ENN670 Specialist Design for Smart Transport

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

Specialist professional engineers use a depth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex systems design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this specialist postgraduate unit you will pursue a complex Transport system problem and in developing a design solution you will hone your specialist skills in critical appraisal, analysis, synthesis, and creativity. You will demonstrate your ability to communicate specialist discipline knowledge and concepts in written, modelled, and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences. You will demonstrate your specialist abilities to work pro-actively and productively in a design team, reflective practice, and time and resource management. Emphasis is placed on your demonstrated professional responses to risk, ethics, and stakeholder perspectives. This unit requires you to draw upon your Smart Transport learning throughout your previous postgraduate study.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Interpret client requirements of a complex Transport system design problem at a specialist level
2. Appraise a complex Transport system design problem considering technical and societal aspects at a specialist level and search for design solutions
3. Select a preferred solution to a complex Transport system design problem, prepare a detailed design for that solution, and assess its impacts
4. Contribute to engineering assessments, with evidence of organising and undertaking agreed tasks, with peer-to-peer evaluation, at a specialist level
5. Compose structured technical documentation of design responses to a complex Transport system problem

Content

Learning Approaches

Teaching Mode

• Lectures - 2 hours per week over 6 weeks
• Tutorials - 2 hours per week over 8 weeks
• Workshop - 2 hours per week over 4 weeks

You will undertake problem-based learning tasks, in groups, emphasizing your ability of working as a team and your ability to communicate professionally.

Lectures on different topics will be provided. You will be expected to use concepts and methodologies discussed in the lectures to timely and professionally complete your projects. In tutorials, tutors will provide an engaging tutorial environment. The unit coordinator will be available throughout the semester to provide guidance on general aspects of the unit.

It is stressed that you gain full advantage of staff presence, by participating in scheduled sessions. You will be encouraged to use the unit site, which will be provided as a central resource.

Learning Approaches will include: problem based, independent, and team based learning

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

During tutorial classes, with your group you will share your formative ideas for your transport project and you will receive feedback from your tutor. You are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas in the transport engineering process and your understandings of transport 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 group to prepare and submit two assessments related to civil engineering systems analysis during the semester, deploying work practices that align to transport engineering professional practice (such as project management, cultural perspectives). You will be expected to work together with your group members and independently to make individual contributions to the assessments. 

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal

You will work as an individual but in consultation with your team to prepare a Problem interpretation and appraisal that demonstrates your understanding of background information provided by your client, what your client requires of you to complete the project (including Existing Conditions Analysis and Feasibility Design Study), and your own plan to organise your team's time and resources to complete the project. You will communicate your work in a written technical report that adheres to your client's requirements.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Assessment: Transport System Solution Design

You will work as an effective member of a fully functional civil engineering team to prepare transport system solution design that demonstrates your ability to investigate the complex transport engineering problem. You will communicate your work in a written technical report including design calculations and drawings, which adheres to your client's requirements.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Assessment: Project Presentation

You will present the project and findings in a professional manner to your peers and teaching team. 

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

Course Learning Outcomes

EN51 Master of Sustainable Infrastructure

1. Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Sustainable Infrastructure
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
2. Analyse and evaluate Sustainable Infrastructure problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions 
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal
3. Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Sustainable Infrastructure in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
   Relates to: Transport System Solution Design
4. Effectively communicate Sustainable Infrastructure problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
5. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design, Project Presentation

EN56 Master of Engineering Technology

1. Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Engineering Technology
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
2. Analyse and evaluate Engineering Technology problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal
3. Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Engineering Technology in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
   Relates to: Transport System Solution Design
4. Effectively communicate Engineering Technology problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
5. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design, Project Presentation

EN71 Master of Sustainable Infrastructure with Project Management

1. Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts, methods and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
2. Analyse and evaluate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure 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: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal
3. Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains in a way that assures sustainable outcomes and strategic objectives over their whole lifecycle
   Relates to: Transport System Solution Design
4. Effectively communicate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure and Project Management domains, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
5. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, reflective practice, risk-informed judgements, and leadership
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design, Project Presentation

EN75 Master of Sustainable Infrastructure with Data Analytics

1. Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts, methods and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
2. Analyse and evaluate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure 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: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal
3. Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains in a way that assures sustainable outcomes and strategic objectives over their whole lifecycle
   Relates to: Transport System Solution Design
4. Effectively communicate problems in Sustainable Infrastructure and Data Analytics domains, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
5. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, reflective practice, risk-informed judgements, and leadership
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design, Project Presentation

EN79 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Studies

1. Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary Engineering practice
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design
2. Analyse and evaluate Engineering problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal
3. 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: Transport System Solution Design
4. Effectively communicate Engineering problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design, Project Presentation
5. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
   Relates to: Transport System Design Problem Interpretation & Appraisal, Transport System Solution Design