ENG5105 · Integrated design

Overview

This unit provides you with an opportunity to work on a real-world, engineering design problem in a professional team environment. The project will integrate your previous sub-disciplines of study, providing you with a holistic capstone experience to prepare you for a career utilising your broad engineering skillset and specialist domain knowledge. The project will involve a critical assessment of a complex open-ended design problem or opportunity from multiple perspectives, taking into account societal, health, safety, legal, cultural, ethical and environmental factors. The project work relies on using creative problem solving and decision-making skills and modern project management tools for developing practical solutions to the design problem. You will iteratively test your solution and seek the feedback of others while reflecting on your own practice. The outcomes of the project will be communicated via presentations, demonstrations and professional reports.

Areas of study: E6011 Master of Professional Engineering - Specialisation: Chemical engineering (Bioprocessing and food engineering stream) E6011 Master of Professional Engineering - Specialisation: Civil engineering E6011 Master of Professional Engineering - Specialisation: Electrical engineering E6011 Master of Professional Engineering - Specialisation: Materials engineering E6011 Master of Professional Engineering - Specialisation: Mechanical engineering

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Continuous assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Appraise an engineering project brief as part of a design team to define the problem, identify stakeholders and set project requirements and specifications.
2. Generate creative solutions using engineering design processes, whilst considering societal, health, safety, legal, cultural, ethical and environmental factors.
3. Synthesise technical knowledge to generate engineering designs that meet justified performance requirements.
4. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a team, negotiating strategies to enable effective collaboration and task management.
5. Plan and timeline tasks, allocate resources and monitor progress towards the achievement of project goals by applying industry standard project management tools and techniques.
6. Demonstrate effective oral, written and visual communication skills suitable for professional practice.
7. Reflect critically upon the solutions to an engineering design problem and on the processes involved in successful teamwork.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of 4-6 hours of scheduled learning activities including unit workshops and discipline-specific classes, and 6-8 hours of independent study per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher-directed learning, peer-directed learning and online engagement. Project work is determined by your discipline and specific project requirements. Examples include design work, prototyping and testing, team meetings, readings, assessments, and preparation for scheduled activities.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.