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

Upon completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to-

1. Plan, manage and execute a substantial project.
2. Explain the significance of the project in the context of the literature, the problem which the project solves, and the implications of what has been learned in conducting the project.
3. Demonstrate mastery of the underlying theory of the project subject matter and analysis techniques.
4. Demonstrate mastery of a non-trivial technical skill in a scientific or engineering field.
5. Analyse and interpret the results of the project.
6. Communicate the project objectives, process and results to practising engineers and scientists in written and verbal form.

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, including 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