FIT4049 · Computing in practice: Advanced project 2

Overview

This honours practice unit is the advanced continuation of company-based research engagement within the Monash IT Industry Practice Program. You will extend, refine and complete a substantial research-informed contribution within your student-led company, demonstrating the level of independence, critical judgement, methodological awareness and evidence-based reasoning expected in an AQF 8 honours pathway. You will conduct applied or professionally oriented research that is embedded in authentic company work. This may involve evaluating a technical approach, studying a system or process, designing and testing an intervention, comparing methods, analysing data, investigating user or stakeholder needs, examining responsible technology implications, or producing evidence that informs future company direction. At this stage, you are expected to move beyond participation in research activity toward stronger research ownership. You will justify your research approach, engage critically with relevant evidence, evaluate the limitations of your methods and findings, and communicate the significance of your contribution to both the company and the broader discipline or professional context. You will also help position the company to continue benefiting from your work. This may include producing research documentation, technical artefacts, evaluation reports, datasets, decision records, prototypes, recommendations, handover material, or future research and development pathways. Your final portfolio should demonstrate your research engagement, advanced professional capability, individual contribution, reflective development and readiness for industry, research employment or further study.

Offerings

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Assessment

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Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Apply responsible professional and research practices by making justified decisions that address ethical, privacy, security, social, cultural, sustainability and stakeholder implications of advanced company-based research work;
2. Direct your professional, academic and research development by critically evaluating your capability, integrating feedback, adapting your practice, and articulating readiness for industry, research employment or further study;
3. Communicate research findings, technical contribution, evidence, limitations and implications through clear scholarly and professional forms tailored to academic, company and stakeholder audiences;
4. Lead or coordinate aspects of advanced company work by managing research-informed project activity, dependencies, risks, quality expectations, knowledge transfer and continuity beyond your own contribution;
5. Resolve or substantially advance a complex company-based problem by synthesising evidence, evaluating alternatives, exercising critical judgement and justifying recommendations or outcomes;
6. Conduct and evaluate applied research by selecting and justifying appropriate methods, analysing evidence rigorously, interpreting findings critically, and explaining their contribution to company practice and disciplinary knowledge;
7. Apply and evidence selected course-specific SFIA skills at an advanced level through a substantial research-informed contribution that strengthens company capability, product direction, service quality, technical practice or future research pathways.

Workload

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