Marks Due Description Wtg(%) LBL 1 S 26/07/96 PROGRESS ASSESSMENT N 2 F 18/10/96 DRAFT PROJECT REPORT N 3 S 07/11/96 PROJECT PERFORMANCE 100.00 N
1 A student will not normally be permitted to commence a project
until he/she is in the final year of the Bachelor of Engineering.
The following regulations relate to the assessment of
students performance in their projects.
2 TOPICS AND SUPERVISORS
2.1 Both project topics and supervisors will be allocated by
the examiner on the advice of one of the assistant
examiners depending on the student's major study, staff
availability for supervision and, where practicable,
student preferences.
2.2 The student shall meet with the supervisor at regular
intervals, normally weekly, or as indicated by the
supervisor and keep whatever records of progress the
supervisor may require (eg a log book).
3 PROJECT SPECIFICATION
3.1 An individual project specification will be written by
the supervisor for each project endorsed by the student
and lodged with the examiner.
3.2 A revised project specification may be written during the
course of the project if the work diverges
significantly from the original project conception.
3.3 The project specification will be used for management
and assessment purposes throughout the duration of the
project.
4 SEMINARS
4.1 The student shall present a SEMINAR which will normally be
late in the first semester and must be a satisfactory
standard.
4.2 A student whose seminar is not of a satisfactory standard
shall present further seminar(s) until a satisfactory is
achieved.
4.3 Attendance throughout the seminar programme is compulsory
and a register will be kept. Students with unsatisfactory
attendance will be required to find and attend seminars
on topic(s) of relevance to the engineering profession
and provide satisfactory written report(s) on these
seminar(s).
5 PROGRESS ASSESSMENT
5.1 A mid unit progress assessment will be conducted by
the supervisor and may comprise:
. an interview, and/or
. a demonstration, and/or
. a written report at the discretion of the supervisor.
The result of the assessment will be lodged with the
examiner.
5.2 Where a student has failed to maintain a satisfactory
rate of progress he/she will be required to show cause why
he/she should not be dropped from the unit.
5.3 Where unsatisfactory progress is the result of factors
beyond the control of the student this shall be recorded.
6 DEADLINES
6.1 The deadline for receipt of the project report is 4.00 pm on
the day indicated in the Assessment Details section of
the specification.
6.2 Credit will be given for projects completed
significantly in advance of this deadline.
6.3 Extension of this deadline will only be granted in
exceptional circumstances, such as prolonged illness and
only by the Examiner. Application for such an extension
must be made in writing to the examiner, fully
justified, and be endorsed by the supervisor.
6.4 For certain exceptional projects a non standard deadline
may be set. This will be stated and justified on
the project specification.
6.5 Certain students may need to undertake the unit entirely in
S1 or entirely in S2 to suit their other study commitments.
For these students appropriate seminar presentation and
deadlines for the mid unit and final assessment will be
set.
6.6 Any student unable to submit by this deadline must state
briefly in a letter to the Examiner why he/she should not
be graded F at this time.
6.7 Projects not submitted by the deadline above will be
eligible for a C grade only.
6.8 The FINAL DEADLINE for project submission is 31 January of
the following year. Projects not submitted by this final
deadline will automatically be graded Fail and the student
will normally be required to undertake a NEW project in the
following year.
7 SUBMISSION
7.1 At least three copies of the project report shall be
submitted in a format stipulated by the examiner of the
unit. This currently outlined in the document "Guidelines
and Requirements for the Preparation and Submission of the
Project Report", (available from the Examiner in August). A
report that is not in the required format will not be
accepted.
8 ASSESSMENT
8.1 Assessment of the project and project report shall be
with respect to the final version of the individual
project specification and will take into account the degree
of difficulty of the work and all of the three (3)
workload activities listed above.
8.2 Project assessment may also involve demonstration of
hardware constructed, software written and/or inspection
of fieldwork as appropriate.
8.3 At least two members of academic staff shall perform
the assessment, one of whom will normally be the supervisor.
9 In the case of any dispute that cannot be resolved by the
assistant examiners or examiner, the Dean's decision shall be
final.