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Task description
Project title - Our cities are growing, population is getting more dense, and climate change is causing more and more severe events. We experience more flooding, more fires, more severe storms. Critical infrastructure needs to withstand these challenges and standards need to be updated accordingly. Within this project you will review one critical infrastructure of your choice and review existing standards, evaluate cases of failure during recent events and will provide recommendations based on literature review on upgrading these standards.
This task requires you to:
LO 1: Identify how engineering management tools and concepts will help an academic staff member.
LO 2: Demonstrate initiative, professional and communication skills to secure an academic supervisor.
LO 3: Write a first draft (preliminary) proposal for your project.
Conditions
Learning outcome 1: Retrieve and review engineering management literature from a range of sources.
Identify and justify specific engineering management approaches/tools to manage a current engineering problem.
Communicate and continually develop your management proposal through progressive submission, feedback and response with your project supervisor.
Work independently to review and continuously improve your management strategies in your proposal.
What you need to do
In this assessment you will:
Read these documents: The week-by-week summary of activities.
Review your CV following the week 1 lecture.
Look for a project and academic supervisor using Inplace initially.
* Review existing management projects advertised on InPlace to identify projects that interest you.
* For each project, (i) apply for a project on Inplace, using a tailored cover letter of no more than 1 page that is suitable for the specific project and your CV. Write a separate email to the project supervisor attaching your CV (no cover letter required). You may be required to meet the supervisor.
* If supervisor(s) offers you an existing project, accept your first preference.
* If successful in finding a project supervisor, skip step 4.
Consultation with potential academic supervisors to identify a new management project.
* Research potential supervising academics using the QUT search feature (internet). Review the links provided in the unit overview from mechanical, civil and electrical engineering schools.
* Send an email with your CV and cover letter. State that you are (i) a QUT student (ii) interested to work with them to look at opportunities to improve non-technical aspects of their work through engineering management concepts and principles (iii) clearly state that supervisors are not expected to know the management tools- you are looking to help them (iv) ask if you can meet with them.
Have a meeting with the potential supervisor, exploring a potential project (all students). Complete a supervisor contact form (needed for Assessment Task 3) after each meeting. Repeat this process fortnightly.
If you are still unsuccessful and have met 4 academic staff, email the Unit Coordinator, Dr Prasadam, with the names of the academic staff.
Read and explore the management concepts and tools that may help with the project. Meet the supervisor again, if necessary, to define the project.
Write your preliminary proposal.