Definitions
Assessment piece
A series of six questions all students must answer on Moodle, but only once they have completed all submissions they intend to make to their CPD in Student Futures.
Category Types
The four different categories for CPD experiences. Each experience must be categorised under one of these types: Engineering Work Experience, Engineering Professional Development, Engineering Curriculum, and Non-Engineering Experience.
CPD
Continuous Professional Development; the required professional practice unit ENG0001 (undergraduate) and ENG0003 (MPE) that will determine if you are ‘competent’ as an Engineering graduate who has developed a certain level of personal and professional skills outside the classroom by the end of your course.
Curriculum
Any experience outside the usual classroom hours that was completed as part of a Monash unit (such as working on group assignments, preparing for a class presentation, research undertaken for assignments, industry visits, final year projects (FYPs), Study Abroad/Exchange trips, etc) can be submitted to your CPD. Engineering-based Curriculum experiences are submitted on Student Futures under the Engineering Curriculum category, while curriculum experiences from other Faculties are submitted under the Non-Engineering category. Note that you can only count a maximum of 70 hours of Engineering Curriculum and 70 hours of Non-Engineering Curriculum towards your CPD.
Dashboard
The name for the ‘main page’ on the Student Futures website.
Deadline
The date by which students must have completed and uploaded their final assessment piece in Moodle. Your deadline will be 10:00am on the Monday in Week 5 of your final semester. Please be prepared for this deadline and have your Student Futures submissions completed well before this point in your course.
Engineering-based Monash Clubs and Societies
If a Monash Club is Engineering-based, then activities spent organising (and/or attending) industry-themed events, or filling a role on the Committee, will come under Engineering Professional Development, unless the event being organised is specifically not Engineering-based, such as a pub crawl or another purely social event.
Engineering-related
Any experience (anywhere in the world) that involves Engineering-related tasks/duties.
Engineering CPD Summary Report
The document you’ll generate once all of your CPD experiences have been entered into Student Futures; it will contain every event, activity, hour, skill and reflection you ever submitted to your CPD, and will be reviewed by a Monash academic to determine whether or not you’ve passed your CPD when you upload it to Moodle
Experience
Any event or activity you ran, attended, participated in or undertook, where you developed or applied personal or professional skills (for example: paid work, volunteering, organising a social or club-related gathering, planning an assignment, attending a seminar, completing a short course, researching and giving a presentation to the class, attending professional training, tutoring children in maths, assistant-teaching a ballet class, coaching a local football team, participating in overseas aid work, being a member of the CFA or Army Reserves, etc). Please note that you must have been a Monash Clayton Engineering undergraduate student while you undertook the activity in question, or else it will not be eligible for your CPD.
Hours
The amount of time a student spent developing their professional skills at an experience, rounded up to the nearest full hour (partial hours cannot be submitted to the system).
Maximum requirements
There are no maximum amounts to what you can enter into your CPD; only maximum amounts (or put more clearly, ‘restrictions’) on how many hours from Engineering Curriculum and Non-Engineering Experiences can count toward you reaching your minimum requirements.
Minimum requirements
The minimum number of hours and skill reflections each student must reach before they will be deemed eligible to graduate (there is no maximum, so students are strongly encouraged to continue entering experiences and reflections even after reaching their minimum requirements).
Moodle
The online assignment-submission tool used at Monash University (through which your final CPD assessment piece is submitted, along with your supporting documentation and your Engineering CPD Summary Report PDF from Student Futures).
Non-Engineering-based Monash Clubs and Societies
If a Monash Club is not Engineering-based, then activities spent organising (and/or attending) events, or filling a role on the Committee, will fall into Non-Engineering Professional Development.
Non-Engineering-related
Any activity that is not Engineering related.
Professional development
The category for any experience that cannot be considered work experience or curriculum-based.
Reflections
The journal-style entry of your thoughts and experiences while you were developing your skills at each chosen event or activity. Each skill submitted (minimum of 19) must have its own reflection written against it.
Skills
There are 9 employability skills outlined on Student Futures; you must develop each of them twice over, with a third submission required for Communication (2 x 9 + 1 = 19). These are the specific 19 skills that each student must reflect on in order to reach their minimum requirement of skill reflections; they were written to reflect the Engineers Australia competencies. You can submit more than this 19 if you wish (there is no maximum number of submissions), however you cannot submit any random 19 skills and expect to have satisfied the minimum skills requirement. It has to be the specific 19 skills outlined above in order for you to be eligible for graduation.
Student Futures
The website that hosts the CPD system. You access it by visiting: https://unihub.monash.edu/s/engineering-cpd
Supporting documentation
Documents showing evidence of any larger CPD experiences (>35 hours) must be provided. Students will upload these documents into their experience records on the Student Futures platform, and then insert the hyperlinks to these documents in their Moodle Assessment Questions submission. The evidence you supply needs to show what the experience was, when it took place, how long it went for, and that you participated in it. There is more specific information about the kinds of documents that can be provided in the Supporting Documents section on the CPD website: No supporting documentation is required for experiences between 1 and 34 hours, or for curriculum-based experiences (except for Study Abroad/Exchange activities, which are considered larger experiences).
Verification
The process by which a Monash academic will decide which of your contact people’s details to follow up on to determine that your CPD claims (hours, activities, skills, etc) are not fabricated, exaggerated, or accidentally entered incorrectly. Also includes inspecting the supporting documentation links supplied via Moodle.
Work experience
Any activity that is based in a workplace (either paid or volunteering), and is therefore categorised as work experience, rather than professional development or curriculum. Such experiences are also commonly referred to as ‘vacation work’ or ‘internships’.
There will be severe penalties for anyone caught falsifying claims on their CPD. Failure to supply accurate and honest details about the activities you have attended, the hours you spent at those activities, the skills you have developed, the experiences you were exposed to, or accurate contact details and supporting documentation for verification purposes, would put your graduation in jeopardy if you were suspended or excluded from the university. Monash University’s policy on Academic Integrity applies in each of those instances, and for all CPD submissions. Furthermore, as a future Engineer, you should be upholding the Engineers Australia Stage 1 competency of ethical conduct and personal accountability.