Studying engineering at QUT offers unique learning experiences, outstanding research opportunities and real-world experience so that you can become sought after in the global workforce. Study in our award-winning Science and Engineering Centre, which features innovative technologies that support collaborative learning and research.
Units you can study
Choose from the undergraduate or postgraduate options on offer across a range of disciplines. As long as you meet the prerequisites, you can choose subjects from any of our discipline areas to suit your interests.
Most units have a lecture and a tutorial each week. Lectures and tutorials for postgraduate units are usually held in the evenings.
Approved units
All students can study these units, regardless of your academic background. These units will be approved on your QUT study plan after you apply.
Architecture and built environment
ABB101 Design 1: Space and Scale
This unit introduces key principles of spatial design, exploring how space and scale shape experience across architecture, interior, and landscape contexts. Through project-based learning, you will investigate spatial organisation, materiality, proportion, and introductory tectonic and stereotomic approaches while developing design ideas, methods, and representations. This unit introduces professional knowledge aligned with AACA National Standard of Competency for Architects, Performance Criteria 18, relating to the communication and representation of ideas through appropriate modes and media.
ABB102 Design 2: Site and Context
This unit introduces principles and elements of spatial design with a focus on site and context. From a platform of foundational knowledge of design theory and process, you will explore the spatial design practices of architecture, landscape architecture and interior design. You will be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, research, emergent knowledge and critical evaluation in formulating and refining concept design options, including the exploration of the intangible aspects, and tangible formal and spatial qualities of sites and their contexts. Learning in this unit is project-based in collaboration with peers, supported by lectures, readings, practicals and studio activities. You will build from this unit in your discipline-focused second year design units. You will be introduced to professional knowledge that aligns with items 17, 18, 26 and 36 of the AACA national competencies for Architects.
ABB103 Create and Represent: Process
This unit introduces foundational analogue and digital representational processes used in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Through drawing, modelling, and diagramming, you will explore how representation operates not only as a means of communication, but as a method of design thinking. The unit emphasises observation, experimentation, and iteration across multiple scales. Students engage with hand drawing, physical model making, and digital workflows to analyse space, generate ideas, and test formal and spatial propositions. Rather than focusing on resolved outcomes, the unit prioritises design process, decision-making, and the clear communication of development over time. The skills and approaches developed in this unit support concurrent and future design and technology units.
ABB104 Create and Represent: Presentation
This unit provides introductory hybrid presentation skills for communicating design contexts, ideas, intents and propositions for our built and natural environment. It will cover methods and techniques for communicating in two and three dimensions, including visualising and explaining design contexts and ideas as well as drawing, making, rendering, writing, and speaking about design intents and propositions. Through a range of practical exercises and experiments, students will understand how to communicate design concepts and intents to general audiences in different contexts.
ABB105 Spatial Materiality
This unit introduces and explores the materiality of the built environment, focusing on sustainability and technological advances. It will cover several themes of materiality, including physical and psychological properties, extraction and creation processes, positive and negative environmental impacts, and applications for creating sustainable works of architecture, interiors, and landscapes. The unit will consider historical and cultural uses, including historical and contemporary uses by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Through observation, analysis, and reflection, you will understand critical materials and how they can heighten the human experience of spatial environments and have a positive environmental impact through design and application.
ABB106 Create and Represent: Documentation
This unit provides introductory skills of analogue and digital drawing standards for architecture, interiors, and landscapes. Applying conventions including dimensioning, annotation, cross-referencing and scale, students will learn requirements for accurate architectural documentation. Through exploration of orthographic projections students will gain an understanding of drawing conventions for particular audiences and purposes.
ABB107 Small Scale Building and Construction
This unit develops your knowledge, skills and application for small scale buildings and residential construction. The unit introduces current domestic construction techniques and materials that are the core of any construction process. You are taught to read plans and build a house by studying construction theory and legislation, sketching construction details and an introduction to simple BIM models. This first year unit complements other first year units of the course and prepares you for Integrated Construction Management and Low-Rise Construction.
ABB108 Spatial Histories
In this foundation unit you will be introduced to the history of the built environment through the study of global architectures across a wide range of cultures throughout past millennia. The unit will introduce you to the importance of the specific contributions made by architecture, interior design , landscape architecture and urban and regional planning to the global understanding of spatial histories. Through engaging with lectures that introduce you to key concepts, and tutorials that will develop your skills in writing and critical thinking, you will become familiar with the critical moments and paradigm shifts of the built environment through global perspectives and spatial justice theories. This unit provides the foundation from which you will continue to develop an understanding of yourself as a participant in the continuum of the rich cultural tradition of designing and making places for human inhabitation.
ABB123 Sustainability and Design Thinking for the Construction Industry
In this introductory unit, you will gain a big picture view of the strategies and interactions that influence the sustainable development of the built environment. You will also learn about the principles of sustainability and application of them to real-world projects. Using design-thinking, you will consider the end user of built spaces and the social and cultural impacts of decisions at every stage of the project development and planning process. You will analyse problems and consider various innovative solutions. You will learn appropriate terminology and communication strategies to communicate and negotiate with diverse stakeholders including clients, design managers, architects, project managers, urban planners, construction managers and quantity surveyors and cost engineers. You will also learn how and when these roles intersect and how you can have a strategic impact on the project development and planning process.
ABB124 Integrated Construction
This is a foundation unit integrating residential/small commercial construction processes in a collaborative digital environment by utilising building information modelling and related technology. The ability to use building information modelling and related technology in construction processes in a collaborative digital environment involving a project team from different disciplines is important to work in the industry. This unit prepares you for Building Services and other units.
ABB151 Planning and Design Practice
This unit will introduce you to planning and design concepts underlying urban and regional planning, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. The unit draws on real world urban planning examples to develop spatial analysis and visual communication skills which are key to conducting planning analysis and making recommendations. During lectures you will learn about theories and tools relevant for imagining and designing urban spaces. You will then apply this knowledge to cases studies in Australia and/or abroad. Tutorials will help you build the necessary skills to translate your ideas and concepts into cohesive plans, maps and visual aids. These skills are necessary to communicate spatial concepts and will be of value in your academic and professional career.
ABB153 Urban Analysis
This is a foundation unit that will introduce you to various demographic, socioeconomic and physical aspects of cities and to qualitative, quantitative and spatial methods of urban analysis that you will apply in a real-world context. This unit will also help you to develop your communication and collaboration skills using appropriate techniques.
ABB155 Property Law and Land Use Planning
Professionals involved in planning and property require an understanding of how property rights are defined, regulated, and applied within land use planning frameworks. Knowledge of property law, including land tenure, planning controls, and the registration of property interests under the Torrens Title system, is essential for understanding how land can be used and developed. In this unit, you will develop foundational knowledge and skills in property law, land use planning, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). You will be introduced to spatial analysis techniques used in planning and property contexts and apply these to examine land use patterns, planning controls, and site constraints. The unit also develops your ability to communicate property and land use planning concepts clearly in writing and through visual and spatial representations.
ABB206 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
The development of conflict management and negotiation skills is essential for those tasked with shaping the built environment. In this unit, you will acquire skills in effective communication, analysis of disputes and creative problem-solving through active participation in role-playing and reflective activities and intense investigation of real-world conflicts that arise through the development of land. You will learn to manage conflicting stakeholder perspectives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' perspectives. Learning to think about and respond to conflict in a rational manner will prepare you for group work within your studies and into professional practice. Stakeholder Engagement and Planning Law units build on this unit.
ABB211 Architecture Design 3
This unit introduces you to architectural design through residential projects at the scale of the house and small multi-residential development. Building on foundational design learning from first year, you will explore architectural principles, processes, and problem-solving approaches through precedent research and iterative design work. You will investigate the relationships between dwellings, their inhabitants, and the surrounding landscape, and develop coherent design responses to problems of moderate complexity. The unit emphasises clear communication of architectural ideas through drawings, physical models, and presentations, preparing you for more advanced architectural design studios.
ABB212 Architecture Design 4
This unit provides you with an ability to develop architectural designs of reasonable complexity with particular focus on urban space, planning and form through an understanding of site specificities, topography, urban infrastructure and the natural landscape. In this unit you will undertake a small commercial and larger cultural design project. This builds on prior knowledge gained in the first year design studios. You will also be introduced to urban design expanding your previous knowledge of site planning. You will gain new skills in architectural design, urban analysis, and architectural drawing, modelling and visualisation toward the formal synthesis of buildings in urban settings.
ABB213 Modern Architecture
This unit introduces you to modern architecture and its continuing impact on architectural practice today. You will explore key architectural ideas, movements, and project from the late nineteenth century through to the present and examine how architecture has responded to changes in society, technology and culture. Through lectures, readings and tutorial discussions, you will learn how architects have understood and debated modernity, and how these debates continue to shape contemporary architectural thinking. The unit builds on the historical and spatial knowledge developed in ABB105 Spatial Materiality and ABB108 Spatial Histories, and supports your learning in design studios by strengthening your ability to describe, analyse and discuss architecture.
ABB214 Environmental Principles of Architectural Design
This unit familiarises you with the basic design principles and passive strategies for heating, cooling and daylighting necessary for architectural designs that respond to human needs (human comfort), are climate-responsive and energy efficient. Understanding the importance of climate-responsive design provides you with the tools to integrate environmental design principals in buildings that reduces carbon emissions for building operations. In a world of finite resources, understanding the physical phenomenon we have to deal with in design is essential for responsible professionals. Technical and scientific issues are an integral part of design projects. It is a fundamental task of architectural design to achieve maximum comfort requirements of the building occupants while minimising energy consumption and operational carbon emissions.
ABB222 Construction Estimating
An advanced construction management unit focusing on construction cost quantification techniques linking to previous years’ basic work and understanding. It includes an introduction to the interrelationship between professions in estimating and the techniques available to quantify cost; definition of the fundamental elements of cost and the methods of evaluating labour, materials, and equipment; assessing base estimates for major trades; assessment of offers from sub-contractors and implications for the tendering process; first principles estimating; review of an estimate; subsequent negotiations and application of estimating to variations and profit monitoring; outcome performance indicators; and introduction to current industry practice, tools, and technology.
ABB223 Low-Rise Construction
This unit introduces you to theoretical and practical knowledge to understand concepts, principles, construction techniques and procedures relevant to low-rise construction. You will gain skills to critically evaluate projects in terms of buildability, construction methodology, site safety, planning, scheduling techniques and site organisation. The ability to manage and supervise the construction process of a cross section of low-rise construction types such as residential apartment buildings, and commercial and industrial buildings is an essential requirement for construction management and quantity surveying professionals. The knowledge and skills developed in this unit are relevant to construction management and quantity surveying students and builds upon knowledge gained in earlier units such as small-scale construction, and integrated construction, building services, preparing you for further advanced units in structures and high-rise construction.
ABB224 Construction Legislation
This unit introduces the Australian statutory requirements, building laws and legal frameworks that regulate building works and construction activities to provide a broad understanding of how the mandatory technical requirements dictate the selection of the materials, construction elements, facilities and services in buildings. It articulates the potential risks and issues associated with non-conformance and non-compliance and their impact on project cost, time, and quality. The ability to identify, assess and resolve issues of non-compliance in relation to the application of National Construction Code (NCC), relevant building acts, Australian Standards and associated legislative frameworks is critically important to achieve the minimum necessary performance requirements of buildings in relation to health, safety, amenity and sustainability. The knowledge and skills developed in this unit are relevant to building professional practice in all areas of the built environment.
ABB231 Interior Design: Inhabitation
This unit introduces principles and elements of interior design within commercial contexts, focusing on inhabitation. It addresses small-scale spaces on urban sites. You will learn about interior design practices, requiring you to develop a coherent and foundational knowledge of individual and collaborative interior design processes and theory. Learning in this unit is project-based, supported by lectures, readings, workshops, and studio activities. You will also draw on learning from your previous design units. Learning from this unit will enable you to realise more realistic design and project outcomes.
ABB232 Interior Design: Interiority
This unit introduces principles and elements of interior design with a focus on interiority. You will learn about interior design practices, requiring you to develop a coherent and foundational knowledge of interior design process and theory. Learning in this unit is project-based, supported by lectures, readings, practicals, and studio activities. You will draw on the learnings from previous design studio units and build on this unit’s learnings in future design studio units.
ABB233 Interior Access and Assemblies
This unit develops competency in the technical communication of commercial construction and detailing of interior environments, in particular exploring two dimensional and three dimensional digital drafting conventions. You will learn about the application of building codes and standards with an emphasis on interior construction assemblies and accessibility. These are fundamental skills required by a professional interior designer. This unit links to other core interior design units by expanding your awareness of the commercial sector.
ABB235 Colour and Light
This unit develops a broad and coherent understanding of colour - its psychology and complexity, and interdependence with light, in the context of design theory and application in practice. As such, it introduces you to the attributes, influences and principles of implications of colour and light within the built environment. It develops broad knowledge and the skills to apply theoretical concepts relative to colour and light in the creation of interior spatial projects. It focuses on the human response to colour and light through an understanding of the histories, theories, and methods of application relevant to two and three-dimensional environments.
ABB241 Landscape Design 3: Planting Design
This second‑year landscape architectural design unit builds on your introductory‑level design visualisation skills and knowledge of design principles. An understanding of plant species, characteristics and design considerations is critical to the work of landscape architects, and this unit introduces you to the basic principles and processes of planting design. You will engage in a series of design processes to develop knowledge of plant classification, plant forms and functions, the effects of physical conditions on planting design, the importance of plants for sustainability, site history and character, and the implications of plant selection, procurement and maintenance. You will apply this knowledge to plan, develop and communicate a site‑based planting design using industry‑standard communication conventions. The knowledge and skills acquired in this unit will inform your work in your ongoing design units and in Landscape Ecologies.
