EGH471 Advanced Water Engineering

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Overview

Water engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this advanced unit to analyse surface water systems including rivers, creeks and reservoirs, and to undertake design of related hydraulic structures including bridges, culverts and dams. You will continue to develop your knowledge of water engineering in the context of technical, practical and stakeholder perspectives. You will learn the hydrologic cycle and its applications in runoff estimations, probability and risk based flood analysis, estimating design floods, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and water sensitive urban design concepts. You will work together with peers on assessing catchments for their hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics, modelling floods using software tools and designing simple hydraulic structures. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems, EGB124 Engineering for the Environment, and EGB371 Engineering Hydraulics.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Compile information from prescribed sources to inform the solution of a water engineering system problem at a developed level
2. Solve a water engineering system problem theoretically at a developed level.
3. Model the behaviour of a water engineering system using a computational approach at a developed level.
4. Contribute to a water 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 water engineering project including design calculations and design drawings at a developed level.
6. Refl ect upon a water engineering project experience in developing professional engineering competency at a developed level.

Content

Learning Approaches

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

• Formal lectures from experienced lecturers and professional engineers to give you insight into knowledge,
  skills, and attributes. You have the opportunity to ask questions during these lectures.
• Tutorial classes 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, gain feedback
  on your work and share your experience and understanding with peers.
• Computer lab classes where you will learn to use industry-standard software tools for information
  processing and modelling. You are expected to develop a computer model representing a real-world
  catchment, simulate it for range of scenarios and analyse results for engineering decision making.
• Design workshops where you will learn design concepts, practice design methodologies and
  communicate your outcomes with peers and teaching staff. You have the opportunity to engage with
  staff, peers and industry experts in professional conversation.

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 Canvas site, which you can
access flexibly to complete your learning in this 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/ demonstrators.

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.
• Consult with your group while preparing your group projects and modelling tasks.
• 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, including for areas of individual responsibility.
• 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 tutors. During tutorials and design workshops, will share the outcomes of your design project with your tutor for marking and feedback. As a member of an effective group, you are encouraged to view your group as a learning community and to share and discuss emergent ideas about water engineering 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 the semester through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback given by the markers against the criteria.

Assessment

Overview

Assessment items in this unit have been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes. You will work as a member of an effective group to prepare and submit a design project report and field audit report. You will also develop an individual portfolio aligning the theoretical concepts you learned, implementation approaches you observed, and experiences presented by staff and industry experts reflecting the key professional attributes of engineering practices. 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: Catchment Analysis Project

You will work as a member of an effective group to prepare a design report involving catchment analysis, computer modelling and design of simple culvert structure demonstrating your knowledge and skills attained by undertaking this unit. You will communicate your work in a written technical report that adheres to a template.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio

You will work as a member of an effective group to prepare an investigation report describing the implementation of water sensitive urban design practices in the suburbs you are living and individually develop a reflective portfolio aligning the theoretical concepts you learned, implementation approaches you observed, and experiences presented by staff and industry experts reflecting the key professional attributes of engineering practices.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Invigilated Written Examination

You will be required to solve problems about fundamental principles, design, and analysis of water engineering scenarios. You will be presented with descriptions of the water engineering systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, demonstrate systems knowledge, show your work, and communicate a complete answer in writing and graphically.

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

Resource Materials

Reference book(s)

Institution of Engineers Australia 2012. Australian Rainfall and Runoff.
Ladson A. 2008. Title: Hydrology: An Australian Introduction
Queensland Government, Natural Resource and Water, Queensland Urban Drainage Manual.

Risk Assessment Statement

You will be informed of any requirements about a safe workplace. In lectures, tutorials and such, the information will include the location of fi re exits and meeting points in case of fi re; in field visits, 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); on any field trips or site visits, you will progress through a safety induction session and where necessary obtain a safety induction card. 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/site.

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. Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio
2. Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio
3. Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio
4. Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Invigilated Written Examination
5. Demonstrate coherent knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Invigilated Written Examination
6. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of one engineering discipline, its research directions, and its application in contemporary professional engineering practice.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Invigilated Written Examination

EN55 Master of Professional Engineering

1. Apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Invigilated Written Examination
2. Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve research informed solutions.
   Relates to: Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio, Invigilated Written Examination
3. Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project.
   Relates to: Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio
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: Catchment Analysis Project, Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio
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: Catchment Analysis Project, Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio

EN60 Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering

1. Demonstrate and apply specialised knowledge and technical skills in at least one Engineering discipline.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Invigilated Written Examination
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: Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio, Invigilated Written Examination
3. Employ effective written and oral professional communication skills across social, cultural and discipline domains.
   Relates to: Catchment Analysis Project, Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio
4. Exercise responsibility and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice including working independently, ethically and collaboratively.
   Relates to: Field Audit and Reflective Portfolio