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Creating Innovative Professionals (ENGR90039)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville) and Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Semester 1 - Online Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject aims to give participants theoretical frameworks, practical insights, and preliminary skills to work in their chosen profession in contexts where determining what problem to work on is an important complement to knowing how to solve that problem.
Participants will develop these understandings, insights and skills by working in teams on a strategically-important innovation challenge sponsored by an industry organisation. This subject is similar to Creating Innovative Engineering (ENGR90034), but is designed for students seeking a multi-disciplinary learning experience.
Participants will learn theories of human-centred innovation and apply them in their project. They will learn how to work in teams and use those skills to deliver the project. They will learn to conceptualise their career as an innovation project, and how to apply the innovation skills and theories presented in the subject to their own careers.
The subject is challenging, experiential and requires significant self-direction.
Creating Innovative Professionals (CIP) and its companion subject, Creating Innovative Engineering ENGR90034 (CIE), are delivered by the University's Innovation Practice Program. To learn more about the Program, including the range of organizations that have participated as sponsors, examples of past projects and to hear students talk about their experiences in taking CIE/CIP, please go to the Innovation Practice Program’s website.
All project sponsors will require students to maintain the confidentiality of their proprietary information. The University will require all students (except those working on projects sponsored by the University itself) to assign any Intellectual Property they create (other than Copyright in their Assessment Materials) to the sponsor of their project.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject, students will have an ability to:
- ILO1. Conceptualise their career as series of innovation projects, recognise the importance of a growth mindset and entrepreneurial thinking for such a career, and know how to enact these ways of thinking;
- ILO2 - Know how to, and demonstrate the ability to listen, reflect and act on personal development, team operations, and team leadership challenges;
- ILO3 - Collaborate, create positive relationships and productively shape group dynamics in highly uncertain professional environments;
- ILO4 - Have understandings and skills to work empathically with colleagues and clients who see the world differently from them;
- ILO5 - Apply understanding of how value is created in a multi-disciplinary professional context, and the importance of value creation, rather than just technical problem-solving, to professional work.
Generic skills
- An advanced understanding of the changing knowledge base in their chosen profession;
- An ability to evaluate and synthesise the research and professional literature;
- Well-developed problem-solving abilities, characterised by flexibility of approach;
- A capacity to articulate their knowledge and understanding in oral and written presentations;
- An appreciation of the design, conduct and reporting of original research;
- A capacity to manage competing demands on time, including self-directed project work;
- An appreciation of the ways in which advanced knowledge equips the student to offer leadership;
- The capacity to value and participate in projects which require team-work;
- An understanding of the significance and value of their knowledge to the wider community (including business and industry);
- A capacity to engage where appropriate with issues in contemporary society
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Enrolment in:
• Either one of the Master of Management suite programs or the Master of International Business
• MC-ENG - Master of Engineering (All specialisations except “with Business”)
• MC-IT - Master of Information Technology
• MC-IS – Master of Information Systems
• MC-BMEDSC - Master of Biomedical Science, Enterprise Stream
ENROLLING IN CIP
Please note it is not possible to self-enrol in CIP - all enrolments are by application.
Entry to CIP is via an application process and places are subject to a quota. University staff will enrol successful applicants on conclusion of the approval process.
Selection will be subject to the submission of an online application form, including a recorded video response to two interview questions and will be based upon the quality of the interview responses demonstrating the student's verbal communication skills and potential to:
• add value to the program through your commitment and professionalism; and
• benefit from the CIP experience.
Applications will be assessed and approved students will be enrolled by University staff until the quota has been filled. Students should note that this is likely to occur well in advance of the start of semester.
Approved applications submitted after the quota has been filled will be placed on a waitlist. Additional places will be allocated to waitlisted applicants as they become available up to Week One.
Please note that approved students who unenroll themselves will lose their place. Students who wish to be reinstated will be placed on a waitlist.
Students whose applications are not approved will be notified by email.
If you are applying from the Faculty of Business and Economics, you may only apply to take CIP as a general elective and not as a replacement for a discipline specific elective. Please refer to the subject options listed in the Handbook for your program. If you are unsure about whether you have space for CIP, please arrange an online appointment with a course advisor at ask.unimelb.
Tools to help you prepare for the interview are accessible via the application form.
HOW TO APPLY
To complete an application form, you will need to have prepared one short video recording your responses to two interview style questions. The video should be no more than 2 minutes in length. You will need to include your name and student Id in the video file name and save it in one of these formats: .mp4, .mpeg or .mov. For this reason, it will be easier to produce on a laptop rather than a mobile phone.
To access the application form, please click here
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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ENGR90021 | Critical Communication for Engineers |
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ENGR90034 | Creating Innovative Engineering |
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Online)
|
12.5 |
INFO90009 | HCI Project (Advanced) |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
25 |
INFO90010 | Technology Innovation Project |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
25 |
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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8 x Weekly reflection journal on an element of the subject, 22.5% total. Due weeks 2 - 11. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) 1 and 2 are addressed in this assessment
| Throughout the teaching period | 22.5% |
8 x Peer reflection response, 13.5% total . Due weeks 2 - 11. ILOs 2 - 4 are addressed in this assessment.
| Throughout the teaching period | 13.5% |
Personal innovation plan in the form of a written report. ILOs 1, 2 and 5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 12 | 9% |
Three progress documents for project. Due in weeks 3, 5 and 9. ILOs 3 - 5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Draft Team Project Report. ILOs 1, 3 - 5 are addressed.
| Week 12 | N/A |
Final Team Project Report. ILOS 1, 3 - 5 are addressed in this assessment.
| Week 14 | 35% |
Class attendance. ILOs 1 - 4 are addressed. Hurdle requirement: Must attend a minimum of 80% of classes | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Participation. ILOs 1 - 5 are addressed. | Throughout the semester | 10% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Semester 1 - Online
Coordinator Peter Cebon Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 36 hours; 1 x 3 hour class, weekly Total time commitment 200 hours Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 12 March 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021 - Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery
Coordinator Peter Cebon Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours; 1 x 3 hour class, weekly Total time commitment 200 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021
Additional delivery details
Quotas apply to this subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Subject notes
If you would like to know more about the opportunities offered by CIP, and other courses offered in the Innovative Practice Program, please go to the IPP website
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Engineering Specialisation (formal) Biochemical Specialisation (formal) Civil Specialisation (formal) Biomedical Specialisation (formal) Computing Specialisation (formal) Cyber Security Specialisation (formal) Electrical Specialisation (formal) Environmental Specialisation (formal) Chemical Specialisation (formal) Human-Computer Interaction Specialisation (formal) Materials Specialisation (formal) Mechanical Specialisation (formal) Mechatronics Specialisation (formal) Distributed Computing Specialisation (formal) Software Specialisation (formal) Structural Specialisation (formal) Mechanical with Aerospace Specialisation (formal) Spatial Specialisation (formal) Spatial Informal specialisation Research specialisation Informal specialisation Health specialisation Informal specialisation Professional specialisation
Last updated: 3 November 2022