Course Summary
This course is the first half of a research and development (R&D) project that comprises two sequential courses (Part A and Part B) and is the capstone for all engineering programmes within the School of Engineering. In this culminating academic experience, you will apply your technical knowledge and further develop your research, design and professional engineering skills. The authentic project maybe industry based and focuses on producing well-managed practical and pertinent solutions to either discipline specific, or cross disciplinary engineering problems, through robust research and established engineering design processes. This first part of the project (Part A) focuses on:
- articulation of the project requirements, challenge, need, problem or feasibility.
- establishment of design criteria and constraints.
- project planning.
- the critical appraisal of all the relevant published material by way of a comprehensive literature search and review.
- benchmarking of all related and relevant solutions.
- and hence well-informed consideration of possible solutions.
After successfully passing this course you will undertake the required companion course 'Engineering Capstone Project (Part B)' which will result in the fulfilment of the final project deliverable.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.
Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. (This applies to students who commence enrolment in a bachelor honours program from 1 January 2016 onward. See the
WAM information web page for more information.