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 3 - 2023
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 T2, 2023 SUTE and Unit Coordinator’s reflection
Students need detailed assessment feedback
Students should receive comprehensive feedback on their assignments including a table summarising deductions for each question.
Feedback from T2 2023 SUTE Unit Comments Report
A well-designed unit with excellent support from the unit coordinator.
This is positive feedback. The practice should continue moving forward.
- 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
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 by James Trevelyan (CRC Press 2014).
(2014)
Authors: James Trevelyan
Binding: Hardcover
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microsft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
n.khandoker@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Unit
Fundamentals of Engineering Practice
What makes an Engineer? Competencies, Skills, Qualities and Attributes
Chapter
The making of an expert engineer. Chapter: Preface, practice concept, 1-2.
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
View videos or texts related to famous engineering projects and discuss.
Skills Audit, SWOT Analysis
Commence development of E-portfolio of Reflective Practice
Module/Topic
Engineer's Code of Ethics
Chapter
Lecture notes
The making of an expert engineer. Chapter: 2-5
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Guest Lecture 1 Academic Integrity and Ethical Conduct.
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Module/Topic
Information Literacy - Retrieval, Analysis, Storage, Sharing
Chapter
Lecture notes
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Writing exercises based on selected discipline-based case studies in the Australian context.
ENDNOTE Demonstration
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Module/Topic
Technical skills
Chapter
Lecture notes
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Advanced use of Excel in Engineering
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Module/Topic
No classes and workshops are scheduled during vacation week.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Referencing and Turnitin
Chapter
Lecture Notes.
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exercises on Literature surveys, databases and search engines
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues..
Module/Topic
Engineering communication, Teams, and Collaboration
Chapter
Lecture notes
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
E-portfolio of reflective practice continues.
Professional Competencies Portfolio (Individual) Due: Week 6 Monday (18 Dec 2023) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
No classes and workshops are scheduled during vacation week.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Workplace Health and Safety
Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Chapter
Lecture notes
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
OHS Act, Legislations, RA and RMPs
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Module/Topic
WIL & CPD
Chapter
Resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Module/Topic
Self-management and Professional Responsibility
Chapter
Resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Information Retrieval and Processing (Individual) Due: Week 9 Monday (15 Jan 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Engineering Project Management
Chapter
The Making of an expert engineer, Chapter: 10, 12
Additional resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues.
Module/Topic
Reflective writing
Chapter
Resources will be available in Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
How to reflect on job/project performance.
E-portfolio of Reflective Practice continues
Module/Topic
Review of the term.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
This task consists of two parts. In Part A, you will carry out a SWOT analysis of yourself and discuss your journey as an engineering graduate. You will list your career goals, the reason you have joined this course and what subdiscipline you wish to specialize in and why?
In Part B, summarize the Code of Ethics and state how you think they are important to the practice of engineering not just in Australia but across the globe.
You need to record your activities on a weekly basis and complete an e-portfolio to submit in Week 13 along with your final Assessment 3.
Week 6 Monday (18 Dec 2023) 11:45 pm AEST
Individual submission
Week 8 Friday (12 Jan 2024)
It is expected that the assessment item will be returned in 2 weeks after the due date.
A Marking Rubric will be provided on Moodle.
- Summarise technical publications using paraphrasing and references
- Deconstruct a project into Engineers Australia’s graduate competencies
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Written Assessment
In this task, for the engineering project you have chosen as a team, each team member will access relevant scientific and engineering databases and search engines and collect at least a total of 10 good-quality journal articles, conference papers, news articles and/or technical reports on the specified activity topic. You will prepare and submit an individual annotated bibliography along with a critique of your findings. You will also showcase your ability to use a package such as ENDNOTE to manage your bibliography.
Week 9 Monday (15 Jan 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Individual submission
Week 11 Friday (2 Feb 2024)
It is expected that the assessment item will be returned in 2 weeks after the due date.
A Marking Rubric is provided on Moodle.
- Summarise technical publications using paraphrasing and references
- Review Australian practice in a specialised field of engineering
- Communicate effectively through technical writing and presentations.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
3 Written Assessment
This is a team project. You will form a team of 3 members. You will select any one engineering problem that is posted in the handout and get it approved by your UC. You will evolve a plan of action to solve the problem you have selected by systematically applying all the knowledge you are acquiring in this unit. This will include your engineering and technical knowledge and skills, professional skills such as information management, communication, leadership and collaboration, engineering ethics and professional responsibility.
You will submit a team report of your proposal. This submission will also include a section on reflective practice where each team member will capture how they have showcased their Stage 1 Engineering Competencies, what challenges the team has faced and how the team overcame them.
Week 12 Friday (9 Feb 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Team submission (Only one submission from Each Team)
Exam Week Friday (16 Feb 2024)
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', 'Excellent', etc., levels for each element of the assignment.
- 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.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
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?
