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Engineering Research Project
The third professional year project is very different to all other final year courses. It is not based onformal lectures, laboratories and tutorials, but instead allows you to explore a problem that interests you under the close supervision of an academic staff member. The vast majority of students who undertake a project find it a very rewarding experience.Students who are wishing to pursue future postgraduate study will see the project as an excellentopportunity to sample the postgraduate research environment, and to explore possible avenues for their future research.In 2013 the third pro project became a compulsory course for all civil and natural resourcesengineering students. For the majority of you it will be a full year course (ENCN493W) that makes up 25% of your final year of study. If you are undertaking a study exchange in the first semester of your final year then you will most likely undertake the project in a compressed format in semester 2 (ENCN493S2). The EFTS value of the one semester project is also 0.25.All projects, with a few exceptions due to special circumstances, are undertaken in pairs. Thisapproach has a number of advantages. Firstly group projects enable more ambitious projects to be tackled; secondly, the skill of working as part of a team is seen as very important by future employers; and thirdly the number of projects (and accompanying resources) that need to be made available is substantially less than if the projects were done individually.The culmination of the project will be the CNRE Research Conference 2017 to be held at the end ofthe academic year. This conference attempts to emulate the type of environment you would encounter if you attended a conference either as a professional engineer or as a researcher. You and your partner will present the results of your work to an audience of your peers and you will have the opportunity to hear about the research of your fellow students. Industry guests will be present at the conference. In keeping with our intention to emulate a real conference there will be an invited keynote speaker to launch the conference.
The third professional project is designed to provide you with an opportunity to:undertake a substantial, challenging and open-ended engineering project,experience working in a research environment,develop independent research and problem solving skills,derive an appropriate methodology for a particular problem,plan and undertake a project as part of a team,manage a project with time and budget constraints,analyse and interpret data from the literature, modelling, or experiments,experience a typical engineering conference, anddemonstrate your communication skills through writing and orally presenting a conference paper, and designing a conference poster.It is worth noting that the skills you will acquire and refine in the project match the key skills the profession are requesting from our graduates.
ENCN301
ENCI493, ENCI494, ENCN494
Chin-Long Lee
Leigh Davidson
One of the objectives of the project is to provide you with the experience of working within aresearch environment. In order to make this experience more realistic the project will attemptto simulate the process of undertaking research that leads to the presentation of your results at aresearch conference. This conference, the “CNRE Research Conference 2017”, will be held atthe end of the academic year. Each project team will produce a poster, intended for a generalaudience, prepare a concise conference paper to be included in the conference proceedings,and finally deliver an oral presentation at the conference itself.The assessment for the project is based on this conference model and details of the assessmentschedule can be found in Appendix A. The milestones associated with the assessment are listedin Appendix B.Both the posters and the oral presentations will be judged by expert panels and prizes will beawarded for the most outstanding posters and presentations.Attendance at the conference is compulsory for all students.
Workshops on databases and handling references with Endnote will be provided that will help you in your project work. Attendance at one of these workshops is compulsory. The workshops will run early in the first and third terms and a workshop can be booked at the following website:http://canterbury.libcal.com/calendar/3proeng
Domestic fee $2,076.00
International fee $10,000.00
* 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.
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .