Students undertake an individual engineering project, with supervision.

Students are encouraged to put forward their own ideas for the individual project, or they may select a project from a range of ideas offered by researchers across the ANU. If the student initiates an idea, he or she must find a supervisor to accept the project. Students and their respective supervisors must jointly sign-off on acceptance of the project concept as part of the project registration process.

Project selection is normally completed as part of ENGN3221 - Engineering Management, by week 3 of the semester prior to commencement of ENGN4200. The planning phase of the project is integrated into the Engineering Management course, providing a deliberate foundation for the project execution phase that is ENGN4200.

Students are expected to manage all aspects of their individual project from conceptualization through the planning phase to the monitoring and control of the project performance and the ultimate achievement of the following deliverables:

• A thesis documenting the project
• A seminar describing the project
• A poster illustrating the project

The aim of the individual project is to give you experience in the management and execution of a self-contained engineering exercise. The course will involve you in project management (from conceptualisation to delivery); research, design and analysis; record keeping and communication. You will gain experience in integrating some of the separate pieces of knowledge acquired over your degree; in managing your own time and coordinating with those who will assist you; and in preparing a report of substantial size. You will be awarded a grade on the basis of how well this is achieved.

There are 3 pieces of assessable work associated with ENGN4200. A work-schedule  that is a monthly milestone contract between students and their supervissors, an oral presentation (15 minutes in which to communicate orally, the essence of the project) and a formal thesis (a lengthy, detailed written report on the project)

Work Schedule (10%); Seminar (10%); Thesis (80%)

Students must enrol in both Semester 1 & 2.

The work-load expectation for Individual Project is no less than one full day per week during each semester and mid-semester break. It is strongly recommended that additional time is spent during summer holiday (early start involving literature survey, learning to use equipment, preparatory experiments, etc.).

ENGN3221 The normal expectation is that students enrolling are completing their final year.

Course page http://eng.anu.edu.au/study/currentstudents/courses