ATN LEAP Program

Australian Technology Network
Learning Employment Aptitudes Program
(ATN LEAP)

Getting the Most Out Of Your Research Degree

Enrolment is now available for two self-paced online modules over ten weeks beginning on the 14th of October, 2002.

1. Entrepreneurship
and
2. Project Management

Both modules are designed to help you to gain extra skills that employers look for in research graduates. These and others will be offered regularly for students at the ATN Universities (Curtin, RMIT, UniSA, UTS and QUT). You may enrol in one or both of these modules.

YOU PAY NO FEES TO TAKE PART IN THESE OFFERINGS

1. Entrepreneurship

This module is designed to remove some of the myths about entrepreneurs and to provide an understanding about creativity and the role of ideas in the working world and the ways in which ideas can be developed to have the potential for application and possibly commercialisation.

This module will help you identify and consider entrepreneurial activities within your research area. The focus of the exercises is to apply the ideas and concepts to research areas of interest and explore the opportunities that are identified.

The objective is not to turn every student into an entrepreneur, but to help clarify the entrepreneurial mindset and approach so that you have a better idea of how you can make the most of your concepts and ideas.

2. Project Management

This module is designed to increase your understanding of project management and help you develop the skills required for managing successful projects. As the key to successful projects is Project Definition and Project Planning, the module will focus on these two aspects of project management. Upon completion of this module you will have increased your understanding of Project Management processes, developed a sound understanding of how project definition and planning can support and enhance your project, applied project management techniques to your own project, used a range of project planning tools to develop a plan for your own project and reflected on how the tools and principles presented apply to the workplace contexts relevant to your career. This module is not intended to be a comprehensive course on project management but a 20-hour introduction that will give you a sound understanding of the key elements of project management.

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With a time commitment of only two hours per week for each module, over 10 weeks, you will be able to build your knowledge base, and talk with other students and the moderator online about the topic and your research. By participating in the interactive module tasks, you will receive a certificate of completion. Because both modules are focused on your own project this will be time well spent. Participants in module trials report that they had emerged with new insights of value to their ongoing research.

Check out the details of these modules and others on the ATN LEAP website.

Commencing date for the 10 week modules - 14 October 2002

To register: Email ugs@uts.edu.au. Please indicate the module (1 or 2 above) your name, email address, student number and telephone contact.

Only 20 applications from this university can be accepted for each of the modules - so register early to ensure a place (final date for registrations: Thursday 26 September).