Units

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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

All engineers need to be aware of and apply the principles and processes that determine the interactions between the components of physical systems, including the properties of certain key materials from which those systems are made. This knowledge will help you to understand how major infrastructure systems (e.g. bridges, skyscrapers, roads, factories), mechanical systems (e.g. engines, turbines, pumps, vehicles), and electrical systems (e.g. power stations, transmission lines, motors) are designed and built. ENB110 is one of four first year units covering fundamental engineering principles you will need in your profession.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to introduce you to forces and moments between rigid bodies and to the properties of steel. It also develops your team work skills.

Objectives

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:
1. Explain some of the properties and behaviours of metals and steels.
2. Use formulae to analyse the performance of simple structures.
3. Solve statics and materials problems at an introductory level.
4. Apply engineering design principles to construct, test and analyse an artefact.
5. Manage and document individual and team contributions to the practical project

Content

This unit provides an introduction to statics and materials with particular focus on steel. The contents cover basic physics of 2D forces and moments as well as mechanical properties of steels and how these properties are modified for specific engineering purposes. This requires investigation of statics and materials, from equilibrium of forces and moments to calculation of shear force and bending moment, through atomic and crystal structural of materials and how to describe irregularities in structure, to measurements, interpretation and modification of mechanical properties of steels.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching Mode: 4 hours per week (plus 2 laboratory practicals)
Lectures: 2 hours per week including direction on the group project
Tutorials: 1 hr per week
Peer mentored supplemental instruction (SI): 1 hour per week
Laboratory practicals: 2 x 2 hr practical sessions related to measurements and analysis of material properties at designated times through the semester.

An additional peer mentored drop-in sessions will also be available at the end of semester (weeks 10-13) where you can interact individually or in a small group with tutors to improve your understanding of the topics covered in the unit and problem solving in statics.

The weekly 2 hour lecture will guide you through the unit and describe and illustrate the key concepts using real examples, practical demonstrations and visual aids. Ongoing reference to and directions about your project will be interwoven throughout lectures.

Tutorial classes are primarily for working on problems and collaborating on answers; tutors are either lecturers or postgraduate students. Leaders of SI sessions are mostly trained 2nd year students who are there to help you figure out WHY the theory works the way it does rather than giving a complete answer. Problem solving knowledge and skills are developed and assessed via online exercises (with different variables to prevent rote copy) with due dates to keep students on track and multiple opportunities to receive feedback and resubmit work.

You will be in a project team of approximately five or six people to design, analyse, build and test a model structure. Your project will develop active learning-through-experience, integrating theory with hands-on practice and real materials. Construction and testing will be outside of scheduled timetabled sessions.

Assessment

Assessment for this unit consists of online problem solving tasks; group project tasks to design, build and test a bridge model structure; laboratory practicals to test properties of steel and final exam. Formative feedback will be given throughout the semester.Formative feedback
You will receive oral feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester. Additional formative feedback will be available in SI sessions, drop-in centre and practical lab sessions. The lab practicals also will contribute to final summative assessment of your project. The problem solving tasks throughout semester provide ongoing formative feedback and opportunity for practice and resubmission until the final date of submission as per the assignment brief.

Summative feedback
Assessment 1: Online problem solving tasks
Mode of feedback: electronic feedback from week 7 (covering weeks 4-7) and weekly problem solving questions until week 9 with ongoing opportunities for feedback until end of semester.
Assessment 2: Project
Mode of feedback: class feedback and guidance in lectures; individual and group oral feedback in tutorials; immediate feedback from week 3 on laboratory practical sessions (with supplementary and drop-in support)
Assessment 3: 2 hour Exam
Due date: End of semester

Assessment name: Problem Solving Tasks
Description: Online problem solving for engineering
You are required to solve a progressive series of problems related to static and determinate structures. Due date is week 7 initially then until the end of semester. Formal feedback will be provided upon the marking of online problems.
Relates to objectives: 2. Use formulae to analyse the performance of simple structures.
3. Solve statics and materials problems at an introductory level.
level.
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Both
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 7 and 13

Assessment name: Project (applied)
Description: Project & Practical
You will test materials in laboratory practicals (weight 10%) and complete a group project to design, analyse, build and test a model bridge structure and write a report (weight 20%)

Individual component for laboratory practicals and group component for bridge model building testing and report writing.

Due Dates: Starting week 3 (Pracs), Week 12 (Bridge Testing), Week 13 (Project Report)
Relates to objectives: 4. Apply engineering design principles to construct, test and analyse an artefact.
5. Manage and document individual and team contributions to the practical project.
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group with Individual Component
Due date: Weeks 3, 12 and 13.

Assessment name: Examination (Theory)
Description: You will solve problems related to key concepts in engineering statics and materials covered over the semester.
Relates to objectives: 1. Explain some of the properties and behaviours of steel.
2. Use formulae to analyse the performance of simple structures.
3. Solve statics and materials problems at an introductory level.
Weight: 50%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Examination period

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

Prescribed text (customised)
Author: QUT, compiled from Engineering Mechanics Statics by Hibbeler and Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers by Shackelford
Title: Statics and Materials
Publisher: Pearson Education, New York
Year: 2010

QUT Blackboard web site for unit ENB110

Teamworker Website www.teamworker@qut.edu.au

Student email list ENB110-2.12@student.qut.edu.au

Additional Costs
You will be engaged in a project. You will be required to purchase the materials for constructing the project at your expense, as well as provide the correct stationery, printing, binding and submission envelope for the report.

Risk assessment statement

You will undertake lectures and tutorials 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.

You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of the lecturer and technical staff of the School. In any laboratory practicals 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).

You will undergo a general health and safety induction and competency test online and will receive a safety induction certificate and this will allow you to get sticker on your ID card. If you do not have a safety induction certifcate or sticker you will be denied access to laboratories.

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: 06-Jul-2012