Draft (Progress report including your extended abstract as an appendix): 28th Nov 2022to submit your progress report to complete your thesis on time

Assessment Schedule:

Draft (Progress report including your extended abstract as an appendix): 28th Nov 2022to submit your progress report to complete your thesis on time within Semester 3,so I can provide feedback as soon as practical. This is to either allow your to go with your full thesis development or resubmit incomplete work for the draft half thesis as early as possible.

Final Thesis plus Oral recording (Technical Seminar or Business Pitch related to your thesis) is due 23rd January 2023. Note to write the last three chapters of a thesis and correct / align the entire thesis is a minimum of two weeks of constant work.(this assignment 2 which should continue once Assignment 1 is complete in a new order)

I check the topic is within your program discipline major;

It has an appropriate scope for a Master's level industry research project;

You are using higher degree research methodology to innovate with expected outcome to contribute to your discipline or industry of employment (and career advancement).

You have with your aims and objectives, at least one technical research question you will answer and solve in your thesis Chapter 3 i.e. where you list your research methodology (your main contribution).

You have a engineering enterprise/business risk/consequences/criticality question associated with your technical research question that you will use to quantify in cost-benefit of your research outcome/s.

You have 15 or more relevant peer reviewed references, with 50 - 80 words per reference, how such reference document is relevant and will be used in your industry research project (i.e. I am checking that you have the ability to carry out a critical literature review).

The half draft of the thesis (7,000 8500 words of main body text) submission is to allow review and feedback is to discern in the submitted three draft chapters that this capstone project has sufficient scope to be compliant to the MEPR AQF level 9 program capstone demonstration outcomes and that sufficient progress has been made that the full thesis is likely to be completed successfully. Initial date of first submission of this is as shown in the assessment table, but the submission shall be subsequently iteratively resubmitted as directed by the Examiner until a minimum grade of 50% of mark can be attained to ensure evidence of scope of project is compliant to a Masters degree program standard.

The draft first three chapters of the MEPR student program thesis is the culmination in drafting together the following:

~0.25 unit of research completed in the gateway MEPR program ENG8300 Self-Assessment Portfolio in developing your extended MEPR Industry Project Abstract, including aims and objects, background, justification and initial justification literature review.

~0.75 unit of research completed in ENG8311 Workplace Portfolio, where your Industry Project critical literature

review and outline of methodology is developed as a real time artefact of your skills.

This equivalent to 1 unit of research completed is compiled and drafted into the MEPR thesis pre-amble and first three chapters of your thesis.

Alternatively for other Post-graduate program students enrolled in ENG8308, the first three chapters of the thesis is the expanded culmination of 1 unit of research completed in the relevant program Research Methodology pre-requisite course.

Determining an Industry Project Topic:

An industry topic is an area of your engineering discipline, where there remain unknowns to answer to improve engineering knowledge / product / service / process / material and business outcomes, or at least require better optimisation.

Note: Where possible and appropriate, discuss your industry project with your employer, so you have an opportunity to identify a topic that can advance your career. Alternatively, pick a topic where you wish to take your career, but again based on your industrial experience already achieved and within your MEPR enrolment discipline strand.

Then, for your chosen masters degree topic area, list several potential technical questions that relate to the unknowns of the topic. (N.B.: A research topic can have many multiple research questions.) From this list, prioritise one technical research question that maybe a high priority to resolve, and with which you have some background industrial experience and interest relevant to launch into developing your research methodology.

Note: Please do not try to solve a whole topics technical questions. Even at PhD level research where everything after the literature review must be new, innovative and a significant knowledge contribution, only a single but deep specialist technical question requires research solution. So be sure to narrow your technical question to what can be accomplished in 1 semesters work input (i.e. 2 Credit unit course = 330 hours of work) using your proposed methodology to provide recognisable contribution and enterprise outcomes to support your findings.

From your defined technical research question, once you settled its scope, then add a second engineering business benefits / life cycle and life costs / consequences / risk question associated.

