EGD102 Fundamentals of Engineering Science
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| Unit code: | EGD102 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | EGB113, EGD113 |
| Equivalent(s): | EGB102 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,037 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $5,520 |
| International unit fee | $5,508 |
Unit Outline: College 1 2023, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EGD102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGB102 |
| Anti-requisite: | EGB113 |
| Anti-requisite: | EGD113 |
| Coordinator: | Mark McDougall | ml.mcdougall@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This engineering foundation unit introduces concepts of physics and the strength of materials in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to solve fundamental problems involving forces, motion and energy and to solve more complex problems involving pressures, mechanical stresses, strain and the deformation of solids as an introduction to predicting the behaviour of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in which you will plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Solve problems in fundamental engineering science using engineering based critical thinking at an introduced level.
- Undertake experimental investigations in fundamental engineering science, including the appraisal of risk, hazards and safety, at an introduced level.
- Analyse experimental results in fundamental engineering science at an introduced level.
- Communicate analysis procedures in fundamental engineering science using graphical mathematical and engineering techniques at an introduced level.
Content
- Describing physical systems: units and dimensions, vector and scalar quantities
- Safe working in practical settings including risk, hazards and safety
- Predicting behaviour of physical systems: Forces and motion, frames of reference, motion in 1 dimension and 2 dimensions, Newton's first and second law, conservation of momentum
- Work, energy and power
- Reporting experimental outcomes in engineering
- Force distributed over an area, pressure and stress
- Hydrostatic pressure in a stationary fluid, distributed forces due to hydrostatic pressures
- Normal stress and strain in tension and compression loading, introduction to mechanical properties of materials, shear stress and strain
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a blended approach to learning and teaching. You will be provided with both eContent and timetabled activities. eContent will be clearly identified on your course site for you to engage with on a weekly basis before attending classes. eContent includes a combination of videos, readings, and/or exercises designed to enhance your learning experience.
During timetabled activities (for example: workshops, tutorials, practicals), the unit coordinator and/or your tutor will further explore content and you will be provided with opportunities to develop your understanding in a collaborative learning environment.
After your weekly classes, you should continue to engage with unit resources to ensure you consolidate your understanding of unit content. Teaching team members will also be available for consultations to assist you with your learning journey (further details provided on your course site).
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and practical classes, you will share your formative ideas around problem solving and analysis of experimental data and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your tutorial group as a learning community and to share and discuss challenges and strategies for learning. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of teaching period through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
As you progress through this unit you will move between learning underpinning scientific theory and concepts and using that theory in practical applications. You will be developing your capability to solve problems by looking at physical systems and diagnosing the appropriate theory and methods to predict behaviour of those systems, which is a key capability for professional engineering practice. The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes problem solving tasks, reporting on experimental work and a final exam, which will test your capability to diagnose and solve problems in engineering science.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
You will be required to demonstrate your problem solving methods and outcomes for a number of individualised problems. You will be required to show the steps you have undertaken to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer to problems involving physical systems that can be described and analysed using engineering science.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
You will produce an individual report on experiments including analysis and discussion of experimental results. You will also provide critical reflection on the organisation and conduct of experiments with respect to evaluating, managing and mitigating risks and safety, particularly in group situations.
Assessment: Final Exam
You will be required to solve problems involving the relationship between force, mass, motion and energy, the relationships between hydrostatic pressures and forces, and the relationship between applied forces, stresses and strains. You will be presented with descriptions of physical systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer.
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
You are required to use the following:
- The unit course site which provides learning materials that support timetabled activities and assessment tasks
- QUT Library Databases
- QUT Cite| Write: You can access QUT cite/write online (Free download from QUT library)
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Wolfson, R. (2020). Essential university physics: Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Pearson Education.
Safety and protective equipment
Closed shoes or steel capped shoes
Risk Assessment Statement
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 course 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.
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 provided with information in relation to a safe workplace. Information will include location of fire exits and meeting points in case of fire.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN02 Diploma in Engineering
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Final Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Final Exam - Deploy foundational approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate foundational knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Unit Outline: College 2 2023, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EGD102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGB102 |
| Anti-requisite: | EGB113 |
| Anti-requisite: | EGD113 |
| Coordinator: | Mark McDougall | ml.mcdougall@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This engineering foundation unit introduces concepts of physics and the strength of materials in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to solve fundamental problems involving forces, motion and energy and to solve more complex problems involving pressures, mechanical stresses, strain and the deformation of solids as an introduction to predicting the behaviour of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in which you will plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Solve problems in fundamental engineering science using engineering based critical thinking at an introduced level.
