School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Technology Practicum
  • Unit Code

    ENS6206
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    0
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Majid TOLOUEI RAD

Description

All students enrolled in a Master of Technology course at Edith Cowan University are required to gain at least 8 weeks full-time equivalent professional practice before they can graduate from their degree. It is expected that this practical experience will enable the student enrolled in a course leading to an Engineering Technologist degree to work under supervision in office, laboratory, or site-based environments, where the student can appreciate a range of technologies and workplace issues that relate to engineering practice. This work experience can be done at any time, but mostly undertaken during the summer or mid-semester breaks where several tuition free weeks are available. It is acceptable for students to accrue the equivalent of the 8 weeks in non-contiguous blocks, or part-time over longer periods.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Integrate practical engineering skills and broad problem solving, knowledge and techniques in the technology domain.
  2. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct in an engineering workplace or technical environment, including upholding the Engineers Australia Code of Ethics.
  3. Reflect upon and effectively communicate significant activities and/or incidents that occur in an engineering workplace or technical environment.
  4. Reflect upon personal application of learning and professional competencies in an engineering workplace or technical environment and recommend future professional development needs at the technologist level.
  5. Demonstrate effective team work, leadership, including that of specialist technologist teams, autonomy and communication skills.

Unit Content

  1. Students should ideally be given an opportunity to observe: Human and industrial relations.
  2. Maintenance, safety and environmental procedures.
  3. Job organisation.
  4. Professional practices.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Professional practice having an engineering or technology context.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Report ^Work Integrated Learning Risk Management Form (must be completed and lodged before other assessment items to validate the practicum)
Reflective Practice ^Professional development log and reflection
Report ^Practicum report
Report ^Employer assessment report and certificate

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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