Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013

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

Rationale

Professional engineers create, design, construct and maintain a wide range of different technical systems, but there are common principles applied across all of them. You need to be aware of the key processes underlying engineering design and as a first year student be able to apply those processes to a simple system. ENB150 builds on the more technical material covered in ENB110, ENB120 and ENB130 and introduces you to important skills you will need in the second and later year units of your course.

Aims

This unit aims to introduce you to key concepts and processes of engineering system design at a beginning level.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Describe and demonstrate the basic processes by which engineering projects and systems are designed;
2. Use a modelling approach as part of the design and production of a simple system;
3. Communicate with the engineering team and the community at large to investigate and present simple design solutions;
4. Demonstrate creative and innovative solutions in how you approach design tasks.

Content

• Engineering systems identification and analysis


• Processes and stages of engineering design


• Engineering Design Tools - modelling, simulation and analysis; communication & presentation
  (oral, written, graphical/computer)


• Teamwork, reporting and project management


• Design Project: technical specifications, prototyping, testing and optimisation

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Teaching Mode: 4 hrs/wk
Lectures: 2hr/wk
Tutorials: 2hrs/wk

A multi-disciplinary group based design and build project will act as a focus for learning throughout this unit. This will tie together the theoretical topics presented in weekly lectures supported through weekly tutorials. Students will work extensively in groups of 6 for the main design and build project, with online discussion forums and group web resource areas provided to assist students in group work, communication and in broader peer support activities related to the unit.

Assessment

A rich combination of formative and summative assessment items will used to develop and grade your learning outcomes as indicated below. Formative assessment tasks are not marked initially, but they do build towards the final assessment and so form an integral part of your learning. They allow you to review and receive feedback on how well you and your team are learning and working towards the final assessment tasks required in the unit. Final summative assessment includes eportfolio, completed project and final report.Formative assessment includes weekly problem solving and feedback in tutorials to underpin your knowledge and application (theory and practice); a draft project plan submitted for feedback in week 6 with weekly problem solving and feedback in tutorials to underpin your knowledge and application (theory and practice). It also includes peer-team review of your own group project as well as another group's project for feedback prior to handing in your final assessment.

Formative Assessment tasks: These activities are required as part of the learning process to give you feedback and learning support. As such, they are unmarked initially but all contribute to the final assessment tasks.

Formative Assessment 1: Draft Project Plan
Description: Each group will provide a draft project plan for peer group assessment in the Week 6 Tutorial
Learning outcomes: 1, 3 & 4
Weight: N.A. (formative)
Feedback Mechanism: Each group will feedback orally and through written notes on another groups plan.
Due date: Week 6
Individual/group: The draft project plan is group work

Formative Assessment 2: Project Team Report & Review
Description:You will critique your own project team's operation and submit a 1 page summary of the group work for peer group review. Your project team will review the reports of a peer group and produce a summary evaluation on the effectiveness of the group dynamics reported on.
Learning outcomes: 1, 3 & 4
Weight: N.A. (formative)
Feedback Mechanism:Your group will provide oral and written feedback on another group's plan.
Due date: Week 11
Individual/group: The critique of your own team's group operation is individual. The summary evaluation of another team's operation is done as a group.

Formative Assessment Item 3: Problem solving tasks
Description: Weekly tutorials will include problem solving (design related) activities to elaborate or reinforce the materials presented in lectures - which you are expected to take an active role in.
Learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3 & 4
Weight: N.A. (formative)
Feedback Mechanism: Tutors will provide verbal feedback to individuals and worked solutions of numerical problems
Due date: Weeks 2-12
Individual/group Weekly problem solving is individual work.

Assessment name: Project & Report
Description: In groups of 6, you will work together to plan, design, manage and build a multidisciplinary project. Group artefacts will include the project plan and a full report on the design outcome and the design process.
Relates to objectives: 1. Describe and demonstrate the basic processes by which
engineering projects and systems are designed;
2. Use a modelling approach as part of the design and production of a simple system;
3. Communicate with the engineering team and the community at large to investigate and present simple design solutions
4. Demonstrate creative and innovative solutions in how you approach design tasks.
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Weeks 7 & 11

Assessment name: ePortfolio
Description: Throughout the unit you will progressively develop your eportfolio including weekly work summaries, selected tasks from tutorials and homework exercises.
Relates to objectives: 1. Describe and demonstrate the basic processes by which engineering projects and systems are designed;
4. Demonstrate creative and innovative solutions in how you approach design tasks.
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Throughout Semester

Assessment name: Examination (written)
Description: You will solve problems related to the technical aspects of
the design process in a written exam in order to assess your individual knowledge and application of design theory.
Relates to objectives: 1. Describe and demonstrate the basic processes by which engineering projects and systems are designed;
4. Demonstrate creative and innovative solutions in how you approach design tasks.
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Exam 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

Recommended Text
Custom text package comprising:- Dowling, D., et al, Engineering Your Future; Wiley, 2010 and Paul, R., et al, Engineering Reasoning; The Foundation for Critical Thinking Press, 2006.

QUT Blackboard site for unit ENB150

Risk assessment statement

You must complete the Science and Engineering Faculty's General Health and Safety Induction. You will be required to undertake practical sessions in a design studio under the supervision of academic and technical staff of the Faculty. You must complete a Workplace Health and Safety Induction for the design studios and other workspaces available to you.

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: 08-May-2012