FIT4048 · Computing in practice: Advanced project 1

Overview

This honours practice unit extends the Monash IT Industry Practice Program by requiring you to engage in research-informed professional practice within a student-led company. You will contribute to the company’s mission through advanced project work while beginning to frame aspects of that work as applied, professionally oriented research. You will identify a problem, opportunity, uncertainty or knowledge gap within your company context and develop a structured research-engagement plan. This may involve reviewing relevant literature or industry evidence, analysing existing systems or practices, designing an investigation, evaluating alternative approaches, collecting and interpreting data, prototyping, experimentation, technical evaluation, or studying the impact of a product, service, process or intervention. The unit is designed to support the transition from advanced professional contribution toward honours-level research engagement. You will be expected to demonstrate independence, judgement, responsibility and initiative, while still working with appropriate academic, mentor and company support. Your research activity should be meaningful to the company and should also demonstrate the research capability required for an AQF 8 honours pathway. You will continue to develop selected course-specific capabilities relevant to your discipline, using the company context to generate evidence of advanced technical, analytical, creative or professional growth. Assessment is centred on an individual evidence-based portfolio that demonstrates research engagement, problem framing, contribution to company work, professional development, reflection, and the application of selected course-specific skills.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Apply responsible professional and research practices by addressing ethical, privacy, security, social, cultural, sustainability and stakeholder considerations in advanced company-based work;
2. Direct your professional, academic and research development by setting advanced learning goals, seeking and responding to feedback, reflecting on evidence of growth, and adapting your practice in response to emerging challenges;
3. Communicate research-informed project aims, methods, evidence, technical decisions, risks and outcomes clearly to academic, professional and company audiences;
4. Plan, coordinate and evaluate advanced company project work by managing scope, dependencies, risks, quality expectations, evidence requirements and collaboration across relevant teams or stakeholders;
5. Investigate a complex problem, opportunity or uncertainty within the company context by analysing causes, constraints, evidence and alternative approaches to inform defensible action;
6. Engage in applied research activity by formulating a researchable question or investigation focus, selecting appropriate methods, gathering and analysing evidence, and explaining the implications of findings for company work;
7. Apply and evidence selected course-specific SFIA skills through a substantial research-informed contribution to company products, services, systems, processes or knowledge. SFIA: Student-selected course-specific skills.

Workload

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.