EGB432 Asset Management and Maintenance
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| Unit code: | EGB432 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 192 credit points of completed study in (EN01, EV03,EV07, EV09, EV10, EV11 or SE40), or Admission to (EN53, EN73 or EN76) |
| Equivalent(s): | ENB432 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,192 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $5,364 |
| International unit fee | $6,684 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | EGB432 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 192 credit points of completed study in (EN01 or EV03 or EV07 or EV09 or EV10 or EV11 or SE40) OR Admission to (EN53 or EN73 or EN76) |
| Equivalent: | ENB432 |
| Coordinator: | Ehsan Arzaghi | ehsan.arzaghi@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Engineers are often involved in the acquisition, maintenance, and renewal of equipment. The ability to analyse maintenance data and develop effective maintenance plans remain important skills for today’s engineers. The focus of this unit is on the development of techniques to manage the life cycles of engineering assets effectively to maximise their value. The unit will introduce students to the theory and techniques of Reliability Engineering, develop tools for the analysis of maintenance data, and address the development of optimised maintenance strategies.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply principles of reliability, maintainability, and risk assessment to evaluate the performance of engineering systems.
- Analyse technical, operational and economic data to formulate availability and maintenance costs of assets.
- Appraise failure causes, mechanisms and risk in engineering systems using systematic failure analysis techniques, including Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Markov models.
- Evaluate asset management challenges in a complex engineering system and synthesise evidence-based strategies to optimize availability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability.
Content
The following topics will be covered:
- Overview of engineering asset management concepts and reliability theory.
- Maintenance vision, mission, organisation, responsibilities and tasks, planning and control
- Reliability calculations for components and systems; Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM);
- Availability; Maintainability;
- Failure mode and effect analysis, Fault Tree Analysis
Condition monitoring technology and Condition Based Maintenance; Risk management; Cost management issues in asset management
Learning Approaches
Total No. Hours: 3
Lecture/Tutorial: 3 hours
Lectures/tutorials cover the main concepts with examples of applications to work through collaboratively in class to apply strategies (informal group work), including whole of class discussion of results. The main learning and teaching approach is to integrate theory with practice collaboratively in groups in real contexts.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will get feedback on mini project/problem solving tasks in lectures/tutorials throughout the semester. For the group project report, you will get oral feedback during tutorials and written feedback on completion. For the exam, oral and/or written feedback is available on request after the exam.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment for this unit comprises a portfolio, an invigilated class test, and a group project. The portfolio includes five assignments that assess students' mastery of the unit content when applied to real-world industry problems. The class test evaluates students' understanding of key concepts covered in the unit. The project requires students to research a current asset management challenge faced by major industries and report on and present how emerging solutions, in conjunction with asset management principles, can support improved decision-making across the asset life cycle.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project and Presentation
You will apply asset management principles to assist with decision-making processes during asset life cycle. You will evaluate the engineering and management challenges associated with asset availability, cost-effectiveness and sustainability in an industry of their choice and demonstrate how they can be addressed by applying the techniques delivered in the unit and/or the new methods and technologies in asset management and maintenance. This assessment has a report due in week 13, and a presentation (with questions) undertaken in week 12.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Class Test
A 2-hour invigilated class test in Week 11.
Assessment: Assignment Portfolio
5 assignments, released fortnightly, each with a 72-hour due date
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
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.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The main resources required for learning the concepts will be lecture notes, lecture slides, and tutorials, all of which will be made available on Canvas. Students may refer to the recommended resources for further reading and practice.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Type: Reference
Author: Ramakumar, R.
Title: Engineering Reliability: Fundamentals and Applications
Year: 1993
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Type: Reference
Author: Tobias, P.A. and Trindade, D.C.
Title: Applied Reliability
Year: 2012
Publisher: CRC Press
Type: text
Author: Beasley, M
Title: Reliability for Engineers
Year: 1991
Publisher: Macmillan Press
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit
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 and Presentation, Assignment Portfolio
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio
2: Engineering Application Ability
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio
Relates to: Project and Presentation
3: Professional and Personal Attributes
Relates to: Class Test
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Class Test - Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
Relates to: Class Test
EN53 Master of Renewable Energy
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Renewable Energy
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Analyse and evaluate Renwable Energy problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Renewable Energy in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio
EN55 Master of Professional Engineering
- Apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability.
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Assignment Portfolio - Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project.
Relates to: Class Test - Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non specialist audiences.
Relates to: Class Test - Organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently, and collaboratively demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering decision making and professional accountability.
Relates to: Class Test
EN60 Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering
- Demonstrate and apply specialised knowledge and technical skills in at least one Engineering discipline.
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Critically investigate real world engineering issues and solve complex problems drawing on specialised creative skills, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, theory and practice.
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Assignment Portfolio - Employ effective written and oral professional communication skills across social, cultural and discipline domains.
Relates to: Class Test - Exercise responsibility and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice including working independently, ethically and collaboratively.
Relates to: Class Test
EN73 Master of Renewable Energy with Project Management
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts, methods and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Renewable Energy and Project Management domains
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Analyse and evaluate problems in Renewable Energy and Project Management domains using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading-edge research to achieve evidence based, innovative, critically informed solutions and outcomes
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Renewable Energy and Project Management domains in a way that assures sustainable outcomes and strategic objectives over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio
EN76 Master of Renewable Energy with Data Analytics
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts, methods and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Renewable Energy and Data Analytics domains
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Analyse and evaluate problems in Renewable Energy and Data Analytics domains using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading-edge research to achieve evidence based, innovative, critically informed solutions and outcomes
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Renewable Energy and Data Analytics domains in a way that assures sustainable outcomes and strategic objectives over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio
EN79 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Studies
- Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary Engineering practice
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Analyse and evaluate Engineering problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage Engineering projects in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Project and Presentation, Class Test, Assignment Portfolio