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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

Development within building and engineering design is inherently a collaborative activity. This is most intense during the design and construction/manufacturing of artefacts (the results of design activity, such as buildings, products, infrastructure).
This unit will introduce you to multi-disciplinary collaboration within a constrained environment. This collaborative activity between designers, engineers, manufacturers, consultants, etc. will be facilitated using the Revit software.

Aims

1. To introduce you to collaboration using digital design tools, such as REVIT.
2. To increase the understanding of your own discipline through working on "real world" problems through a project-based approach.
3. To increase understanding of the role of the other disciplines involved.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to demonstrate the following abilities:
1. Have a sound understanding of the role of your discipline within the design process;
2. Be familiar with the needs of the disciplines with which you need to collaborate;
3. Be able to use digital design tools relevant to your discipline:
4. Be able to work collaboratively producing and sharing digital files to achieve project outcomes in a simulated project environment.

Content

You will develop an understanding of the different approaches necessary to produce a Building Information Model (BIM)

• Introduction to BIM (integrated)


• Introduction to REVIT (shared)

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit will be conducted through a mix of lectures and tutorials.

Teaching Mode: Hours per week:
Lecture/tutorial: 3 hours

Lectures will cover the generic aspects of collaboration. Tutorials will provide a mix of generic skills to ensure you have a sound understanding of the tools used, combined with a problem-based approach that will reinforce their skills in a simulated workplace environment. The problem based work will be conducted as a group exercise.

Students from across the faculty will share in the lecture program, which will cover the generic aspects of collaboration. You will be divided into two streams for the practical work, based on your discipline. Students from built environment disciplines will work on a building/infrastructure design problem, while non-built environment discipline students, such as industrial design, medical engineering, etc, will work on a manufacturing design problem. Students from some engineering disciplines will be able to work in either stream.

Students in the built environment stream will use a single commercial suite of CAD software (Revit Architectural, Structural, MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing)). Students in the manufacturing stream will use Solidworks as this is already widely used within the faculty. Both streams will learn through collaborating on a group design project. This will involve collaborative exploration of options at the early stages of design through to the resolution of key details at the detailed design stage.
In both streams each of you will develop the necessary aspects of the design within your own discipline to support the overall group needs for resolution of the project.

Assessment

Summative Assessment:
Assessment item: written report
Assessment item: team project and report
Assessment item oral presentation
Formative Assessment:
Assessment item: tutorial activities
Weighting: nilFormative feedback will be offered by tutors during the semester at key times to assist you in the development of your assignments.

Assessment name: Report
Description: You will work in your group to define the problem statement and overall approach that will be used. Each of you will prepare a problem statement and approach that corresponds to your role within the group problem.
Relates to objectives: 1 and 2
Weight: 25%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 3

Assessment name: Project (applied)
Description: Collation of materials from resolution of design problem.
You will prepare a record of the process used in resolving the aspects of the design problem that you tackled. This will provide a narrative of the approach used during design activity. Key points where information was shared with other members of the group will be highlighted.
This will be submitted as a series of PowerPoint slides.
Physical media, such as paper and models will be incorporated through scanning or photographs.
Relates to objectives: All learning outcomes.
Weight: 50%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of semester

Assessment name: Presentation (Oral)
Description: Oral presentation from all group members, also explaining how the problem statement evolved as work progressed.
Students will prepare a team presentation based around relevant media (electronic and physical) used to explain the solution developed by the group to the design problem.
This will also explain how the problem statement evolved as the design solution space was explored.
Relates to objectives: 1 and 2
Weight: 25%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Week 13

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

There is no set text for this unit. Recommended reading will be provided in week 1 and posted on the units Blackboard site.

Software references:
Specific software references vary from semester to semester based on the current version of software applications. Recommended Software reference texts will be published on the units Blackboard site.

Material from the Internet (Hypertext):
This material will be presented on the Blackboard site for the unit.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 05-Oct-2012