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Rationale

The practical courses are essential training for engineers. This course is the first of a series of Practice courses that are intended to enable students to acquire engineering and professional practice skills. All engineers are required to be familiar and comply with workplace health and safety policies and procedures, be able to work as a member of a team, be capable of presenting their work both orally and in writing, and have Engineering practice skills such as the ability to perform practical and project work, and engineering judgement. This hands-on course provides such an opportunity with a focus on applications in the areas of instrumentation and measurement, or engineering materials and manufacturing.

Synopsis

This course is the first of a series of Practice courses that are intended to enable students to acquire engineering and professional practice skills. Engineering practice skills, such as the ability to perform practical and project work, innovation, problem identification and solution, and engineering judgement, will be developed as students progress through their programmes of study through activities such as laboratory and field work, engineering problem solving and design and project work. Students will generally work in teams to assist with the building of group interaction skills such as negotiation and interactive thinking. The development of other professional practice skills, such as written and oral communication, is also encouraged in the engineering practice courses. In this introductory course, external students will attend a residential school and undertake practical work primarily in the areas of instrumentation and measurement, or engineering materials and manufacturing. They will be required to prepare a comprehensive report and to present a seminar on one aspect of this work. Students will be introduced to the library and computing facilities of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½app and are expected to utilise these resources in the compilation of their reports and seminars. A series of keynote addresses will be staged to assist students with their task. On campus students will also undertake practical work in the areas of instrumentation and measurement, or engineering materials and manufacturing, and will be required to prepare a comprehensive report and to present a seminar. For these students, the practical work will be performed throughout the semester. All students will be introduced to the Workplace Health and Safety Act and will undertake a preliminary workplace health and safety exercise.

This course contains a mandatory residential school for external students and mandatory on-campus laboratories or practical classes for on-campus students.

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Assessment details

Important assessment information

1. Attendance requirements:
   
   External students must attend the mandatory residential school and on-campus students must attend the mandatory on-campus laboratories or practical classes. It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities (such as lectures, tutorials, laboratories and practical work) scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.
   
   
2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
   
   To satisfactorily complete each assessment item students must achieve 50% of the available marks for all assessment items other than the Res School/Lab – Participation assessment item, for which students must achieve 80% of the available marks. Refer to Statement 4 below for the requirements to receive a passing grade in this course.
   
   
3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
   
   Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)
   
   
4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
   
   To be assured of receiving a passing grade students must attend and participate in the mandatory residential school achieve at least 50% of available marks for the Workplace Health and Safety Report and at least 80% of available marks for the Residential School/Lab Participation assessment item, and obtain at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.
   
   
5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
   
   As P is the only passing grade available for this course, all students who are qualified for a passing grade, under the requirements in 4 above, will be given a grade of P. Other students will be given either a Failing grade or an Incomplete grade.
   
   
6. Examination information:
   
   There is no examination in this course.
   
   
7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
   
   Not applicable.
   
   
8. ¾«¶«´«Ã½app Student Policies:
   
   Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene ¾«¶«´«Ã½app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .
   
   

Assessment notes

1. Students must familiarise themselves with the USQ Assessment Procedures (.
   
   
2. Referencing in Assignments must comply with the Harvard (AGPS) referencing system. This system should be used by students to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The Harvard (APGS) style to be used is defined by the USQ library’s referencing guide. These policies can be found at
   
   
3. As part of the mandatory residential school, students may be expected to undertake a combination of lectures, tutorials, laboratories, practical classes and assessment as advised by the course examiner.
   
   

Other requirements

1. Students will be assigned to a team at the start of the course. Each team will select a project based on the work performed at one or more practical sessions. One project report will be submitted per team; the team will present one seminar. Details of the project report and the seminar are provided in the Practice Book for the course. As part of the report, team members are required to certify whether or not each member made an appropriate contribution to the work of the group.