Course Summary
This course extends your capstone experience from Applied Science Project (Extended): Planning, further building your skills to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program. This course gives you an opportunity to engage in scientific research, while extending your knowledge and practical skills in a particular area of interest.
With the assistance of your supervisor, you will evaluate your progress on the project begun in Applied Science Project (Extended): Planning, refine your research approaches if needed, complete the research on your project, give an oral presentation of your findings, and write a report in the style of a scientific journal article. Collaboration with an external organisation may occur in some projects.
This course offers a challenge to final-year students, and allows innovation by the student with respect to both method and research direction. You are required to make a presentation regarding your project to your peers.
This course will include a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills are applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from one or more of active researchers, government, industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
To undertake this course, you will be required to sign either a 2-way WIL agreement with the University or a 3-way agreement with RMIT and an external partner if your project involves collaboration with an external organisation. 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.