The end of term examination
has now been changed to an alternate form of assessment. Please see your Moodle
site for details of the assessment.
Overview
Systems engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all customers, with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user requirements. In this unit you will focus on the realisation and deployment of successful systems through the structured development process that proceeds through the entire systems life-cycle.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite or Corequisite BUSN20016 Research in Business
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback.
Students find some topics challenging.
Provide additional student learning materials on challenging topics.
- Describe the processes of development and management of systems over the systems life cycle
- Critically evaluate the importance of feedback control loop and human factors in the preliminary and detailed system design
- Critically evaluate and report the common management processes used in the development, implementation and disposal of real or simulated systems
- Apply appropriate processes in the optimisation of systems using reliability testing, sustainability and evaluation
N/A
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 9 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | |||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | |||||||||
Textbooks
Systems Engineering Practice
- Revised Edition (2018)
- Authors: M.J. Ryan and I. Faulconbridge
- Argos Press
- Canberra Canberra , ACT , Australia
- ISBN: 978-1-921138-07-2
- Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
Copies can be purchased from the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- MS Office
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
d.jarvis@cqu.edu.au
Week 1
Begin Date: 09 Mar 2020Module/Topic
The systems landscape
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 2
Begin Date: 16 Mar 2020Module/Topic
Intoduction to Systems Engineering
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 3
Begin Date: 23 Mar 2020Module/Topic
Requirements engineering
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 2
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 4
Begin Date: 30 Mar 2020Module/Topic
Conceptual design
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 3
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 5
Begin Date: 06 Apr 2020Module/Topic
Preliminary design
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Vacation Week
Begin Date: 13 Apr 2020Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 6
Begin Date: 20 Apr 2020Module/Topic
Detailed design and development; Construction/production
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 5; Textbook: Chapter 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 7
Begin Date: 27 Apr 2020Module/Topic
Operational use and system support; Testing
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 7; Textbook: Chapter 8
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 8
Begin Date: 04 May 2020Module/Topic
Development approaches
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 11
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 9
Begin Date: 11 May 2020Module/Topic
Design for usability
Chapter
Online material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 10
Begin Date: 18 May 2020Module/Topic
Design for reliability and maintainability
Chapter
Online material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 11
Begin Date: 25 May 2020Module/Topic
Producibility, disposability and sustainability
Chapter
Online material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Week 12
Begin Date: 01 Jun 2020Module/Topic
Systems engineering management; Systems Engineering Standards
Chapter
Textbook: Chapter 8; Textbook: Chapter 9
Events and Submissions/Topic
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 08 Jun 2020Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam Week
Begin Date: 15 Jun 2020Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
In this group assessment (the group size is to be 3, although variations may need to be made by the tutor depending on the class size), you are required to write a report which critically analyses the conceptual design phase of a systems engineering project. The case study can be from any application area. The report is to analyse the stakeholder needs that gave rise to the project, the transformation of these needs into requirements and the design alternatives that were (or could have been) considered.
The details of this assessment will be available on the unit website in Week 1.
Week 6 Friday (24 Apr 2020) 11:59 pm AEST
Two weeks after the due date.
Marking Assessment Criteria: Total marks out of 60; weighting is 30%.
- Introduction (5 marks)
- Stakeholder needs (10 marks)
- Conceptual design process (20 marks)
- System requirements (5 marks)
- Conclusion (5 marks)
- Research skills (10 marks)
- Layout and presentation (5 marks)
- Describe the processes of development and management of systems over the systems life cycle
- Critically evaluate the importance of feedback control loop and human factors in the preliminary and detailed system design
- Critically evaluate and report the common management processes used in the development, implementation and disposal of real or simulated systems
- Apply appropriate processes in the optimisation of systems using reliability testing, sustainability and evaluation
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
In this group assignment (the group size is to be 3, although variations may need to be made by the tutor depending on the class size) you are to critically review a key Systems Engineering process or practice. The review is to be general - there is no requirement for it to be grounded in a case study. The topic and details for this assessment will be available on the unit website in Week 1.
Week 11 Friday (29 May 2020) 11:59 pm AEST
Two weeks after the due date.
Marking Assessment Criteria: Total marks out of 40; weighting is 20%.
- Introduction (2.5 marks)
- Overview of the process / practice (purpose, inputs, outputs, staging, supporting processes) (5 marks)
- Discussion of the approaches/methods typically employed in the process / practice (20 marks)
- Conclusion (2.5 marks)
- Research skills (5 marks)
- Layout and presentation (5 marks)
- Describe the processes of development and management of systems over the systems life cycle
- Critically evaluate the importance of feedback control loop and human factors in the preliminary and detailed system design
- Critically evaluate and report the common management processes used in the development, implementation and disposal of real or simulated systems
- Apply appropriate processes in the optimisation of systems using reliability testing, sustainability and evaluation
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
Examination
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
