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.

Assessment Tasks

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

Past Exams

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 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50.00% response rate.

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.

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Explain the principles of automatic control systems and typical control system building blocks [1, 3]
2. Articulate the principles and applications of sensors & final control elements in an automatic control system [1, 3, 5]
3. Discuss the role of the controller and explain its role in a control system [1, 3, 5]
4. Model and analyse the behaviour of dynamic systems and the controller in combination using appropriate mathematical, graphical and computer aided tools [1, 3]
5. Investigate and report the process of controller design for a dynamic system [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
6. Communicate effectively using control systems terminology, symbols and diagrams and prepare solutions and calculations documents professionally [1, 2, 3, 5, 9]
7. Work collaboratively and autonomously to solve problems and record and communicate clearly and professionally the approach used to solve problems [2, 4, 6, 9, 10]

Each of the above Learning Outcomes contributes to the development of the Engineers Australia's Professional Graduate Attributes (abridged) designated by [ ]:

1. science and engineering fundamentals

2. communicate effectively.

3. technical competence

4. problem identification and solution.

5. systems design and operation

6. individual and teamwork

7. professionalism and ethics.

8. lifelong learning.

2. communicate effectively

3. technical competence

4. problem identification and solution

5. systems design and operation

6. individual and teamwork

7. broad perspectives

8. sustainability framework

9. professionalism and ethics

10. lifelong learning

• Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
• Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes