SEP490 - Engineering Work Experience
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | 2025 will be the final offering of this unit: Trimester 2: Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
Credit point(s): | 0 |
EFTSL value: | 0.000 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Rob McHenry |
Cohort rule: | Nil |
Prerequisite: | STP010 and completion of at least 12 credit points of study |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | SEL703, SEP499 |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning as detailed in the unit site. |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | Online independent and collaborative learning as detailed in the unit site. |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:Students must contact their enrolment officer prior to enrolling in this unit in order to meet the selection requirements. Note also that delays in completing the placement could mean that the course will take longer to complete than the stated duration. Attendance at the placement may be required outside the trimester dates. Please see SEBE WIL Program or email sebe-wil@deakin.edu.au for guidelines on enrolment. |
Content
Before students are eligible to graduate from the undergraduate Engineering courses, they must undertake a minimum cumulative total of at least 60 working days of suitable practical experience during their course program. This experience may be in an engineering workplace or laboratory, where the student will be exposed to professional engineers and engineering associates carrying out the duties. The experience need not be gained at a single organisation or in a single block of time. Students typically enrol in this unit in the trimester during which, or immediately after, the minimum cumulative total of working days of work experience is achieved. The objective of the work experience requirement is so that students learn about real situations in engineering practice from their personal experience of participation and observation in an engineering workplace, develop or enhance a direct understanding of how organisations operate, and enhance their understanding of the engineering profession prior to graduate professional practice.
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Gain an increased appreciation for the skills, knowledge and abilities commonly required and used by professional engineers in the workplace. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Obtain some task and responsibility experience, on a limited and controlled basis and under direct supervision, in a professional engineering practice within an industry-based context. | GLO6: Self-management |
ULO3 | Observe first-hand the nature and role of professional engineering in an industry-based workplace environment and across multiple situations, events or circumstances. | GLO7: Teamwork |
ULO4 | By observation and/or active participation, gain an increased understanding of the role of professional engineering and of professional engineers, within an organisation. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO5 | Develop an ability to reflectively consider their own professional engineering practice experiences and performance to benchmark against industry-based graduate attributes for professional engineers in Australia and for ongoing personal professional development purposes. | GLO2: Communication |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) questionnaire | Completion of the document template | 50% | End-of-Unit Assessment Period |
Assessment 2 Engineering work experience report | Completion of the work experience documentation | 50% | End-of-Unit Assessment Period |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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