ABB242 Landscape Design 4: People and Place
This second-year landscape architectural design unit introduces you to theories, principles and approaches to contemporary place-making through the critical examination of how people perceive, are impacted by, and interact with their environments, both individually and collectively. It builds your introductory-level design visualisation skills and knowledge of design principles, exploring theories and practices of environment and behaviour, place-making and environmental psychology. You will apply these to first analyse a project site and context, and then plan, develop and communicate a design proposition using the site planning conventions. This unit advances your knowledge and skills by guiding you to research and apply design theories and concepts in the creation of place- and people-responsive designs, which will inform your work in ongoing design units. This unit is complementary to ABB202 Design Psychology and students are encouraged to enrol in both.
ABB243 Landscape Design 5: Design and Documentation
This third-year landscape design unit combines both design and advanced technical knowledge and skills, building on knowledge and skills developed in your previous design and technology units. This unit guides you through a high resolution design exploration to the development of a landscape architecture-specific documentation set commensurate to those produced in the profession for landscape construction contractors and other consultants. It encourages you to develop a greater level of skill in design resolution at a range of spatial scales and independent application of technical landscape design specificity, supporting your ongoing landscape design learning and preparing you for final year design studios and professional practice after graduation.
ABB244 Landscape Design 6: Urban Ecologies
More people are living in cities now than ever before, intensifying our unsustainable use of resources, increasing carbon emissions, reducing biodiversity, and increasing social inequities and negative psychological effects. In this third-year design unit you will explore contemporary ecological perspectives on how we occupy and design our urban landscapes such as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Ecological Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism, and Design for Social Justice. You will also learn about applications such as urban farming, constructed ecologies, green/blue infrastructure and disruptive urbanist interventions. You will apply this knowledge to research, develop and communicate a design proposition for positive urban eco-social change. The knowledge and skills you acquire will advance those from your previous design units, complement learning in your Environmental Planning and Landscape Ecologies units, and prepare you for complex, advanced-level design units.
ABB245 Landscape Histories and Criticism
This second-year landscape architecture unit builds on your introductory-level design knowledge of spatial histories. In it you will explore and critique landscape histories and design precedents to contemporary landscape architecture. Drawing on critical literature and frameworks for historical and design critique learnt in class, you will investigate how environmental, social and cultural histories have shaped landscapes and our environmental and cultural heritage, and how landscape architecture has responded through time. You will apply this knowledge to research and critique works of landscape architecture within a social, cultural and environmental context, communicating these in visual and written assessments. The knowledge and critical thinking skills learnt in this unit form a solid basis for your ongoing exploration and development in landscape architectural units.
ABB246 Landscape Ecologies
This unit builds on principles learnt in your Planting Design unit. You will learn about and apply theories and methods of landscape ecology and restoration ecology in combination with an introduction to the hydrological and geomorphological processes creating landforms and underpinning ecological systems. This unit expands your conception of landscape as site-based to understand it as a dynamic web of systems, including a focus on the role of vegetation within these systems. You will first demonstrate an understanding of these base theories, through synthesising and analysing information then apply them in the development and communication of an ecological restoration plan to improve a specific site’s ecological wellbeing. This unit complements learning undertaken in your Environmental Planning and Urban Ecologies units, and the understanding of landscape systems you will develop across these prepares you for your advanced-level studio units.
ABB247 Landform, Technology and Techniques
This second-year landscape technology unit provides introductory landscape technology principles and processes of landform manipulation as part of the landscape architectural design process and practice. It introduces essential techniques, including landform grading design for drainage, circulation, and to create platforms. It introduces analogue and digital moulding of landforms, expanding on visualisation skills developed in the Create and Represent: Visualisation for Documentation unit. Knowledge gained in this unit will inform your work in your ongoing design studio units, landscape architectural materials, constructs, and documentation units.
ABB248 Landscape Materiality and Constructs
This second-year landscape technology unit builds on your introduction to the principles and processes of landscape construction, introducing landscape structural theories, material properties, design and construction techniques, principles and processes, and the legislative environment governing landscape construction. You will critically evaluate, explore and apply appropriate sustainable materials and construction techniques to landscape systems and communicate a detailed landscape design proposition using industry-standard communication conventions. The knowledge and skills gained in this unit will inform your work in the advanced design unit, Design and Document.
ABB252 Transport Planning
This unit introduces you to transport systems in selected cities around the world, facilitating an investigation into schemes and policies for promoting sustainable transport. The unit also assists you to integrate transport modelling theory with a set of analytical approaches which are frequently used in transport planning practice, including revealed and stated preference approaches. You will learn about how to design data collection instruments, analyse transport-related data, and communicate results effectively.
ABB253 Site Planning
This unit will enable you to develop an understanding of the processes, techniques, and skills involved in the development of a site. This capacity is essential for planning professionals, whether they work in the public or the private sector, and is integral to basic development assessment related problems. This unit further develops the skills that you have gained in the first year of your degree by giving you a grounding in the planning regulations and technical skills related to development. Through the use of a development brief you will learn, practice and apply site planning processes, techniques and skills on a selected project site from initial site appraisal through to the submission of a development application. This unit establishes capacities at an individual site level that will be further enhanced throughout the course at a variety of different scales in different applications.
ABB254 Stakeholder Engagement
In this unit you will learn about the theory, principles and methods for effective stakeholder engagement in planning processes, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stakeholders. You will be introduced to when and how to use different engagement methods to address planning conflicts, and gain important practical experience in stakeholder engagement.
ABB255 Planning Law
In this unit you will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of the basic political, policy, and legislation essential for planning professionals, whether they work in the public or the private sector, and the capacity to apply this understanding to basic development assessment related problems. Your capacity to understand the law as it relates to the regulation of development and the planning of infrastructure is integral to being a built environment professional. Your grounding in the legal framework surrounding planning and development is an important aspect of professional development, particularly with respect to employment that requires skills related to development assessment, and urban policy development.
ABB302 Project Management
Project Management is the overall planning, control and coordination of a project, from inception to completion, aimed at meeting a client's requirements to complete the project on time, within budget and to the client's quality, safety and environmental standards. This unit introduces you to project management for built environment projects, which includes an overview of the framework, processes and critical knowledge areas of project management. You will develop a project plan to manage the project through its life cycle and learn to identify and engage stakeholders, monitor project costs, and mitigate project risks and opportunities. You will need to develop these core skills to be an effective project manager. Case studies will be used to embed key learnings in a real-world context. The knowledge and skills acquired in this unit are particularly relevant to architectural design and construction management and related majors.
ABB303 Environmental Planning
This unit increases your understanding of environmental issues, environmental policy frameworks, and strategies that support decision-making and problem solving in the face of uncertainty. You will learn about the multi-faced aspects of environmental issues and the multi-scaled policy frameworks that guide ethical, and responsive practice. You will build on your existing spatial and non-spatial analysis skills and work in diverse teams to analyse a complex real-world environmental sustainability problem and identify integrated recommendations to address it. The knowledge and skills learnt in this unit will inform your work in advanced design and project units as well as in professional practice.
ABB311 Architecture Design 5
In this studio unit, you will learn how to engage with building types to aid you in the design of architectures of intermediate complexity. Through a series of formative exercises, you will explore how to adapt typological precedents to meet the specific needs of peculiar programs, as well as relevant legislative requirements. You will critically assess composition rules, tectonics, materiality and aesthetics to nurture your own personal style and language. You will gain an in-depth understanding of the relationship between site, type, structure, and legislation, undertaking your own independent research and project development. You will advance your communication skills, engaging with different levels of detail and different media. At the end of ABB311, you will be able to operate as a reflective practitioner with a good understanding of building types and composition rules as tools to address the current societal, economic, and environmental challenges of our times.
ABB312 Architecture Design 6
This unit will assist you to develop more complex architectural design skills focusing on ethical and sustainable design solutions and practice. This requires the synthesis of issues, ideas, knowledge, and techniques of architectural design as a holistic practice. This unit also advances understanding of the interdependencies of social, cultural, economic, and environmental dimensions at local and global levels, which are crucial to sustainable design of human settlement. You will synthesise and integrate knowledge and skills from various domains of knowledge into a major project(s) in an urban context. As part of the research and learning focus in the course, emphasis will be placed on the exploration and application of concepts of sustainability in the design of multi-residential and mixed used building types in local and international contexts.
ABB314 Integrated Architectural Communication
This unit develops visual communication skills previously acquired with emphasis on the ability to communicate technical intentions. Architects recognise that visualisation or communication of process, decisions and outcomes is crucial. To date, you know how to effectively communicate your architectural intentions using both analogue and digital means, skills primarily intended for the communication of design and technical aspects of buildings. However, the ability to communicate technical intentions is equally important. This unit integrates both these aspects through technical communication and documentation skills using Building Information Modelling (BIM).
ABB321 Highrise Construction
This unit covers the construction of high-rise buildings – buildings above 12-storeys high. The major differences from other buildings lie in the impact of increased height on design and construction processes, with structural systems, services and safety being the most significant. In this unit you will learn about the below topics:• Demolition;• Temporary works;• Excavations and foundations;• Retention and shoring systems;• Engineering of structural components;• Formwork systems;• Selection of construction methods and equipment;• Interaction of building components, systems and services;• Common building faults and rectification;• External cladding systems;• Construction planning for high rise construction;• Using generative AI to inform the construction process. This unit builds upon the principles learnt in Small-scale Building Construction, Low-Rise Construction, and Building Services.
ABB331 Interior Design: Intersection
This intermediate unit provides you with the opportunity to undertake a Community-focused ‘real world’ design project . You will develop design methodology and undertake an informed design exploration; critically analyse and generate solutions to unpredictable and complex problems. You will refine your written, verbal and visual communication skills to present design processes and solutions. You will develop your critical knowledge of contemporary social contexts within actual built spaces, focusing on ‘process’ and ‘solution’. The projects will address the role and relevance of research, while applying theoretical, technical, ethical and legislative constraints. Through semi-directed learning and studio delivery, the projects allow for the exploration of interior environments with an increased level of complexity and resolution. You will build on learnings in ABB231 and ABB232 and prepare for the capstone units of ABH431 and ABH432.
ABB333 Interior Systems
This advanced unit aims to develop an understanding of the relationship between design, environmental quality, access and egress and technology while developing your technical communication skills. It introduces a greater complexity in commercial interior construction, services integration and code compliance while also developing your technical documentation skills. The unit links directly to your previous studies in ABB233 and provides the necessary knowledge, skills and application required to document the construction of your designs through all of your core units. This unit sits at the developmental stage of your course and provides you with opportunities to develop your knowledge of services integration, digital drafting and documentation requirements in a commercial workplace application with an emphasis on meeting codes and standards relating to fire safety, access and egress.
ABB335 Materials, Products and Processes
This unit explores the complex nature of materials and products to enhance bespoke interior design project outcomes. Your knowledge of materials and products relevant to interior design applications will be developed with a focus on sustainable and advanced manufacturing processes. This unit introduces appropriate digital design, documentation and fabrication tools to communicate material research and understanding to relevant project stakeholders. Specifying materials, products and processes for innovative use, is a fundamental process in the delivery of a creative interior design project.
ABH322 Cost Planning and Control
This unit applies the fundamental principles of cost management including design and construction cost planning (pre-construction) and project controls (during construction), including important techniques in managing project cost in the context of working closely in multidisciplinary teams. It covers cost management in different types of projects.
ABH323 Contract Administration
This unit develops your knowledge and skills in the administration of construction type contracts, allowing you to apply the developed skills to all types of contracts used in the building and construction industry. This unit represents one of the core applications for construction managers, quantity surveyors and cost engineers and will allow you to gain an appreciation of the commercial implications of contract administration. You will study administrative implications for both parties to the contract for both head contracts and subcontracts that can be applied to contracts of all types at all levels. You will draw on work undertaken in the earlier years of the course such as Commercial Construction and prepares you for the final semester projects.
ABH324 Modern Construction Business
This unit explores the role of construction firms as business entities in the construction industry. This unit introduces the business, social and economic environments in which construction firms operate, and the industry-specific challenges of growing and managing a socially responsible, forward thinking and profitable construction business. The ability to develop a business plan to competently guide business direction and growth is a core skill needed to navigate the dynamic and competitive nature of construction business. Key elements of the business plan include a competent analysis of the market, identifying and engaging key stakeholders, financial analysis, mitigating business risks and opportunities, and build a caring and inclusive corporate culture. The knowledge and skills acquired in this unit are relevant to construction management and related majors.
ABH332 Interior Design: Interaction
This unit provides you with the opportunity to undertake a ‘real world’ design project in a Workplace scenario. You will further develop design methodology and undertake an informed design exploration; critically analyse and generate solutions to unpredictable and complex problems. You will refine your written, verbal and visual communication skills to present design processes and solutions. You will develop your critical knowledge of contemporary social contexts within actual built spaces, focusing on ‘process’ and ‘solution’. The projects will address the role and relevance of research, while applying theoretical, technical, ethical and legislative constraints. Through semi-directed learning and studio delivery, the projects allow for the exploration of interior environments with an increased level of complexity and resolution so you can build on earlier learnings from your degree.
