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Engineering Research Project
ENCN493 is a project-based course that offers you the opportunity to work on an open-ended research problem in an area of your interest, under the guidance of an academic staff member. This course has been designed to give you a taste of what postgraduate research and a career beyond as an academic/corporate researcher might entail. It will also help you develop key problem-solving, teamwork, and communication skills, which are highly valued by employers. Most students find their undergraduate research experiences to be enriching and rewarding. Some students even choose to extend their investigations into postgraduate research projects upon graduation!Since this is a project-based course, it does not follow the traditional course structure you might be familiar with. Specifically, it does not contain any lectures, laboratories, tutorials, assignments, and exams. You will, instead, work on a research project with a partner and together present your findings in the form of a written paper and an oral presentation at the CNRE Annual Research Conference.This conference will emulate the atmosphere and feel of a real-world professional conference, and be attended by your peers, academic staff, and industry representatives.
The objectives of this course are to help you:Experience and appreciate the process of conducting research.Develop self-learning, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills necessary to thrive in an unstructured learning environment.Refine your written and oral communication skills.Develop essential people management skills, and the ability to work in a team, towards a common objective.Learn how to manage a project with time and budget constraints.Experience attending a professional conference.
EMTH210, ENCI199, ENCN201, ENCN213, ENCN221, ENCN231, ENCN242, ENCN253, ENCN261, ENCN281, ENCN301
ENCI493, ENCI494, ENCN494
Reagan Chandramohan
One of the objectives of the project is to provide you with the experience of working within a research environment. In order to make this experience more realistic the project will attempt to simulate the process of undertaking research that leads to the presentation of your results at a research conference. This conference, the “CNRE Research Conference 2021”, will be held at the end of the academic year. Each project team will prepare a concise conference paper to be included in the conference proceedings, and deliver an oral presentation at the conference itself. Full details regarding the conference will be provided towards the end of the year.The assessment for the project is based on this conference model and details of the assessmentschedule can be found in Appendix A. The milestones associated with the assessment are listed in Appendix B.The oral presentations will be judged by expert panels and prizes will be awarded for the most outstanding presentations.Attendance at the conference is compulsory for all students. Please put the date and time in your diary now.Assessment of the project will take a number of forms and will involve the supervisor, an independent assessor (someone not on the supervisory team) and an oral panel. In addition, the student members of the project team will provide the supervisor with guidance on some aspects of the assessment. In general terms the assessment is designed to address three key areas: research quality, communication ability, and professionalism. Some of these aspects will be judged on the team performance while others will be based on individual performance. In addition, the supervisor of each project will form a judgement on the individual contribution of each student to the project outcomes and may, if they see reason to do so, adjust the marks of each student, up or down, to reflect this.
Domestic fee $2,266.00
International fee $11,250.00
* 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 .