Overview

This unit of study is a project-based unit in which students work in teams and aims to provide you with the opportunity to design a solution to an industry driven challenge within your chosen major. You will attain the various technical skills required to complete the project as well as a range of professional skills to enable you to work creatively and collaboratively in an industry context. An Academic 'facilitator' will guide your learning towards achieving these outcomes.

Requisites

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:

  • Apply a systematic approach to engineering technology design (A1, A5, K1, K2, S1)
  • Apply knowledge of design fundamentals to engineering technology challenges (A5, K3, K5, S1, S2)
  • Find, organise, and make decisions on a range of topics related to engineering technology design (A4, A5, K3, K5, K6, S2)
  • Use engineering technology to develop and present design solutions (A5, K4, K5, S2, S3)
  • Demonstrate reflective practice, and use self and peer evaluation (A2, A5, A6, A7, S4)
  • Communicate within teams and stakeholders using appropriate verbal, written and technological approaches (A2, A5, A6, S3, S4)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-Campus
Lecture
1.00  12 weeks  12
Specified Activities
Supervisor Meetings
1.00  12 weeks  12
On-Campus
Workshop
2.00  12 weeks  24
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
8.50  12 weeks  102
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual/Group 100% 1,2,3,4,5,6 

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:

(i) achieve an overall mark for the unit of 50% or more, and(ii) complete the project to an acceptable standard. A rubric will be used to determine if students have met the acceptable standard. The rubric is available on Canvas. Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirements (i) and (ii) in full, will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

  • Technical content in the selected engineering major
  • Creativity tools for engineering technology solutions
  • Computer-aided design (CAD) software
  • Decision Making Tools
  • Visual communications technology
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Reflective Practice

Study resources

Reading materials

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