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Rationale

The Master of Engineering Practice program is designed to enable Engineering Technologists to draw on their industrial experience to demonstrate their achievement of many of the required graduate attributes and capabilities, both generic and technical. This course is the first course in the program and will enable students to firstly assess their existing attributes and capabilities and then plan the content of the Workplace Portfolio courses that they will use to demonstrate their level of competency. They will also nominate the Technical courses they will undertake in the program to enable them to satisfy other attribute and capability requirements. They may also need to identify some specific types of industrial experience they will need to undertake to be able to satisfy any remaining requirements. The outcome of this self-assessment process will be a Pathway to Graduation Plan for the student, which will, in due course, be used by the Faculty to assess the student's eligibility to graduate. A second component of this course will require the student to show that they can write a Engineering Competency Claim that demonstrates their achievement of one or more of the attributes or capabilities. To do this successfully students will have to demonstrate they are able to accurately reflect on their experience and that they have the communication skills that are necessary to write such a report. The information in a Engineering Competency Claim must be verified and endorsed by a professional engineer. Achievement of this component of the course is critical because students will use Engineering Competency Claims to demonstrate their attributes and capabilities in the Workplace Portfolio and the Industrial Project courses in the program. One outcome of the self-assessment undertaken in this course may be that a student does not have the required experiences, or competencies, to be able to satisfactorily complete the program. In this case the student will be cancelled from this program and counselled on alternative ways of achieving their goals. If the student has passed this course then they will be granted an exemption when they enrol in another USQ program.

Synopsis

Students are required to take this course when they first enrol in the Master of Engineering Practice program. During this course students will prepare a portfolio consisting of a number of significant written works. The major activity in this course requires students to undertake a self-assessment of their existing attributes and capabilities against those required for the program. They will then be required to produce a Pathway to Graduation Plan in which they will plan the content of the Workplace Portfolio and Industrial Project courses that they will use to demonstrate their existing attributes and capabilities, and the Technical courses they will undertake in the program to enable them to satisfy the remaining attribute and capability requirements. The second component of the course requires students to write Engineering Competency Claims that demonstrate their achievement of one or more of the attributes or capabilities. The information in an Engineering Competency Claims must be verified and endorsed by a professional engineer. Normally there will be a considerable amount of negotiation between the examiner and the student before the final versions of the Pathway to Graduation Plan and the other portfolio documents are submitted.

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Important assessment information

1. Attendance requirements:
   
   There are no attendance requirements for this course. However, it is the students' responsibility 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 complete each of the assessment items satisfactorily, students must obtain at least 50% of the marks available for each assessment item. . A satisfactorily-completed assessment item will satisfy EA Stage 1 Professional Engineer competency standards with benchmarking against EA Stage 2 Experienced Professional Engineer competencies. Feedback will be provided on successive assessments of the suitability, or otherwise to continue in the MEPR program, of the Technologist鈥檚 (or equivalent) planned enrolment pattern, chosen ENG8308 Industry Project Topic, and their planned industrial experience and/or associated engineering defining activities to be reported in their ENG8311 Workplace Portfolio. 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 in the course a student must successfully attempt all assessment items, obtain at least 50% of the available marks for the final Self-Assessment Portfolio, and obtain at least 50% of the total weighted marks for the course. To obtain at least 50% on the final assessment portfolio, students must have successfully completed all the previous assessment items, incorporating the relevant feedback in their final submission.
   
   
5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
   
   The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the weighted aggregate of the marks (or grades) obtained for each of the summative assessment items in the course.
   
   
6. Examination information:
   
   There is no examination in this course.
   
   
7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
   
   Not applicable.
   
   
8. 精东传媒app Student Policies:
   
   Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene 精东传媒app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .
   
   

Assessment notes

1. SUPERVISION The student should communicate with the examiner at regular intervals in this course.
   
   
2. Students must familiarise themselves with the USQ Assessment Procedures (.
   
   
3. 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鈥檚 referencing guide. These policies can be found at .
   
   

Other requirements

1. Students will require access to e-mail and internet access to UConnect for this course.