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Project work undertaken by individuals is a central part of engineering, construction and spatial science practice. At the professional level project work routinely involves research in the sense that there are non-standard requirements to be met and non-standard problems to be overcome. This course prepares the student for professional-level technical project work.

The course provides students with the ability to (critically) evaluate research literature including standards, conference papers and journal articles in order to determine the current state of knowledge. In addition, the course will instruct students in the principles of research to enable them to conduct research and prepare an original project in their professional area of interest. Students will be instructed how to propose and justify an appropriate research plan for a particular research problem, to choose and apply appropriate methodology, to judge the degree to which conclusions are supported by data, to judge the logical consistency of written material and evaluate the outcome of a research project in terms of useable knowledge, and to design, defend and evaluate research proposals, and to apply techniques for writing clear and well expressed technical papers and reports.

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. On completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. use information systems effectively;
2. analyse the ethical issues raised in a range of research situations, and have a clear appreciation of the foundations of ethics in research;
3. demonstrate an ability to carry out literature searches and ability to critically evaluate literature;
4. demonstrate the of process of identifying and formulating an engineering project or research problem;
5. apply the process of planning and implementing specific research tasks (simulation/experiment);
6. choose and apply an appropriate experimental design to a particular research problem or project and apply a range of standard techniques for instrumentation and data acquisition;
7. choose and apply appropriate experimental data analysis and presentation techniques;
8. understand the principles of good writing, and be able to analyse and edit technical papers written by others;
9. prepare a well written and concise research paper or report;
10. develop and write a research proposal for their discipline area.