ENG5106 · Integrated design project

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.

Areas of study: E6011 Master of Professional Engineering - Specialisation: Chemical engineering (Engineering design stream)

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 detailed engineering designs for selected equipment systems, including the chemical, operational and mechanical aspects, to meet 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.
8. Synthesise a chemical process which reflects on efficiency, values inherent safety and mitigates environmental impacts, demonstrates conservation of mass and energy, and demonstrates attention to the sustainability of the process.
9. Design a plant layout that mitigates any risks associated with the process that has been proposed and assess the environmental impacts of the process at the plant level and over the whole product lifecycle.
10. Generate detailed Process Diagrams for a specific design area and reflect on these drawings by assessing the safety of the process individually and as a part of a HAZOP team.
11. Justify capital and operating cost estimates, as well as the financial viability of the project, and determine the sensitivity to various engineering and commercial factors, and appraise the project viability.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester, typically comprising a mixture of 3 - 6 hours per week of scheduled learning activities and 18 - 21 hours of project work per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher-directed learning, peer-directed learning and online engagement. Project work is determined by your 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.