This assessment covers MATLAB fundamentals and numeric methods, done in Weeks 1-8.

Individual work is mandatory - this is a take-home test. None of your steps or solutions may be discussed or divulged to a fellow student.
Please refer to the CQU plagiarism policy - a signed cover page declaring individual work is required.
The assignment questions will be released on the unit website at least 2 weeks before the assignment is due to be submitted.

Questions are awarded the full marks if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some problems, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value.

To ensure maximum benefit, answers to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented and all appropriate working should be shown.

Two Project tasks will be issued, the first one being an introductory project task and the second being a more technical discipline-specific task. Thus two professional reports will be submitted.

Team work is encouraged (only 2 persons per team), and only ONE combined report needs to be submitted by BOTH students for a complete Moodle record.
A CQU plagiarism statement and declaration of how the team work was shared, has to be signed by both team members.
It is expected that the 2 team members alternate tasks so that each student gets exposure to all types of tasks, including background research, code development and report writing. Include details on your cover page.
Team reports must be professional and typed, including references. In cases where an individual student cannot conveniently join up to form a team, a slightly reduced report specification will be issued.
Photographic evidence is required to prove that both team members were involved in the coding / modeling.

For this reason it is required that photo's of each team member's fingers are shown in front of the active MATLAB result windows.
(For national and international accreditation, we get audited by Engineers Australia, and this photographic proof makes it easy to satisfy the auditors that each student has fully participated in all projects.)
Project work is compulsory and all students must pass the Project assessment in order to pass the unit.
Details of the project tasks will be posted on the unit website at least 2 weeks before submission is due.

Project Assessment will be graded using the following criteria:
Report style, language, uniformity, tidiness;
Background research done and proven with mini literature review and proper referencing;
Graphics content quality and usefulness;
Technical / theoretical content and correctness including calculations, analysis / design and thinking;

Code content: efficiency, correctness, tidiness / spacing, and commenting;
Photographic and other evidence that project was sufficiently modeled by the team;
Discussion and understanding of modeling results;

This assessment item covers the weekly Topics 1 - 12.
This will be an 'open resource' exam but you will be required to sign a declaration of individual work done and include this with your submission.
The take-home exam paper will be released on the unit website on the day of the exam. 5 Hours will be allowed, but this includes scanning and uploading. Late penalties will be deducted at 20% per hour (or proportional part).

Questions are awarded the full marks if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some problems, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value.

To ensure maximum benefit, answers to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented and all appropriate working should be shown.