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TRAS5002: Transport Research Project B
2024 unit information
The ability to plan, systematically conduct and report on a major project, involving both research and design, is an important skill for transport analysts and researchers. The three units in the Master of Transport Research Pathway (TRAS5001, TRAS5002, and TRAS5003) aim to provide students with the opportunity to carry out a defined piece of independent research and design that fosters the development of engineering, planning, and business skills, develop a research paper, and prepare for a possible PhD. These skills include: the capacity to define a problem; carry out systematic research in exploring how it relates to existing knowledge; identifying the tools needed to address the problem; designing a solution, product or prototype; analysing the results obtained; and presenting the outcomes in a report that is clear, coherent and logically structured. The research project units are taken across one or two semesters of enrolment. Students will also be required to present the results of their thesis to their peers and supervisors as part of a seminar program. Students should explore topics that arouse intellectual curiosity and represent an appropriate range and diversity of technical and conceptual research and design challenges.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Civil Engineering
| Code | TRAS5002 |
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| Academic unit | Civil Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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TRAS5001 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Develop and plan a transport-related research project
- LO2. Critique research with originality and initiative
- LO3. Identify theoretical and practical issues and evaluate their significance
- LO4. Present ideas and the results of analyses in the appropriate professional language and demonstrate effective communication of solutions to multifaceted transport research problems
- LO5. Demonstrate integrated thinking to decompose complex research problems into tasks in a systematic way
- LO6. Develop solutions to open-ended transport research questions and support the solutions with evidence
- LO7. Formulate appropriate methods for investigating a specific research question
- LO8. Analyse data and results and draw appropriate conclusions in context, with due consideration of methods and assumptions involved
- LO9. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the specialised area within the transport discipline
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Semester 1 2024
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Supervision | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Supervision | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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There are no availabilities for previous years.
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