Reference no: EM133707646
Sustainable Practice in Engineering
Assessment - Technical paper
Task Overview
The purpose of a technical:
The primary purpose of a technical paper is to inform the profession of advancements in knowledge leading to the design of innovative projects.
Learning outcome 1: Exemplify an appreciation of sustainable land use, resource use, waste management or transport planning concepts and the ability to investigate best practices.
Learning outcome 2: Demonstrate critical, creative and analytical thinking.
Learning outcome 3: Competence in engineering investigation and reporting with emphasis on literature searching, review and communicating the various aspects of project work in written form.
Task overview
In this scenario-based task, you investigated the relevant technical and sustainability challenges for the development of a solar energy farm using appropriate guidelines and techniques. For this assessment, you will write a technical paper focusing on a specific aspect of the project for knowledge dissemination among the profession.
Task preparation
This task requires you to select a topic from the list provided relating to sustainable development and to write a technical paper on that topic.
A topic list will be made available in the ‘Assessment Task 3/Documentation' folder, by 2:00 pm on Wednesday 8th May and you will be able to select your topic by 9:00 am Friday 10rd May.
Read the topic description provided, and work out what is being asked and how it should be addressed.
You should draw heavily on the research and learnings from the previous assessment items and the content provided during the lectures and tutorials.
You will be required to refer to academic literature (i.e. journal and conference papers, books), government and industry reports and reference materials (i.e. books, magazines, guidelines) to write the paper and demonstrate your depth of understanding of the topic.
The paper should strictly comply with the guide provided. Also, refer to the sample papers provided for guidance.
Audience for the paper
You should assume that the audience is relatively well informed (for example, that they have an engineering and/or design background), but are not necessarily experts in the exact topic that you have chosen.
This Guide has been prepared to meet the requirements of your unit and follows professional standards for the typical technical papers you will be required to write during your professional career.
Cover page with the topic title and student name and student number (not part of the word count)
Abstract (~ 100 words)
Introduction (~ 200 words)
Background, introduction to the topic, why this topic is important, relevance to sustainability, and what content is being discussed in the paper.
Provide contextual detail about how this topic was managed within your semester-long project.
Subtopics (~ 1,000 words in total)
After the introduction chapter, there should be a series of subtopics with each chapter focusing on a specific subtopic relevant to the overall topic.
As you will not be able to discuss all of the relevant subtopics, it is important to prioritise in terms of the word length and what subtopics would be discussed.
Develop a preliminary overview of what you think are the key areas that you will cover in the paper and based on your literature search and readings, undertake the subtopic prioritisation.
Ensure that linking sentences are provided to link the different subtopics to the overall topic.
Conclusions ( ~ 200 words)
Concise discussion of the key findings
Concluding remarks about how this topic links to your semester-long project.