DDC/08/237 Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences Higher Education Division

Unit of Study Outline HES5103 Advanced Research Project

Semester 1 and 2, 2012
Version date (13 January, 2012)

Swinburne University of Technology, 2008 Except as provided in the Copyright Act 1968, this document may not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the University.

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Table of Contents

Unit of Study Outline .................................................................................................. 4

Aims .......................................................................................................................... 4 Learning Objectives.................................................................................................... 4 Content ...................................................................................................................... 4 Key Generic Skills for this Unit of Study ..................................................................... 5 Learning and Teaching Structure ............................................................................... 5

Provisional Schedule.................................................................................................. 5 Teaching Staff ............................................................................................................. 6 Blackboard Site for this Unit of Study ...................................................................... 6
Discussion Forums ..................................................................................................... 6 Electronic back up of work (where appropriate) .......................................................... 7 Email forwarding ........................................................................................................ 7

Assessment................................................................................................................. 7
a. Assessment Task Details: ...................................................................................... 7 b. Participation Requirements .................................................................................... 8 d. Assessment Criteria: .............................................................................................. 8 e. Submission of Assignments:................................................................................... 8 f. Extensions and Late Submissions: .......................................................................... 8 g. Assessment Results: .............................................................................................. 8 h. Groupwork Guidelines: ........................................................................................... 9 A group project is the collective responsibility of the entire group, and if one member is temporarily ....................................................................................... 9 j. Assessment and Appeals Policy and Procedure ...................................................... 9 Student Feedback: ..................................................................................................... 9 Safety Standards and Conduct Requirements: ......................................................... 10 Special Needs .......................................................................................................... 10 Resources and Reference Material .......................................................................... 10

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Unit of Study Outline

Unit of study code Unit of study name Teaching Term/Semester & Year Contact Hours (hrs/wk) or total contact hours Prerequisites Corequisites Credit Points

HES5103 Advanced Research Project 2012, Semester 1 and 2 5 hours per week HES5102: completion of 250 credit points None 12.5

Aims
During the course we aim: To develop collaborative and team work skills. To develop project management skills. To develop skills in planning and executing an innovative project. To undertake a major project and complete the task satisfactorily within time and budget. To develop an understanding of the processes of research. To demonstrate the ability to integrate knowledge and skills acquired during the course. To develop advanced skills in literature review, report writing and oral presentation. To develop skills in writing and presenting a major project report. To demonstrate the ability to communicate by presenting a professional seminar.

Learning Objectives After successfully completing this unit, you should be able :
To develop skills in planning and executing an innovative project. To develop skills in the research of the literature and prior art. To develop skills in writing and presenting a major project report. To demonstrate the ability to integrate knowledge and skills acquired during the course. To demonstrate the ability to complete a full project from inception to achieving stated deliverables. To demonstrate the ability to communicate by presenting a professional seminar.

Content
Specifying roles of student and supervisor. Develop a research/project question/problem/objective. Develop their Presentation techniques. Review the literature. Plan a research/project design. Understand ethical requirements. Write a research/project proposal. Understand qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Page 4 of 10

Write a research document and technical report with corresponding writing skills.

Students may select a project from a list prepared by academic staff, or may suggest their own topic based on individual interest, or arising from their period of Industry-Based Learning. The project may be university based or industry based. It may take various forms involving technology research and development, experimental work, computer analysis, industry liaison and business skills. Students are expected to conduct literature and state-of-the-art surveys, formulate and define problems, generate and select solutions, and analyse and prepare designs. Where appropriate, students will build and test their design. Projects are undertaken under the close supervision of a staff member who meets regularly with the students to discuss and assure progress. Total student time spent on the project is expected to be a minimum of 160 hours.

Key Generic Skills for this Unit of Study You will be provided with feedback on your progress in attaining the following generic skills: Engineers Australia Generic Attributes
Ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals. Ability to communicate effectively, not only with engineers but also with the community at large In-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline. Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution. Ability to function effectively as an individual and in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, with the capacity to be a leader or manager as well as an effective team member.

Learning and Teaching Structure 5 hours per week of independent learning In a Semester, you should normally expect to spend, on average, twelve and a half hours of total time (formal contact time plus independent study time) a week on a 12.5 credit point unit of study. In a Term, you should normally expect to spend, on average, twenty five hours of total time (formal contact time plus independent study time) a week on a 12.5 credit point unit of study.

