Overview

The aim of this unit is for students to complete a team-based project by selecting and responding to a space industry partner brief that is aligned with the Australian Space Agency, National Civil Space Priority Areas. Students will learn collaboration, project management, research methods and critical thinking skills as they work in teams to meet client needs.

Requisites

Prerequisites
AER30001 Space Innovation Research Challenge

Rules

Pre-requisite
175 Credit Points in a BA course
OR
275 Credit Points in a BH or BB course

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Analyse a real world problem in an organisational setting and recommend or develop solutions which are practical and effective utilising appropriate tools, techniques and methods
  • Develop constructive arguments to justify proposed advice, recommendations or solutions
  • Apply project management methods to appraise, plan, design, manage and execute a small-scale project
  • Demonstrate intellectual independence as a critical and reflective learner
  • Demonstrate professional behaviours through effective leadership, teamwork and communication skills with all project stakeholders

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Workshop
3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
8.50 12 weeks 102
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 25 - 50% 1,2,3,4,5 
PortfolioGroup 50 - 70% 1,2,3,4,5 

Content

This unit provides students with an opportunity to work in a team with an academic supervisor and a space industry client.  Client research briefs are aligned with the Australian Space Agency Civil space priority areas:

  • Medicine and life sciences
  • Position, navigation and timing
  • Earth observation
  • Communication technologies and services
  • Space situational awareness and debris monitoring
  • Leapfrog R&D
  • Robotics and automation on Earth
  • Space and access to space

During their project students will also learn

  • Project management (planning, scope, time, cost, risk, stakeholders, project monitoring and closure)
  • Team management (formation, roles, responsibilities, effective communication, conflict management, motivation, personalities and diversity, performance evaluation)
  • Agile development (interactive, collaborative, adaptive, user-centric, iterative and empowered)
  • Technical documentation and record keeping skill
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media 
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.