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Appendix B.2
In the context of ways of improving double degree students’ learning activities,
issues of particular interest include:
• joint-discipline curricula involvement
• cross-discipline learning and assessment activities
• cross-disciplinary graduate attributes
• final year thesis projects.
Local examples of activities relevant to improving double degree
students’ learning activities
Students in double degrees are always given the choice to select their final year
thesis topic from either engineering or the second degree. In many instances the
project requires the skills from both degrees to complete the project.
Only recently, joint curricula development has been considered. Traditionally, the
number of students in the double degrees is small. Consequently specific units for
the double degrees are rare. Existing units are put together to form the double
degree with some collaboration between the participating Faculties. Tutorial classes
in the second degree units, for the double degree students are, in some instances,
scheduled separately to focus on unit content related to engineering.
Since the double degree cohort is small, the students in the double degree
programs are mixed with other students from the Faculty of the second degree.
Many of the tutorial classes are mixed (There are exceptions as noted above). The
assignments that require group work are mixed. In some instances, the grouping is
done deliberately to mix the students from different disciplines. Similarly, students
from the double degree are mixed with the engineering students in the units that are
common to both courses.
Some examples where the students from both degrees work together:
1. IF21 Double Degree in BEng (Electrical)/B Mathematics
Unit: ENB352 Communication Environment for Embedded Systems.
Exercise: Placing an Embedded Device on the Network
After completing this laboratory, you should be able to:
- understand the topology of the laboratory LAN
- ping a remote node (e.g. computer, embedded device) on a network to
check
- communication
- find the MAC address of a device on the Ethernet
- understand Ethernet and TCP/IP addressing
- place a device on a LAN with a specified IP address or use DHCP
- understand the hardware, software, standards and technology used for
Appendix B: Examples of cross-disciplinarity at
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