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CEG3707 GEOMATICS PRACTICE & RESEARCH

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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CEG3707 GEOMATICS PRACTICE & RESEARCH

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  1. 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

  2. MODULE ORGANISATION • Staffing • mostly Tom.Bramald@ncl.ac.uk (x6350) in Semester 1 • Peter.Clarke@ncl.ac.uk (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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT

  6. SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT

  7. 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]

  8. 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 • scientificinvestigation of a topic • criticalanalysis of methods and results

  9. CHOOSING A PROJECT TOPIC A policy issue An expedition or field study area A professional community or educational issue A scientific question A geomatics technique A personal or family interest An industrial practice or procedure A summer placement opportunity

  10. 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!)

  11. SEMESTER 2 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT offline discussions with staff offline discussions with staff

  12. 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?

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