EGH455 Advanced Systems Design

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

This advanced unit further develops your investigation, analysis, synthesis and problem solving skills when solving complex engineering tasks. The unit focuses on experimental design using a systems engineering approach to work on an engineering concept, starting from a basic need and opportunity description. You work in teams to identify customers, formulate a basic business case, establish a basic concept of operations, develop the system requirements, generate concepts, conduct trade studies, determine the most promising design, and pursue a design and testing and verification of the system. The unit replicates industry or government systems engineering practices as closely as possible.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Apply systems engineering thinking and design methodologies to design and test a prototype engineering system, at a mastered level.
2. Conduct an in-depth investigation to meet customer requirements based on international standards and Codes of Practice to the engineering design, at a mastered level.
3. Decompose a large complex project into a work breakdown structure with associated work package descriptions, at a mastered level.
4. Communicate and present ideas and specialised information effectively with customers, professionals and co-workers, both informally and formally, at a mastered level.
5. Demonstrate skills in teamwork for managing and completing tasks on time, at a mastered 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 real world project conditions seen in an industry context. The lectures will be based on industry practice and contexts underpinned by demonstrations, reading and applied problem solving. Practical sessions will involve individual questioning as well as group work and student-centred learning with shared feedback with the whole group. This will enhance the authentic group nature of systems design. Weekly critical design reviews will provide ongoing formative practice leading to a final critical review panel presentation with feedback from an industry and academic panel.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Formative feedback will be provided throughout the discussion and workshop sessions. Review of submitted assessment items will provide additional 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 earning 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 engineering problems. You will be working individually as well as in small teams solving problems using a variety of analytical and computer based techniques. Assessment is project based in a relevant industry context.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Problem Solving Task

This task specifically targets issues encountered in the systems engineering process such as developing a systems requirement or concept of operations.

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

Assessment: Project (applied)

Prepare complete systems engineering documentation, high level objectives, system requirements, trade studies, design documents, team meeting minutes, test reports and acceptance tests for a design project.

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

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.

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: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Project (applied)
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), Presentation (Oral or Group)

EN60 Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering

1. Demonstrate and apply specialised knowledge and technical skills in at least one Engineering discipline.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Presentation (Oral or Group)
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: Project (applied)
3. Employ effective written and oral professional communication skills across social, cultural and discipline domains.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
4. Exercise responsibility and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice including working independently, ethically and collaboratively.
   Relates to: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)

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: Problem Solving Task, Project (applied), Presentation (Oral or Group)
2. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Project (applied)
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), Presentation (Oral or Group)