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Aims & Objectives

The aim of this course is to use the internship experience to enable students to develop their engineering skills and practice. Invited Students will be placed in industry and assessed for academic credit. The internships will be aligned with the aims of the engineering program and its areas of specialisation. Students will experience a real-life engineering workplace and understand how their engineering and professional skills and knowledge can be utilised in industry. They will also be able to demonstrate functioning engineering knowledge, both new and existing, and identify areas of further development for their future careers.

Course Intended Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Experience of applying existing engineering knowledge in similar or new situations
2. Ability to identify when new engineering knowledge is required, and apply it
3. Ability to integrate existing and new technical knowledge for industrial application
4. Ability to demonstrate the impact of the internship on their learning and professional development through mapping to relevant Stage 2 Engineers Australia technical competencies
5. Understanding of lifelong learning processes through critical reflection of internship experiences.

Course Structure

1. Internship Journal (e-Portfolio) and Reflection Items (20) [LO null]
2. Internship Report (60) [LO null]
3. Industry Supervisor Report (20) [LO null]

Aims & Objectives

Our curriculum framework ensures students to be equipped with basic business knowledge before advancing into specific streams in Hospitality or Real Estate.

Course Intended Learning Outcomes

Our curriculum framework ensures students to be equipped with basic business knowledge before advancing into specific stream in Hospitality or Real Estate. This guarantees whole-person development so that students will be able to develop their future career in both fields or select a path specializing in either one.

In your first two years of study, you will take a series of business foundation courses and Hospitality and Real Estate introductory courses. Prior to the completion of your second year, you will declare your intention in either Hospitality or Real Estate stream.

Over the following two years, you will complete the required stream courses and choose from an array of elective courses across the three modules.

Course Structure

• Basic Quantitative Methods for the Hospitality and Tourism Industry
• Business Information Systems
• Financial Management
• Marketing Management
• Food & Beverage Management
• Management of Lodging Facilities
• Hospitality Real Estate Economics
• Law for Hospitality and Real Estate Industry
• Hospitality Strategic Management
• Hospitality and Real Estate Capstone Project

Aims & Objectives

This course is designed to provide students with real life working experience in local and overseas contexts for a period of time. With placements in international businesses, banking, financial services, insurance, accountancy firms, etc., students are expected to gain an in-depth and practical understanding of business operations and the professional contexts in which they are expected to apply the theory and skills they have learned in the formal curriculum.

Course Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

• Communicate an in-depth and practical understanding of how a business actually operates.
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate and apply knowledge and skills developed in various core and foundation courses to real-world situation of a specific business organization.
• Demonstrate the ability and self-initiative to successfully complete internship assignments.
• Reflect on personal and professional development needs and set strategic goals for advancing along an intended career path.
• Demonstrate integrity and professionalism in the fulfillment of all internship requirements.

Course Structure

Students will be placed into a company or organization for not less than six weeks full-time internship during the summer. Before the internship, students will participate in a one-day pre-internship training workshop on business ethics, business etiquette and interpersonal communication skills. During the internship, students will join a mid-term sharing and review session to help them identify adjustment issues in the workplace and ways to improve job performance. At the end of the internship, students are required to prepare and submit a report.