ENME408-22W (C) Whole Year 2022

Honours Research and Development Project

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2022
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 20 March 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 August 2022

Description

Team-based capstone research and development project. The purpose of the course is to develop applied professional problem-solving skills. There are no pre-existing solutions paths, no standard recipes to follow. Students apply research and design, select their own tools and find their own solution.

Students will work in teams with an academic supervisor and an external mentor, to solve engineering problems set by an end-user: usually an engineering company which sponsors the project. The student team may use knowledge from any of the courses taken previously in their degree.

During the project, students will follow problem-solving processes used in industry. They will research the problem, study existing solutions, develop a list of requirements and design a new, better solution. Most projects build and test a prototype.

In addition to the team project, training will be given in professional skills; including planning and project management, budgeting, risk assessment, communication with clients, oral and written communication, personal time management, job-seeking skills, creative and critical thinking, and leadership.

This course meets the criteria for Community and Work-Integrated Learning (CWIL) Courses.

Prerequisites

60 points at 300-level in Mechanical Engineering

Co-requisites

Course Coordinators

Digby Symons and Shayne Gooch

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Team Assessment 1 - Draft Proposal 21 Mar 2022 10%
Individual Review 1 06 May 2022 15%
Team Assessment 2 Mid-Year Report 29 May 2022 10%
Individual Review 2 29 Jul 2022 15% Semester 2
Individual Review 3 16 Sep 2022 15% Semester 2
Team Assessment 3 10% Semester 2
Individual Review 4 25% Semester 2

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,266.00

International fee $11,250.00

* 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 Mechanical Engineering .

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