ENME408-18W (C) Whole Year 2018

Honours Research and Development Project

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 September 2018

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 the 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.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learning outcomes:

  • Master methods and approaches for solving open-ended, real-world, complex problems
  • Learn how to find and absorb background knowledge in a new field
  • Create new knowledge, solutions, and functioning hardware
  • Enhance team-work skills
  • Develop clear, professional oral and written communication skills
  • Improve time- and resource- management skills to near-professional level

      • 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

60 points at 300-level in Mechanical Engineering

Restrictions

ENME438

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator

Mark Jermy

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Proposal documentation due beginning of week 5, term 1 10%
Individual review 1 27 Apr 2018 5%
Midyear progress report 20 May 2018 10%
Individual review 2 10%
Individual review 3 20%
Individual review 4 20%
Final report due end of term 4 25%


To pass the course you must achieve at least 50% of the available marks in the four Individual Reviews.

There is no textbooks for this course.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,118.00

International fee $10,250.00

* 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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