EGB349 Systems Engineering and Design Project

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

Engineers who work on large projects need a specific suite of additional skills when compared to engineers who work on smaller projects. Systems Engineering provides the framework to allow the interoperability to be addressed. These skills include technical design and implementation, management of the project and teamwork coordination. Compliance to Australian and International standards is also an essential requirement of the designs. This unit provides skills and knowledge for a project teamwork activity, and builds on the work you learned in foundation of engineering design and electronic design. This unit will develop the necessary competency in dealing with aerospace systems.
The objectives of the unit are to provide a grounding in systems engineering methodology according to the various standards in use throughout the world, to expose you to the experience and the problems of working as a member of a design team, and to have you undertake a group design exercise.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Compose a technical report on an aerospace systems engineering project including designcalculations and simulations, at an developed level.
2. Perform as a team member to complete a practical aerospace systems design at a developed level.
3. Manage projects to solve complex aerospace engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods and technologies at a developed level.
4. Apply the theory and concepts of Unmanned Aircraft Systems to design an overall solution to a real-world application at a developed level.
5. Apply and manage a risk-based approach to the operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in areal-world application scenario at a developed level.
6. Demonstrate understanding and problem solving of Unmanned Aircraft System designchoices at a developed level.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit includes formal lectures from experienced professional aerospace engineers to give you insight into professional engineering knowledge, skills and attributes.
This is a highly team oriented unit and much emphasis is placed on simulating project conditions seen in the aerospace workplace. Some students will be required to use Microsoft project for the project management requirements. The lectures will be based on industry practice and experience and these will be underpinned by demonstrations, reading and the application of knowledge to solving problems.
Tutorial sessions will involve individual questioning as well as group work and student-centred learning rather than guided problem solving, with feedback coming from the whole group. This will enhance the group nature of systems design.
Design and practical experiments focus on hands on construction and flight test of of physical aerospace systems.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Formative feedback will be provided throughout the discussion and workshop sessions. Review of submitted assessment items will provide both summative and formative feedback. Feedback will also be provided through:

• Regular interaction with tutors and demonstrators in the weekly collaborative learning sessions
• Comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
• Generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
• Feedback from peers within your collaborative learning sessions

You are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the design process. 

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. General feedback on assignment tasks will be provided to the class and to each team to use, as needed. 

Assessment

Overview

Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. The assessment for this unit is designed to measure your acquisition of key concepts and your ability to apply and implement theoretical developments to contextualized aerospace engineering problems. You will be working individually as well as in small teams solving problems using a variety of analytical and computer based techniques. A project based approach to assignment design will be utilized, to assist with contextualization and enhance the relevance of assignment tasks.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Problem Solving Task

This task specifically target issues encountered in the systems engineering process such as developing a WBS, systems requirement and concept of operations and risk assessment.

Assessment: Project (applied)

Prepare complete systems engineering documentation, trade studies, preliminary design, team meeting minutes and hardware in the loop demonstration for a design project.

Assessment: Presentation (Oral or Group)

This consists of a series of weekly critical design reviews with the tutor and a more formal critical design review presentation in front of an industry and an academic panel in week 13.

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

Risk Assessment Statement

You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the computer lab under the supervision of the lecturer/tutor/technical staff of the School. The School's occupational health and safety policies and procedures will apply to these sessions.

You will undergo a health and safety induction and will be issued with a safety induction card. If you do not have a safety induction card, you will be denied access to laboratories.

In any laboratory practical 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)Students will also need to develop a risk management plan for their project.

Course Learning Outcomes

EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: ULO1, Presentation (Oral or Group)
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO2, Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
3. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: ULO3, Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
4. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
5. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO5, Problem Solving Task, Project (applied)
6. Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO6

EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: Presentation (Oral or Group)
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
3. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
4. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
5. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied)