FIT3045 Industry-based learning
Faculty of Information Technology
FIT3045 Industry-based learning is a level 3, 18-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology, offered in 2025 in Semester 1 at Clayton and Malaysia. It needs FIT3201 or FIT3202.
- Credit points
- 18
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 1
- Clayton, Malaysia
- Assessment
- No exam
- 14 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before FIT3045
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After FIT3045
No unit lists FIT3045 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Permission required to enrol.
Available to students in all undergraduate degrees of the Faculty of IT who have been accepted into the Industry Based Learning program with at least 72 credit points including 60 FIT or MAT credit points.
Overview
You'll engage in a full time industry placement at an established partner of the Faculty of IT industry based learning program including major global companies, leading Australian companies and worldwide consultancies. On placement, you will apply the knowledge, skills and practices developed in your academic studies and, with the guidance of mentors and colleagues, build further IT expertise and professional awareness. Throughout the placement, you reflect on your experiences to optimise your professional development.
This unit combined with one of its prerequisites (FIT3201 or FIT3202) form an uninterrupted 20 or 16 week industry placement respectively.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Clayton | On campus |
| First semester | Malaysia | On campus |
| First semester (Northern) | Clayton | Immersive |
| First semester (Northern) | Malaysia | Immersive |
Assessment
- IBL Student PortfolioWork integrated15%
- Mid-placement evaluationWork integrated20%
- End-placement evaluationWork integrated30%
- Final IBL presentationPresentation20%
- Final IBL reportWritten15%
- Initial and revised goals3%
- 3 academic visits3%
- Daily log content3%
- Weekly reflection content3%
- Frequency of valid weekly logs/reflection submission3%
- Mid-placement evaluationWork integrated20%
- End-placement evaluationWork integrated30%
- Final IBL presentationPresentation20%
- Final IBL reportWritten15%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Set achievable and measurable goals;
- 2
Identify useful theoretical knowledge that has been covered in prior coursework and knowledge that has not yet been covered;
- 3
Develop and practice professional skills and attitudes including: initiative, communication, time-management and teamwork skills in a business environment;
- 4
Develop solutions to business problems using information technology and other techniques;
- 5
Prepare documentation and written reports of a professional standard;
- 6
Address performance improvement opportunities identified by industry supervisors and self-assess opportunities for personal development;
- 7
Develop information technology skills (such as business process modelling, performance enhancement of installed software, updating current software and developing new software) in a complex, corporate business environment.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachIndustry-based learning
On placement, you are deployed full-time for 12 weeks with the industry partners of the Faculty of IT industry-based learning program in a graduate level role within the company.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Lim Mei Kuan
- Joshua Akerstein
- Chief Examiners
- Mr Stephen Huxford