Undergraduate - UnitMEC4402 - Final year project - Thesis

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Engineering
Organisational Unit	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Monash Passport category	Research Challenge (Investigate Program)
Offered	Clayton First semester 2014 (Day) Malaysia First semester 2014 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2014 (Day) Malaysia Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Josie Carberry (Clayton); Dr Wang Xin (Malaysia)

Synopsis

In this unit, together with MEC4401, students undertake a self-guided learning task in the form of a project. It is a full year project of either a major design, theoretical, or experimental investigation. The project may be undertaken either within the department or externally with a company or research organisation. In either case, an academic member of staff will act as the supervisor. While some projects may benefit from group based work it is expected that students will work individually on each project.

Outcomes

On successful completion of the unit students will be able to:

conduct an independent, scientifically based research project under broad direction;
develop a research plan based on scientific methodologies and sound research practices taking into account assessment of risk factors;
apply sound scientific method and research practices to undertake project work;
manage a research project effectively within technical, budgetary, risk and time constraints;
undertake an extensive review of relevant scientific literature and critically analyse its relevance to the project work being proposed:
utilise data acquisition tools, data analysis and/or other technological tools effectively;
justify the validity of their findings by quantifying errors in their technique;
communicate their findings to a professional audience;
apply techniques of scientific theory to provide logical reasoning and hypothesis testing to justify their results.