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CVEN2101 Engineering Construction
Term 3, 2021
Individual Assignment – Part B:
Engineering Report on Construction Equipment and Processes
Due time and date: 17:00, Sunday, 14 November 2021
Method of submission: Softcopy only, submit a PDF version of your Individual Assignment through
Turnitin under the Moodle’s ‘Assignments’ section. After submitting, always check what you have
submitted. Do not email your Individual Assignment – Part B to your course coordinator or your
demonstrator.
Weight of the Individual Assignment – Part B: 35 Marks
Late submission penalty: Submit as early as possible since late submissions will receive a 10%
deduction penalty per day. Late submissions up to 5 days late will be marked and will receive the
appropriate penalty deductions. Any submissions made that are more than 5 days late will not be
accepted for marking.
Important Notice
The selected construction site must be able to be viewed from publicly accessible areas throughout
the duration of the term. Under no circumstances are you to enter the construction area. Multiple site
visits are required throughout the term to prepare this Engineering Report.
Scope of Work
Each student is required to visit nominated construction project at least four times throughout the
Academic Term for the preparation of an Engineering Report for all selected construction processes
and equipment pieces which have been selected in Individual Assignment – Part A. Your submission
is to be prepared as an Engineering Report and must include:
1. An introduction of the construction project including its background, its purpose, its
construction cost and duration, and site visit dates
2. Explanation about the two selected construction processes are being undertaken on the site,
including pictures
3. Explanation about the operation and applications of the two selected pieces of construction
equipment on the project, including pictures
4. Discussion on how the production rate and safety of the selected construction processes and
equipment can be improved in the project
5. Discussion on what can be done to improve the sustainability of the project
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Engineering Report Writing and Structure Requirements
In preparing your Engineering Report, you are advised that you are to prepare it to these requirements:
Fill the cover sheet for Individual Assignment – Part B and use it as the first page of your
Engineering Report. Each student must write their full name and zID in the cover sheet. The
blank cover sheet is provided in Moodle.
The structure of the Engineering Report is to be compiled as follows:
Cover Page
Executive Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction
[In the main body of your Engineering Report, you are to develop some headings according to
those elements you previously nominated in Individual Assignment – Part A.]
Conclusion
References
Appendix (if needed)
Your Engineering Report is to be drafted in the following format:
Headings: 14-point Times New Roman font bolded.
Text: 12-point Times New Roman black font, 1.5 line spacing, page numbered, 20 mm margins
at top and bottom, and 30 mm side margins. Your writing should be left and right margin
justified.
The length of the Engineering Report is to be approximately 3000 words (±10%) excluding
References and Appendix sections.
‘Executive Summary’ and ‘Table of Contents’ are needed for any Engineering Report. These
sections must be in the second page and the third page of your Engineering Report
respectively after the Cover Sheet as your first page. Executive Summary is a concise 1-
page summary of your report and is totally different from the Introduction.
Page numbering is required in the footers. Nothing else must be written in headers or footers.
Proofreading is required for spelling and grammar checking. English writing must be at the
expected academic standard.
The Engineering Report is to be written in the third person.
You are permitted to use different types of illustrations in the body of your Engineering Report:
including pictures, figures, tables, graphs, and charts. They need to be captioned using 10-
point Arial font and sequentially numbered:
e.g. (Figure 1: [caption]; Figure 2: [caption]; Table 1: [caption]; Table 2: [caption], etc.)
Each illustration needs to be cited in your Engineering Report to link it to the writing content.
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In preparing your Engineering Report, you need to provide references and in-text citation to
those sources. Referencing is to be to Harvard Standard. For this work, it is expected that you
will use a minimum of 10 reference sources. If you are using Internet source references, they
need to be properly referenced. Wikipedia is not acceptable as a source. All references need
to be cited throughout your writings according to Harvard Standard practice, and a full list of
your used references (Author-Surname alphabetically sorted) must be provided at the end of
your Engineering Report under the ’References’ heading. A detailed guide can be found from
UNSW website: https://student.unsw.edu.au/harvard-referencing
Marking Criteria
1. Technical Content (25 marks in total)
Project introduction, and comprehensive discussion on the selected construction processes and
equipment (18 marks)
Discussion on production, safety and sustainability consideration and improvement (7 marks)
2. Engineering Report Format and Structure, Written English, and Referencing (10 marks in total)
Your Engineering Report will be judged in its format, structure, and academic writing including
referencing to Harvard Standard and in-text citation. Your Individual Assignment must exhibit
good flow throughout the Engineering Report in linking what you have observed on site and what
you have learnt in the course.
Submission Requirements
Prepare your Individual Assignment – Part B in Microsoft Word and on completion convert it to a PDF
file which will be the file you will submit. Your PDF file is to be named accordingly:
[Student Full Name_Student zID_Part B_CVEN2101],
e.g. [John Smith_z1234567_Part B_CVEN2101]
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