ABH334 Design in Society
This unit addresses the relationships between design and everyday socio-cultural practices enabling you to apply this knowledge in contemporary designed environments analysis such as work and exhibiting environments and service scapes. It provides critical, theoretical and analytical opportunities to develop knowledge of the way the designed world intersects with social life. These insights are crucial to the capacity of design to respond in an evidenced-based and socially responsible way to the designed world as lived and experienced. The unit reviews theories and case studies to illuminate the injustices between design and everyday practice across cultures and time and provides an opportunity to apply these critical insights in an analysis of a designed environment. It focuses on inclusion and the socio-cultural aspects of design and complements the unit, ABB202 Design Psychology, while also helping consolidate your final year learning in preparation for professional practice.
ABH442 Landscape Design 7: Resilient Landscapes
This fourth-year design unit builds on your understanding of landscape systems developed in your Landscape Ecologies and Environmental Planning units. It advances your understanding of resilience theory, and its implications for landscape appraisal and design. This understanding is critical to respond in an ecologically, socially, culturally, and economically responsible manner to ecosystems in crisis. In this unit you will learn about resilience theory including and understanding of system thresholds, anti-fragility, adaptability and transformability. You will apply this knowledge in the research, development and communication of a design proposition in response to a current issue within a selected landscape system. The knowledge and skills you acquire in this unit consolidate and advance those from your previous design units, and will prepare you to display professional and ethical judgement and initiative as a landscape architect.
ABN401 Research Strategies in the Built Environment
In this unit, you will examine how research informs practice across the built environment disciplines, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, construction management, quantity surveying, and urban and regional planning. You will develop critical thinking, information retrieval, and synthesis skills necessary for professional, evidence-based practice. You will explore qualitative and quantitative research methods for data collection and analysis, with concepts introduced through lectures and applied primarily through tutorial activities, where you will develop literature reviews, research questions, and research plans that support subsequent research and design projects. This unit is taught concurrently to Bachelor of Built Environment (Honours) and Master of Architecture students, with learning activities and assessments aligned to AQF Level 8 expectations appropriate to both cohorts.
ABN402 Sustainable Urban Design
This unit explores the principles and integrated approaches that shape urban design as a creative and problem-solving discipline. It focuses on enhancing the quality of urban spaces and spatial experiences while reinforcing sustainability, resilience, and cultural diversity. You will engage with complex urban challenges through a design lens, exploring how different perspectives inform urban design practices and spatial outcomes. The unit also examines the role of emerging technologies in shaping contemporary urban environments, equipping you with the tools to integrate digital innovations into design processes. Through key principles, frameworks, and methodologies, you will develop the skills necessary to create responsive, inclusive, and sustainable urban spaces.
ABN403 Transdisciplinary Design: Communities
This is a studio-based design unit, with a cohort comprising students of both the Masters of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Honours) programs. Your skills in designing highly resolved design propositions that address critical real-world scenarios will be developed via intensive collaborative processes within the design studio. Here, transdisciplinary collaborations and industry-informed scenarios will set the framework for project-based speculations that investigate and engage with and across different programs, scales, cultures, contexts, technologies, and environments. You will conduct design-led research while working jointly with others from outside your discipline area to create new conceptual, theoretical, methodological and translational propositions that integrate and move beyond conventional discipline-specific boundaries and approaches.
ABN405 Digital Collaboration & BIM
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is having a significant impact on the AECO industry as its use gradually expands: Improved access to data and analytical tools is allowing more detailed and wider ranging studies that are improving the quality of the built environment; The development of standardised libraries of objects are improving consistency in documentation; Interoperability between software tools supports higher levels of collaboration and improves risk management; This unit exposes you to the important methodologies, technologies and software underpinning BIM collaboration through simulating project teams working on real world problems. This results in authentic and proven design proposals and construction choices.
ABN412 Master Studio One
This is a studio-based unit in which you design architectural projects. The studio will focus on developing high-level abilities to rationally test and experiment through architectural design projects to explore cultures, contexts, technologies and environments. It requires a high level of design resolution in its projects as well as the practice of a research-led design process. The unit uses developmental exercises to enhance student perceptions of the built environment in a project-based learning environment. The architectural aspects of design theory, sustainability, sociology, history, and critique all form parts of the unit content.
ABN414 Advanced Building Science
This unit aims to develop an understanding of low-energy and high-comfort architectural design solutions for large-scale buildings. This hands-on unit addresses natural means of control of indoor conditions for the achievement of thermal and visual comfort of building occupants with a focus on the evaluation of design solutions through simulation. It explores the role of building science and simulation tools in the design of high-performing buildings. Buildings are large energy consumers, most of which come from their operations. In a world of finite resources, architects must understand the environmental impacts of their design decisions, considering all technical and scientific issues involved to achieve maximum comfort while minimising energy consumption. This unit further develops scientific knowledge associated with architectural practice and, in particular, skills required for designing and evaluating large-scale projects dealing with environmental design.
ABN511 Master Studio Two
This is a studio-based design unit, in which you will develop a complex project for a research community through a process of design-led research, brief development and detailed design. Your skills in designing highly resolved design propositions that address critical real-world scenarios will be developed via intensive collaborative and individual work within the design studio. With a focus on designing for the communities that form around research and knowledge transfer activities, you will conduct your own design-led research to create new conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and translational propositions that move beyond conventional architectural approaches.
ABN513 Contemporary Architectural Theory
This unit explores the contemporary landscape of architectural thought from the late 1960s until the present. It will consider how architecture has been located in interdisciplinary terms as well as through its own disciplinary problems. It will locate the world of ideas in conversation with concrete architectural production, as an active agent through which the discipline of architecture responds to the world in which architecture is practiced, debated and defended. The unit serves as a platform for developing a critical vocabulary and a suite of ideas through which to advance your own design practice and your positions as an architect. It enhances your experience in design studio by fostering the intellectual skills needed to participate in global architectural debate and to make your own design projects theoretically rigorous.
PMN503 Managing Projects as an Integrated System
This unit explores systems thinking and a systems approach towards all project performance domains. Understanding of a systems approach will help project managers to have an integrated understanding of the project. This will achieve better outcomes and value for the customers and project stakeholders.
PMN504 Managing Project Teams
This unit will provide you with the fundamental skills and knowledge to manage internal stakeholders, and to appreciate the role and contribution of the Project Manager in facilitating outcomes critical for the success of a project. It will specifically focus on the competencies required to effectively lead, motivate and manage individuals within the project team. The unit provides an understanding of how to undertake negotiation and conflict resolution, and recognise individual and cultural differences and different communication styles appearing in project teams.
PMN505 Project Procurement
This unit identifies the optimal procurement strategy for a project from a client’s perspective taking a strategic approach and positions procurement in the project lifecycle and provides the detail required to be an effective client or tenderer for projects. Further, this unit considers project procurement from a contractor and contract management perspective recognising that procurement is a strategic and systematic process of acquiring the necessary goods, services, and resources required to successfully initiate, execute, and complete a project. This vital aspect of project management involves planning, sourcing, negotiating, and managing relationships with suppliers and vendors to ensure that the project's objectives are met within specified timelines, budget constraints, and quality standards. Effective project management procurement involves a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics, risk assessment, contract management, and stakeholder collaboration.
PMN601 Managing Project Performance
This unit will provide you with relevant tools and techniques to planning and management of key project performance measures and indicators such as time, cost, budget and resources. You will be exposed to modern project performance domains, principles, frameworks and practices. The changing dynamics of projects and the environment they are undertaken is constantly changing. As such establishing appropriate metrics, baselines and thresholds for expected performance and measurement, analysis and evaluation is critical to ensure that the project is progressing as planned, timely and appropriate actions are undertaken to keep project performance on track, and maintain acceptable performance.
PMN602 Navigating Project Organisations in a Global Context
This unit will provide you with advanced skills and knowledge to manage organisational and people issues required to achieve outcomes critical for the success of projects in national and global contexts. The unit will focus on the aspects of project governance, organisational culture, organisational development and change, high performance teams and leadership in organisations. It will provide the understanding of effectively leading and managing project teams and their performance while managing constraints in time, cost and quality, as well as social, political and environmental influences.
PMN604 Aligning Strategy and Projects in Global Organisations
This unit explores the detailed links between the organisational business strategy and the projects, programs and portfolios delivered by global organisations. It teaches you how to use tools and techniques to extract maximum value from the project, program and portfolio and execute strategies for delivering optimal benefit for the global organisations. This unit links business strategy theories with the project, program and portfolio practices.
PMN607 Strategic Risk Management
This unit takes a strategic approach to risk in the project and business lifecycles. A broader range of risk management frameworks are now available and clients and providers need to understand the features of each before any implementation. The knowledge and skills developed in this unit contribute to effective identification, analysis, evaluation and treatment of risk to the project and the organisation in an integrated and strategic way. This unit builds on a sound understanding of risk and opportunities in projects and programs to inform decision-making and the project and program risk allocation between stakeholders.
PMN609 Leading Emerging Trends in Project Management
Understanding emerging trends and innovations in project management is of paramount importance in today's dynamic and competitive project and business environments. These trends offer valuable insights into evolving technologies, methodologies, and market demands that can significantly impact project outcomes. By staying informed and embracing innovation, project managers can enhance their ability to adapt to changing circumstances, optimise processes for efficiency, and effectively address complex challenges. Moreover, a proactive and evidence-based research approach to adopting emerging trends enables organisations to maintain a competitive edge and deliver projects that align with the evolving needs of clients and stakeholders. Ultimately, this understanding empowers project management professionals to lead with foresight, navigate uncertainties, and undertake innovation research to evaluate outcomes that drive both individual and organisational success.
PMN610 Project Management Principles
This unit introduces project management as a dynamic profession that plays a pivotal role in effectively planning, organising, and executing tasks to achieve specific goals within a defined timeframe and budget. The ability to manage projects efficiently has become a crucial skill for organisations and individuals alike. This unit focusses on project management essentials, principles, methodologies, and tools that empower project managers to deliver projects successfully. The is a gateway into the fundamental concepts of project management, exploring key areas such as project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and project closure. Further, important aspects of cultural competence and indigenous perspectives are woven throughout the content and reinforced in the assessment items. By mastering these essentials, you will enhance your ability to drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and achieve consistent project success in diverse industries and sectors.
UXH420 Risk Management in the Energy and Resources Sectors
This fourth year unit in the Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering course builds on the basic knowledge, skills and understanding already gained in UXB120 and UXH321. The unit is set within the real world scenario of the Heavy Engineering/ Capital intensive/Resources sectors, and relates to facilities management and procurement within the Engineering and Construction Management cost controls (capital expenditure/project controls) and procurement areas. It links to work previously undertaken in 'Introduction to Heavy Engineering Sector Technology', 'Cost Planning & Controls' and 'Contract Administration' and provides opportunities to undertake further research within the final year capstone projects. The learning in this unit is provided by study and practice using real world case-studies and tools and techniques, that simulate the challenges, problems, issues and solutions that students will face in the QS & CE practice in the workplace.
UXH431 Urban Planning Practice
Urban planners collaborate within project teams to find and implement solutions to complex contemporary issues. In this unit, we will simulate a planning consultancy with a local government client to provide strategic directions to guide the future development of a specific geographic area. You will work in small groups as a strategic planning consultancy and develop a strategic plan to meet the requirements of the local government. As final year urban and regional planning students, you have developed the technical and communicative skills required to undertake this work throughout your course and professional practice placements but will need to invest significant time and collaborate effectively to produce high-quality deliverables.
Civil and environmental engineering
ABB100 Introduction to Building Structures
This unit introduces structural and non-structural materials and systems for the development of constructed entities such as buildings and bridges. You will learn about the most common types of materials (timber, building boards, fibre composites, concrete, masonry, metals, ceramics, glass and granular materials) used to create modern constructed entities are introduced, and their basic properties, behaviour, strength, durability, suitability, sustainability, limitations, and applications. The unit also introduces the statics and other relevant concepts in physics at an elementary level. The unit develops a strong foundation for architectural design and construction management disciplines and further studies on the designing of structures.
ABB226 Building Structures
This is an intermediate level unit addressing the basic principles of structural engineering applicable to building structures. Quantitative and qualitative techniques are used as the basis for learning simple structural design. In this course, you must have the ability to understand structural equibrium and have a sound understanding of how a structure achieves structural stability through load paths. Furthermore, you are required to interpret engineering designs and convert the designer's intent and components specified, into a project. This demands proper understanding of structural actions and basic design and analysis of simple structures to ensure economy and safety. This unit introduces these concepts and builds upon knowledge of materials from ABB100 Introduction to Building Structures. It develops the learning skills to manage increasingly complex projects in later units.
EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems
Civil engineers undertake site investigations and project assessments as part of infrastructure planning and management activities that meet stakeholders' needs. This 1st year unit introduces you to knowledge and skills bases that are used in these activities. You will learn road network planning, design and management bridges and bridge approaches design and construction, public utility plant management, engineering governance, and transport facility design and development. You will continue to learn about ethics, cultural awareness, and sustainable development practices and how they underpin professional work. With embedded support for learning you will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This introductory unit draws upon your learning in EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice and integrates your learning with EGB124 Engineering for the Environment. All units in your Civil Engineering major will build upon this unit.
EGB124 Engineering for the Environment
Civil Engineers are at the forefront of designing and implementing changes to the environment to enhance community well-being. However, it is also critical to manage the consequential environmental impacts arising from these activities and to achieve sustainable development. Therefore, understanding the interconnectedness of environmental systems are critical for civil engineers. This includes a fundamental understanding of the concepts of resilience, pollution mitigation, community engagement, and meeting legislative, regulatory and professional practice requirements. Students will learn the fundamentals about how environmental systems function and challenges imposed on the environment as a result of human activities. This unit draws on your learnings in EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice and integrates with EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems. Your learning in all units in your Civil Engineering major will benefit from the knowledge acquired from this unit.
