In this course, students explore the role of engineers in ethically developing and maintaining sustainable socio-technical systems. They holistically investigate environmental, social, cultural and global impacts arising from use of renewable and non-renewable energy and resources, and review engineering projects to assess their sustainability. Students review professional capabilities expected of engineering associates, evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses and develop personal improvement plans. They research issues, evaluate the quality of the information obtained and prepare reports and presentations to communicate results. Students develop communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills required to function effectively in the engineering workplace and as collaborative learners. Students will be required to attend a compulsory residential school early in Term 1 to promote development of course learning outcomes.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 1 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
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).
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.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Written Assessment | 20% |
2. Written Assessment | 20% |
3. Presentation and Written Assessment | 20% |
4. Written Assessment | 40% |
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%).
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 43.75% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
The following are the abbreviated Program Graduate Attributes of the highest level program that the course is offered in. The above learning outcomes contribute to those Graduate Attributes as designated by [ ]:
AD Eng GAs
1. science and engineering
2. communicate effectively
3. technical support competence
4. simple problem resolution
5. standards and codes of practice
6. function as a team member
7. social, cultural, global and environmental
8. sustainable design and development
9. professionalism and ethics
10.lifelong learning
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2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
4 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
5 - Team Work | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | ||||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | |||||||
8 - Ethical practice | • | • |
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2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | ||||||
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
4 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |