ceg2720 ceg3707 geomatics practice & research aims – to reinforce personal and career...
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CEG3707 GEOMATICS PRACTICE & RESEARCH
• Aims– to reinforce personal and career development– to link academic and ‘real world’ geomatics– to develop study skills for future work
– to prepare you for a scientific dissertation project on an element of geomatics research, practice or education
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MODULE ORGANISATION
• Staffing– mostly [email protected] (x6350) in Semester 1– [email protected] (module leader, x6351) and other
geomatics colleagues in Semester 2
• Assessment 100% in-course– certain items are ‘core’ i.e. they must be passed
to pass module as a whole– ‘exam’ (5%) is oral presentation in week 10
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SEMESTER 1: CAREERS AND SKILLS
• Aim: to present different aspects of professional geomatics practice– Site Visits: Land Registry and TBC– Guest Speakers:
• James Kavanagh (RICS)• John Fraser (Leica Geosystems)• Dave Whitcombe and Rhian Parkin (Shell)• And more …
• Develop skills in reflection
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What is reflection? Why is it important?
• Reflection– “Reflective learners are likely to be more self-critical, self-
aware and independent in their learning, motivated, self-managed and open to feedback and different approaches”
• Shape your learning to be personally meaningful– What you are learning and where this fits– Motivations to learn– Think about career development
• Enhance employability skills
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SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENTDate Place /
time Activity Staff Assessment
Mon 06/10
MERZ.L30114-16 Reflective skills TB -
Thu 09/10 TBC Guest Speaker: John Fraser, Leica Geosystems TB
Thu 09/10 KRC.LIND17-19
Life During and Beyond Geomatics External Job search plan (online +
ePortfolio) [5%] 21/10
Tue 14/10 CASB.ISAAC11-13
Use ePortfolio to prepare LD&BG task TB Info sources task sheet
(manual) [10%] 28/10
Mon 20/10
MERZ.L30114-16 Guest Speaker TBC External
Thu 30/10 Off site13-18 Land Registry, Durham TB
Mon 03/11
MERZ.L30114-16 Guest Speaker TBC External
Thu 06 or 07/11 CASB.2.33 Tutorial – Information skills
and presentation preparation TB
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SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENTDate Place /
time Activity Staff Assessment
Mon17/11
MERZ.L30114-16
Guest Speakers: Dave Whitcombe, Rhian ParkinShell
TB
Thu27/11
Off site13-18 Site Visit TBC (Survey) TB
Mon01/12
MERZ.L20109-11 Group Presentations:
Professional and Trade Bodies TB 5%01/12
Mon05/01 Reflective Report TB 20%
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SEMESTER 2: PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
• Aim: to enable you to develop a coherent, feasible but challenging plan for your final-year project– choosing a suitable topic – presenting the initial idea as a poster to receive feedback– learning how to make a case for your project– planning and resourcing the work– presenting and defending a case
• Project (n): – An exercise in which … students study a topic … over an
extended period; a piece of research work undertaken by a student (or group of students) [OED online]
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WHAT IS A DISSERTATION PROJECT?
• Project (n) [OED online] : b. Educ. An exercise in which school or college students study a topic, either independently or in collaboration, over an extended period; a piece of research work undertaken by a student or group of students.c. In business, science, etc.: a collaborative enterprise, freq. involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.
• A BSc(Hons) geomatics dissertation project involves– independent learning and (often) practical work– scientific investigation of a topic– critical analysis of methods and results
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CHOOSING A PROJECT TOPIC
An industrial practice or procedure
A geomatics technique
A scientific question
An expedition or field study
area
A policy issue
A summer placement
opportunity
A personal or family interest
A professional community or
educational issue
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WHY PLAN YOUR PROJECT?
• CEG3799 = 30 credits ≈ 300 hours of study– 15 hours per week (2 full days) in autumn/spring terms
• Your project needs to be– sufficiently challenging (in scientific and procedural terms)– independent and novel– feasible, and suitably staged– capable of being supervised within CEG– interesting (to you!)
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SEMESTER 2 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENTDate Place /
time Activity Staff Assessment
Fri 30/1 STB.T1 10-12 Project ideas sandpit PJC +
others -
Fri 13/2 BSTC.2.40 2-4 Poster design PJC -
Mon 23/2 - - - Poster due (online) [20%, core]
Fri 27/2 UGCR10-12 Poster display Q&A session PJC +
others (part of poster mark)
Fri 6/3 CASB.2.33 10-11
Project planning I: the academic case PJC -
Fri 13/3 CASB.2.33 10-11
Project planning II:scheduling and resourcing PJC -
Wed 29/4 - - - Project proposal due (online) [40%, core]
w/c 4/5 or 11/5 various Interview with supervisor various (part of proposal mark)
offline discussions with staff
offline discussions with staff
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SUMMARY
• Overall aim is to prepare you for independent work– Semester 1 mostly about careers, industry and skills– Semester 2 mostly about project design and planning– but ideas and skills overlap
• Questions?