EGB270 Civil Engineering Materials
Civil engineers in the fields of structural, geotechnical and construction engineering use knowledge and skills bases in civil engineering materials that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs for safe, economical and sustainable infrastructure. You will learn core concepts of civil engineering materials science, and acquisition, manufacturing and testing of materials such as concrete, steel, timber and soils, and factors that influence their properties and application in real-world infrastructure projects at introduced level. You will be introduced to common and advanced civil engineering materials used in the Australian and global contexts. You will further develop your professional skills, in particular communication and reflection towards developing your professional engineering competency. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB121 Engineering Mechanics. Structural, geotechnical, and construction engineering units will build upon this unit.
EGB272 Traffic and Transport Engineering
Transport engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that focuses upon safe, efficient and environmentally sustainable mobility of people and goods. Its activities include the analysis, design, planning, operation, management and control of multimodal transport systems. Transport engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the fundamentals of road traffic and transport engineering, which includes traffic flow theory, unsignalised intersection analysis, signalised intersection analysis and design, and travel demand modelling. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems and EGB103 Computing and Data for Engineers. EGH472 Advanced Highway and Pavement Engineering, and EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice, will build upon this unit.
EGB273 Principles of Construction
Construction engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that focuses on turning civil engineering infrastructure designs into reality. Construction engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this second year unit to select and implement methods of civil construction. You will learn about site investigation, environmental management, construction planning and project management techniques, earthworks, equipment selection for various civil infrastructure types. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This intermediate unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.
EGB274 Environmentally Sustainable Design
The knowledge and skills associated with site investigation, analysis and planning for sustainable development are essential for civil and environmental engineers, as is the ability to work within multidisciplinary teams to achieve balanced solutions on social, economic, cultural and environmental outcomes. This sustainable development design project requires you to undertake typical site investigations, site analyses and conceptual designs for a selected site covering sustainability issues in the following areas: Sustainable Transport, Land Planning including assessment of the surrounding areas, Water & Wastewater Management and Environmental Impact Assessment. This unit extends and applies the knowledge developed in design based engineering units to important issues such as site analysis, site investigation, site planning, development assessment, environmental management, water quality, pollution prevention and control, and resource and waste management.
EGB275 Structural Mechanics
Structural engineering focuses on analysis and design of safe, economical and sustainable structures to meet stakeholders' needs. In this intermediate unit, you will learn moment distribution, introduction to structural analysis software, principle of virtual work for deflections, transformation of stresses and Mohr's Circle, torsion, shear flow, shear centre, unsymmetrical bending, principle of compatibility, and combined axial loading and bending of structural elements and systems. Strong emphasis is given on digital practices and technologies in structural engineering. With embedded support for learning, you will further develop your mathematical skills in structural engineering applications, and professional skills in engineering communication. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB121 Engineering Mechanics and MZB127 Engineering Mathematics and Statistics, and provides foundation for all structural engineering units in the Civil Engineering major.
EGB371 Engineering Hydraulics
Hydraulic engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that focuses on design, construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure including dams, pumping stations, water and wastewater treatment plants, water distribution systems and sewer collection systems. Hydraulic engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn about the engineering applications of water and other fluids through pipe flow, energy loss in pipes, pipe systems, water distribution systems and open channel flow hydraulics. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems and EGB124 Engineering for the Environment. EGH471 Advanced Water Engineering will build upon this unit.
EGB373 Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical engineering is prominent field of civil engineering that focuses on design, construction, andmaintenance of foundations of structures (such as buildings, bridges), soil and water retaining structures(retaining walls and earth dams), soil slopes, road and runway pavements, and buried structures includingpipes and tunnels. Geotechnical engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit tomeet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the properties of geomaterials, geotechnical engineering principlesand theories, and their applications. You will further develop your personal and professional skills incommunication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB270 Civil EngineeringMaterials. EGH473 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering will build upon this unit.
EGB375 Design of Concrete Structures
Structural engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that includes a focus on concrete structures, which are the most common form of construction worldwide. Structural engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to design concrete structures to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the core concepts of the design principles and methods of the reinforced and prestressed concrete and their application to structural elements such as the beams, slabs, columns and footings of buildings. You will learn the essential principles of safety, economy, sustainability and constructability in design of concrete structures at a developed level. You will continue to develop personal and professional attributes, especially communication skills in design. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB121 Engineering Mechanics, EGB270 Civil Engineering Materials, and EGB275 Structural Mechanics. EGH475 Advanced Concrete Structures will build upon this unit.
EGB376 Steel Design
Structural engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that includes a focus on the design, construction, operation and maintenance of steel structures such as buildings, bridges, cranes, and transmission towers. Structural engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the behaviour, analysis and limit states design of steel structural elements such as tension and compression members, beams, and their connections. You will develop skills to analyse and design simple steel structures including continuous beams and trusses. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB270 Civil Engineering Materials and EGB275 Structural Mechanics. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.
EGB382 Construction Methodologies
Success in civil engineering construction projects is dependent on the selection of correct construction procedures matched with the correct equipment and ancillary temporary work. To do this, a construction engineer must have command of a range of options and the judgement to integrate these options for optimal outcomes for all stakeholders. This unit covers the fundamentals of project execution and start up of civil engineering projects. The subjects to be covered will include: site investigation, survey, identification and provision of temporary facilities, selection of equipment, material management, methods of construction, environmental protection practices, workplace health and safety requirements. The emphasis of the content will be on heavy, civil engineering projects existing or relevant to Queensland with a focus on environmental concerns and safety.
EGB386 Design of Masonry Structures
This unit deals with structural design of masonry buildings according to relevant Australian Standards. Masonry construction is among options for building low to medium rise residential and industrial structures. This unit introduces the principles of safe and economical design of unreinforced and/or reinforced masonry walls to resist relevant structural actions from earthquake and gravity forces. In addition, Fire and Durability requirements are implemented in design.
EGB475 Advanced Structural Analysis
This is an advanced structural engineering unit in which topics that are regularly used by structural engineers as well as some topics that become useful for special cases will be covered. Using knowledge from previous years, you will develop and present the computer based stiffness method for analyzing structures in order to design them. Dynamics and vibration of structures will be introduced with applications to buildings. Structures collapse when loaded beyond their capacity. The predictable pattern of structural failure through the formation of plastic hinges (or failure points) will be treated. The application of dynamics and vibration to structural health monitoring and damage detection and to seismic engineering will be covered. The Australian Standard AS1170.4 for seismic analysis will be used in the studies. On completion of this unit, students will be well prepared to face the challenges of a structural engineer.
EGB476 Advanced Steel Design
This is an advanced level civil engineering unit that provides the required knowledge and skills for the analysis, design and construction of steel buildings. Building on the structural, material and construction units of previous semesters (EGB121, EGB270, EGB275, EGB376), it provides detailed knowledge, skills and experience in determining the wind effects on buildings, structural modelling, analysis and design of steel framed buildings and all their components by engaging in a single storey steel portal frame/truss building project on a real site. The ability to analyse and design steel buildings considering safety, economy, sustainability and constructability is a requirement for a range of graduate civil engineering positions. This unit is the second one in the civil engineering course that provides the knowledge and skills required for this purpose. It will prepare you to pursue a career in structures and/or construction.
EGB482 Contracting and Construction Regulations
A construction engineer must have an appreciation of the commercial environment in which they work. The law and particularly the law relating to construction has a significant impact upon that commercial environment. This unit will provide a framework and sufficient detail to increase your awareness of how the law governs you and your organisation's actions within the industry. In addition, you will understand the operation of a construction contract and the claims and disputes commonly associated with the administration of such a contract.The lectures provide a solid foundation required for Construction Engineers, and embedded in the tutorials are discussions of real-world cases of the past month to highlight the importance of understanding the impacts of day-to-day decisions in the world of construction.
EGH471 Advanced Water Engineering
Water engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this advanced unit to analyse surface water systems including rivers, creeks and reservoirs, and to undertake design of related hydraulic structures including bridges, culverts and dams. You will continue to develop your knowledge of water engineering in the context of technical, practical and stakeholder perspectives. You will learn the hydrologic cycle and its applications in runoff estimations, probability and risk based flood analysis, estimating design floods, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and water sensitive urban design concepts. You will work together with peers on assessing catchments for their hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics, modelling floods using software tools and designing simple hydraulic structures. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems, EGB124 Engineering for the Environment, and EGB371 Engineering Hydraulics.
EGH472 Advanced Highway and Pavement Engineering
Road planning and design and pavement design are prominent civil engineering activities for the safe, efficient and sustainable movement of people and goods. Civil engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn road design, road safety, alignment and coordination, road drainage, basic intersection design, and road pavement design. You will further develop your personal and professional attributes, especially independent and collaborative strategies in team working, including reflective practice, to manage a civil infrastructure planning and design project in a timely manner with a focus on delivering outcomes. Emphasis is placed on your awareness of risk, ethics and socio-cultural perspectives in civil engineering practice.This unit draws upon your learning in EGB272 Traffic and Transport Engineering. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.
EGH473 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn about in this advanced unit to undertake site investigation, evaluate slope stability, design retaining walls, design shallow foundations and deep foundations, and analyse and design rock systems. You will continue to develop your knowledge of geotechnical engineering in the context of technical, practical, and stakeholder perspectives. You will also continue to develop your personal and professional attributes, especially teamwork, time and resource management, communication, and reflective practice. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB270 Civil Engineering Materials and EGB373 Geotechnical Engineering. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.
EGH475 Advanced Concrete Structures
Structural engineers use knowledge and skills basis that you will learn in this advanced unit to create innovative solutions to complex planning and design problems about concrete structures to meet stakeholders' needs. You will continue to learn about loading, design standards, analysis and design of concrete structural systems and elements, economical and sustainable design, computer modelling, and professional design reporting and drawing. You will further develop your personal and professional attributes, especially teamwork, time and resource management, communication, and reflective practice. This unit draws upon your learning in structural units of the civil engineering major, in particular EGB375 Design of Concrete Structures.
Electrical engineering and robotics
CAB320 Artificial Intelligence
This foundational unit introduces the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ranging from Intelligent Search techniques to Machine Learning. AI strives to build intelligent entities as well as understand them. AI has produced many significant products; from AI chess champions to state-of-the-art schedulers and planners. This unit introduces state representations, techniques and architectures used to build intelligent systems. It covers topics such as heuristic search, machine learning (including deep learning) and probabilistic reasoning. The ability to formalise a given problem in the language/framework of relevant AI methods (for example a search problem, a planning problem or a classification problem) and understand a fast evolving field is a requirement for a range of graduate entry engineer positions. This unit lays the foundations for further studies in Robotics, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval, Data Mining or Intelligent Web Agents.
CAB420 Machine Learning
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. This unit provides you with a broad introduction to machine learning and its statistical foundations. Topics include: definition of machine learning tasks; classification principles and methods; dimensionality reduction/subspace methods; and deep learning methods such as convolutional neural networks and transformers. The unit makes use of python, jupyterlab, git and state of the art machine learning libraries. In addition to addressing specific machine learning methods, we will consider the ethical implications of machine learning in applications where individuals or groups could be marginalised, and the computational cost of machine learning methods and ways to reduce the compute burden. Application examples are taken from areas such as computer vision, finance, market prediction and information retrieval.
EGB120 Foundations of Electrical Engineering
In this foundational engineering unit you will learn concepts around the relationship between electrical energy, electronic instrumentation and measurements. This is key to begin your journey towards being a professional engineer. This unit introduces techniques for circuit analysis, instruments for measurement and practical applications in an engineering context. The ability to analyse and understand electrical circuits and related concepts plays a key role in most engineering disciplines and is highly useful not only for electrical engineers (electronics and mechatronic) but also for mechanical, biomedical, aerospace, and materials engineers. EGB120 combines real-world focused lectures, tutorials and practicals to give a hands-on experience learning about these fundamental skills. The concepts in this unit will be built upon in future engineering units and teach key fundamental concepts relevant to all engineering majors.
EGB220 Mechatronics Design 1
Mechatronics Design 1 is a project unit with a hands-on introduction to mechatronics. You will be introduced to the basic concepts in mechatronics, focusing on the mechanics, electronics, and embedded software principles. The unit focuses on the research, design, and implementation of a mechatronic product to conform to a customer's needs. This is the first in a series of design units specifically for Mechatronics, building on your Introduction to Design unit in first year.
EGB241 Electromagnetics and Machines
Power engineering is a sub-field of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of electric power. Electromagnetics involves the study electric fields, magnetic fields, their sources, waves and the behavior these waves. Applications include electrical generators and motors, antennas, printed circuit board layout, data storage, fiber optics and wireless systems. This unit will introduce you to the foundations of power engineering, including magnetic circuits, electric machines, transformers and 3-phase power. You will also learn about static electric fields, electromagnetic wave propagation and transmission line theory. You will work individually and with peers to solve practical problems and to carry out simple designs. This unit will draw on your knowledge of Mathematics and EGB120 Foundations in Electrical Engineering, and prepares you for more advanced studies in Microwave and Power Engineering.
