Overview

This unit aims to equip students with applied innovation skills to identify relevant needs and uses for space technology & research applications, considering global context.

Requisites

Prerequisites

175 Credit Points in a BA course

OR
275 Credit Points in a BH or BB course

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Formulate innovative use application/s for selected space technology/research application
  • Generate design requirements and components required of a space technology/research application driven by a specific use
  • Assess and appraise relevant considerations and systems to support a space technology/research application to be manufactured and launched
  • Assess ethical and sustainable issues in environmentally responsible and sustainable space technology/research application design and manufacture
  • Demonstrate technical knowledge related to practical application of the students Major discipline degree within the project
  • Identify a range of stakeholders involved in the implementation of a space technology/research product/design to a specific application (e.g. migration of whales)
  • Demonstrate effective interdisciplinary teamwork skills

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		 1.00  12 weeks  12
On-campus
Workshop		 3.00 12 weeks  36
Unspecified Learning Activities 
Independent Learning		 8.50  12 weeks  102
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioGroup 50 - 70% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
PortfolioIndividual 30 - 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

  • Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) and the United Nations 2030 Agenda
  • Introduction to systems-thinking approaches for complex problems solving
  • Non-incremental (non-linear), breakthrough innovation thinking methods
  • Project work addressing a real-world space technology challenge
  • Space Technology and applications
  • Entrepreneurship mindset and prototype design
  • Professional engagement with industry        
  • Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication 
  • Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.