Overview

This unit of study aims to develop your ability to design and build complex engineering systems, understand the systemic implication of design decisions, understand design challenges and apply design theory.

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Transform ordinary problems into engineering design problems that can then be readily solved and communicated (K3, K6, S1, S2, S3, A2, A3, A4)
  • Recognise and comprehend the role of standards in engineering design (K1, K3, K5, K6, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A4)
  • Use design theory to manage and further develop as an engineer (K4, K5, K6, S1, S2, S3, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Interpret ill-defined complex problems and determine the appropriate engineering knowledge and methods to solve those problems (K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, S1, S2, S3, A2, A3, A4)
  • Communicate, manage and document the process for developing a design as part of a team (K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, S1, S2, S3, S4, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Analyse the roles of electrical power and machines and their applications to mechanical systems (K3, K5, S1)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
2.00 12 weeks 24
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
8.50 12 weeks 102
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PresentationIndividual 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4,5,6 
ProjectGroup 60 - 70% 1,2,3,4,5 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

an aggregate mark for the unit of 50% or more.

Content

  • Established design theory and practice
  • Integrating engineering science theory with design
  • Design for safety, risk, reliability and quality
  • Design with standards (Pressure vessels for example)
  • Design for industrial noise control
  • Design for human factors
  • Electrical power and machine

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.