Your topic and chosen research question should build from your industrial experience and expertise. ENG8308 is meant to extend beyond this experience and innovate to solve industry unknowns or poorly understood areas. Here the ideal outcome is for example to:

Produce a new methodology underpinned by manipulation of fundamental advance engineering mathematics knowledge in a new novel way,

Develop a new design tool, better optimise an existing one,

Develop core knowledge for a new standard that is missing or needed or improve the knowledge base for an existing standard,

Produce new information about reliability engineering etc. .

Assessment 1: Very early in the Semester of your enrolment, you will be required to submit a mandatory progress report where you assemble chapters 1 3 of your thesis (i.e. 50% of the total thesis) from previous work undertaken in ENG8300 and ENG8308. Please see marking Rubric Table (i) for the progress report on page viii.

This will be reviewed by the Examiner for line of logical reasoning for your topic / project aims and objectives / research questions, in terms of your fully developed draft of:

Chapter 1: This is your justification for the project topic, and whether you have set the background and provided an overarching view of the scope to the project.

Chapter 2 Submission: This is your appropriate masters post-graduate level critical literature review (i.e. not just citing others information). This literature review critiques known knowledge relevance to your project topic or aims and objectives or gathers referenced information or data your research methodology / enterprise questions posed in chapter 1. The other area of interest is how you use this Chapter 2 critical literature review and its line of reasoning to connect Chapter 1 introduction to the project to Chapter 3 Methodology.

Chapter 3 Submission: This is your full draft of your generic and theoretical methodology to investigate and resolve your technical engineering research question from chapter 1, and in line with your stated aims and objectives.

References: Full, accurate and format compliant reference / citation list (nominally >25 references required). Note: Any data, graphic, photo, or table in your draft report that is not been your own, or developed or drawn by yourself, must have the source citation listed in the caption.

NOTE: Originality is also checked in your preliminary report.

Marking Rubric for Progress Report and Maximum Marks Allocation

ENG8308 Draft Thesis Feedback with indicitive mark : Thesis Topic / Title

Student Name: Student ID Marker: Year: Semester [Insert closing overall comments]

1. Project Nature and activities (indicative approximate % of student effort in significant areas to date in Progress report). Preparatory / Literature work: Software Apps: Feasibility Studies / Planning: Experimental Design: Theoretical Work: Field Work: Technical Design: Practical Work: Technical Analysis: Data Analysis: Modelling: Hardware construction: Software / Coding: Financial / Benefits Analysis: Other (Specify) List Potential Recognisable Research Element / Contribution: 2

(10 marks) Industry Project Draft Report Execution Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor Sub- standard Ind Mark Sub-total Section

Marks out of 50

Appreciation of context and consequential effects 2.0 10

Literature review / information gathering 2.0 Design/ Development/ approach or methodology 2.0 Experimental / investigative technique 2.0 Analytical / modelling / design work 2.0 3 (5 marks) Thesis Formatting / Structure / Presentation 2 5

4

(35 marks) Thesis Progress Report Content

Organisation of topics/sections 2.5 33

Introduction background & objectives 4.3 Critical iterature reporting, analysis, review and

reporting, including citation / referencing 5.0 Technical depth relevance and accuracy 5.6 Analysis and Discussion justifying Methodology 5.6 Sufficient Fundamental Depth in Methodology for a

Master's Degree 3.8 Language construction, style and clarity 3.8 Presentation: drawings, diagrams, illustrations,

tables, appendices relevance and content. 2.5 Industry Peer/Mentor Name/details provided 2

Indicative Mark /50: Grade

(Pass/Resubmit/Fail) 50 Notes:

Excellent = Compliant to abilities of a CPEng

Good = Stage 1 Professional Engineer Standard

S atisfactory = Graduate Stage 1 Professional Engineer Standard

Poor = Undergraduate level

Sub-standard: Incomplete.

Typical Thesis Outline Structure:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Here you define the background, reasons/justification for the industry project research, technical and associated engineering enterprise benefits / consequences questions, as well as your general aims and objectives that defines the scope of your project investigations. In your final thesis submission, the outline structure of your thesis is also briefly summarised at the end of this chapter.

