OPMG6896: Sustainability and Innovation

• Project culminating in presentation: Students describe, critically analyse, and present their assessment of recent studies related to sustainability and innovation and onduct a case study of a real project. The outcomes are communicated as oral presentation with slides.
• Professional blog post: Each student writes a professional blog post on a topic of project innovation management and creates visuals to communicate the main message.
• Peer-review feedback and content reflection​: Via-online discussion boards, students provide constructive written feedback on other students’ work and, using visual communication tools, reflect on main point of the core content. The quality and timeliness of the students’ contributions to online interactions during the semester will be assessed.
• Top participant bonus: Based on lecturers’ assessment, a small number of points will be allocated after every workshop to a small proportion of top participants who invested extraordinary effort into positive in-class contributions and to lifting the collaborative spirit of the sessions. Student will also have an oportunity to gain additional fractional points in live-classes by participating in small real-time quizzes.

Study Commitment:

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6-credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

*Attendance Requirements:

Students are expected to attend a minimum of 90 percent of timetabled activities for a unit of study unless granted exception by the Dean or Head of School most concerned. A student may be determined to fail a unit of study because of inadequate attendance. Alternatively, at their discretion, they may set additional assessment items where attendance is lower than 90 percent.  Please see the Resolutions of the Faculty - Faculty of Engineering - The University of Sydney for further details.

Text-matching software for Assignment Submission:

As part of the assessment process, text matching software such as Turnitin may be used to identify plagiarism and/or be used for providing feedback.

Confidential Peer Evaluation:

As part of the group contribution assessment process, collaborative & self-peer evaluation tools (e.g. SparkPlus, CATME, etc.) may be used, either on a confidential or non-confidential basis, to understand contributions and interactions amongst group members. Marks may be adjusted for an individual team member, following on from the peer evaluation process.

Reliability of Canvas Marks:

Canvas will be used in this unit and while key assessments may be submitted via Canvas, it cannot be used to determine/ predict a student’s final marks in this unit. Not all assessment results may be visible to students and group/team marks can change for each individual team member based on the peer-evaluations conducted at the end of the semester.

Recycling Assignments Not Allowed:

Recycling involves submitting (or resubmitting) your own work that has already been assessed without the permission of the lecturer of this unit, and for which you have already been given feedback. Recycling is a form of academic dishonesty and will be handled in line with the coursework policy.

Mark Moderation:

There may be statistically defensible moderation when combining the marks from each component to ensure consistency of marking between markers, and alignment of final grades with unit outcomes.

Workshop Participation:

It is expected that students turn on the cameras during online workshops. Failure to do so, will result in the student being requested to show cause and failure to comply could be viewed as non-participation for assessment purposes.