- Undertake experimental investigations in fundamental engineering science, including the appraisal of risk, hazards and safety, at an introduced level.
- Analyse experimental results in fundamental engineering science at an introduced level.
- Communicate analysis procedures in fundamental engineering science using graphical mathematical and engineering techniques at an introduced level.
Content
- Describing physical systems: units and dimensions, vector and scalar quantities
- Safe working in practical settings including risk, hazards and safety
- Predicting behaviour of physical systems: Forces and motion, frames of reference, motion in 1 dimension and 2 dimensions, Newton's first and second law, conservation of momentum
- Work, energy and power
- Reporting experimental outcomes in engineering
- Force distributed over an area, pressure and stress
- Hydrostatic pressure in a stationary fluid, distributed forces due to hydrostatic pressures
- Normal stress and strain in tension and compression loading, introduction to mechanical properties of materials, shear stress and strain
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a blended approach to learning and teaching. You will be provided with both eContent and timetabled activities. eContent will be clearly identified on your course site for you to engage with on a weekly basis before attending classes. eContent includes a combination of videos, readings, and/or exercises designed to enhance your learning experience.
During timetabled activities (for example: workshops, tutorials, practicals), the unit coordinator and/or your tutor will further explore content and you will be provided with opportunities to develop your understanding in a collaborative learning environment.
After your weekly classes, you should continue to engage with unit resources to ensure you consolidate your understanding of unit content. Teaching team members will also be available for consultations to assist you with your learning journey (further details provided on your course site).
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and practical classes, you will share your formative ideas around problem solving and analysis of experimental data and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your tutorial group as a learning community and to share and discuss challenges and strategies for learning. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of teaching period through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
As you progress through this unit you will move between learning underpinning scientific theory and concepts and using that theory in practical applications. You will be developing your capability to solve problems by looking at physical systems and diagnosing the appropriate theory and methods to predict behaviour of those systems, which is a key capability for professional engineering practice. The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes problem solving tasks, reporting on experimental work and a final exam, which will test your capability to diagnose and solve problems in engineering science.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
You will be required to demonstrate your problem solving methods and outcomes for a number of individualised problems. You will be required to show the steps you have undertaken to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer to problems involving physical systems that can be described and analysed using engineering science.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
You will produce an individual report on experiments including analysis and discussion of experimental results. You will also provide critical reflection on the organisation and conduct of experiments with respect to evaluating, managing and mitigating risks and safety, particularly in group situations.
Assessment: Final Exam
You will be required to solve problems involving the relationship between force, mass, motion and energy, the relationships between hydrostatic pressures and forces, and the relationship between applied forces, stresses and strains. You will be presented with descriptions of physical systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer.
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
You are required to use the following:
- The unit course site which provides learning materials that support timetabled activities and assessment tasks
- QUT Library Databases
- QUT Cite| Write: You can access QUT cite/write online (Free download from QUT library)
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Wolfson, R. (2020). Essential university physics: Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Pearson Education.
Safety and protective equipment
Closed shoes or steel capped shoes
Risk Assessment Statement
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 course 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.
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 provided with information in relation to a safe workplace. Information will include location of fire exits and meeting points in case of fire.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN02 Diploma in Engineering
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Final Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Final Exam - Deploy foundational approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate foundational knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
Unit Outline: College Summer 2023, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EGD102 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | EGB102 |
| Anti-requisite: | EGB113 |
| Anti-requisite: | EGD113 |
| Coordinator: | Mark McDougall | ml.mcdougall@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This engineering foundation unit introduces concepts of physics and the strength of materials in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to solve fundamental problems involving forces, motion and energy and to solve more complex problems involving pressures, mechanical stresses, strain and the deformation of solids as an introduction to predicting the behaviour of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in which you will plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Solve problems in fundamental engineering science using engineering based critical thinking at an introduced level.
- Undertake experimental investigations in fundamental engineering science, including the appraisal of risk, hazards and safety, at an introduced level.
