Engineering Design Academy
Overview
This unit of study aims to provide you with practical engineering experience in the university laboratory and improve your awareness of the issues associated with professional practice. In so doing, it will ensure your perceptions of engineering during your studies develop alongside the realities of practice.
Requisites
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Plan and manage an engineering design industrial-based project
- Apply engineering design concepts and feasibility study method to solve industry problems
- Demonstrate effective professional written and oral communication in engineering practice
- Compare and contrast their perceptions of engineering while at university with the realities of practice, and appreciate the broader issues associated with professional practice
- Identify insights gained from practical experiences and demonstrate how each observation or case study improves their understanding of any engineering issues associated with professional practice
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Project | 6.67 | 12 weeks | 80 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 5.83 | 12 weeks | 70 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interview Assignment | Individual | 25% | 3,4,5 |
| Portfolio | Individual | 25% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Report | Group | 50% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Hurdle
As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:
an aggregate mark for the unit of 50% or more.
Content
Students undertake an engineering project for five weeks, which is drawn from industry links. The project includes:
- Developing a project schedule, deliverables and activity lists
- Engineering design: concept design or prefeasibility study level of design and associated deliverables. It also includes literature search such as design codes and patents and system modelling
- Report writing, containing overall design summary, input from each discipline, design deliverables, calculations, initial schedule and lists of activities
- Reflections on professional ethics and conduct
- Study of industry policies, processes, practices and benchmarks
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.