EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice
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| Unit code: | EGB101 |
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| Equivalent(s): | EGD101 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,680 |
| International unit fee | $5,784 |
Summer:
| Dates | Start 07 Jan 2024 End 22 Feb 2024 |
|---|---|
| Restrictions | START QUT Summer cohort only. |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGD101 |
| Coordinator: | Sam Cunningham | sam.cunningham@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about strength of materials and load bearing mechanisms so that you can undertake introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Experiment with engineering materials and components and identify their strengths and performance at an introduced level
- Compose an engineering report of a design project including processes, calculations and engineering drawings at an introduced level.
- Collaborate in a group to create and deliver engineering outcomes and to communicate those outcomes to engineers and peers at an introduced level.
- Critically reflect on engineering design process and professional practice, project management, cultural diversity and ethics with regard to professional engineering practice at an introduced level.
Content
- Introduction to engineering and being a Professional Engineer
- How engineers locate information, evaluate its relevance to their engineering work, and use it
- Analysis of physical systems to predict their behaviour and application in practice
- Application of Engineering design methods, tools and techniques to simple engineering systems
- Introduction to professional and personal attributes required of a professional engineer
- Introduction to professional engineering communication including writing, presenting and engineering drawing
This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas. This may include:
- connection with regulatory requirements such as the Cultural Heritage duty of care required under the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2005, or
- engineering industry partners who have an organisational commitment through Reconciliation Actions Plans which bring responsibilities to engineers working with them.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Design and manufacturing workshops will include practical experiments and hands-on construction of physical systems.
To complement timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complete your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary group to complete a design and build project. While there will be time during scheduled design and manufacturing workshops, you will also need to undertake independent work outside that time to complete the project tasks, particularly for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- Maintain notes and critical reflections on your learning and group contributions across the semester to inform Assessment 3 Critical Reflection on Professional Practice
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently across the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and design and manufacturing workshops, you will share your formative ideas for your engineering design project and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process and your understandings of professional engineering practice. Each assessment submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers, against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. You will work in a group to undertake an engineering design project across the semester, deploying work practices that align to professional engineering practice (such as project management, ethical work practices and sustainable design principles). You will submit three pieces of assessment related to that design process including Laboratory Experiment Reports, Engineering System and Report, and Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice. You will be expected to work together with your group members and independently to make individual contributions to the design project. The Laboratory Experiments will allow your group to investigate the behaviour of components that will be used to create your Engineering System. You will both build and report on the engineering system and critically reflect on the way you worked throughout the semester, as compared to how professional engineers work.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Specification & Plan
You will work in a team of Student Engineers to provide specifications for a bridge, that will be designed and built later in the semester.
Individually you will research and report on the impact of the bridge on stakeholders (community and end users) and existing infrastructure applying the the Engineering Systems Architecture provided.
You are expected to function as a professional engineering, working within a fictitious consultancy firm: Student Engineers Inc. The team is expected to apply project and team management principles to enable successful delivery of your Project Specification & Plan.
Assessment: Engineering Project Outcomes
You will work in a group to design, manufacture and performance test an engineering system. As well as building the system, you will communicate your design in a written report that presents key elements of the design process, calculations, final designed system and performance. Your group will present your design and discuss it in a presentation with the teaching team and peers.
The final report is an assignment for the purposes of an extension, but the presentation is not an assignment.
Assessment: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice
You will be introduced to the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. As you work through the semester, you will be asked to critically reflect on your current capability and future career development, with a focus on the following elements:
- Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline (1.5)
- Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes (2.3)
- Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects (2.4)
- Ethical conduct and professional accountability (3.1)
- Effective team membership and team leadership (3.6)
You will keep a journal throughout the semester to inform your final submission. This submission will be the starting contribution to your Engineering Professional Practice Portfolio.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant reading and other resources will be uploaded onto the Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Karsnitz, J. R., O'Brien, S., & Hutchinson, J. P. (2013). Engineering design: An introduction. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.
Dowling D, Hadgraft R, Carew A, McCarthy, T., Hargreaves, D and Baillie C (2016): "Engineering your Future, an Australian guide", third edition, John Wiley and Sons, Australia.
