EGB102 Fundamentals of Engineering Science
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| Unit code: | EGB102 |
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| Equivalent(s): | EGB113, EGD102 |
| 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 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGB113 |
| Equivalent: | EGD102 |
| Coordinator: | Ted Steinberg | t.steinberg@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This engineering foundation unit introduces concepts of physics and the strength of materials in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to solve fundamental problems involving forces, motion and energy and to solve more complex problems involving pressures, mechanical stresses, strain and the deformation of solids as an introduction to predicting the behaviour of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in groups to plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems. You will build from this foundation in later units within your engineering major.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Solve problems in fundamental engineering science using engineering based critical thinking at an introduced level.
- Undertake experimental investigations in fundamental engineering science, including the appraisal of risk, hazards and safety, at an introduced level.
- Analyse experimental results in fundamental engineering science at an introduced level.
- Communicate analysis procedures in fundamental engineering science using graphical, mathematical and engineering techniques at an introduced level.
Content
- Describing physical systems: units and dimensions, vector and scalar quantities
- Safe working in practical settings including risk, hazards and safety
- Predicting behaviour of physical systems: Forces and motion, frames of reference, motion in 1 dimension and 2 dimensions, Newton's first and second law, conservation of momentum
- Work, energy and power
- Reporting experimental outcomes in engineering
- Force distributed over an area, pressure and stress
- Hydrostatic pressure in a stationary fluid, distributed forces due to hydrostatic pressures
- Normal stress and strain in tension and compression loading, introduction to mechanical properties of materials, shear stress and strain
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers and scientists that will activate your understanding of theories and principles, and model approaches to solving problems. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes that will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and will provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Practical classes, in which you will collaboratively plan for and conduct experiments to give you hands on experience with the physical phenomena that you are learning about.
To complement timetabled activities, you can expect to 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. Success in this unit will require you to manage your time to ensure you have focused time each week (beyond timetabled activities).
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.
- Engage with your peers in a learning community to practise problem solving and then work independently to complete your assessment tasks.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- 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 practical classes, you will share your formative ideas around problem solving and analysis of experimental data and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your tutorial group as a learning community and to share and discuss challenges and strategies for learning. Each assessment submission will be graded 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
As you progress through this unit you will move between learning underpinning scientific theory and concepts and using that theory in practical applications. You will be developing your capability to solve problems by looking at physical systems and diagnosing the appropriate theory and methods to predict behaviour of those systems, which is a key capability for professional engineering practice. The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes problem solving tasks, reporting on experimental work and a final exam, which will test your capability to diagnose and solve problems in engineering science.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
You will be required to demonstrate your problem solving methods and outcomes for a number of individualised problems. You will be required to show the steps you have undertaken to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer to problems involving physical systems that can be described and analysed using engineering science.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
You will produce an individual report on experiments including analysis and discussion of experimental results. You will also provide critical reflection on the organisation and conduct of experiments with respect to evaluating, managing and mitigating risks and safety, particularly in group situations.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Invigilated Written Exam
You will be required to solve problems involving the relationship between force, mass, motion and energy, the relationships between hydrostatic pressures and forces, and the relationship between applied forces, stresses and strains. You will be presented with descriptions of physical systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer.
“If campus access is restricted at the time of the central examination period/due date, an alternative, which may be a timed online assessment, will be offered. Individual students whose circumstances prevent their attendance on campus will be provided with an alternative assessment approach.”
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
You are required to use the following:
- The unit website on QUT's Canvas (learning materials that support timetabled activities and assessment tasks)
- QUT Library Databases
- QUT Cite| Write: You can access QUT cite/write online (Free download from QUT library)
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Author: Wolfson, Richard
Title: Essential University Physics, Volume 1
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc., Addison -Wesley
Year: 2014
Edition: 2nd Edition
Safety and protective equipment
Closed shoes or steel capped shoes
Risk Assessment Statement
You will be informed of any requirements pertaining to a safe workplace. In lectures, tutorials and such, the information will include location of fire exits and meeting points in case of fire. If you do not follow legitimate instructions or endanger the safety of others or do not act in accordance with the requirements of the Workplace Health and Safety Act, you will be required to leave the session.
You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of members in the teaching team and technical staff. Prior to entry to a laboratory space you must complete the Undergraduate Health, Safety and Environment Induction (annual completion requirement). You will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes or steel capped shoes, lab coat, and safety glasses). The unit’s Canvas site will provide you with a copy of the risk assessment and will provide you with details on how to perform the laboratory tasks safely.
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
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
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, Invigilated Written Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Invigilated Written Exam - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of engaging with and applying regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Invigilated Written Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Invigilated Written Exam - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGB113 |
| Equivalent: | EGD102 |
| Coordinator: | Ted Steinberg | t.steinberg@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This engineering foundation unit introduces concepts of physics and the strength of materials in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to solve fundamental problems involving forces, motion and energy and to solve more complex problems involving pressures, mechanical stresses, strain and the deformation of solids as an introduction to predicting the behaviour of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in groups to plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems. You will build from this foundation in later units within your engineering major.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Solve problems in fundamental engineering science using engineering based critical thinking at an introduced level.
