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Unit of Study MNG93101 - Engineering, Infrastructure, and Asset Management (EIAM) Research Project 1 (2019)

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  • Pre-requisites

    84 credit points in Master of Engineering Management (1209100) OR 112 credit points in Master of Engineering Management, Master of Business Administration (1229100)

  • Enrolment information

    There will be 6 by 1 day compulsory onsite workshops for all students that will be held on the Gold Coast campus. Please refer to http://scu.edu.au/timetables for further information on timetables.

Unit description

Introduces participants to research related to real world engineering, infrastructure, or asset management issues and opportunities in industry. Participants will learn about the research process, identify a suitable issue for research, and identify suitable research tools to address the issue.

Unit content

Developing an understanding of what is research

Identifying appropriate research problems and opportunities

Reviewing previous research literature

Designing a research project

Understanding data analysis

Developing qualitative research tools

Developing quantitative research tools

Developing mixed methods research tools

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Session1,3,2
Session1,3,2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 identify and justify business, engineering, infrastructure, or asset management industry related problems or issues worthy of investigation
2 create and present an ethical and achievable research design based on justifiable and evidence-based methods
3 critically review and synthesise literature with regard to relevant research problems and opportunities
4 develop, pilot and apply critical research tools that have the potential to solicit required data to analyse a given problem.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. identify and justify business, engineering, infrastructure, or asset management industry related problems or issues worthy of investigation
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA5:
  2. create and present an ethical and achievable research design based on justifiable and evidence-based methods
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
    • GA7:
  3. critically review and synthesise literature with regard to relevant research problems and opportunities
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  4. develop, pilot and apply critical research tools that have the potential to solicit required data to analyse a given problem.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:

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