Provisional Schedule
Weeks Semester 1 1-11 12 Independent research Independent research Independent Research Independent Research As detailed in section on assessment Report Submission to FEIS Office EN153 th @ 12 noon.25 May 2012 Lecture Topic Lab/Tutorial Topic Assessment

Semester 2 1-11 12 Independent research Independent research Independent Research Independent Research As detailed in section on assessment Report Submission to FEIS Office EN153 st @ 12 noon.1 November 2012

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Teaching Staff
Name Aaron Blicblau Role Unit of Study Convenor Campus & Room No. Hawthorn Room EN706d Hawthorn Room ATC820 Hawthorn Room ATC822 Hawthorn Room ATC842 Hawthorn ROOM ATC844 Hawthorn Room ATC836 92148528 ywong@swin.edu.au 92148262 piovenitti@swin.edu.au Phone No. 92148531 Email Address ablicblau@swin.edu.au Consultation Times By arrangement

Pio Iovennitti

Subject Panel Member

By arrangement

Yat Choy Wong

Subject Panel Member

By arrangement

Jamal Naser

Subject Panel Member

jnaser@swin.edu.au

By arrangement

Akbar Rhamdhani

Subject Panel Member

arhamdhani@swin.edu.au

By arrangement

Richard Manasseh

Student Project Supervisors

By arrangement

Blackboard Site for this Unit of Study

Important information concerning this unit of study is placed on the Swinburne course management system (Blackboard). It is your responsibility to access on a regular basis the Blackboard site for your unit of study, the Announcements section on Blackboard, and any emails sent by the teaching staff to your student email address via Blackboard. If you access your email through a provider other than Swinburne, it is your responsibility to ensure that your Swinburne email is redirected to your private email address. To redirect your Swinburne email, go to https://www.swin.edu.au/chdets/login.php Type in your ID number and your password. Note your ID number is the first six numbers of your student ID and your password is initially set to your date of birth in the format DDMMYY Under 'Email forwarding' enter the email address to which you would like your Swinburne emails to be forwarded. Now click 'Change'

Discussion Forums
Each EIS Subject Website and Course Information & Feedback Website on Blackboard contains a Feedback Forum. Please use these forums at any time during the semester to give the Subject Convenor or Program Coordinator feedback about any aspect of this subject or your course. Note that critical comments are fine as long as they are constructive. Positive comments are welcome too! "Flaming" or posting of defamatory comments is not permitted. Postings which are possibly defamatory may be removed by the subject convener or Program Coordinator.

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Electronic back up of work (where appropriate)

Always keep an independent backup of electronic work. This applies to work in progress as well as submitted work. You should regularly back up electronic material onto a zip disk or CD. Do not keep all of your assignments and other important material only on a single medium. Where possible you should keep hardcopy records of work that has been submitted. This especially applies to work submitted by email. For group work, all group members should maintain a copy of work in progress as well as the final submission.

Email forwarding
If you subscribe to an e-mail service through a provider (eg hotmail or gmail) other than Swinburne, any official e-mail originating from Swinburne (including Blackboard) will not reach you unless you arrange for redirection of your Swinburne e-mail to that alternative service. Re-direction will ensure that you don't miss important information sent via the Blackboard website for your subject to your Swinburne account by your instructors or classmates. To re-direct your Swinburne email to an alternative address (eg jbloggs34@hotmail.com), follow the "Email Forwarding" link from the Blackboard home page: - If the email address to which you redirect your email changes during the year, it is your responsibility to update your email forwarding details straight away. - The login details (user IDs and passwords) for the OPAX and Blackboard systems are completely independent; that is, changing your OPAX login details does not affect your Blackboard login details (and vice versa). - For more help, call the Swinburne Help Desk on 9214 5000 for difficulties related to your OPAX login details.

Assessment
a. Assessment Task Details:
Assessment Task Individual/ Group Task Group or individual depending on the project Related Learning Objective(s) To develop collaborative and team work skills. To develop project management skills. To develop skills in planning and executing an innovative project. To undertake a major project and complete the task satisfactorily within time and budget. To develop an understanding of the processes of research. To demonstrate the ability to integrate knowledge and skills acquired during the course. To develop advanced skills in literature review, report writing and oral presentation. To develop skills in writing and presenting a major project report. Weighting (per cent) 80 Due Date

Written report

Semester 1 Thursday May 24 2012 12 noon* To be confirmed - see a notice on Blackboard

Semester 2, Thursday Nov. 8 noon 2012 To be confirmed - see a notice on Blackboard *may be subject to change

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Oral presentation,

Group or individual depending on the project Group or individual depending on the project

To demonstrate the ability to communicate by presenting a professional seminar. To develop skills in planning and executing an innovative project. To develop collaborative and team work skills. To develop project management skills.

10

To be determined- see a notice on Blackboard

Poster presentation,

10

To be determined- see a notice on Blackboard

b. Participation Requirements This subject encourages active participation throughout all the assessable tasks. c. Minimum Requirements to pass this Unit of Study: In order to achieve a pass in this unit of study, you must: attain
at least 30 marks (out of 80) for the examination of the report, at least 4 marks (out of 10) for the oral presentation, at least 4 marks (out of 10) for the poster presentation, and at least an aggregate percentage of 50% for the subject.

d. Assessment Criteria:
The assessment criteria will be posted on Blackboard. Guidelines for the reports, oral presentations and posters are given in the Blackboard site. No exemption is given for previous work.

e. Submission of Assignments:
The reports are to be submitted at the end of the semester at a time, date and place nominated by the convenor, and will be posted on Blackboard. The oral presentations and poster presentations are to be delivered at the end of the semester at a time, date and place nominated by the convenor, and will be posted on Blackboard.

f. Extensions and Late Submissions:

Only in exceptional circumstances will (a) (b) extensions be granted, or late work be accepted without penalty.

