EGB376 Steel Design

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

Structural engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that includes a focus on the design, construction, operation and maintenance of steel structures such as buildings, bridges, cranes, and transmission towers. Structural engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the behaviour, analysis and limit states design of steel structural elements such as tension and compression members, beams, and their connections. You will develop skills to analyse and design simple steel structures including continuous beams and trusses. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB270 Civil Engineering Materials and EGB275 Structural Mechanics. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Determine loads and load paths imposed on steel structural engineeringystems at a developed level.
2. Analyse the behaviour of steel structural engineering elements when subject tooading theoretically at a developed level.
3. Design simple, safe and effi cient steel structural engineering systems adhering to applicable design rules at a developed level.
4. Contribute to a structural engineering assessment, with evidence of working on agreed tasks as a team member, at a developed level.
5. Compose a structured technical report of a structural engineering project including design calculations and design drawings at a developed level.

Content

Learning Approaches

 In this unit you can expect to experience the following timetabled activities:

• Formal lectures from experienced professional civil engineers to give you insight into
  knowledge, skills, and attributes. You 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. They will be facilitated by tutors and will provide an opportunity to test your
  understanding and gain feedback on your work.

These activities will be detailed by week of semester on the unit schedule. You can also expect to be provided with learning resources including video presentations and readings on a 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, lecturers and tutors.

You are expected to:

• Engage with timetabled learning activities on campus and ask questions.
• Engage with online resources outside of timetabled learning activities. They will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding the release of these resources.
• Work independently to complete a design task related to steel structural elements ensuring their safety and compliance with the standards. While there will be time during timetabled tutorial classes, you will also need to undertake independent work outside of that time to complete assessment tasks.
• Prepare for learning activities according to the unit schedule and follow up on any work not completed.
• Complete assessment tasks by working consistently throughout the semester and meeting the due dates that are published via the unit Canvas site.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

During tutorial classes, you will share your formative ideas for your assessments and you will receive feedback from your tutor. You are encouraged to share and discuss emergent ideas about design of steel structural elements and your understandings of civil engineering professional practice. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards that will be shared with you at the beginning of semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback given by the 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 team to prepare and submit a design report towards the end of semester, deploying design practices for the steel elements that are compliant with the Australian Standards. You will also individually solve the design problems in an invigilated setting in a limited time to demonstrate your understanding of the limit state design of steel elements. You will sit an examination individually during the central examination period at the end of semester, where you will show your overall learning in the unit.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Design Report

You will work as an individual and in a team to undertake a design task that demonstrates your development of knowledge and skills bases in serviceability and ultimate limit state design of steel elements. You will communicate your work as a technical report.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Written Mid-Semester Examination

You will be required to solve problems about the behaviour of steel structural elements. You will be presented with descriptions of the steel structural engineering systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, demonstrates systems knowledge, show your working, and communicate a complete answer in writing and graphically.

Assessment: Final Examination

You will be required to analyse and design the steel structural elements for the given design data and constraints. You will be presented with descriptions of the problems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, demonstrate knowledge and skills bases, show your working, and communicate a complete answer in writing and drawing.

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

Risks may be associated with you visiting study areas and/or project sites. You are required to have completed a valid Workplace Health and Safety course. You shall not enter project sites without the Unit Coordinator's approval. You shall not to contact members of the public, public officers or staff  associated with any project without permission of the Unit Coordinator. More detailed information will be provided in your Week 1 information class.

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

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2: Engineering Application Ability

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3: Professional and Personal Attributes

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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: Design Report
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Report
3. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: Design Report, Written Mid-Semester Examination, Final Examination
4. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Report, Written Mid-Semester Examination, Final Examination
5. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Report, Written Mid-Semester Examination, Final Examination

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: Design Report
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Report
3. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: Design Report, Written Mid-Semester Examination, Final Examination
4. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Report, Written Mid-Semester Examination, Final Examination
5. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Report, Written Mid-Semester Examination, Final Examination