Program Overview

Program Overview

The ELEC4713: Thesis B program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to carry out a defined piece of independent research and design that fosters the development of engineering skills. These skills include the capacity to define a problem, carry out systematic research, identify the tools needed to address the problem, design a solution, product or prototype, analyze the results obtained, and present the outcomes in a report that is clear, coherent, and logically structured.

Program Details

Unit of Study

• The unit of study is ELEC4713.
• The study level is Undergraduate.
• The academic unit is the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• The credit points are 6.

Enrolment Rules

• Prerequisites: ELEC4712.
• Corequisites: None.
• Prohibitions: ELEC4714.
• Assumed knowledge: None.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• Deliver a research presentation that is clear, confident, and engaging to an academic audience.
• Document and report research work undertaken in a format appropriate for academic literature with correct referencing.
• Analyze data, draw appropriate conclusions, and present those conclusions in context, with due consideration of methods and assumptions involved.
• Formulate an appropriate method for investigating a specific research question.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of a specialized area within the discipline.
• Employ originality, ingenuity, and initiative in dealing with critical research issues.
• Formulate and plan a personal research project.

Unit Availability

The unit is available in various sessions, including Semester 1 and Semester 2, with different modes of attendance and locations. The outline for each unit availability provides information about the unit, including assessment details and a schedule of weekly activities.

Modes of Attendance

The mode of attendance for the unit is Supervision, and it is available at the Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney location.

Research Areas

The thesis topic must be within the area of the Major for students completing a Major within their BE degree. The theses to be undertaken by students will very often be related to some aspect of a staff member's research interests. Some projects will be experimental in nature, others may involve computer-based simulation and analysis, feasibility studies, or the design, construction, and testing of equipment. All, however, will require students to undertake research and design relevant to the topic of their thesis.

Thesis Requirements

• The thesis must be the student's individual work, although it may be conducted as a component of a wider group project.
• Students undertaking research on this basis will need to take care in ensuring the quality of their own research and design work and their individual final thesis submission.
• The thesis will be judged on the extent and quality of the student's original work and particularly how critical, perceptive, and constructive they have been in assessing their work and that of others.
• Students will also be required to present the results of their thesis to their peers and supervisors as part of a seminar program.

Program Goals

The aim of the program is to contribute to the creation of new engineering knowledge, techniques, and/or solutions. Students should explore topics that arouse intellectual curiosity and represent an appropriate range and diversity of technical and conceptual research and design challenges. The final grade is based on the work done in both Thesis A and B, and will be awarded upon successful completion of Thesis B.