Student Responsibilities

Be familiar with University policy and College procedures and act in accordance with those policy and procedures.

It is the responsibility of the student to retain a copy of any work submitted. Students must produce these documents upon request. Copies should be retained until the end of the grade appeal period each term.

Student is to perform the required due diligent for their assessment grade and rectify as soon as possible upon finding any errors.

Notifications

Formal notification of assessment tasks, grading rubrics and due dates will be posted on iLearn. Although all reasonable measures to ensure the information is accurate, The University reserves the right to make changes without notice. Each student is responsible for checking iLearn for changes and updates.

Report and Assignment Tasks

Assignment Problems will be posted on iLearn at least two weeks before their submission date. Assignment solutions will be posted within a week after the submission date. Submissions will not be accepted once the solution is posted.

Assignment submissions and plagiarism policies

All assignments and reports must be submitted electronically through iLearn (in pdf format). Submissions will undergo plagiarism checkers using the turnitin software and any work deemed to have 30% or higher similarity score may incur academic penalty. For more details on the policies of academic penalties relating to academic honesty, please refer to the policies and procedures section below.

Submissions are expected to be typed set in a logical layout and sequence. Markers WILL NOT grade poorly organized or illegible scans or drafts. The expected workload includes preparation of final copies and clear diagrams.

Late submissions

Late submissions or absences from tutorials and laboratories will not be accepted without prior arrangement made at least one week before the submission date. Extenuating circumstances will be considered upon lodgement of a formal notice of disruption of studies.

Hurdle Requirement

The final report is a hurdle requirement because it is the only reliable assessment of individual performance for this unit. A passing grade of 50% or more in the final report is a condition of passing this unit; however, a passing grade of 50% or more on the final report does not guarantee a passing grade for the unit. Students who make a serious attempt but fail to meet the hurdle requirement will be given one further opportunity to pass. A serious attempt is defined as achievement of a mark of 40% or greater.

Purpose:  The purpose of this unit is to practice the documentation and essential tasks that you will need to do to meet your deliverables for ENGG411.  The lectures address the basic steps in the engineering process, what should be considered in these steps, and how each step is done.  The reports allow you to practice these steps.  The mixed/prac sessions give you additional practice in some of the finer details executing these steps.  The unit is run to a great degree in a self-taught mode to reflect the original work that you will create in ENGG411.

Approach to Assessment:  The learning outcomes that you need to demonstrate in this unit are designed to prepare you to produce the various reports needed for ENGG411 as well as what is expected of professional engineers.  In this unit, you are encouraged to make mistakes in the early reports, get your marked feedback, and show progress improvement to where you can demonstrate a high level of competency for all the learning outcomes by the Final Report.  It is not necessary to get all the reports "right" to get a good mark in this unit; you must attempt all the assessments and you must show steady improvement by incorporating your marked feedback.  There are several assessments which are to be done in a group; you will be assigned to a group representing the multi-disciplinary majors offered by the Engineering Department.  You are encouraged to teach yourself or learn from your groupmates the "lingo" and essential fundamentals of the other disciplines within your group.

Delivery:  This unit is a self-paced unit and is delivered on-line.  The lectures are available via iLearn and you will be responsible for scheduling meetings of your group to achieve the group work activities.  If you find a topic particularly challenging, you can visit the lecturer/convener during consultation hours or you can meet with the tutors during the scheduled prac/tute sessions.  It is up to you to seek out the personnel delivering this unit if you feel that you are having trouble.  You are required to keep an on-line blog/logbook within iLearn for this unit.  

You will execute in project teams of 3 to 5 students which should contain a healthy balance of majors--Mechanical, Electrical, Software, etc.  If you all have the same major, this will put you at a handicap..  If you would like to form your own group, please contact Prof. Mike Heimlich no later than the end of week 2 or you will be assigned to a group.  You will need to decompose the problem from the Requirements Document into major parts, with each part taken by 1 student.  Your individual design documents should be shared among all the members of your group after it has been marked so that you have all the designs for your Proposal & Project Plan, which requires inclusion of material from all the parts your group has done design documents for.

Resources:  The convener is available for consultation either via iLearn forums/chat or during consultation hours.  Tutors are available during the scheduled tute/prac time as well as predesignated office hours.  You are encouraged to approach any of the teaching staff for this unit if you are having problems understanding any component of the unit. Templates are provided for the major reports you must deliver.  You do not have to use the templates for the various documents.  The use of LaTex is encouraged as this will be an asset for ENGG411

All of the resources are available on iLearn.  The iLearn site for this unit is somewhat difficult to navigate.  PLEASE SEE THE TEACHING STAFF IF YOU CANNOT FIND SOMETHING ON ILEARN.

The goal of this unit is for you to not only learn how the engineering process works and how to execute it, but to demonstrate this by preparing the appropriate documentation.  Students who self-invest the most in terms of self-learning about the multiple-disciplinary aspect of the project, who take advantage of opportunities for continuous improvement against the unit's marking rubric, and who demonstrate an understanding that engineering problems often are not provided with all the requirements will get the most out of this unit.  This is how real-world engineering as well as ENGG411 is done.  The teaching staff are available to help you with these concepts BUT it is up to you to take the initiative to use us as a resource.

See iLearn and Assessment Tasks (above).

This unit is largely self-paced.  Some of the practicals will have a drop-dead date for your submission.

The relative weightings of the assessments has been changed from the last offering.

The major assignment now allows student teams to choose a project topic of their own rather than specifying the same topic for all

The use of electronic notebooks is encouraged

Previously, the "oral report" is now "the pitch".  It was previously used as the student team's summary of their solution.  This has now been changed to a brochure or short video presentation due to ths size of the cohort

The biggest change in response to student feedback is with the Major Project.  This year, a general topic is being given and YOU get to make up your own project under this topic.

Flexibility has been added in the format of the "notes" submission as part of the Self-management assessment.

Flexibility in the format and timing of "The Pitch" (previously "Oral Report").