CEG2720 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

CEG2720 MODULE ORGANISATION Staffing – mostly (x6350) in Semester – (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

CEG2720 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

CEG2720 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

CEG2720 SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT Date Place / time ActivityStaffAssessment Mon 06/10 MERZ.L Reflective skillsTB- Thu 09/10TBC Guest Speaker: John Fraser, Leica Geosystems TB Thu 09/10 KRC.LIND Life During and Beyond Geomatics External Job search plan (online + ePortfolio) [5%] 21/10 Tue 14/10 CASB.ISAAC Use ePortfolio to prepare LD&BG task TB Info sources task sheet (manual) [10%] 28/10 Mon 20/10 MERZ.L Guest Speaker TBCExternal Thu 30/10Off site Land Registry, DurhamTB Mon 03/11 MERZ.L Guest Speaker TBCExternal Thu 06 or 07/11 CASB.2.33 Tutorial – Information skills and presentation preparation TB

CEG2720 SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT Date Place / time ActivityStaffAssessment Mon 17/11 MERZ.L Guest Speakers: Dave Whitcombe, Rhian Parkin Shell TB Thu 27/11 Off site Site Visit TBC (Survey)TB Mon 01/12 MERZ.L Group Presentations: Professional and Trade Bodies TB 5% 01/12 Mon 05/01 Reflective ReportTB20%

CEG2720 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]

CEG2720 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

CEG2720 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

CEG2720 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!)

CEG2720 SEMESTER 2 ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT Date Place / time ActivityStaffAssessment Fri 30/1 STB.T Project ideas sandpit PJC + others - Fri 13/2 BSTC Poster designPJC- Mon 23/2--- Poster due (online) [20%, core] Fri 27/2 UGCR Poster display Q&A session PJC + others (part of poster mark) Fri 6/3 CASB Project planning I: the academic case PJC- Fri 13/3 CASB Project planning II: scheduling and resourcing PJC- Wed 29/4--- Project proposal due (online) [40%, core] w/c 4/5 or 11/5 variousInterview with supervisorvarious(part of proposal mark) offline discussions with staff

CEG2720 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?