CSM80005 ENGINEERING PROJECT CONTROL BULLETIN NO. 2 - 17 MARCH 2017 WORKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY & GUIDANCE ON ANSWERING ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS 1. WORKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Many students doing the post-graduate construction course I assume will pursue a career in the construction industry either in Australia or back in their home country. Two items I would like to mention are outlined below. Firstly, more than you likely you will be required to attend many meetings. If you are working for an engineering or architectural organization a construction contractor or sub-contractor you need to note that you just don’t show up to meetings on a construction site at the time of your liking. You attend at the scheduled or nominated time! Similarly if you are attending the CSM80005 class each week my expectation is that you will attend at the nominated starting time of 0830. If you take a ‘break’ during the lecture my expectation is that you will return at the nominated time! Secondly, if you work in the construction industry, you will probably need to write site instructions, take minutes of meetings, write monthly reports – and that’s just for starters! You need to make sure you understand what you are writing about and that’s why answering Assignment questions is very important. Therefore, please read carefully the guidance below on answering assignment questions. 2. GUIDANCE ON ANSWERING ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS IN CSM80005. 1) You are required to submit a typed and stapled hard copy of the Assignment in class by the due date as nominated on the Assignment Cover Sheet. 2) Please include a signed copy of the Swinburne Assignment sheet page 3) Make sure that you read the questions carefully and understand what you are required to answer. 4) If you require clarification please contact me. Some students do, but many don’t! 5) 1000 words on average is required to answer a 10-mark essay type question (excluding referencing) with a pro rata number of words for questions with less marks 6) You need to be able to substantiate any statements you make in the answers by referencing. 7) If you incorporate a Table of advantages/disadvantages - as many students do, you still need to explain the statements that you have made in the Table i.e. you need to back up the statements you make, and you still need the appropriate number of words in accordance with the marks. 8) References should be notated at the end of each question, and be in accordance with Swinburne practice i.e. the Harvard style of referencing. 9) Finally most of the questions in the Assignment can be answered by thinking of the poet Rudyard Kipling and his ‘six honest serving men’: SIX HONEST SERVING MEN I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Reference: Kipling R, ‘The Elephant’s Child’ http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_serving.htm (accessed 10/3/17)