EGH420 Mechanical Systems Design

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

This unit brings together a number of Engineers Australia's Stage 1 competencies. Students will demonstrate their knowledge and skill base, their engineering application ability all whilst being expected to demonstrate the professional and personal attributes.  This unit builds on previous introductory and intermediate design units to be the final unit in the mechanical design stream. You will bring together design knowledge and skills to design and analyze systems of increasing complexity and interdependence. You also will be given the opportunity to consider the broader role mechanical engineers often play in relation to human interaction, quality, safety, ethics and sustainability in design. 

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Demonstrate a systematic approach to engineering design complemented with design analysis tools for machine components and systems, at a mastered level.
2. Make use of engineering standard approaches in mechanical design of machine components and systems, at a mastered level.
3. Communicate engineering design and analysis procedures in mechanical design of machine components and systems, at a mastered level.
4. Actively participate in effective engineering teamwork for mechanical design of machine components and systems, at a mastered level.

Content

Learning Approaches

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

• Formal lectures from experienced professional engineers create understanding approaches to designing complex multi-component assemblies. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the lecturer (2h lecture per week)
• Workshop classes will give you the opportunity to work collaboratively with your peers to solve the problem you have chosen. These will be facilitated by tutors and will provide an opportunity to gain insight and feedback by engaging your tutors. (2h workshop per week)
• A Practical class is conducted in this unit, in which you will get hands on experience with the risks that engineers are required to see, understand and address. (1 practical per semester)

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

You will receive ongoing feedback throughout the semester through peer, team and tutor discussions in and outside class. You will also receive feedback through written comments on your design solutions and project report and through oral and written peer review and assessment of projects. Oral feedback will be given after each problem or practical based assessment with analysis of typical errors.

Assessment

Overview

As you progress through this unit you will implement design skills learnt in previous units to a complex multi-component problem. This unit focuses on applying the skills previously learnt using a defined design methodology to a more complex problem.  You will develop the capability to identify and map out engineering design processes, identify and understand how to design for components within a machine or context, and to see a design project from inception to conclusion.  The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes developing professional documentation reflective of that expected in industry.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Problem Scoping Report

This report contains the Literature Review, Problem Definition and Background to the topic they have chosen. 

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Design Evaluation and Selection Report

This report details a design solution by the student.  This is then analysed and evaluated.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Component Design Report

This report details component design of the chosen solution.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Systems Design Report

This report details design adaptation and life cycle impacts of the chosen solution.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

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 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

1. 
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report
2. 
   Relates to: Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Systems Design Report
3. 
   Relates to: Component Design Report, Systems Design Report

2: Engineering Application Ability

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   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
2. 
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
3. 
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report

3: Professional and Personal Attributes

1. 
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
2. 
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
3. 
   Relates to: Design Evaluation and Selection Report
4. 
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Systems Design Report

Course Learning Outcomes

EN01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO2, ULO4, Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report
2. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: ULO3, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
3. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO4, Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report
4. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: ULO1, Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
5. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
6. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO2, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report
7. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report

EN50 Master of Engineering

1. Apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering systems and processes.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Component Design Report
2. Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
   Relates to: Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Systems Design Report
3. Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
4. 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: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
5. 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: Problem Scoping Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report

EN55 Master of Professional Engineering

1. Apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
2. Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
   Relates to: Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
3. Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project.
   Relates to: Component Design Report
4. 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: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
5. 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: Problem Scoping Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report

EN60 Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering

1. Demonstrate and apply specialised knowledge and technical skills in at least one Engineering discipline.
   Relates to: ULO1, Problem Scoping Report
2. 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: ULO2, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
3. Employ effective written and oral professional communication skills across social, cultural and discipline domains.
   Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Scoping Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
4. Exercise responsibility and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice including working independently, ethically and collaboratively.
   Relates to: ULO4, Component Design Report

EV01 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

1. Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report
2. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
3. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report
4. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
5. Deploy appropriate approaches to engineering design and quality.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report
6. Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report
7. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Problem Scoping Report, Design Evaluation and Selection Report, Component Design Report, Systems Design Report