Risk Assessment Statement
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO2, Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Specification & Plan
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGD101 |
| Coordinator: | Sam Cunningham | sam.cunningham@qut.edu.au |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about strength of materials and load bearing mechanisms so that you can undertake introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Experiment with engineering materials and components and identify their strengths and performance at an introduced level
- Compose an engineering report of a design project including processes, calculations and engineering drawings at an introduced level.
- Collaborate in a group to create and deliver engineering outcomes and to communicate those outcomes to engineers and peers at an introduced level.
- Critically reflect on engineering design process and professional practice, project management, cultural diversity and ethics with regard to professional engineering practice at an introduced level.
Content
- Introduction to engineering and being a Professional Engineer
- How engineers locate information, evaluate its relevance to their engineering work, and use it
- Analysis of physical systems to predict their behaviour and application in practice
- Application of Engineering design methods, tools and techniques to simple engineering systems
- Introduction to professional and personal attributes required of a professional engineer
- Introduction to professional engineering communication including writing, presenting and engineering drawing
This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas. This may include:
- connection with regulatory requirements such as the Cultural Heritage duty of care required under the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2005, or
- engineering industry partners who have an organisational commitment through Reconciliation Actions Plans which bring responsibilities to engineers working with them.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Design and manufacturing workshops will include practical experiments and hands-on construction of physical systems.
To complement timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complete your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary group to complete a design and build project. While there will be time during scheduled design and manufacturing workshops, you will also need to undertake independent work outside that time to complete the project tasks, particularly for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- Maintain notes and critical reflections on your learning and group contributions across the semester to inform Assessment 3 Critical Reflection on Professional Practice
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently across the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and design and manufacturing workshops, you will share your formative ideas for your engineering design project and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process and your understandings of professional engineering practice. Each assessment submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers, against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. You will work in a group to undertake an engineering design project across the semester, deploying work practices that align to professional engineering practice (such as project management, ethical work practices and sustainable design principles). You will submit three pieces of assessment related to that design process including Laboratory Experiment Reports, Engineering System and Report, and Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice. You will be expected to work together with your group members and independently to make individual contributions to the design project. The Laboratory Experiments will allow your group to investigate the behaviour of components that will be used to create your Engineering System. You will both build and report on the engineering system and critically reflect on the way you worked throughout the semester, as compared to how professional engineers work.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Specification & Plan
You will work in a team of Student Engineers to provide specifications for a bridge, that will be designed and built later in the semester.
Individually you will research and report on the impact of the bridge on stakeholders (community and end users) and existing infrastructure applying the the Engineering Systems Architecture provided.
You are expected to function as a professional engineering, working within a fictitious consultancy firm: Student Engineers Inc. The team is expected to apply project and team management principles to enable successful delivery of your Project Specification & Plan.
Assessment: Engineering Project Outcomes
You will work in a group to design, manufacture and performance test an engineering system. As well as building the system, you will communicate your design in a written report that presents key elements of the design process, calculations, final designed system and performance. Your group will present your design and discuss it in a presentation with the teaching team and peers.
The final report is an assignment for the purposes of an extension, but the presentation is not an assignment.
Assessment: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice
You will be introduced to the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. As you work through the semester, you will be asked to critically reflect on your current capability and future career development, with a focus on the following elements:
- Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline (1.5)
- Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes (2.3)
- Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects (2.4)
- Ethical conduct and professional accountability (3.1)
- Effective team membership and team leadership (3.6)
You will keep a journal throughout the semester to inform your final submission. This submission will be the starting contribution to your Engineering Professional Practice Portfolio.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant reading and other resources will be uploaded onto the Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Karsnitz, J. R., O'Brien, S., & Hutchinson, J. P. (2013). Engineering design: An introduction. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.
Dowling D, Hadgraft R, Carew A, McCarthy, T., Hargreaves, D and Baillie C (2016): "Engineering your Future, an Australian guide", third edition, John Wiley and Sons, Australia.
Risk Assessment Statement
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO2, Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Specification & Plan
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
Unit Outline: Summer 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB101 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGD101 |
Overview
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about strength of materials and load bearing mechanisms so that you can undertake introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Experiment with engineering materials and components and identify their strengths and performance at an introduced level
- Compose an engineering report of a design project including processes, calculations and engineering drawings at an introduced level.