- Analyse experimental results in fundamental engineering science at an introduced level.
- Communicate analysis procedures in fundamental engineering science using graphical mathematical and engineering techniques at an introduced level.
Content
- Describing physical systems: units and dimensions, vector and scalar quantities
- Safe working in practical settings including risk, hazards and safety
- Predicting behaviour of physical systems: Forces and motion, frames of reference, motion in 1 dimension and 2 dimensions, Newton's first and second law, conservation of momentum
- Work, energy and power
- Reporting experimental outcomes in engineering
- Force distributed over an area, pressure and stress
- Hydrostatic pressure in a stationary fluid, distributed forces due to hydrostatic pressures
- Normal stress and strain in tension and compression loading, introduction to mechanical properties of materials, shear stress and strain
Learning Approaches
This unit takes a blended approach to learning and teaching. You will be provided with both eContent and timetabled activities. eContent will be clearly identified on your course site for you to engage with on a weekly basis before attending classes. eContent includes a combination of videos, readings, and/or exercises designed to enhance your learning experience.
During timetabled activities (for example: workshops, tutorials, practicals), the unit coordinator and/or your tutor will further explore content and you will be provided with opportunities to develop your understanding in a collaborative learning environment.
After your weekly classes, you should continue to engage with unit resources to ensure you consolidate your understanding of unit content. Teaching team members will also be available for consultations to assist you with your learning journey (further details provided on your course site).
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
During tutorials and practical classes, you will share your formative ideas around problem solving and analysis of experimental data and receive feedback from tutors and demonstrators. You are encouraged to view your tutorial group as a learning community and to share and discuss challenges and strategies for learning. Each assessment submission will be graded against criteria and standards which will be shared with you at the beginning of teaching period through Assessment Task Descriptions and Marking Rubrics. Marked assessment will include feedback from markers against the criteria.
Assessment
Overview
As you progress through this unit you will move between learning underpinning scientific theory and concepts and using that theory in practical applications. You will be developing your capability to solve problems by looking at physical systems and diagnosing the appropriate theory and methods to predict behaviour of those systems, which is a key capability for professional engineering practice. The assessment for the unit is designed to assess your learning against the unit learning outcomes and includes problem solving tasks, reporting on experimental work and a final exam, which will test your capability to diagnose and solve problems in engineering science.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Problem Solving Task
You will be required to demonstrate your problem solving methods and outcomes for a number of individualised problems. You will be required to show the steps you have undertaken to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer to problems involving physical systems that can be described and analysed using engineering science.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection
You will produce an individual report on experiments including analysis and discussion of experimental results. You will also provide critical reflection on the organisation and conduct of experiments with respect to evaluating, managing and mitigating risks and safety, particularly in group situations.
Assessment: Final Exam
You will be required to solve problems involving the relationship between force, mass, motion and energy, the relationships between hydrostatic pressures and forces, and the relationship between applied forces, stresses and strains. You will be presented with descriptions of physical systems and will need to diagnose the problem type, make use of appropriate theory or methods, show your working and communicate a complete answer.
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
You are required to use the following:
- The unit course site which provides learning materials that support timetabled activities and assessment tasks
- QUT Library Databases
- QUT Cite| Write: You can access QUT cite/write online (Free download from QUT library)
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Wolfson, R. (2020). Essential university physics: Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Pearson Education.
Safety and protective equipment
Closed shoes or steel capped shoes
Risk Assessment Statement
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 course 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.
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 provided with information in relation to a safe workplace. Information will include location of fire exits and meeting points in case of fire.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN02 Diploma in Engineering
- Make decisions ethically within the social, cultural, and organisational contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Final Exam - Engage stakeholders professionally and communicate the outcomes of your work effectively to expert and non-expert audiences using appropriate modes.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Display leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Manage projects to solve complex engineering problems, using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
Relates to: ULO4, Final Exam - Deploy foundational approaches to engineering design and quality.
Relates to: ULO4, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection, Final Exam - Engage with and apply regulatory requirements relating to safety, risk management, and sustainability in professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection - Demonstrate foundational knowledge and skills of physical, mathematical, statistical, computer, and information sciences that are fundamental to professional engineering practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Problem Solving Task, Laboratory Report & Critical Reflection