EGB242 Signal Analysis
Signal processing engineers have knowledge of engineering methodologies, and possess problem solving, communication, leadership and project management skills. They design, model, and analyze systems, and use a wide range of technologies and applications, including household appliances, communications systems, modern control, circuit design, biomedical engineering, and speech processing. They help transform society and enhance the quality of life. This unit will introduce you to the foundations of signal and system analysis in the time and frequency domains. You will learn and work individually and with peers to apply engineering and mathematical concepts and use programming techniques, to solve contextualized practical problems employing Fourier and Laplace analysis, LTI systems, filtering, and System modelling. This unit will draw on your knowledge and skills from EGB120 and MZB127, and prepare you for units in telecommunications, signal processing and control.
EGB243 Aircraft Systems and Flight
This is a foundational aerospace engineering unit addressing the aerodynamic principles of flight, aircraft systems and the airspace environment in which aircraft operate. The unit covers basic aerostatics, aerodynamics and equations of motion to gain a technical appreciation for how aircraft fly. Core aircraft systems including navigation, surveillance, guidance and control system are covered, linking their functionality and importance to air traffic management and air safety aspects of the airspace. These topics are delivered in conjunction with multiple problem solving tasks, providing you with both the technical knowledge and high level picture of how aircraft are able to operate in the world today.This is second year engineering unit and the knowledge and problem solving skills developed in this unit are relevant to aerospace and electrical, electrical and mechatronics majors.
EGB346 Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
Uncrewed Aircraft Systems have become a useful and common tool for engineers. As a future professional engineer it is critical to understand technical, practical and regulatory issues around the design and operation of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems. This unit introduces the key concepts and theory of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems including mission design, airframes and propulsion, autopilots and sensors, ground stations and communications, and flight operations and risk management. You will work with your peers in a team and design an Uncrewed Aircraft System-based solution to a real-world problem. You will draw on your experience in EGB243 Aircraft Systems and Flight.
EGB349 Systems Engineering and Design Project
Engineers who work on large projects need a specific suite of additional skills when compared to engineers who work on smaller projects. Systems Engineering provides the framework to allow the interoperability to be addressed. These skills include technical design and implementation, management of the project and teamwork coordination. Compliance to Australian and International standards is also an essential requirement of the designs. This unit provides skills and knowledge for a project teamwork activity, and builds on the work you learned in foundation of engineering design and electronic design. This unit will develop the necessary competency in dealing with aerospace systems.The objectives of the unit are to provide a grounding in systems engineering methodology according to the various standards in use throughout the world, to expose you to the experience and the problems of working as a member of a design team, and to have you undertake a group design exercise.
EGB439 Advanced Robotics
In this unit, you will develop your skills in the theory and practice of mobile robotics. The theory part includes advanced topics on motion models, motion control, motion planning,localisation, and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). Practice requires the translation of theory to working software which is evaluated using online tools. This unit builds on skills developed in EGB339.
EGH419 Advanced Design and Entrepreneurship
This unit introduces you to advanced design practice and fundamental entrepreneurial concepts. The unit combines skills in electrical and mechatronics engineering with entrepreneurship. You will work in a team and apply your new knowledge in entrepreneurship to devise an idea for an artefact that solves a customer’s problem or satisfies a demand in the market. You will learn how to think about a business case for your idea, identify potential customers and analyse the market situation. In your team, you will apply advanced design methods to evaluate your product or service idea based on its technology feasibility, desirability, and commercial viability. You will heavily draw on the project management and team skills learned in the previous project unitsEGB240 or EGB220 and EGB320.
EGH437 Robot Anatomy
Robots are complex systems that rely on electrical, electronic, mechanical and computing technology. This unit provides an understanding of the components that go toward creating a robot, how they work individually, and how they are organized into systems.
EGH441 Power System Modelling
The power grid consists of various components such as generators, transmission lines, transformers and loads. In this unit, you will learn the technical aspects of power system modelling, which will help you to understand the operations and planning of the modern electricity grid. You will use several mathematical techniques to design and analyse power systems and learn professional industry practices such as load flow, fault calculations, protection, and stability. This unit will help you to further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork.
EGH443 Advanced Telecommunications and RF
Telecommunication systems and services are integral to modern life, making advanced knowledge in this field essential for Electrical Engineering. This unit builds on foundational concepts to develop expertise in advanced telecommunications and RF. It explores the evolution of mobile communications systems, efficient cellular planning, wireless channel modelling, antenna measurements, antenna arrays and beamforming, transmitter and receiver diversity, multi-carrier systems, error control coding and decoding, and optical fibre communications. Emphasis is placed on applying fundamental principles to critically analyse emerging technologies, design compliant systems and evaluate under diverse conditions. You will also gain experience in using computational tools for modelling complex projects and produce technical documentation. This is an advanced unit and therefore prior knowledge of basic signal analysis (EGB242), and telecommunications and RF (EGB342) is required.
EGH448 Power Electronics
This advanced level unit introduces the principles of operation of power electronic circuits and systems used in applications from home to grid scale. This unit enables the learner to understand, interpret and compare the characteristics of power devices such as power diodes, thyristors, BJTs, MOSFETs, IGBTs etc.; analyse common types of DC-DC converters and DC-AC rectifiers and inverters; use simulation tools to model and analyse simple power electronic circuits; and perform experiments on power electronic hardware circuits including obtaining measurements. Solar PV, wind and battery storage systems, electric vehicles, whitegoods, industrial power control, robotics, and computing at all scales rely on power electronic converters. An understanding of power electronic circuits and systems provides the foundation for the specification, design, integration and maintenance of advanced power processing circuits.
EGH450 Advanced Uncrewed Aircraft Systems
This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application of aerospace concepts, building on aircraft systems and flight and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Systems Engineering. The unit focuses on experimental design, integration and test of a UAS. You will also gain skills in setting design specifications and carrying out detailed design analysis to design, build and flight test a UAS.
EGH451 Distributed Renewable Electrical Energy Systems
The proliferation of renewable power generation is changing the way electricity is generated and delivered, shifting from a centralised towards a more distributed generation model. The renewable energy sources are typically integrated and interfaced with the electricity grid via power electronic converter systems. In this unit you will learn about the structure, layout, and key characteristics of renewable electrical energy systems, from small residential photovoltaic installations to large-scale photovoltaic power plants and wind farms. The unit will also discuss grid connected versus stand alone renewable energy systems, DC and AC microgrids, the concept of smart grid and virtual power plants.
ENN519 Entrepreneurship and Applications
This unit introduces you to fundamental entrepreneurial concepts and advanced design practice. The unit combines skills in engineering with entrepreneurship. You will apply your new knowledge in entrepreneurship to devise an idea for an artefact, a system that solves a customer’s problem or satisfies a demand in the market. You will learn to think about a business case for your idea, identify potential customers, and analyse the market situation. Working in teams, you will apply advanced design methods to evaluate your product or service idea based on its technology feasibility, desirability, and commercial viability. You will heavily draw on project management and team skills learned as an engineer.
ENN543 Data Analytics and Optimisation
There is a growing need for engineers to understand underlying patterns and characteristics of vast amounts of data collected from various sources by performing advanced data analytics and optimisation to transform data into understandable and actionable information for the purpose of making decisions. This unit develops your knowledge to improve the economy and efficiency of systems, processes, and enterprises through data analytics and optimisation. The unit focuses on application of statistical, and optimisation methods to solve complex problems involving large data sets from multiple sources.
ENN583 Foundations of Robotic Vision
This unit provides the foundation for robotic vision, which includes an introduction to computer vision concepts and the use of deep learning models for robotic vision applications. This unit will further demonstrate how these concepts are utilised in solving real-world robotic vision problems such as visual odometry, visual SLAM, place recognition, object detection and semantic segmentation, and provide you with practical experience in implementing algorithms for real-world robotic vision tasks.
ENN584 Robot Systems
The unit will be focused on two main aspects of robotic systems, 1) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and 2) Mobile Robotics. Mapping and localization are key capabilities for artificial agents that move (e.g. robots, autonomous vehicles, or drones). The unit will provide a theoretical and practical foundation for developing and implementing mapping and localization systems for a range of robotics-related applications. Further, half of the robotics field concerns robots and systems that move: mobile service and consumer robots, social robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and unmanned autonomous ground vehicles in sectors including mining, agriculture, ports, planetary exploration etc. Therefore, the second half of the unit will provide students with an overview of the key concepts in mobile robots and autonomous systems, while also providing the opportunity to explore the human-machine interaction in areas such as social robotics.
Engineering
QUT001 QUT You: Artificial Intelligence in the Real World
You engage with Artificial Intelligence (AI) daily, perhaps unknowingly, through search engines, social media, and streaming services. It is increasingly likely that you will apply AI tools in your future career, regardless of your field. But without any understanding of how AI systems are built and tested, how do you know that you can trust them? In this unit you will explore what AI is, how it’s developed, and its potential pitfalls. You will learn to decipher AI jargon, to probe AI systems to understand their capabilities and limitations, consider how AI may impact your future career, and the challenges present in ensuring that AI acts in a fair and ethical manner. You will explore AI concepts and methods through interactive demonstrations and real-world tools which will demonstrate the possibilities and problems with AI, and its broad applicability across fields including Engineering, Business, Health, Law and Design.
QUT010 QUT You: People with Robots
What does the future look like in a world where robots provide support and care to older people, drive public transport, work alongside us in health and manufacturing settings, or greet us at a restaurant? Distinct from industrial robots, collaborative robots are uniquely designed to be easy to use and safe for people to work with. The ways in which collaborative robots are designed, used, and adopted can have significant impact on future societies. In this unit we will focus on physical robots that interact with people. We will design and evaluate collaborative robot concepts in response to real world challenges and examine their impact on people and robot collaboration. We will imagine what an ethical, sustainable, and socially just future could look like where people and robots work together in relation to your future career. In doing so you will be better equipped to engage with and critique the role that collaborative robots might have in your life.
Mechanical, medical and process engineering
EGB102 Fundamentals of Engineering Science
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 groups to plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems. You will build from this foundation in later units within your engineering major.
EGB125 Design for Manufacture
Professional engineers need a strong understanding of natural and physical sciences (EA 1.1) and the ability to apply engineering methods to solve complex problems (EA 2.1). This unit develops these capabilities in mechanical engineering. You will explore the relationships between engineering design, manufacturing processes, and material properties, building a foundation for future units in design, materials and manufacturing, and mechanics. You will also learn to communicate engineering concepts using technical drawings and industry-standard CAD tools, specifying dimensions, tolerances, materials, and manufacturing processes.
EGB160 Process Principles
This unit introduces students to the basic knowledge and fundamental approaches involved when taking a chemical reaction from the laboratory to full-scale industrial implementation. Basics and fundamentals in material handling, reactors and operations, mass and energy balances, process design, waste management, and materials of construction will be taught and discussed. Examples of how professionals integrate this knowledge into practice will be provided. You will gain an understanding of how to interact in a team environment to obtain satisfactory technical solutions to an industry relevant problem. This introductory unit prepares you for more advanced study in mass/energy balances and process design.
EGB161 Foundations of Engineering Chemistry
As a professional engineer, you are required understand fundamental scientific concepts which underpin the knowledge and skill base of professional engineers. This foundational unit introduces essential concepts of chemistry which are required for engineers. You will learn about key areas of chemistry including the relationship between atomic structure and reactivity, chemical bonding, chemical thermodynamics, and types of matter. Throughout the unit, you will be provided with engineering relevant examples to demonstrate the links between chemistry and different areas of engineering. These examples will highlight the links between engineering chemistry, risk management, and sustainability. It is expected that you will build from this unit in EGB264 (Engineering Chemistry).
EGB210 Fundamentals of Mechanical Design
Mechanical Design forms the backbone of the Mechanical Engineering Degree. This unit is an introduction into Mechanical Design. It brings together fundamental engineering units such as Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Fluid Mechanics and Materials Study and is a common unit for students studying Mechanical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Mechatronics. It will develop systematic knowledge and practice of methods of engineering problem solving, design procedures, design analysis, and introductory mechanical components design, highlighting the need for sustainable and contextually appropriate solutions. It lays the basis for advanced study in Mechanical Design.
EGB211 Dynamics
Mechanical engineers are required to have a sound knowledge in motion of particles and rigid bodies, which is essential in the design and production of machines and other engineering systems. Dynamic forces in systems such as motor vehicles, aircrafts and robotic devices are determined by kinematic and kinetic analysis of these systems. These forces play an essential part in the design of these systems. In this introductory unit, you are introduced to the concepts of dynamics in the context of real engineering systems. The basic principles for dynamics of particles and rigid bodies in 2D are introduced and discussed as related problems within various engineering systems. On completion of this unit, you will be able to apply fundamental principles of kinematics and kinetics in formulating and solving dynamics problems for particles and rigid bodies and analyse kinematics and kinetics of basic mechanical components and mechanisms.
EGB214 Materials and Manufacturing
This unit introduces the fundamentals of engineering materials and their manufacturability, defects of materials at the micro-scale and how mechanical properties of materials (e.g. steel) can be tailored by processing (deformation, diffusion) and heat treatments. This knowledge along with a range of complex manufacturing processes (casting, rolling, forging, extrusion) and sheet metal forming processes such as blanking, piercing, bending, drawing and deep drawing. This knowledge is important for graduate engineers in their engineering study. This unit develops appreciation to engineers around design and how to make a product out of materials using both primary and secondary production methods with minimum environmental impact and costs. They will improve their understanding about the interactions and interrelationship between processing, microstructure, properties and performance of various engineering materials in order to utilize new designs and fabrication.
EGB263 Process Systems
This unit lays foundational technical skills skills for chemical and process engineers in mass andenergy balance modelling as a process design tool. This unit introduces mass and energy balanceconcepts and you will learn how to solve mass and energy balance problems individually throughproblem solving tasks. The unit builds on EGB160 and lays foundational skills for real-world mass and energy balancemodelling in EGB364 where process designed skills are aided with computer simulation software.
