- Overview
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GD173 - Graduate Diploma in Electrical Engineering
Plan: GD173 - Graduate Diploma in Electrical Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program delivery and structure
Approach to learning and assessmentWork integrated learningProgram structureProgram transition planApproach to learning and assessment
Several courses in the program are delivered online, rather than on-campus, and you are likely to find that other courses transition to online delivery as you progress through the program.
The following teaching and learning approaches form the basis of your learning experiences:
- You will be offered a learner-centred curriculum that encourages more learner engagement and participation than traditional lecture style delivery thereby providing you with opportunities to communicate in a variety of modes.
- You will engage in projects that require you to report results qualitatively, quantitatively, graphically, electronically and textually.
- Assessment in all courses will emphasise a range of written and oral skills.
- You will undertake learning activities and projects that require you to work in multi-disciplinary teams and critically engage with aspects of team development and conflict resolution.
- You will engage in learning activities and projects that require you to conceptualise, plan, design, construct and manage solutions to engineering problems.
- Learning activities will focus on practical application of technical skills and you will be assessed on technical competence both in practice and theory.
- You will undertake projects that require you to access a wide variety of knowledge repositories including professional journals, discussion lists and online sources of material.
- You will be required to solve complex, interconnected problems.
- You will be engaged in projects and authentic tasks that require you to work in multidisciplinary teams on multidisciplinary problems.
- You will be given problems that require you to consider the business context and commercial positioning of designed devices or systems.
Assessment
To ensure that you have achieved the required learning outcomes and developed critical capabilities you must be assessed. Assessment is designed to give you opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities. You will find that the forms of assessment used may be different for each course, as the assessment you receive must be appropriate to the objectives of each course.
The assessment you receive is critical to the success of your degree program, and to your future success in the workplace. The Graduate Capabilities designed into your program (a pre-requisite for your success) are satisfied only if the Learning Outcomes specified for each course are known to have been satisfied. Assessment does this, and because of the different types of courses, assessment may be expected to take different forms, such as:
- Examinations: an individual form of assessment where you have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to explain fundamental principles and solve problems;
- Assignment and projects: which may be done individually or in groups. This method may also enable you to demonstrate your ability to work alone or as a member of a team;
- Reflective journals: where you pause to consider what you have learnt, along with the easy and hard issues associated with that learning;
- Assessed tutorials: a form of in-class test, which may be done individually or as a team;
- Laboratory reports: which provide an exercise in experimentation, report writing and critical analysis of data;
- Self-assessment and peer-assessment: for assessment activities such as seminars you will assess yourself or your own group; or assess the work of other groups. This is part of equipping you to become more independent in your own learning and assessing your own and others’ performance.
Most of the assessment you complete (the exception is exams) will enable your lecturer to provide you with feedback on your strong and weak points. This will enable you to improve your performance in the future. Speak to your lecturer if you are not receiving helpful feedback.
If you have a long term medical condition, disability and/or other form of disadvantage it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program manager or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more
RMIT University has an assessment policy: see https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/ assessment-and-exams
Top of pageWork integrated learning
RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:
- undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
- interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
- complete these activities in real work contexts or situations; and
- these interactions and the work context provide a distinctive source of feedback to you to assist your learning.
Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be in a simulated workplace learning environment.
In addition to these courses you are strongly recommended to undertake at least 10 weeks of engineering work experience supervised by a professional engineer. If your work experience meets the requirements it may be assessed concurrently with your work experience as part of EEET2471 Professional Experience Postgraduate.
You can enrol in EEET2471 Professional Experience Postgraduate while you are undertaking engineering work experience at any time during GD173 Graduate Diploma in Electrical Engineering Engineering as an option course.
These courses provide realistic work situations allowing you to learn, apply and demonstrate professional engineering practice.
Top of pageProgram Structure
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Program transition plan
Transition Plan 2021
The following table shows courses that will be replaced from Semester 1 2021 for program transition purposes only and not necessarily course equivalencies. If you have successfully completed any of the old courses before the commencement of Semester 1 2021 they will continue to count as a course in your program and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.
Old course |
Credit Points |
Replacement |
Credit Points |
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Year 1 |
EEET2346 Professional Engineering Project Part A |
12 | Option course | 12 |
Year 1 |
EEET2347 Professional Engineering Project Part B |
12 | Option course | 12 |
Year 1 |
EEET1142 Project Preparation Planning and Problem Solving |
12 | OENG1120 Research Methods in Engineering |
12 |
EEET2331 Bioelectromagnetism and EEET2332 Biosignal Processing and Computing have been removed from the option lists, if you completed these courses prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2021, they will continue to count towards the completion of your program as an option course.
Transition Plan 2013
There are changes to the elective lists for 2013. Some electives are no longer offered, and some electives are new or change title. These changes will not affect your progression through the program.
Retained Credit
All credit points successfully completed in a prior version of this program will count towards completion of this program.
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