Industrial Experience COMP4800
Course overview
Course description
Industrial Experience gives the student exposure to current professional practice. It consists of 60 days of work, organised by the student. Of those 60 days, 20 must be in a software engineering context, 20 must be in a professional context, and the remaining 20 may be in any employment.Industrial Experience is usually undertaken outside study periods, and is graded satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
Students must fulfil the requirements during the course of their degree; they normally enroll in COMP4800 in their final year and need to have satisfied the requirements by October in order to graduate at the ceremony the following December.
Rationale
As an engineering degree accredited under IE(Aust) procedures, the BSEng degree requires a student to acquire industrial experience. The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology uses a standard device, namely enrolment in a compulsory unit, to manage this for its engineering degrees. A student will complete the unit only after the appropriate period of industrial experience.
Ideas
This unit will carry the main responsibility for
- exposing the student to the industrial workplace, and
- exposing the student to workplace issues such as human and industrial relations, job organization, safety and environmental concerns.
It will share responsibility for issues such as professional and ethical responsibility in the software engineering profession.