EGB264 Engineering Chemistry
As a Chemical Process Engineer, you will encounter practical implications of analytical concepts in both inorganic and organic branches of chemical processing. Collaboration and consultation with technical partners will require a working knowledge of these concepts as a professional chemical process engineer. This unit introduces theoretical and practical concepts of analytical and organic chemistry that are relevant within chemical processing. You will learn about common analytical concepts, instrumentation, and application, as well as learn about fundamental organic chemistry functional groups, interactions and reactions. This is an introductory unit and you will draw on knowledge gained from EGB161.
EGB314 Solid Mechanics
As a mechanical/medical engineer, you must have the expertise to analyse components and systems of components to produce safe and efficient designs. Strength of Materials is an intermediate level unit which investigates how external loading produces internal stresses and strains in a solid body, and the implications of these stresses and strains for components’ strength, stiffness and robustness. Understanding this subject is an essential part of the design process that ensures the structural integrity of various structures, electromechanical devices and mechanisms. When used effectively and this process can result in lightweight, reliable and robust structures. This unit builds on the concepts from the introductory EGB121 - Engineering Mechanics unit. Future units, such as EGB210 - Fundamentals of Mechanical Design, EGB316 - Design of Machine elements and EGH414 - Stress Analysis use the knowledge and techniques developed in this subject extensively.
EGB316 Design of Machine Elements
Mechanical design within professional engineering practice requires that graduates bring together the various analytical techniques they know in a systematic way to develop confidence in a design or analysis. In this unit students will learn advanced theories of mechanical design analysis, and will apply this in the design and analysis of a variety of machine elements. Methodical design process is emphasized, as is the application of relevant design standards, and advanced simulation using the Finite Element Analysis package ANSYS. A key focus of the unit is the repeated application of a practice based design analysis workflow to real machine components. Weekly application of the design skills being developed, make you comfortable with both mechanical systems as a whole, and the determination, estimation, or selection of open ended quantities within the design process.
EGB319 Medical Device Design
Professional medical engineers work with medical devices at different stages of their life-cycle. Doing so requires specialist understanding of the regulatory requirements for medical devices. In this unit, you will work together with peers to propose and evaluate designs to address an unmet clinical need. In assuming a team role you will be exposed to the various duties that medical engineers may fulfill in professional practice. The impacts of the regulatory environment on medical device design will be explored as well as the importance of quality and risk management. EGB319 Medical Device Design builds on EGB210 Fundamentals of Mechanical Design to develop your engineering design skills, with particular emphasis on medical device concept development, EGH435 Modelling and Simulation for Medical Engineers will add quantitative design skills to enable refinement of medical device designs.
EGB321 Dynamics of Machines
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 Engineers). This engineering core unit introduces fundamental concepts of dynamics & vibration of machines in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply the developed theories and formulas to solve fundamental engineering problems involving position, velocity, acceleration and force and to solve more complex problems involving nonlinear equation of motion, free body diagram as an introduction to predicting the vibration behaviours of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in groups to plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyze the behavior of physical systems and apply this theoretical dynamics knowledge into practice to design walkable robots.
EGB323 Fluid Mechanics
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 2nd-year unit introduces the fundamentals of fluid mechanics applied by engineers to understand and characterize fluid flows. The concepts, principles and equations of fluid mechanics are presented in the context of real engineering systems. The unit will provide you with the ability to apply and solve problems related to hydrostatics, explain and report how basic fluid mechanics is used in hydraulic structures and fluid systems, and apply the energy and momentum equations.
EGB362 Operations Management and Process Economics
This an intermediate level unit for chemical process engineering, addressing concepts to allow an engineer to understand the competing factors that affect operations and profitability of a chemical process in an Australian context. The unit brings together operations management and process economics concepts to understand the competing factors that affect operations and profitability of a chemical process in an Australian context. You will work together with peers on an authentic learning experience in a role play and submit a portfolio of works. You will draw on process operations introduced in EGB261.
EGB364 Process Modelling
This unit builds technical competence in mass and energy balances for process design. Moving from simple mass and energy balances towards realistic and complex balances requires developing deeper modelling skills involving computer software, bringing together chemical thermodynamics and mathematics. You will learn how to use process simulation software through individual problem solving tasks and how it mimics the chemistry through practical laboratories. The unit builds on introductory concepts learned in EGB263 Process Systems, leading into EGH462 Process Control which focuses on dynamic behaviour. The embedded mathematics content constitutes 30% of the unit and provides intermediate level computational mathematics techniques to support student learning in intermediate level engineering units.
EGB365 Fluid and Particle Systems
This unit builds technical competence in the design and modelling of multiphase systems commonly encountered in chemical engineering. You will learn the fundamentals of fluid & particle mechanics, including the mechanics of particle settling, fluidisation regimes, fluid-fluid interactions, and flow through porous media. You also will learn about idealised reactor models, including continuously stirred tank reactors and plug flow reactor models, as well as various non-ideal reactor models. You will then apply this theory to develop mathematical models of a range of non-isothermal unit operations involving reactive multiphase heat and mass transfer, including fluidized beds, filtration systems, catalytic packed bed reactors, packed bed adsorption, chemical absorption, and distillation columns. You will also use numerical techniques to solve and analyse reactor models in python. The unit builds on introductory mass and energy balance concepts learned in EGB263 Process Systems.
EGB415 Motor Racing Vehicle Design
Building on fundamental mechanics, materials, and design units, in this unit you will study design, development, and setup of motor racing vehicles. In addition to basic content delivery in lectures, learning will take place through a series of practicals, computer laboratories, a group design project, and industry-led tutorials. Where possible, a track day or field trip will be organised.
EGB422 Energy Management and Sustainability
Global energy issues are having a profound effect on engineering practice in relation to energy utilisation. Energy management is generally regarded as an effective solution for immediate energy consumption reduction and to address global warming. It is also concerned with increasing productivity, improving standards of living and saving money. You will learn how to apply the principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer and electricity along with an introduction to financial analysis and managerial practice. This will enable them to conduct an audit of energy systems and develop a sustainable energy management plan. This unit also details energy auditing of commercial buildings, industrial energy systems and processes, and explore their energy-saving opportunities. It equips students with the skills and knowledge required to conduct energy audits, analyse data, and provide reports for their energy-related customers. This unit also includes guest lectures from industry experts.
EGB423 Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
This unit introduces the basic principles of HVAC and refrigeration systems in the context of buildings in sub-tropical environments. In buildings, health and comfort level of people are highly related to the indoor thermal environments. Many methods have been developed to alter our immediate environment to achieve 'comfortable' conditions, particularly within the built environment. Using the principles of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, engineers have developed efficient HVAC systems that process ambient air to conditions deemed to be comfortable for most people. HVAC systems are designed to create a comfortable and safe environment and are one of the most important systems in modern buildings. On the other hand, HVAC systems are most energy consuming systems in commercial and residential buildings and therefore energy efficiency is a prime concern for these systems.This unit provides detailed analysis and implementation of the design practices required for engineers.
EGB432 Asset Management and Maintenance
Engineers are often involved in the acquisition, maintenance, and renewal of equipment. The ability to analyse maintenance data and develop effective maintenance plans remain important skills for today’s engineers. The focus of this unit is on the development of techniques to manage the life cycles of engineering assets effectively to maximise their value. The unit will introduce students to the theory and techniques of Reliability Engineering, develop tools for the analysis of maintenance data, and address the development of optimised maintenance strategies.
EGH411 Sustainable Chemical Engineering in Practice
It is essential that chemical and process engineers involved in industrial chemical production translate fundamental knowledge of chemistry and engineering into practical outcomes. In this unit you will focus on green chemistry, industrial biotechnology and catalysis which underpins 90 % of all chemicals made today. You will be introduced to catalyst fundamentals and their application to industry for bulk chemicals, production of sustainable polymers and plastics, zeolites for green chemistry and bio-catalysts such as enzymes. You will also be guided through the development of professional skills which includes creation of a MindMap, completion of a Dynamic SWOT analysis, and presentation of business ideas in a poster. This unit brings together learnings from prior units in the chemistry stream.
EGH413 Advanced Dynamics
The analysis, design, and control of many practical engineering systems require analysis of rigid bodies in three dimensions, e.g. gyroscopes, amusement park rides, space vehicles, and robots. The aim of this unit is to develop skills and techniques to analyse the behaviour of mechanical systems in three dimensions using both Newton-Euler and Lagrangian approaches. This capstone unit builds upon the concepts of 2D kinematics and kinetics from earlier units (EGB211, EGB321) and introduces Lagrangian methods, which are powerful tools in developing equations of motion for complex engineering systems.
EGH414 Stress Analysis
Mechanical/Medical engineers need to analyse components and systems to produce safe effective designs, innovate new products and improve existing devices. Towards a professional engineer, an understanding of how engineering components respond to loads to produce stress and strain, and the nature of the stresses and strains is required. This unit introduces computational methods to analyse, design and optimize more complex components and systems. You will work with peers to learn basic finite element method in solving stress and strain in simple engineering components in response to loadings. This unit builds on the intermediate Engineering Mechanics units, and aims to extend your knowledge on basic mechanics of materials to more advanced stress analysis methods.
EGH421 Vibration and Control
The ability to analyse and control the dynamic behaviour of machinery and processes is core competency for mechanical engineers. In this unit, you will be introduced to the theory and techniques that underpin dynamic systems analysis and control system engineering, including: transfer function representations, stability, steady-state behaviour, and frequency response. You will then use these techniques to design controllers to achieve certain transient and steady-state performance criteria. Together, these concepts and analysis tools will provide you with a solid foundation to develop real-world controllers, including the ubiquitous proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. In this capstone unit, you will draw on the earlier dynamics units EGB321 Dynamics of Machines, and EGB211 Dynamics. An embedded mathematics module, constituting 20% of the unit, provides advanced methods that support student learning in the engineering context.
EGH424 Biofluids
This unit is an advanced unit in medical engineering. Towards a professional medical engineer, It is designed to build up your knowledge and skills to examine the particular properties of the biological fluids and to introduce techniques to analyse their behaviour. This unit introduces the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics that are used to explain the mechanisms of biological flows and their interrelationships with physiological processes, in health and in disease. You will work together with peers to learn basic numerical methods in solving the flow of biofluids and propose design concepts by taking consideration of biological fluid property and behaviour. You will build on EGB323 Fluid Mechanics and LSB231 Physiology to develop your engineering knowledge and skills, with particular emphasis on an improved ability in applying the biological fluid dynamics principles in development of strategies for disease prevention or medical device design.
EGH435 Modelling and Simulation for Medical Engineers
Traditional analytical and experimental techniques can often not be applied to investigate the mechanics of medical devices in biological systems. Biomechanical systems exhibit substantial non-linearity due to complex geometries, materials and interactions. Medical engineering professionals use modelling and simulation techniques in the design of biomechanical systems. This unit advances modelling and simulation techniques through their applications in Biomedical Engineering. This advanced unit will develop your knowledge and skills in analysing biomechanical components and systems in the course of medical device development. The unit focuses on modelling and simulation techniques using industry standard software. It applies content introduced in EGH418 Biomechanics, builds upon the finite element capabilities introduced in EGH414 Stress Analysis and adds quantitative analysis tools to the medical device design process commenced in EGB319 BioDesign.
EGH438 Biomaterials
Biomaterials are widely used to create medical implants and devices. Thus, it is important for biomedical engineers to understand the fundamental properties of biomaterials and their interactions with biological systems. After taking this unit, you should be able to select suitable biomaterials for specific medical implants, devices and tissue engineering applications based on key features including biocompatibility, manufacturability, and sustainability. You will also have the essential knowledge to communicate with other professionals in the biomedical space including materials engineers, cell biologists, surgeons, and medical device regulators.
EGH463 Process Design
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 process engineering unit uses advanced concepts of chemistry, design, economics and physics in a real engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to design plant to solve real world problems utilising chemical, thermodynamic, fluids and kinetics with subsequent evaluation of the techno economics, sustainability and environmental impacts. You will undertake site visits and laboratory working in groups to plan, design and evaluate plant design. You will use this to demonstrate the culmination of knowledge and appreciation across a number of technical areas.
EGH464 Sustainable Minerals Processing
Professional engineers need to have a sound understanding of how science and engineering fundamental concepts inform sustainable practices and designs. In this unit, you will apply inorganic, physical, organic and analytical chemistry concepts in the operation and design of mineral processing circuits used for extracting metals and minerals required for clean energy technologies. You will build professional and personal attributes around ethics, risks and sustainability, and understand key aspects of health, safety and environment on mineral processing plants. This unit builds on chemistry from EGB264 Engineering Chemistry.
EGH465 Decarbonisation for Sustainable Production
This is an advanced unit for chemical, mechanical and process engineering in the context of a manufacturing environment. Industry has become increasingly mindful of the need to reduce carbon emissions, in a world with an expanding global population. This unit introduces decarbonisation concepts and technologies as a means for more sustainable production for existing production facilities, comparing competing approaches. You will be able to conduct research, review and develop decarbonisation solutions for existing industry, demonstrate advanced knowledge in fossil fuel replacement options, and manage the intermittent availability of many current renewable energy options. You will work on a decarbonisation project.
