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Engineering Research Project
The third professional year project is very different to all other final year courses. It is not based on formal lectures, laboratories and tutorials, but instead allows you to research a problem that interests you under the close supervision of an academic staff member. The vast majority of students who undertake the project find it a very rewarding experience.Students who are wishing to pursue future postgraduate study will see the project as an excellent opportunity to sample the postgraduate research environment, and to explore possible avenues for their future research.The majority of students will enrol in the full year course, ENCN493W, that spreads the research work over two semesters. On the other hand, students undertaking an overseas study exchange in the first semester of third professional will enrol in the semester 2 project, ENCN493S2. Both courses are worth 30 points or 0.25EFTS. All projects, with a few exceptions due to special circumstances, are undertaken in pairs. This approach has a number of advantages. Firstly, group projects enable more ambitious projects to be tackled; secondly, the skill of working as part of a team is seen as very important by future employers; and thirdly the number of projects (and accompanying resources) that need to be made available is substantially less than if the projects were done individually. The culmination of the project is the CNRE Research Conference 2019 to be held at the end of the academic year. This conference attempts to emulate the type of environment you would encounter if you attended a conference either as a professional engineer or as a researcher. You and your partner will present the results of your work to an audience of your peers, academics and possibly industry representatives, and you will have the opportunity to hear about the research of your fellow students. In keeping with our intention to emulate a real conference there will be an invited keynote speaker to launch the conference.
The third professional project is designed to provide you with an opportunity to:undertake a substantial, challenging and open-ended engineering research project,experience working in a research environment,be mentored in the development of independent research and problem solving skills,derive and implement as appropriate methodology for a particular problem,plan and undertake a project as part of a team, manage a project with time and possibly budget constraints, analyse and interpret data from the literature, modelling, or experiments, experience a typical engineering conference, anddemonstrate your communication skills through writing, and orally presenting, a conference paper.It is worth noting that many of the skills you will acquire and develop in the project match the key skills the profession are requesting from our graduates.
ENCN301
ENCI493, ENCI494, ENCN494
Roger Nokes
Emma Clark
Aisling O'Sullivan
The Course Coordinator is Professor Roger Nokes, and the Course Administrator is Emma Clark. Please contact Roger or Emma at any time if you have any queries regarding your project. Their contact details are as follows:Professor Roger Nokes Office: E442 Email: roger.nokes@canterbury.ac.nzExtension: 92046Emma Clark Office: E422 Email: emma.clark@canterbury.ac.nzExtension: 93395
Domestic fee $2,160.00
International fee $10,500.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .