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Introduction to Engineering Research Methodology and Application
Assignment - Workshop Journal
Task - Week One
In your workshop in Week One you considered the features and elements of good research proposals. For your Workshop Journal Entry for this week, complete the following task.
Thesis Proposal - Inspiration Thinking Tool
Coming up with a topic for your proposal might prove a little challenging if you have not yet had an opportunity to think about engineering in a research context. You might consider the following strategies:
What is my discipline of engineering (for example, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering) and why does it interest me?
What engineering problem most interested me in the subjects I have studied so far?
What engineering experiment led me to think about changing the problem or extending and testing the conclusions of the experiment?
What problem have I seen in the media or observed in my local environment that I thought could be solved with an engineering solution?
Once you have decided on your problem, write it down, and try to state it simply. (This is harder than it seems). Identify the main features of the problem, and then consider what it is you will need to know about it to address it. The following chart might prove helpful.
What do I know about the problem?
What is already known about the problem?
How does the problem fit with what is known?
What do I need to investigate and how will I investigate it?
In your workshop in Week Four you considered the features and elements of a good literature review, as well as the process for producing a successful literature review. For your Workshop Journal Entry for this week, complete the following task.
Workshop Journal Task - Week Five
In your workshop in Week Five you had a conceptual introduction to research methodologies, and noted their purposes to a research study as well as their two key types. For your Workshop Journal Entry for this week, complete the following task.
Workshop Journal Task - Week Six
In Weeks 5 and 6 you had an introduction to different kinds of quantitative research methods used in Engineering and the purposes and techniques of data analysis. For your Workshop Journal Entry for this week, complete the following task.
Workshop Journal Task - Week Seven
In Week Seven we are considering different ethical frameworks for approaching ethical decisions in professional practice. For your Workshop Journal Entry for this week, complete the following task.
Workshop Journal Task - Week Nine
In Week Nine, we are considering the ethical challenge posed by socially transformative technologies, and what that might mean for ethical decision making and obligations. For your Workshop Journal Entry for this week, complete the following task.
Workshop Journal Task - Week Ten
In Week Ten, we are considering ethics in professional engineering practice, which emphasises the tension in the role of the professional engineer as an autonomous moral agent and engineering contexts. Regardless of their engineering contexts, engineers have a professional code of conduct or ethics, which they commit to uphold. For the Workshop Journal Entry for this week, you are required to read 3 readings, before attempting the questions.
Workshop Journal Task - Week Eleven
In Week Eleven, in addition to planning for your capstone, we are considering the context of the engineering profession. One for the most distinctive features of the engineering profession is its lack of gender diversity, with women still accounting for less than 11 per cent of the engineering profession in Australia (Engineers Australia, 2022). For the Workshop Journal Entry for this week, you are required to read Fouad et al. (2019). Exploring the Odds: Gender differences in departing the engineering profession. Journal of Career Assessment, 28(3) 446-461, and respond to the following questions.
women. Achievement in the workplace is the major difference in the reason for men leaving the engineering professions as compared to women. Both groups of engineers value many aspects of the workplace, such as possibilities for promotion and job stability, simply in different order and proportions.
8. Identify how your motivations to stay in the career as a professional engineer might change overtime (< 50words)
The motivation to stay in the career as a professional engineer might change over time due to the mismatch between personal interest and ability with the requirements of the working environment.