Overview
This unit introduces the context of Australian engineering practice, including the competency standards and codes of practice. You will study Australian engineering projects by summarising and reviewing the literature with emphasis on the technical methods and standards adopted, ethical practice, and professional responsibility. This unit will develop your communication skills, including technical writing and presentations based on effective research, paraphrasing, referencing, and reviewing published information. As a small team, you will also prepare a scope for an investigation to demonstrate an understanding of the tasks involved in an Australian engineering feasibility investigation.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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 - 2021
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 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 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 Moodle
The unit really helped students to test and challenge their academic skills. Students were very happy to learn the importance of Academic Integrity that was emphasised during lectures.
This is good feedback and it shall be continued moving forward.
Feedback from Moodle
The students would like a little more understanding and emphasis on Australian Standard codes like building and certain civil codes.
This shall be included via a guest lecture by a Civil academic and it may give them a better understanding. Perhaps a workshop session may suit better here.
Feedback from Moodle
One of the aspects students found more confusing at times was about assessment expectations which were not coherent between the Unit Coordinator and tutors.
There were certain sessions where some sessional staff had communicated assessment expectations that were found to be different than the Unit Coordinator. This shall be improved moving forward with a clear set of expectations posted on Moodle for everyone to refer to and be coherent.
- Summarise technical publications using paraphrasing and references
- Deconstruct a project into Engineers Australia’s graduate competencies
- Review Australian practice in a specialised field of engineering
- Generate a scope for a feasibility study of an engineering project
- Work collaboratively based on critical self-review of graduate competencies
- Communicate effectively through technical writing and presentations.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
3 - Written Assessment - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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1 - Knowledge | ||||||
2 - Communication | ||||||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
4 - Research | ||||||
5 - Self-management | ||||||
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
7 - Leadership | ||||||
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||
3 - Written Assessment - 40% |
Textbooks
The Making of an Expert Engineer
(2014)
Authors: James Trevelyan
ISBN: 9780367576066
Binding: Hardcover
Additional Textbook Information
The online version of the book is available for students from below link.
https://cqu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1rb43gr/TN_crc_bk9781315742281
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
h.panchasara@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
What is engineering and what does an engineer do? Engineering case studies.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
View videos or texts related to famous engineering projects and discuss.
Module/Topic
Academic dishonesty. An Academic from the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) will discuss on academic dishonesty, avoiding plagiarism and referencing style.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Referencing exercises.
Module/Topic
Engineers Australia. Case studies - Australian engineering projects, work performed by various engineering disciplines.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Writing exercises based on selected discipline-based case studies in the Australian context.
Module/Topic
Risk assessment and Health and Safety Legislation.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exercises on risk assessment, and the responsibilities of an engineer, review of code of ethics.
Assignment 1 is due this week on Friday.
Individual annotative bibliography and competency deconstruction Due: Week 4 Friday (2 April 2021) 12 AM AEST
Individual annotative bibliography and competency deconstruction Due: Week 4 Friday (2 Apr 2021) 12:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Australian engineering technical societies.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Writing exercises on this topic
Module/Topic
No classes and workshop scheudled during vacation week.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Commonly used software and researching online.
An Academic from the ALC will discuss researching online.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
A written report on the software used in discipline with the presentation to the class.
Module/Topic
Engineering teams and team project formation.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Individual literature review and discipline summary Due: Week 7 Friday (20th April 2021) 12 AM AEST
Individual literature review and discipline summary Due: Week 7 Friday (30 Apr 2021) 12:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Scoping out feasibility investigations.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exercises in team formation, team charter, keeping minutes of meetings.
Module/Topic
An Academic from the ALC will discuss on how to write a technical report.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exercises in team formation, team charter, keeping minutes of meetings.
Module/Topic
Reflective practice
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
How to reflect on job/project performance?
Module/Topic
Project management.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exercises on planning and executing a project.
Module/Topic
Review of term.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assignment 3 is due this week on Friday.
