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ENEG11006 - Engineering Statics

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Understanding forces applied to structural elements and static equilibrium concepts is essential for analysis of statically determinate engineering structures including beams, trusses and frames. You will analyse such structures under external forces to create Free-body diagrams, calculate support reactions and determine internal forces acting on the structures. You will be drawing diagrams of Shear Force and Bending Moments after calculating the internal forces.

Details

Level Undergraduate
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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2016

Term 1 - 2017 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Distance
Gladstone
Mackay
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2017 Profile
Distance
Term 1 - 2018 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Distance
Gladstone
Mackay
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2018 Profile
Distance
Term 1 - 2019 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2019 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2020 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2020 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2021 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2021 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2022 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2022 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2023 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2023 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2024 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 3 - 2024 Profile
Online

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).

Assessment Overview

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

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 20%
2. Written Assessment 20%
3. Written Assessment 20%
4. Examination 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%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 84.21% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 20.88% 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.

Source: Have your say survey
Feedback
More feedback to be provided for assessments.
Recommendation
Efforts will be made to speed up the process and to provide more feedback.
Action Taken
To have more consistency in grading the assessments, assignments were marked by one marker. All the assessments were returned to students within the specified time.
Source: Have you say survey
Feedback
The quizzes are well-designed to cover all aspects and well-distributed over several weeks.
Recommendation
This practice will continue.
Action Taken
This good practice was maintained.
Source: Have you say survey
Feedback
More detailed step-by-step solution for problem be provided.
Recommendation
More detailed step-by-step solutions should be provided for sample problems.
Action Taken
Examples with step-by-step solution have been added as additional learning materials.
Source: Student Survey
Feedback
The unit is well-organised with thorough lecturers and tutorials.
Recommendation
Maintain high-quality lectures and tutorials and unit good organisation in future offerings.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student Survey
Feedback
Some questions in the textbook do not have worked solutions.
Recommendation
The textbook contains lots of examples of the worked solutions. Students should use the problems at the end of each section for further practice. The final answer to these problems is provided at the end of the textbook. Furthermore, the weekly tutorial questions are selected from these problems and the full solution to these selected problems is available on Moodle.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Student Survey
Feedback
Relate questions in the assessments to real-world problems.
Recommendation
The real-world relevance of different concepts taught in this unit is discussed in the lectures and tutorials wherever applicable. Consider more emphasis on the application of different concepts in the design of the assignments.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Analyse two dimensional force systems to determine resultant forces
  2. Calculate sectional properties such as centre of gravity, centroid and second moment of Inertia of simple structural forms
  3. Apply static equilibrium concepts to bodies with external forces and moments, create Free-body diagrams and determine support reactions
  4. Analyse statically determinate structures, including beams, frames and trusses, to calculate internal forces and create Shear-force and Bending-moment diagrams.
  5. Demonstrate a professional level of communication skills in written work

Learning outcomes are linked to Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies and also discipline capabilities. You can find the mapping for this on the Engineering Undergraduate Course website.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Online Quiz(zes)
2 - Written Assessment
3 - Written Assessment
4 - Examination
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication
2 - Problem Solving
3 - Critical Thinking
8 - Ethical practice
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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1 - Online Quiz(zes)
2 - Written Assessment
3 - Written Assessment
4 - Examination