- Collaborate in a group to create and deliver engineering outcomes and to communicate those outcomes to engineers and peers at an introduced level.
- Critically reflect on engineering design process and professional practice, project management, cultural diversity and ethics with regard to professional engineering practice at an introduced level.
Content
- Introduction to engineering and being a Professional Engineer
- How engineers locate information, evaluate its relevance to their engineering work, and use it
- Analysis of physical systems to predict their behaviour and application in practice
- Application of Engineering design methods, tools and techniques to simple engineering systems
- Introduction to professional and personal attributes required of a professional engineer
- Introduction to professional engineering communication including writing, presenting and engineering drawing
This unit will include content, case studies and examples of the ways in which the work of professional engineers connects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s status as First Nations owners of land and seas. This may include:
- connection with regulatory requirements such as the Cultural Heritage duty of care required under the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2005, or
- engineering industry partners who have an organisational commitment through Reconciliation Actions Plans which bring responsibilities to engineers working with them.
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Design and manufacturing workshops will include practical experiments and hands-on construction of physical systems.
To complement timetabled activities, you will be provided with learning resources including videos and readings on a unit Canvas site that you can access flexibly to complete your learning in this unit.
At the beginning of the unit, you will be made aware of the ways in which you can ask questions or seek clarification from the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
You are expected to:
- Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions.
- Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding release of these resources.
- Work in a multi-disciplinary group to complete a design and build project. While there will be time during scheduled design and manufacturing workshops, you will also need to undertake independent work outside that time to complete the project tasks, particularly for areas of individual responsibility.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- Maintain notes and critical reflections on your learning and group contributions across the semester to inform Assessment 3 Critical Reflection on Professional Practice
- Complete assessment tasks by working consistently across the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and design and manufacturing workshops, you will share your formative ideas for your engineering design project and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process and your understandings of professional engineering practice. Each assessment submission will be marked against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers, against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. You will work in a group to undertake an engineering design project across the semester, deploying work practices that align to professional engineering practice (such as project management, ethical work practices and sustainable design principles). You will submit three pieces of assessment related to that design process including Laboratory Experiment Reports, Engineering System and Report, and Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice. You will be expected to work together with your group members and independently to make individual contributions to the design project. The Laboratory Experiments will allow your group to investigate the behaviour of components that will be used to create your Engineering System. You will both build and report on the engineering system and critically reflect on the way you worked throughout the semester, as compared to how professional engineers work.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Specification & Plan
You will work in a team of Student Engineers to provide specifications for a bridge, that will be designed and built later in the semester.
Individually you will research and report on the impact of the bridge on stakeholders (community and end users) and existing infrastructure applying the the Engineering Systems Architecture provided.
You are expected to function as a professional engineering, working within a fictitious consultancy firm: Student Engineers Inc. The team is expected to apply project and team management principles to enable successful delivery of your Project Specification & Plan.
Assessment: Engineering Project Outcomes
You will work in a group to design, manufacture and performance test an engineering system. As well as building the system, you will communicate your design in a written report that presents key elements of the design process, calculations, final designed system and performance. Your group will present your design and discuss it in a presentation with the teaching team and peers.
The final report is an assignment for the purposes of an extension, but the presentation is not an assignment.
Assessment: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice
You will be introduced to the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. As you work through the semester, you will be asked to critically reflect on your current capability and future career development, with a focus on the following elements:
- Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline (1.5)
- Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes (2.3)
- Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects (2.4)
- Ethical conduct and professional accountability (3.1)
- Effective team membership and team leadership (3.6)
You will keep a journal throughout the semester to inform your final submission. This submission will be the starting contribution to your Engineering Professional Practice Portfolio.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant reading and other resources will be uploaded onto the Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Karsnitz, J. R., O'Brien, S., & Hutchinson, J. P. (2013). Engineering design: An introduction. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.
Dowling D, Hadgraft R, Carew A, McCarthy, T., Hargreaves, D and Baillie C (2016): "Engineering your Future, an Australian guide", third edition, John Wiley and Sons, Australia.
Risk Assessment Statement
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer
1: Knowledge and Skill Base
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO2, Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Project Specification & Plan
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan, Engineering Project Outcomes, Critical Reflection on Professional Engineering Practice - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Engineering Project Outcomes - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project Specification & Plan