SIT740 - Research and Development in Information Technology

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Jinho Choi
Trimester 2: Arkady Zaslavsky
Prerequisite:

SIT774.
For students enrolled in S464: Must have completed 16 credit points.
For students enrolled in S470, S506, S507, S508, S535, S536, S538, S576, S576C, S576J, S577, S589, S677, S689, S735, S737, S739, S770, S778, S779, S789: Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 1 hour online lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour practical experience (workshop) per week.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 1 hour online lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour practical experience (workshop) per week.

Content

Many different sectors of the economy including health and transportation are being impacted by potentially game-changing IT innovations, fuelled by IT Research and Development. Indeed, IT has pervaded into myriad fields of endeavour, including science, healthcare, humanities, architecture, economics, governance, commerce and everyday life. IT application in different fields has also sparked research and development at the intersection of Computer Science and other fields. This unit will be an introduction to the processes, issues and trends in IT R&D, including case studies in technologies and researching software tools in areas such as Internet of Things, Intelligent Transport Systems, and AI and Robotics. Students will learn IT R&D methodology and problem-solving processes, from conception to deployed systems and critically examine digital ethics to understand the ethical challenges that IT R&D can raise.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Research a range of R&D methodologies and processes and apply those processes to solve problems.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Evaluate products, services and solutions and propose evidence-based improvements to R&D processes.

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Experiment new technologies in a particular IT field to realise its potential and suggest solutions to real-world problems.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Design technological solutions that satisfies requirements, functional and non-functional constraints and persuade stakeholders of the merits of that solution.

GLO2: Communication
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5

Justify achieved outcomes by providing relevant evidence and critiquing the quality of that evidence against given criteria.

GLO6: Self-management

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Learning portfolio Written and visual documentation 100% Week 12

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.

Hurdle requirement

To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must meet certain milestones as part of the portfolio.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SIT740 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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