ENN536 Leadership in Digital Manufacturing


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Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal

Unit code:ENN536
Credit points:12
Pre-requisite:Admission to (EN54, EV54 or EN64 or EN74 or EN77)
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Overview

To realise the huge benefits of digital transformation within the manufacturing industry, engineers must understand, advocate for, and lead the transition to smart manufacturing. Leadership skills and management frameworks that allow engineering leaders to navigate and succeed within rapidly changing technological and operational environments are critical. In this unit you will learn key approaches to leading projects, people, and change within Advanced Manufacturing. Project, quality, risk, and change management in manufacturing will be covered, and you will get a strong foundation and practical experience using Agile Management, Lean Management, and an understanding of where diversity and sustainability fit within the constant change and improvement of an industry.

Learning Outcomes

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

  1. Develop a comprehensive range of practical leadership skills and approaches to lead projects, people, and change within Advanced Manufacturing
  2. Select and employ appropriate formal coordination and management systems including project management, quality management, risk management, and change management in the planning and analysis of manufacturing change processes
  3. Understand, contextualise, value, and leverage the perspectives and rich contribution that diversity can have in any engineering project, paying particular attention to how the adaptability and resilience of Australia’s first nation’s people might provide learning for managing change in manufacturing
  4. Formulate and enact effective oral and written communication strategies relating to leadership and project governance with the intension to inspire action and effect change within the manufacturing industry
  5. Evaluate and analyse own professional development and competence against professional engineering standards and maintain records of your continuing professional development

Content

Learning in this unit is within two modules:

Module-1: Leading Digital Transformation in Advanced Manufacturing

  • Agile (including Scrum and Kanban)
  • Lean principals and lean manufacturing
  • Change Management
  • Sustainability in the face of continual change
  • The entrepreneurial mindset

Module-2: Leading Projects and People in Advanced Manufacturing

  • Agile and lean project management
  • Agile quality management
  • Risk management in advanced manufacturing
  • Diversity and indigenous perspectives
  • Contemporary leadership and culture

Learning Approaches

This unit will follow a problem-based learning approach, where hands-on projects and the related learning activities will align with leadership principals and management frameworks that are developed within the unit. Within this unit, you will learn to lead change projects within the manufacturing industry that employ agile and/or lean principals and enable the realisation of digital transformation.

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

  • Formal interactive lectures (2 hours per week) from experienced professional engineers that cover real-world case studies and worked examples aligning with the class project work and to give you insights into the practical application of advanced leadership concepts.
  • Workshops or computer labs (2 hours per week) in a flexible learning space will provide hands-on experience working with the available tools and approaches learnt in the unit, as well as enabling you to work in teams to apply the skills learnt to the applied project work.

To complement the timetabled activities and complete your learning in this unit, you will be provided online resources and activities on the unit's Canvas website:

  • Informative industry case studies and videos with accompanying primer theory notes will be presented prior to each week to introduce and contextualize the theoretical aspects to be discussed and applied in the week's classes.
  • All course notes, worked examples, and handouts.

Your work in this unit will include key aspects relating to diversity and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, as they apply to leadership and change management in manufacturing. Sustainability will also underpin all discussions as one of the key drivers for change in manufacturing. Finally, you will also carry out a detailed reflective task after the completion of the project work, mapping your learning and project submission against the Engineer's Australia Stage 2 Competency Standard, and writing a reflective learning statement as might be used within an application for admission as a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng).

Throughout the semester, you are expected to:

  • Engage with timetabled activities on campus and ask questions. You should follow the weekly guide and announcements from Canvas on the online materials that should be completed prior to attending timetabled activities on campus.
  • Engage with the online materials to develop your understanding of fundamental concepts. These will be available on the unit Canvas site. You will receive regular email announcements regarding the release of these resources.
  • Manage your time to engage with online resources outside of timetabled activities. 

Engage with your peers during the interactive workshops and the teamwork assessment tasks.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

You will receive informal verbal feedback on your progress in this unit during workshops and discussions throughout the semester. Written feedback will be provided with each summative assessment throughout the semester.

Assessment

Overview

Assessment in this unit has been designed to give you the opportunity to show your learning against the unit learning outcomes.

Rubrics with criteria and standards will be used to evaluate the unit learning outcomes of your work.

The assessment consists of ongoing formative and summative assessments that are based on independent and group work. The assessment items allow you to demonstrate your technical knowledge in the topic, observation of real world and communication skills as well as leadership and management skills developed throughout the unit.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan

You will be presented with a manufacturing operation that would significantly benefit from an implementation of digital and robotic manufacturing processes, and be responsible for developing a change proposal and implementation plan that applies the learnt Agile and/or Lean Manufacturing principals within the change. Sustainability must underpin the change proposal. Assessment task is a presentation delivered to industry experts, where your objective is to convince the panel of the business case and feasibility of the plan.

