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Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Project/Other Research Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
84 credit points in any SCU units
Unit aim
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
Learning outcomes
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 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 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:
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identify and justify business, engineering, infrastructure, or asset management industry related problems or issues worthy of investigation
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA5:
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create and present an ethical and achievable research design based on justifiable and evidence-based methods
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA3:
- GA5:
- GA7:
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critically review and synthesise literature with regard to relevant research problems and opportunities
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
- GA6:
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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:
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- E-book available through SCU Library (http://scu.eblib.com.au.ezproxy.scu.edu.au/patron/ FullRecord.aspx?p=2166415): Creswell, JW, 2014, Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, 4th edn, Sage, Thousand Oaks. ISBN: 9781606237014.
- E-book available through SCU Library (http://scu.eblib.com.au.ezproxy.scu.edu.au/patron/ FullRecord.aspx?p=2166415): Hair JR, JF, Celsi, M, Money, A, Samouel, P & Page, M, 2016, The Essentials of Business Research Methods, 3rd edn, Taylor & Francis, New York. ISBN: 978076564613-2.
- E-book available through SCU Library (http://scu.eblib.com.au.ezproxy.scu.edu.au/patron/ FullRecord.aspx?p=593773): Yin, RK, 2011, Qualitative Research From Start to Finish, The Guildford Press, New York. ISBN: 9781606237014.