ENN510 Engineering Knowledge Management
This unit acknowledges knowledge as a key asset of an organisation, and introduces Knowledge Management (KM) as an innovative process that needs to be closely aligned to organisational goals. The unit introduces critical building blocks of a KM system. All engineering managers must have the fundamental skills and knowledge to understand, design, develop, and manage KM systems in an organization. This unit provides the basic knowledge and skills to understand the complex issues of KM that are essential to the career advancement of engineering managers. In addition, the unit also introduces: a. organizational culture and organizational behavioral changes that are needed to transform a traditional organization into a knowledge-oriented enterprise. b. digital technologies to deliver efficient access to and utilisation of knowledge.
ENN515 Total Quality Management
To grow in the highly competitive global marketplace, organizations must maximize customer value and product quality. Total Quality Management (TQM) advocates the enterprise make optimum use of resources, technology, equipment, and the skills and knowledge of employees, suppliers and customers. Total Quality Management unit provides students with an understanding of the underlying philosophy, theory and practice of modern day quality management process. Quality Management has evolved beyond its roots in statistics and the quality control functions. Many consider TQM to be a framework for "excellent" management. The main themes of TQM are: a data-based approach to problem solving; an emphasis on organisational and behavioural considerations; a customer-oriented market-sensitive approach to designing and delivering both products and services; and finally, a desire and system approach for continual improvement.
ENN530 Asset and Facility Management
Professionals are often involved in the management of processes and infrastructure including transportation, water, energy, buildings and telecommunications. In today's business environment, the safe and efficient maintenance and management of these assets and associated risks is critical. The professionals need to know how to manage the whole of life cycle of assets; organise maintenance based on condition and reliability assessments; and create as well as implement effective safety and environmental systems, asset management and maintenance plans so as to meet the business objectives of the organisation.
ENN531 Advanced Materials and Engineering Applications
The unit introducing recent development of materials and their potential applications. The advances in microanalysis and modelling techniques will be also covered. The unit teaches the inter-relationships amongst the microstructure, properties and processing so that the fundamental principle of structure-property relationship and materials selection can be understood. The unit also provides students an opportunity to apply the knowledge to analyze a typical material problem through project work and practice class. Understanding of the fundamental relationships between the microstructure and properties in materials is critical to development of robust designs and/or manufacturing methods. This unit provides knowledge in advanced materials, their properties, application, processing, characterization and simulation. This is an advanced unit which is relevant and built on other materials and manufacturing units.
ENN532 Safety and Environmental Management
Professional engineers work within a legislative framework which includes regulations related to safety and environmental impact. This unit provides students with an overview of the governing regulations, and an understanding of the associated responsibilities and duties of professional engineers in assessing and managing risk to ensure safety, and in assessing and mitigating environmental impact. This will include the analysis of case studies which will form the basis for engineering design work in safety systems and environmental impact mitigation systems.
ENN570 Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Systems are now essential infrastructure to both large as well as to small-to-medium (SME) organisations, as they realise the necessity of a single central database instead of a large number of separate databases. By integrating core business processes in one single application, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) helps companies maximize the efficiency of business processes across the entire organization including increases in on-time delivery, productivity, forecasting demand and production capacity. This unit aims to provide the fundamental understanding of various Enterprise Systems, functions and modules and how they can be integrated in a business context. The students will be trained to develop a real-life ERP system based on actual data from industry. This unit will also aim to help students to refine their communication and group work skills and assist in the development of research-based skills. This is a core unit for Master of Engineering Management.
Units requiring approval
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Architecture and built environment
ABH435 Professional Practice in Interior Design
This advanced unit consolidates knowledge, skills, and practical abilities to understand and participate in an interior design practice as a beginning professional. It integrates the management and technical requirements associated with operating a design practice, the organisation and roles of the regulatory and professional bodies, the cultural and legal context, and values and attitudes that govern professional practice. Interior designers require knowledge of management theory; of building contract requirements and project management; contract documentation and administration, and communication skills. This unit covers a range of ethical, cultural, legal, operational, and technical concerns related to interior design practice.
ABH452 Community Planning
In this capstone unit you will have the opportunity to refine and apply knowledge of and skills in community planning that have been developed during the course. The unit involves you in planning techniques and urban theory applicable to communities which is crucial to the practice of successful community planning initiatives. Gaining skills to confidently apply community planning techniques in urban planning is critical for a planning practitioner whether working in public or private sector. This unit discusses principles of community planning, the relationships of community planning to community development, issues of power and participation in the planning processes, and the linkages and tensions between local and professional knowledge in planning and policymaking. The unit also helps in applying knowledge and skills in understanding key community planning theories and concepts, and in applying methods and analysis to identify and respond to complex community issues.
ABH456 Planning Theory and Ethics
In this capstone theory and ethics unit you will be prepared for planning practice and the dilemmas you will face as a professional. The unit will encourage you to engage with the substantive and procedural theories that inform how and why we plan, and provide the philosophical foundations that justify contemporary planning in both the private and public sectors. In this unit you will reflect on the diverse views and disciplinary insights that are present in a range of alternative theories of planning, and demonstrate your capacity to articulate your own personal philosophy of planning and the importance of ethical behaviour and codes in professional practice. This is a final year unit that will draw on the knowledge and skills you have developed through your previous units and through the experience of practice that you have gained as part of Work Integrated Learning or through working in the industry.
Civil and environmental engineering
EGB121 Engineering Mechanics
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This introductory unit provides the basic knowledge and skills in statics and mechanics of materials. It is a foundation engineering unit that will develop your skills in analysing mechanical and civil engineering systems including cranes, buildings, bridges and mechanical equipment. You will learn the importance of accurate design and analysis of mechanical components and structures. You will draw on the skills and knowledge learn in this unit in more advanced units such as Stress Analysis, Structural Analysis and Mechanical Design.
EGB387 Engineering Economy and Planning
In addition to design competence, Engineers require a sound understanding of construction and management principles and engineering economic analysis to fully meet the expectations of employers and the broader community. This unit addressing a complete financial and economic evaluation of projects using several evaluation criteria commonly applied in the assessment of engineering project alternatives. This is a third year discipline extension unit, developing knowledge and skills that enables future engineers to understand the decision making in a project planning and feasibility stage, as well as in economic analysis contexts. The embedded Aboriginal perspective will enhance your understanding of cultural values and their impact on future construction engineering practice. This unit builds on your prior learning in EGB273 Principles of Construction, enabling you to effectively engage in engineering planning and economic analysis for civil projects.
EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice
Civil engineers use their full breadth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex infrastructure planning and design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this final unit of the civil engineering major you will be presented with such a complex problem and in developing a solution you will hone your skills in critical review, analysis, synthesis and creativity. You will continue to develop your ability to communicate advanced knowledge and concepts in written, modelled and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences. You will hone your abilities in team working, reflective practice, and time and resource management. Emphasis is placed on your understanding of risk, ethics and stakeholder perspectives. This unit draws upon your learning throughout the civil engineering major.
ENN470 Integrated Urban Water Management
The water systems in our cities are increasingly challenged by climate change, growing population and scarce resources. Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) provides solutions for designing, planning and managing the components of urban water cycle while accounting for their interactions with the environmental and human systems, for the challenging futures. Building on international and our own research, this Master of Sustainable Infrastructure unit provides a depth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex systems design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn and apply engineering knowledge in integrated water solutions spanning over water supply, wastewater, and stormwater components of urban water systems. You will also learn and be able to understand the social and economic aspects of urban water management to contribute to planning guidelines, policies and regulations.
ENN471 Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment
Specialist professional engineers use a depth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex systems design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this specialist Master of Sustainable Infrastructure unit, you will address complex problems related to Sustainable Water Treatment systems. The unit delves into the intricacies of designing and optimizing cutting-edge treatment technologies for both water and wastewater. You will also hone your specialist skills in critical appraisal, analysis, synthesis and creativity. You will demonstrate your ability to communicate specialist discipline knowledge and concepts in written, modelled and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences. Emphasis is placed on your demonstrated professional responses to risk, ethics and stakeholder perspectives.
ENN479 Public Transport Capacity and Quality
Transport engineers undertake investigations and assessments as part of public transport infrastructure planning, design and management activities that meet stakeholders' needs. This unit introduces you to knowledge and skills bases that are used in these activities. You will learn about public transport applications in the Australian context, infrastructure planning, capacity analysis, quality of service analysis, advanced control and intelligent transport systems, and project review and evaluation. You will continue to learn about ethics, cultural awareness, sustainable development practices and how they underpin your professional work. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and teamwork. This advanced unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems and EGB272 Traffic and Transport Engineering (or similar units from other institutions).
ENN482 Advanced Transport Modelling
This is an advance transport engineering unit that develops theoretical insights with their practical applications of transport modelling and simulation. The unit covers various levels of modelling (micro and macro) techniques. The theory is supported by its real world practical applications. It provides hand-ons use of state-of-the-art modelling tools through an authentic assessment. Modelling of transport networks is an inevitable part of the planning, design and operation of complex transport systems. For instance, strategic models are exploited for the planning of new transport infrastructure and traffic flow models are utilised for evaluating the efficiency and reliability of existing networks. A transport engineer should understand the suitability of various modelling and simulation techniques for particular tasks and assess their strength and weakness.
ENN544 Sustainable Practice in Engineering
Sustainable development has become a global agenda that impacts on our work and everyday life. Sustainability principles and practices are rapidly becoming embedded in all phases of engineering projects from planning, design, construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, through to mining and manufacturing, energy and water utilities. Engineers need to ensure that their decision making is guided by the fundamental principles of sustainable development.The unit will introduce you to principles, challenges and skills for dealing with a diversity of trans-disciplinary issues in engineering sustainable development. By introducing critical sustainability theory and challenging best practices, this unit will prepare you for the impending changes that are necessary in all built environment and engineering disciplines.
ENN571 Transport Safety Analysis and Evaluation
Road traffic crashes represent a huge burden to society, and transport agencies have committed to zero road fatalities. Road safety decision needs appropriate modelling tools and techniques for safe infrastructure design and evidence-based and effective road safety interventions. This unit with has two modules, where the first module will introduce you to the fundamentals of transport safety analysis using crash and injury data sources, and the second module focuses on state-of-the-art safety evaluation techniques.
ENN572 Artificial Intelligence in Transport
The goal of smart transport systems is to increase safety, reduce traffic congestion, and its detrimental socio-economic and environmental impacts, and support to decarbonise the transport sector. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and technology provide new avenues to smartly achieve the above-mentioned goals. This unit will introduce you to fundamentals of artificial intelligence, AI, in a transport context, and how it enables the future of mobility. You will also grow your skills in techniques for advanced transport data analytics that can be applied to develop predictive models for transport operations and control in line with contemporary engineering practice.
ENN573 Econometrics of People and Freight Transport
Econometric modelling provides tools to study consumer choice behaviours and is needed in various fields of transport, economics, psychology, and sociology. Econometric models are essential components for transport planning and demand analysis, including route choice, mode choice, freight demand and safety analysis. This unit incorporates two modules, where the first module will introduce you to the fundamentals of econometric modelling and the second module focuses on its applications in transport and recent developments in passenger and freight transport analysis.
ENN574 Catchment Hydrology and Flood Modelling
Specialist professional engineers use a depth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex systems design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this specialist postgraduate unit, you will address complex problems related to modelling of rainfall/runoff in both non-urbanised and urbanised catchments. You will learn the processes that govern catchment hydrology, as well as how they can be modelled. The focus will be on state-of-the-art models and tools used in the cutting edge engineering practice. You will also hone your specialist skills in critical appraisal, analysis, synthesis and creativity, focusing on current regulations. You will demonstrate your ability to communicate specialist discipline knowledge and concepts in written, modelled and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences including responding to risk, ethics and stakeholder perspectives.
ENN575 Artificial Intelligence in Water Modelling
The goal of modelling water systems (flood and water quality) is to understand their behaviour and predict future changes, investigate their environmental and socio-economic impacts, and support policy development in the water sector. Recent advancements in AI and technology provide new avenues to smartly achieve the above-mentioned goals. This unit will introduce you to fundamentals of AI and how AI enables the future of flood and water quality prediction. You will also grow your skills in techniques for advanced flood and water quality data analytics that can be applied to develop predictive models for water systems in line with contemporary engineering practice.
ENN577 Integrated Water Modelling
Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) provides strategies for designing, planning and managing the components of urban water cycle while accounting for their mutual interdependence, as well as their interactions with the wider environmental and human systems. This unit contains two modules: the first six weeks focuses on learning modelling of complex water systems. It includes model conceptualisation, construction, evaluation, and application. You will explore the relationship between theoretical and empirical understanding to conceptualise and construct integrated water models. In the second 6 week module, you will work on a group project to solve real-world problems using the modelling skills developed during first 6 weeks. You will develop professional judgement skills to critically assess models and their outcomes to design strategies for integrated water management problems.
ENN596 Industry Project
The aim of this unit is to provide you with an opportunity to apply skills and knowledge developed in your postgraduate engineering study area in an advanced problem domain and to enable you to conduct a well-defined project with specific outcomes, while demonstrating a capabilities focus towards culturally responsible professional engineering practice. The project addresses an industry problem through application of engineering theories, tools, and techniques. You will develop project management skills, culturally responsible professional engineering practice capabilities, and exercise leadership in a team in a complex and changing environment. This unit introduces a range of contemporary project management approaches.
ENN670 Specialist Design for Smart Transport
Specialist professional engineers use a depth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex systems design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this specialist postgraduate unit you will pursue a complex Transport system problem and in developing a design solution you will hone your specialist skills in critical appraisal, analysis, synthesis, and creativity. You will demonstrate your ability to communicate specialist discipline knowledge and concepts in written, modelled, and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences. You will demonstrate your specialist abilities to work pro-actively and productively in a design team, reflective practice, and time and resource management. Emphasis is placed on your demonstrated professional responses to risk, ethics, and stakeholder perspectives. This unit requires you to draw upon your Smart Transport learning throughout your previous postgraduate study.