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

Weight: 40
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 8
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 3, 4

Assessment: Agile Project Management Plan

You will work in a team to develop a Project Management Plan that extends the traditional PMBOK approach to fit within the Agile framework, for a given real-world problem provided by industry. Members will be responsible for individual components within the broader report and assessment will be both individual, and group based.

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

Weight: 40
Individual/Group: Individual and group
Due (indicative): Week 13
Related Unit learning outcomes: 2, 3, 4

Assessment: Project Reflection Task

Written detailed reflective task covering the project work completed, mapping your learning and project submission against the Engineer's Australia Stage 2 Competency Standard, and writing a reflective learning statement as might be used within an application for admission as a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng).

Assessment item is individual.

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

Weight: 20
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Week 14
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3, 5

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 website on QUT's Canvas (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)

Risk Assessment Statement

You will undertake lectures and workshops in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.

Any practical sessions in the laboratory must be done under the supervision of the lecturer or demonstrator and can be supported by technical staff. In this unit, you will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory and may include a visit in an industrial site under the supervision of QUT staff. If you do not have a general safety induction certificate or sticker you will be denied access to laboratories and/or visit to industrial site. In any laboratory practicals you will be advised further regarding the requirements for safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes or gumboot shoes).

Course Learning Outcomes

This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.

EN54 Master of Advanced Manufacturing

  1. Develop and employ professional leadership skills and management frameworks to deliver projects, lead teams, and enact change within Advanced Manufacturing
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  2. Implement professional communication and collaborative skills while engaging with stakeholders, exchanging ideas, and presenting complex information to specialist and non-specialist audiences
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan
  3. Demonstrate ethical and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, and reflective practice
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  4. Enact a holistic approach to sustainability in Advanced Manufacturing that embodies the principals of efficient, green, circular, and clean
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan
  5. Demonstrate an ability to research and apply established theories and plan and execute a substantial research-based project, cultivating an attitude of engineering innovation and creativity
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan

EN56 Master of Engineering Technology

  1. 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: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan
  2. 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: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  3. Effectively communicate Engineering Technology problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan
  4. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task

EN64 Graduate Certificate in Digital and Robotic Manufacturing

  1. Develop professional leadership skills and management frameworks to deliver projects, lead teams, and enact change within Digital and Robotic Manufacturing
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  2. Implement advanced communication and collaborative skills while engaging with stakeholders, exchanging ideas, and presenting complex information to specialist and non-specialist audiences
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan
  3. Demonstrate ethical and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, and reflective practice
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  4. Enact a holistic approach to sustainability in Digital and Robotic Manufacturing that embodies the principals of efficient, green, circular, and clean
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan

EN74 Master of Advanced Manufacturing with Project Management

  1. Develop and employ professional leadership skills and management frameworks to deliver projects, lead teams, and enact change in Advanced Manufacturing and Project Management domains
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  2. Implement professional communication and collaborative skills while engaging with stakeholders, exchanging ideas, and presenting complex information to specialist and non-specialist audiences in Advanced Manufacturing and Project Management domains
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan
  3. Demonstrate ethical and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, and reflective practice, risk-informed judgements, and leadership
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  4. Enact a holistic approach to sustainability in Advanced Manufacturing that embodies the principals of efficient, green, circular, and clean
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan
  5. Demonstrate an ability to research and apply established theories and plan and execute a substantial research-based project, cultivating an attitude of engineering innovation and creativity
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan

EN77 Master of Advanced Manufacturing with Data Analytics

  1. Develop and employ professional leadership skills and management frameworks to deliver projects, lead teams, and enact change in Advanced Manufacturing and Data Analytics domains
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  2. Implement professional communication and collaborative skills while engaging with stakeholders, exchanging ideas, and presenting complex information to specialist and non-specialist audiences in Advanced Manufacturing and Data Analytics domains
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan
  3. Demonstrate ethical and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability, and reflective practice, risk-informed judgements, and leadership
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  4. Enact a holistic approach to sustainability in Advanced Manufacturing that embodies the principals of efficient, green, circular, and clean
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan
  5. Demonstrate an ability to research and apply established theories and plan and execute a substantial research-based project, cultivating an attitude of engineering innovation and creativity
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan

EN79 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Studies

  1. 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: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task
  2. Effectively communicate Engineering problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan
  3. Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
    Relates to: Change Proposal and Implementation Plan, Agile Project Management Plan, Project Reflection Task