Penalties for late work: 2 marks will be deducted for each day late up to a maximum of 3 days, after which it will not be accepted. Any part of a day will be counted as 1 day.

g. Assessment Results: Consult Blackboard and your supervisor for all assessment task details Students must retain all assessed material that contributes to the final result up until such time as the final results are published.

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h. Groupwork Guidelines:
A group project is the collective responsibility of the entire group, and if one member is temporarily unable to contribute, the group should be able to reallocate responsibilities to keep to schedule. In the event of longerterm illness or other serious problems involving a member of a project group, it is the responsibility of the other members to make the project supervisor aware of the situation straight away. Group project reports must be submitted with the project cover sheet, signed by all members of the group. All group members must be satisfied that the work has been correctly submitted. Any penalties for late submission will apply to all group members, not just the person who submitted.] i. Plagiarism: Swinburne University of Technology defines Plagiarism as the action or practice of taking and submitting or presenting the thoughts, writings or other work of someone else as though it is your own work. Plagiarism includes any of the following, without full and appropriate acknowledgment to the original source(s): (i) The use of the whole or part of a computer program written by another person; (ii) the use, in essays or other assessable work, of the whole or part of a written work from any source including but not limited to a book, journal, newspaper article, set of lecture notes, current or past students work, any other persons work, a website or database; (iii) the paraphrasing of anothers work; (iv) the use of musical composition, audio, visual, graphic and photographic models, (v) The use of realia, that is objects, artefacts, costumes, models and the like. Plagiarism also includes the preparation or production and submission or presentation of assignments or other work in conjunction with another person or other people when that work should be your own independent work. This remains plagiarism whether or not it is with the knowledge or consent of the other person or people. It should be noted that Swinburne encourages its students to talk to staff, fellow students and other people who may be able to contribute to a students academic work but that where independent assignment is required, submitted or presented work must be the students own. Enabling plagiarism contributes to plagiarism and therefore will be treated as a form of plagiarism by the University. Enabling plagiarism means allowing or otherwise assisting another student to copy or otherwise plagiarise work by, for example, allowing access to a draft or completed assignment or other work.

j. Assessment and Appeals Policy and Procedure

The information outlined in the Assessment sections above is covered in more detail in Swinburnes Assessment and Appeals Policy and Procedure. Students must be familiar with the Policy and Procedure, found at http://ppd.swin.edu.au/stuinf/AssessmentAndAppealsHigherEducation.htm The Policy and Procedure provides details about: Assessment issues such as the conduct of examinations, plagiarism policies and details explaining how to apply for a review of results and other appeals, and Student progress issues such as unsatisfactory academic progress and early intervention procedures, and Information for students with disabilities and special needs and procedures for applying for special consideration.

Students should make themselves familiar with all aspects of the Policy and Procedure, as failure to do so is not grounds for appeal. Students are advised to seek advice from the staff at the Swinburne Student Amenities Association SSAA (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ssaa/) if they require assistance with advocacy for Sections 12 (At-Risk and Progress Review) and 13 (Appeals) of the Policy and Procedure.

Student Feedback:
Swinburne seeks student feedback in a number of ways, including through periodic Student Feedback on Units and Student Feedback on Teaching surveys, as part of the universitys approach to quality assurance and improvement. Possible improvement based on both student and staff feedback is considered by Unit Convenors, Unit Panels made up of relevant teaching staff, Program Panels, Faculty Academic Committees, and the Academic Programs Quality Committee, as appropriate.

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Safety Standards and Conduct Requirements:

The University executes safety drills without warning. Be prepared to follow instructions from staff and/or wardens to evacuate the building in a safe and orderly manner. All students are expected to respect the rights and sensibilities of their fellow students and teaching staff. This also applies in respect of the content of video and audio work submitted for assessment. The University has rigorous anti-discrimination and harassment policies and procedures. http://ppd.swinburne.edu.au/humres/AntiDiscrimination.htm Safety procedures in laboratories must be followed. Open-toed shoes are not permitted in certain laboratories. Drink or food is not permitted in teaching spaces. The supervisor is authorised to exclude students for dangerous or disruptive behaviour which would result in forfeiture of all marks for the laboratory activity. The playing of computer games is not allowed in the computer labs.

Special Needs
If you have special needs you should advise your Faculty and the Unit of Study Convenor by the end of the second week of the teaching period. In addition, you are recommended to notify the Equity Office if you have not already done so. See also the Students with Disabilities and Special Needs Section of the Assessment and Appeals Policy & Procedure, at http://ppd.swin.edu.au/stuinf/AssessmentAndAppealsHigherEducation.htm

Resources and Reference Material

There is no required text. Suggested reference material includes: Evans,D. and Gruba,P., How to Write a Better Thesis, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, nd 2 .edition Breach, M. Dissertation Writing for Engineers and Scientists, Pearson, Essex, 2009. Silyn-Roberts, H. Writing for Science and Engineering, Butterworth-Heineman, Oxford, 2000

Further references as recommended by the supervisor to support the student's project.

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