ENN671 Net Zero Water Treatment and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)
Water engineers use specialised knowledge and skills to develop more sustainable and energy efficient water and wastewater treatment solutions. In this specialist postgraduate unit, you will learn the innovative concept of Net Zero Energy wastewater and principles of WSUD for sustainable urban stormwater management. You will also learn to address the complex challenges of integrating sustainable water management practices with urban design, making a significant contribution to more resilient and environmentally responsible urban environments. You will demonstrate your learning through comprehensive review of related technologies and presenting your findings in written, verbal and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences. Emphasis is placed on your demonstrated professional responses to risk, ethics and stakeholder perspectives. This unit requires you to draw upon your Sustainable Water Management learning throughout your postgraduate study.
Electrical engineering and robotics
EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
EGB202 Microprocessors and Digital Systems
This unit introduces you to the components inside a computer and how these components work together. The design and development of modern digital electronic systems requires a knowledge of the hardware and software to program the system. This unit identifies design requirements and lets you develop embedded microcontroller-based system solutions. Practical laboratory exercises progressively expose features of a typical microprocessor and explain how an embedded computer can interact with its environment. This provides a valuable foundation for further studies in areas such as advanced embedded systems, robotics and networking, and reflects the real-world practices and skills demanded by the embedded systems and automation industries.
EGB240 Electronic Design
EGB240 introduces you to the practical aspects of electronic circuit design that underpins the practice of electrical engineering. You will develop experience and confidence to draw upon theory, literature and CAD tools to synthesise electronic circuit designs to solve real world problems. You will complete two practical projects to design, build, evaluate and document simple electronic circuits. The unit provides an opportunity to apply and extend circuit and electronic theories developed in first year, and the theoretical knowledge gained in EGB120 and EGB242 to real-world engineering problems. As the second of three design units, you will further develop your engineering design and professional communication skills through application to a practical project.
EGB320 Mechatronics Design 2
Mechatronics Design 2 is a project unit with a hands-on application to advanced mechatronics principles. You will focus on the mechanics, electronics, and embedded software principles behind mechatronics. In this unit, you extend your knowledge and skills from Mechatronics Design 1 to the research, design, and implementation of an advanced mechatronic product to meet a customer's needs. You will further extend your skills and knowledge in mechatronics design in Mechatronics Design 3.
EGB339 Introduction to Robotics
This unit introduces the fundamental concepts and algorithms of robotics and computer vision. You will learn how to solve typical fundamental real-world computer vision and robotics problems. You will build from this unit in EGB439 (Advanced Robotics).
EGB341 Energy Supply and Delivery
In this unit you will cover the concepts and technical aspects of electric energy generation and delivery. Thestructure of energy conversion and delivery from power stations through transmission to distribution load centres will be addressed. Inclusion of transformers and transmission line models using per-unit concept in power flow method as central framework for power system solutions will be covered. Synchronous and induction machines will be studied as key component and features of electricity network. This subject will lay the foundations for EGH441 Power System Modelling.
EGB342 Telecommunications and RF
This intermediate unit addresses core concepts, characteristics and performance requirements in analog and digital communications. Knowledge and skills developed in this unit are relevant to communication and signals stream in the electrical engineering major. This unit introduces basic building blocks of analog and digital modulation techniques for single and multi-user communications, as well as fundamentals of RF relevant to telecommunications. You will learn to use time and frequency domain signal analysis, apply information theory to compress digital data, choose appropriate modulation techniques to transmit signals, analyze the performance of communication systems in noisy channels and fundamental RF building blocks of telecommunications systems. You will build on this unit in EGH443 Advanced Telecommunications and RF and EGH444 Digital Systems and Image processing by strengthening your analytical skills for designing and analyzing more advanced systems.
EGB345 Control and Dynamic Systems
Control systems engineering is at the heart of most of the modern electrical and mechanical systems that you will encounter in your careers as practicing engineers. The unit provides theoretical and practical understanding of control systems to enable you to better apply and design engineering technologies. The unit is an intermediate level unit to be undertaken once you have sufficient mathematical and analysis skills to understand the theory and to apply the theory in practice.
EGB348 Electronics
Electronic devices and circuits are the building blocks of most electrical and computing devices. In this unit, you will identify the characteristics and operation of discrete and integrated circuit semiconductor devices, including diodes, transistors and op amps. You will learn how they are combined into circuits to perform useful operations on signals, such as amplification, filtering or switching. This unit also introduces digital electronics, including devices such as logic gates and flip-flops, and combinational logic, and digital circuit design. This unit is an Intermediate Electrical Option, which builds on basic electrical circuit theory learned in EGB120. It forms the foundation for later units in Advanced Electronics and Power Electronics.
EGB351 Renewable Electrical Energy Sources
Renewable energy sources play a key role in the continued reduction of the carbon footprint of our society. Understanding their availability, limitations and challenges is critical towards their successful application in our current engineering systems. In this unit you will gain an in-depth understanding of the operation, characteristics, energy production profiles, electrical grid integration aspects, as well as economic considerations, of the most important renewable energy technologies. The unit will also introduce key energy storage technologies that can be coupled with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar to compensate for their intermittent generation profile. This unit will draw on the concepts learned in EGB120, and will develop important understanding required for the more advanced units EGH451 and EGH452.
EGH444 Digital Signals and Image Processing
This unit covers fundamentals of digital signal and image processing, including image representation andacquisition, filtering (in both spatial and frequency domains), image enhancement. It will also introduce you to moreadvanced concept such as feature extraction, segmentation, compression and machine learning applied to computervision. You will learn how those techniques work and how and when to apply them. You will practice these conceptsindividually and in collaboration with peers. You will draw on the fundamentals of signals seen in EGB342.
EGH446 Autonomous Systems
Automation engineers play a key role in building practical control systems and designing navigation approaches for autonomous vehicles. This advanced unit will present the principles of operation of modern sensors necessary for robust navigation. This unit provides the required knowledge to develop state of the art navigation approaches in complex environments. Navigation is a fundamental building block for all aspects of autonomous systems. You will draw upon previous studies in mathematics and control systems, knowledge that underpins navigation systems.
EGH449 Advanced Electronics
This Advanced Electrical Option builds on the electronic and computing building blocks and concepts covered in Electronics (EGB348) and Microprocessors and Digital Systems (CAB202). This unit explores the extension and application of general electronic circuits to specific topic areas where special consideration and approaches are required. These topic areas include precision electronics, low noise electronics, the interface of analogue and digital electronics, digital systems, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The advanced unit EGH448 Power Electronics is complementary to this unit's content.
EGH452 Design for Renewable Electrical Energy Systems
Delivering solutions for the sustainable and secure generation and distribution of electrical energy remains one of the greatest challenges facing the engineering discipline. This unit provides a capstone experience in which you will work within a team to apply engineering knowledge, systems thinking and design processes to the design, analysis, modelling and evaluation of a grid-connected renewable energy system. You will explore the diverse technological, economic, regulatory, and social considerations which inform the definition and execution of large-scale renewable energy engineering projects and incorporate these considerations into your own design. In addition, you will explore analysis techniques required to evaluate the performance of renewable systems in the context of environmental considerations and uncertainty, and the complementary engineering, risk-management and control strategies required to ensure security of supply.
EGH455 Advanced Systems Design
This advanced unit further develops your investigation, analysis, synthesis and problem solving skills when solving complex engineering tasks. The unit focuses on experimental design using a systems engineering approach to work on an engineering concept, starting from a basic need and opportunity description. You work in teams to identify customers, formulate a basic business case, establish a basic concept of operations, develop the system requirements, generate concepts, conduct trade studies, determine the most promising design, and pursue a design and testing and verification of the system. The unit replicates industry or government systems engineering practices as closely as possible.
IFN680 Advanced Machine Learning and Applications
This is a specialisation unit in the area of computer science and data analytic. The aim of this unit is to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to design and implement machine learning solutions that can effectively and efficiently solve complex problems. The main advantage of intelligent systems is that they can combine the traditional computer's capacity to remember millions of facts with the human being's cognitive skills, including learning and refining the existing body of knowledge, solving problems with reasoning, helping businesses with strategic planning, diagnosing mechanical faults or human diseases, playing games, and so on. This unit will provide you with an understanding and implementation of the principles and limitations of machine learning techniques that underpins modern Artificial Intelligence.
Mechanical, medical and process engineering
EGH420 Mechanical Systems Design
This unit brings together a number of Engineers Australia's Stage 1 competencies. Students will demonstrate their knowledge and skill base, their engineering application ability all whilst being expected to demonstrate the professional and personal attributes. This unit builds on previous introductory and intermediate design units to be the final unit in the mechanical design stream. You will bring together design knowledge and skills to design and analyze systems of increasing complexity and interdependence. You also will be given the opportunity to consider the broader role mechanical engineers often play in relation to human interaction, quality, safety, ethics and sustainability in design.
ENN414 Advanced Materials
With a rapidly growing and ageing global population, the demand for novel materials with advanced properties to address critical challenges in structures, energy, environment, and healthcare is increasing. In this units, you will be introduced to advanced materials such as light metals, ceramic, polymers, composites, biomaterials (including metallic glasses), smart materials, thin film materials, and recycled materials. These will be examined in greater depth in the context of their properties, processing, performance, and failure mechanisms (fracture, fatigue, creep, corrosion) to support robust designs. Further, relevant engineering case studies, research papers outlining the latest developments, and laboratory experiments will be provided to support an in-depth understanding of selected materials and their applications. This advanced engineering unit builds upon the knowledge and skills you have previously acquired in the study of engineering materials and their applications.
ENN435 Advanced Manufacturing
Modern industries use innovative Advanced Manufacturing technologies in their process and design to enhance productivity and maximise manufacturing and process operations. This unit focuses on advanced manufacturing technique including both additive and subtractive manufacturing processes. The unit will provide you with practical experience in the design for, and use of, 3D printing and various CNC machining techniques such as turning, milling, shaping, drilling and grinding and various other super finishing techniques. In addition, you will develop knowledge on mechanics of metal cutting (orthogonal), tooling considerations and economics of tooling. This unit introduces various non-traditional manufacturing processes such as Electrochemical Machining (ECM) and Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) and Laser Cutting. In a broad sense this unit will provide you the necessary knowledge about manufacturing a product/assembly/machine including process capability and sequencing.
ENN535 Robotic Manufacturing
Since the 1960s and throughout the 3rd industrial revolution (Industry 3.0), the implementation of robotics in manufacturing has resulted in major advances in precision, safety, reliability, productivity and a minimisation of cost and downtime. Now with Industry 4.0 and beyond seeing unprecedented levels of system connectivity, virtualisation, and ever advancing technological development including the emergence of collaborative robotics, practical engineering skills and expertise in modern robotics are more important than ever. This unit provides you with an introduction to robotics in Advanced Manufacturing and will allow you to develop your knowledge of robotic automation of manufacturing processes and the design of such systems in practice. You will learn about the range of robotics employed in industry, be exposed to the engineering fundamentals of robotic design, vision, and control, and use simulation tools in the design and optimisation of robotic manufacturing processes.
ENN537 Bioproduct Separation and Purification
Separation and purification technologies are critical for recovery and commercialisation of bioproducts from industrial fermentation processes. This unit introduces key industrial separation and purification technologies, such as extraction, adsorption, membrane filtration, and chromatography technologies, briefs recent advances in new materials and designs to improve separation efficiency. This unit also explains the principles of design and selection of separation and purification technologies for specific bioproducts, including alcohols, organic acids, protein/enzymes and pharmaceuticals. Product storage and stabilisation strategies for some specific bioproducts such as protein and enzymes are also introduced.
ENN538 Industrial Fermentation
The transition to a low-carbon economy needs the production of food, beverage, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, polymers and many other products using more sustainable approaches. Fermentation technologies that employ microorganisms to convert renewable carbon sources into bioproducts play a significant role in low-carbon economy and circular bioeconomy. This unit introduces different types of fermentation, the relationship between chemical reactors and bioreactors, design principles of fermenters, key parameters in bioprocess control and optimisation, and key factors in bioprocess scale-up. Several existing and emerging industrial fermentation processes will be introduced as examples to explain how the biological and engineering knowledge is integrated for manufacturing bioproducts.
ENN539 Foundations of Industrial Biotechnology
Industrial biotechnology employs microorganisms as cell factories for synthesis of a wide variety of bioproducts. This unit overviews the foundations of industrial biotechnology and explains how they are used for producing food, feed, biofuels, biochemicals, and pharmaceuticals. It covers the key concepts of biochemistry and microbiology that are fundamental to all aspects of industrial biotechnology, and introduces fundamentals of genetic engineering, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology and their applications for manufacturing bioproducts. Moreover, technical and non-technical aspects of commercialisation of bioproducts including research and development, intellectual property, quality management systems, regulations, ethics and safety will be discussed. This enables students to gain skills required for employment in a broader area of biomanufacturing sectors.
ENN554 Design of Renewable Energy Production Systems
Engineers are facing increasing need to understand the fundamental technologies for producing and storing renewable energy so they can make informed choices about projects involving renewable energy. This unit will provide you with the knowledge to understand the characteristics of these technologies, and the skills to evaluate the implementation of these technologies into real-world applications. This unit focuses on the design of renewable energy technologies and the tools used to analyse these systems.
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