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Literature review at post-grad level is not research methodology. It is your critical review (or critique) of known knowledge in your chosen topic area. Just citing others work, without critique makes it worthless. Your critique shall for example:

Discuss and analyses and report when agreement convergence of sources of knowledge occur, and how it applies to your topic.

Identifies others suggested further research in your topic area [to discuss the reasons and their outcomes that provides third-party justification for your topic or research questions].

Identify the number of assumptions made to simplify theory and the impact such assumptions have in the real engineering technical or business world, i.e. discuss whether other outcomes in their methodology agree with real world engineering data to determine if assumptions are the cause of inaccuracy or failure to mimic the real world.

Identify useful parts of others published peer reviewed research methodology, and discuss how you could use to produce a new theory to solve a problem, extend and optimise an existing methodology, produce a new methodology that explains empirical or cognitive field observations etc..

Chapter 3 Methodology:

This is your main research contribution, i.e. it is in your methodology that you pose a theory that would devise, develop and articulate a logical technique to resolve your chosen technical research question from your industry project topic area. Your innovative methodology should predict an outcome that has to be tested against physical empirical data or knowledge in the real engineering world. If your methodology has no innovation (i.e. even improving optimisation of another method is acceptable) using advanced theoretical basics, then the weighted marking in this area will push you down to a C B grade, or possibly an IM or Fail grade.Research methodologies for innovation must apply in this chapter. The topic of your choice has unknowns. You define the boundaries of the unknown area for investigation by your technical research question, and the enterprise business benefits / consequences question associated. Your research methodology to answer this area of investigation is a theory you are posing that you believe will answer the technical unknown using advanced manipulation of fundamental engineering and scientific (or management) theory. You develop this theory into a new generic based model (e.g. mathematical, statistical, new software static or dynamic design tool, engineering process control or logic guidelines for design, product, engineering test/certification routine test etc.) and document this process in this chapter. You also document as part of your methodology how you intend to calibrate and test your methodology (e.g. against published empirical data, field work, build / test a product etc.). You also document a sensitivity component investigation of your model to identify either the boundaries in which your model is useful or identify key impact factors/variables in the model that could further simplify your developed model without detracting from its accuracy.

Chapter 1: Introduction

[Note: Start each chapter on a new page]

Project Background (and Justification if appropriate)

Industry Project Objectives

Project Scope

Aim and Objectives

Some of these objectives will be your workplace objectives.

Generally, there will be additional objectives to satisfy the requirement of this ENG8308 course.

Proposed Outline of Planned Methodology

Ethics, Impacts, Risk and Criticality

Reflect and report (in relation to elements of (E) Appendix 2, identify any effects or impacts that require consideration in this project and its outcomes, e.g. regarding:

Ethical

Sustainability

Enterprise efficiency

Change management

Social Impact

Risk / Criticality Analysis

Thesis Structure

A brief thesis outline summary is provided here chapter by chapter.

Summary of Outcomes

Briefly report the practical project outcomes in the workplace or enterprise.

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Introduction

Your critical literature review, to the following ENG8308 standards, maybe:

Already completed as part of your workplace project.

May be partially complete and requires further review and reporting to be compliant.

Requires development from MEPR program enrolment and engagement in this course.

Please refer to (G) Appendix sections 4.1 4.7 for more detailed literature review methodology and exercises that benefit the ability to complete and report literature reviews and investigation undertaken for ENG8308 Industry Project.

As a summary, appropriate Typical Literature Review Sources:

Australian and international standards

Statutory legislation

Project related conference papers

Project related Industry Journal papers

Reputable Industry based organisation codes / publications / magazines / white papers / resource papers etc.

Reputable Manufacturers data / Manual etc.

Appropriate on-line sources from global companies, major equipment suppliers, recognised registered industry groups subject to market or industry or Government scrutiny and review etc. (i.e. NOTE do not use Wikipedia or other on-line like sources that cannot be verified).

