ENCN470-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Professional Engineering Development

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 October 2018

Description

Professional issues in Civil and Natural Resources Engineering. Society and environment, ethics, communication skills, historical developments, future engineering issues, and system thinking.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:
 Apply reasoning informed by contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal, and cultural issues.
 Apply ethical principles, and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms in engineering practice.
 Prepare to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
 Improve communication skills, with an emphasis on development of an argument and conveying complex concepts.
 Analyse the effectiveness of a team effort and your role within it.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

ENCN301 (in 2014 and beyond)

Restrictions

ENCI403

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Mark Milke

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Individual case study analysis 15%
final exam 20%
Oral presentation 9%
final report 17%
Maori consultation 2%
Professional engineering notebook 20%
project plan 2%
Engineering Ethics test 15%


Late assignments will have 20% deducted, and an additional 20% for each full day late, unless prior arrangement has been made. While a minimum of 50% of the overall course marks is required for passing, you must also achieve at least 50% on the ethics test.

Textbooks / Resources

For guidance with communication skills used in this course, students are required to have a copy of the Department’s Communications Portfolio Guide (3rd edition), which can be purchased from University Bookshop for ~$30. This will also serve as a useful reference for your future engineering career.

Students are also expected to monitor Learn regularly for any notices about the course and to use it for class/group discussions and queries to lecturers.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,059.00

International fee $5,125.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

All ENCN470 Occurrences

  • ENCN470-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018
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