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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This unit introduces you to key concepts and principles of mechanical analysis. You will explain how engineering structures and components carry and transmit loads, and analyse and determine properties of sections, forces in structures and assemblies, stress and strain in members and components, deflections, stresses in circular shafts, principle stresses, and buckling of columns. you will analyse mechanical failures, determine fatigue life of components, and explain common assumptions made in analysis, their consequences, and validity. You are required to show work productively, both individually and collaboratively, to solve problems, and document and communicate your work clearly in a professional manner.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: MATH11160 Technology Mathematics AND (ENAG11005 Mechanics OR ENEG11006 Engineering Statics) AND (ENEG11008 Materials for Engineers OR ENAG11003 Engineering Materials)
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 - 2022
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 Undergraduate 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.
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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
This unit covered the material that would most likely be used for my role. It covered most of the practical aspects of being an engineer and it has been the most useful subject of all.
This will be continued and updated.
Feedback from Student Feedback
The workbook activities help you learn the topics.
This will be continued and updated.
Feedback from Student Feedback
Several of the workbook questions were provided with solutions that did not use the same methods as we were taught from the book.
The solutions using the normal method will be added.
Feedback from Student Feedback
More worked examples of the topics covered in the workbook and assignment would be helpful. Also, more detailed answers to the workbook questions to learn the correct methodology to solve the problems.
They will be provided.
Feedback from Student Feedback
The moodle page had a lot of information and was going back and forth a couple of times to get an understanding of some aspects.
The learning resources will be organised well.
- Determine and analyze geometric properties such as moment of inertia and their influence on load carrying capacity of components and structures
- Explain stress, strain and elasticity and perform simple linear static stress analysis of mechanical components
- Describe different types of loadings and stresses such as normal, shear, torsional, bending and solve simple problems to estimate them
- Explain the principle of transformation of stress using Mohr’s circle method
- Develop elastic equation to describe the deflection of beams
- Work autonomously to solve problems using appropriate engineering language.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Engineering Associates in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
Introductory
Intermediate
Advanced
Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for further information on the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers and course level mapping information
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||