Team feasibility study and competency evaluation Due: Week 12 Friday (4 June 2021) 12 AM AEST
Team feasibility study and competency evaluation Due: Week 12 Friday (4 June 2021) 12:00 am AEST
All classes and tute sessions shall be conducted face to face (if permitted by University) or online via zoom.
Links shall be provided via moodle.
1 Written Assessment
This task consists of two parts. In Part A, you will choose one technical paper from a list of resources provided and summarise that paper by creating an annotated bibliography. To achieve this, you will need to demonstrated skills in reading, understanding and explaining the details of a technical paper; paraphrasing information to avoid plagiarism; and referencing to correctly acknowledge your sources of information.
In Part B, you will complete a table based on the 16 elements of the Engineers Australia’s Stage 1 Competencies. For each element, you will describe how this competency is demonstrated specifically through the engineering practice described in the technical paper you have chosen. If any elements are not directly addressed, you will articulate assumptions for how they could or should be demonstrated.
Week 4 Friday (2 Apr 2021) 12:00 am AEST
Week 6 Friday (23 Apr 2021)
It is expected that the assessment item will be returned in 2 weeks after the due date.
A Marking Rubric is provided on Moodle that includes indicators of attainment at the 'Poor', 'Sound', 'Good' and 'Excellent, levels for each element of the assignment.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Summarise technical publications using paraphrasing and references
- Deconstruct a project into Engineers Australia’s graduate competencies
2 Written Assessment
This task also consists of two parts. In Part A, you will expand your annotated bibliography produced in Assignment 1 by completing a small literature review which incorporates published results from at least three other technical papers based on Australian projects in this area of practice. To achieve this, you will need to demonstrate referencing skills and the ability to synthesise information into a convincing and factual review. Your review should articulate points of agreement and disagreement and any gaps in the knowledge which have potential for future projects.
In Part B, you will prepare a description of Australian engineering practice after watching lectures that introduce various disciplines of engineering. You will need to understand the main organisations and technical societies operating in this discipline, what software is frequently used and what are some of the major projects being undertaken.
Week 7 Friday (30 Apr 2021) 12:00 am AEST
Week 9 Friday (14 May 2021)
It is expected that the assessment item will be returned in 2 weeks after the due date.
A Marking Rubric is provided on Moodle that includes indicators of attainment at the 'Poor', 'Sound', 'Good' and 'Excellent, levels for each element of the assignment.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
- Summarise technical publications using paraphrasing and references
- Review Australian practice in a specialised field of engineering
- Communicate effectively through technical writing and presentations.
3 Written Assessment
Assessment 3 has two parts. In Part A, you will form a team with other students who completed A1 & A2 on similar topics. Your team will then combine your individual reviews to generate a comprehensive list of potential future projects. Your team will then choose one of these projects and develop a scope of investigation for a hypothetical feasibility study. To achieve this, your team will need to create a persuasive narrative based on background research that justifies why the project should proceed. You will also need to create a single aim statement which is dissolved into a series of objectives that describe the main aspects of the study and how they might be undertaken. Also, your team will need to list inclusions, exclusions, assumptions and limitations to further define the scope of the hypothetical investigation.
In Part B, your team will return to the stage 1 competencies and create a table that describes how each of the 16 elements are demonstrated through completing the feasibility study. Additionally, you will complete a self-review and allocate components of the study to team members based on their competencies.
Week 12 Friday (4 June 2021) 12:00 am AEST
Exam Week Friday (18 June 2021)
It is expected that the assessment item will be returned in 2 weeks after the due date.
A Marking Rubric is provided on Moodle that includes indicators of attainment at the 'Poor', 'Sound', 'Good' and 'Excellent, levels for each element of the assignment.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
- Deconstruct a project into Engineers Australia’s graduate competencies
- Generate a scope for a feasibility study of an engineering project
- Work collaboratively based on critical self-review of graduate competencies
- Communicate effectively through technical writing and presentations.
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.