There will only be one class per project. Please consider the project timetable before registering for a project in Sydney Student and make sure that you are available for the allocated class times.
Projects will be delivered face-to-face on campus.
It will take 7 - 9 days for your personal timetable to reflect your project registration.
June - July intensive timetable
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
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| Week 1 |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
| Week 2 |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
| Week 3 |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
| Week 4 |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
9.30 am - 1 pm |
Students are expected to contribute a total of 120 – 150 hours of effort towards the intensive unit which includes 42 hours of scheduled classes plus an additional 78 – 108 hours (19.5 – 27 hours/week) outside of class times. This may include group meetings scheduled outside class hours and independent research.
Semester 2 timetable
| Industry partner |
Industry project |
Timetable |
Delivery mode |
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| Grains Research and Development Corporation |
Empowering Australian Grain Growers through Innovation and Technology
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Tuesday 9 am – 12 pm
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Face-to-face
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| Ventia |
Innovations to Support a Circular Economy |
Wednesday 9 am – 12 pm
|
Face-to-face
|
Universities Admissions Centre
|
Designing a National Skills Passport for the Next Generation Workforce
|
Wednesday 12 – 3pm
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Face-to-face
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Grains Research and Development Corporation – Empowering Australian Grain Growers through Innovation and Technology
Please note that for this project our industry partners are not based in Sydney, so partners will engage with students virtually.
Australian grain growers are innovative, resourceful and resilient. These qualities, combined with world class, cutting-edge research, development and engineering equates to results, such as a national $31.1 billion in grain production (gross value). The core objective of the Grain Research and Development Corporation is to drive the discovery, development and delivery of world-class innovation to enhance the productivity, profitability and sustainability of Australian grain growers. Australian grain growers face challenges to do more with less, as input costs increase, and demographics in regional Australia change. Technological advancement has revolutionised planning, operations and decision making for a wide range of industries. GRDC is facing some exciting challenges and is inviting interdisciplinary student groups to explore step changes in soil and water productivity, opportunities to transform the efficiency of input use, ways to ensure we continue to be a leader in sustainable, responsible production, and how to attract, train and sustain workforces and communities essential to the future of the industry.
Universities Admissions Centre – Designing a National Skills Passport for the Next Generation Workforce
Linear pathways to employment are a thing of the past. We are in an age of disruption where the ‘job-ready’ goalposts continuously shift. It’s as important to demonstrate both technical skills and the ‘softer’ skills such as leadership and emotional intelligence, which we now term ‘employability’ skills. These changing needs require agility from individuals, employers, government, and higher education institutions to keep pace with the changing future of work. Can we imagine and build more agile and purposeful ways to understand and pivot to the changing needs of employers? Can we leverage fast-growing digital platforms and channels to connect stakeholders? With a lifelong learning mindset, how might people acquire new skills or transfer their skills into new sectors? This is what the Australian Government has put forward with its far-reaching proposal and consultation for a ‘National Skills Passport’. Interdisciplinary student groups are set the challenge to imagine what a National Skills Passport could look like. Solutions developed in this project could have potential to be a startup via INCUBATE at University of Sydney.
Ventia – Innovations to Support a Circular Economy
Ventia is one of the largest essential infrastructure services providers in Australia and New Zealand. It has a combined workforce of more than 35,000 people, working in over 400 sites across Australia and New Zealand, with over 40% of its employees operating in regional locations. Ventia operates across a broad range of industry segments, including defence, social infrastructure, water, electricity and gas, environmental services, resources telecommunications and transport. The transition to a circular economy is key to reducing embodied emissions and ensuring the ongoing sustainability of the communities in which we live. This transition requires solutions, both in terms of how we achieve better avoidance, reuse, repurposing, and recycling, but also how we support people through the change process. In interdisciplinary groups, students are invited to explore a wide range of innovative solutions that might contribute to achieving circular economy. Solutions focusing on the transport infrastructure sector are particularly encouraged due to the high materiality of the sector. Fundamental focus should be rethinking how we design, build, operate, and decommission transportation systems to minimize waste, maximize resource efficiency, and reduce environmental impacts throughout their lifecycle.