- Undertake experimental investigations in fundamental engineering science, including the appraisal of risk, hazards and safety, at an introduced level.
- Analyse experimental results in fundamental engineering science at an introduced level.
- Communicate analysis procedures in fundamental engineering science using graphical, mathematical and engineering techniques at an introduced level.
Content
- Describing physical systems: units and dimensions, vector and scalar quantities
- Safe working in practical settings including risk, hazards and safety
- Predicting behaviour of physical systems: Forces and motion, frames of reference, motion in 1 dimension and 2 dimensions, Newton's first and second law, conservation of momentum
- Work, energy and power
- Reporting experimental outcomes in engineering
- Force distributed over an area, pressure and stress
- Hydrostatic pressure in a stationary fluid, distributed forces due to hydrostatic pressures
- Normal stress and strain in tension and compression loading, introduction to mechanical properties of materials, shear stress and strain
Learning Approaches
In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:
- Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers and scientists that will activate your understanding of theories and principles, and model approaches to solving problems. You will have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
- Tutorial classes that will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve problems. These will be facilitated by tutors and will provide an opportunity to test your understanding and gain feedback on your work.
- Practical classes, in which you will collaboratively plan for and conduct experiments to give you hands on experience with the physical phenomena that you are learning about.
To complement timetabled activities, you can expect to 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. Success in this unit will require you to manage your time to ensure you have focused time each week (beyond timetabled activities).
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.
- Engage with your peers in a learning community to practise problem solving and then work independently to complete your assessment tasks.
- Prepare for timetabled classes and activities and follow up on any work not completed.
- 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 practical classes, you will share your formative ideas around problem solving and analysis of experimental data and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your tutorial group as a learning community and to share and discuss challenges and strategies for learning. Each assessment submission will be graded 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
As you progress through this unit you will move between learning underpinning scientific theory and concepts and using that theory in practical applications. You will be developing your capability to solve problems by looking at physical systems and diagnosing the appropriate theory and methods to predict behaviour of those systems, which is a key capability for professional engineering practice. The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes problem solving tasks, reporting on experimental work and a final exam, which will test your capability to diagnose and solve problems in engineering science.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
You will be required to demonstrate your problem solving methods and outcomes for a number of individualised problems. You will be required to show the steps you have undertaken to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer to problems involving physical systems that can be described and analysed using engineering science.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
You will produce an individual report on experiments including analysis and discussion of experimental results. You will also provide critical reflection on the organisation and conduct of experiments with respect to evaluating, managing and mitigating risks and safety, particularly in group situations.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Invigilated Written Exam
You will be required to solve problems involving the relationship between force, mass, motion and energy, the relationships between hydrostatic pressures and forces, and the relationship between applied forces, stresses and strains. You will be presented with descriptions of physical systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer.
“If campus access is restricted at the time of the central examination period/due date, an alternative, which may be a timed online assessment, will be offered. Individual students whose circumstances prevent their attendance on campus will be provided with an alternative assessment approach.”
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
You are required to use the following:
- The unit website on QUT's Canvas (learning materials that support timetabled activities and assessment tasks)
- QUT Library Databases
- QUT Cite| Write: You can access QUT cite/write online (Free download from QUT library)
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Author: Wolfson, Richard
Title: Essential University Physics, Volume 1
Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc., Addison -Wesley
Year: 2014
Edition: 2nd Edition
Safety and protective equipment
Closed shoes or steel capped shoes
Risk Assessment Statement
You will be informed of any requirements pertaining to a safe workplace. In lectures, tutorials and such, the information will include location of fire exits and meeting points in case of fire. If you do not follow legitimate instructions or endanger the safety of others or do not act in accordance with the requirements of the Workplace Health and Safety Act, you will be required to leave the session.
You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of members in the teaching team and technical staff. Prior to entry to a laboratory space you must complete the Undergraduate Health, Safety and Environment Induction (annual completion requirement). You will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes or steel capped shoes, lab coat, and safety glasses). The unit’s Canvas site will provide you with a copy of the risk assessment and will provide you with details on how to perform the laboratory tasks safely.
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
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
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, Invigilated Written Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Invigilated Written Exam - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
EN29 Bachelor of Engineering Studies
- Evidence of making ethical decisions within the social, cultural and organisational contexts of professional practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of engaging stakeholders professionally and communicating the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of displaying leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of being able to manage projects to solve some engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of deploying appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Evidence of engaging with and applying regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Evidence of demonstrating coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer and information science.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Invigilated Written Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: Invigilated Written Exam - Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Invigilated Written Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection