Year No. Offer Mode Description Cred. Pts 96 E1009 S12 X CIVIL ENG 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.
An engineering associate or technologist should be able to work on a project, either individually or as part of a team, which covers wide areas of civil engineering knowledge. This unit seeks to give the student such experience.
The objective of this unit is to develop a student's ability to work on a project under the guidance of a project leader. Upon successful completion of this unit, the student should be capable of working in a design, investigation, research or construction team, at the level of an engineering associate or technologist, on a problem of an engineering nature.
Description Weighting(%)
- The project is normally undertaken during the final 100.00 year of the student's course and it is intended to consolidate the material presented in the course and develop the student's self confidence in his ability to apply that to real situations.
- The project represents about 175 hours of student effort and may cover such activities as design, investigation, testing, construction, and evaluation.
- The work undertaken must be in the broad field of civil engineering.
- It is expected that most students will select projects that they may complete by drawing upon human and physical resources within their local environment.
Strunk W and White E B, "The Elements of Style", 3rd Edition, MacMillan NY,
1979.
ACTIVITY HOURS Project Work 115 Report Writing 40 Residential School 4 Private Study 16
No *F/S Marks Due Description Wtg(%) LBL 1 F 08/03/96 PROJECT APPROVAL FORM Y 2 F 05/07/96 PROGRESS REPORT Y 3 S 01/11/96 PROJECT REPORT 100.00 Y
As detailed in the Study Guide for the unit.
1 TOPICS AND SUPERVISORS
1.1 Both topics and supervisors will be approved by the
examiner after consultation with other staff and the
students.
1.2 The student will meet or correspond with the supervisor
at regular intervals as indicated by the supervisor.
2 PROGRESS ASSESSMENT
2.1 A mid unit progress assessment will be conducted by the
supervisor and may comprise: an interview and/or a written
report at the discretion of the supervisor. The result
of the assessment will be lodged with the examiner.
3 DEADLINES
3.1 The due date for the receipt of the project report
is indicated in the assessment details section of
the specification.
3.2 Any extension of this deadline will only be granted in
exceptional circumstances such as prolonged illness.
Application for such an extension (fully justified) shall be
made in writing to the examiner.
3.3 Projects not submitted by the due date will be eligible for
a C grade only.
3.4 The FINAL DEADLINE for project report 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.
4 SUBMISSION
4.1 Three copies of the project report shall be submitted in
a format stipulated by the examiner. This is
currently outlined in the document "E1009 - Civil
Engineering Project - A Guide to the Preparation of
External Project Reports".
5 There is a non compulsory residential school for this unit.