Published engineering books, reference book and textbooks.

Do Not Notes:

DO NOT use Wikipedia or like online resources as references in your industry project thesis. Such online sources are fine as a quick starting point to find other peer reviewed references.

Do not include in your critical literature review anything that has no relevance to your project topic, or scope as defined by the project aims and objectives and your research questions. Dont waffle and quote extraneous information to boost your reference list. You will be marked down for this. Dont reference or cite something without critically reviewing and commenting (or commenting on a group of references to a similar subject) on the relevance to your research investigation.

Do not use On-line link references except for trusted manufacturer or supplier weblink data or data files/e-manuscripts. For online copies of published peer reviewed documents, to reference, you must use the correct original copyright and publishing information as per the standardise Harvard referencing system, not just the online link.

NOTES:

(i.)Literature review methodology:

A comprehensive critical literature review report on any technical project will always contain a presentation of the background and context of an existing peer reviewed work undertaken and published. The level of detail presented is a matter of judgement, but it is principally determined by your project topic, and two main research questions as defined in the context of your aims and objectives. In the case of the ENG8308 Assessment 1assignment, like the dissertation in course ENG8308, you should write for your professional colleagues in your broader strand engineering discipline/s, i.e. your professional and industry peer-group, and not just your immediate industry supervisors/s or those who will be assessing the work. However, note that many of these may be non-specialists with respect to the technical detail of the background and of the work proposed. Hence consider if some additional explanation may be required and, of course, all abbreviations and jargon should be defined in the glossary, or at least at the point of first usage in the document.

(ii.)Masters Degree literature review dictates an analytical and well directed literature search:

Defines previous work that is a springboard for continuing development.

If useful knowledge relating to your industry project tasks is available, then how this will be utilised in your methodology.

Locates potential parallel standards, or other technologies or industrial engineering strands that may already provide a solution or published data which may offer alternative add-in options to also aid in the research investigation and your project methodology to solve the objective of your project topic. Also, transference or benchmarking relevant to your new research and development (e.g. published empirical performance data, physical properties of materials and / or financially relevant information) to be gathered from peer reviewed sources i.e. must be from a peer reviewed accredited source.

Connects your project in context to broader industry engineering discipline, as well as industry-based know-how.

Literature review can also provide justification for your project.

(iii.)A literature review summarises all these aspects in a logical topic-based manner. It must have a logical line of reasoning presenting relevant information that joints your project research questions of the topic and scope to the aims and objectives defined in your thesis Chapter 1 to your own Chapter 3 Methodology that it records the process of:

Knowledge discovery

Critical analysis and review define:

Non-critical and unbiased against others previous work.

Area of controversy, agreement or gaps in knowledge.

Theoretical versus test based knowledge.

Qualitative versus quantitative.

Reporting (i.e. summarising and commenting) is:

Accurate,

Connected, ordered convincing logic or argument (i.e. not just a list of observation of factual knowledge).

Citing and referencing reliable sources for all the critical foundational knowledge that your industry project builds from.

Outcome of Literature Review

Provide a summary of literature review and analysis should be present at the end of chapter 2 of your thesis, and to directly provide a feed into the introduction you present of the overview in your Chapter 3 of your research methodology.

Chapter 3: Project Methodology

This chapter defines typically the generic advanced fundamental engineering principles to develop generic processes and models involved in your project research investigation. This may take the form of any of the below examples (N.B. these are only a sample to provide some idea of the different typical elements):

Design / implement / test = (Theoretical / practical / empirical proof)

Simulate / Design or process optimisation / Test = (Theoretical model & outcomes / empirical proof)

Design New Complex engineering experimental Test / commission = (advanced engineering complex empirical investigation founded and supported by step by step use and proof by fundamental principles)

Complex Management or Engineering Process / Project process = (Theoretical / organisational/produces new system development guidelines, changes and updates standards or industry codes)

The methodology also defines the research element in your project and is your specific new or innovative knowledge contribution to your discipline or industry of employ but using post-graduate research methodology.