48121 Engineering Practice Preview 1

This subject helps initiate students to the engineering workplace by guiding them through the employment process, developing the communication and documentation skills appropriate to engineering practice, showing them how to learn through experience, exploring the nature and culture of the workplace, introducing ethical and social issues, and helping them to plan for their own personal and professional development.

Students negotiate their learning options from a range of compulsory and optional topics including ethics and social responsibility, industrial relations, occupational health and safety, and the culture of engineering.

Assessment: Assessment tasks are negotiated from a variety of compulsory and optional assignments, many of which can be incorporated into the student's portfolio. Some tasks include personal résumé, job application letters, employment interviewing, learning style assessment, learning contracts, ethics case study, and industrial relations case study. Assessment is essentially formative to assist students in achieving an acceptable level. However, students are not able to undertake their first internship until they have passed all the compulsory components of this subject.

This is a typical example of how this subject will be assessed.

Assessment 1: Seeking employment and updating your personal résumé, Revising résumés and application letters to a professional standard (Pass/Fail)

Assessment 2: Learning Proposal, Completing a series of learning activities (Pass/Fail)

Assessment 3: Discover Workplace Practice (written report), a written report detailing what students might be expected to know when they begin an internship (Pass/Fail)

Assessment 4: Discover Workplace Practice (oral report), (Pass/Fail)

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus