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Unit Synopsis
Generating creative design project ideas, pitching a project proposal, assembling a design team, developing a comprehensive project plan and undertaking a project are all vital skills that enable engineers to establish work opportunities. This unit takes you through the creative process of developing a prototype for an innovative design. You will consult with stakeholders, generate design ideas and as a member of a small design team, manage the development of a functional prototype and fine-tune the prototype based on stakeholder feedback. You will pitch and demonstrate your prototype to an audience of peers and industry. You will apply relevant fundamental discipline knowledge and skills as well as project management principles. Completing this unit will enable you to hone skills exhibited by productive entrepreneurial engineers.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 2 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: (ENEG11007 Engineering Industry Project Investigation OR ENEG11002 Engineering Skills 2) AND (ENEG11006 Engineering Statics OR ENEG11009 Fundamentals of Energy and Electricity OR PHYS11184 Engineering Physics A OR PHYS11185 Engineering Physics B) AND MATH11218 Applied Mathematics AND ENEG11008 Materials for Engineers 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 |
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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 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. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 30% |
| 4. Portfolio | 30% |
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%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
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: Student Evaluations
The unit was delivered well with excellent lectures.
The good quality of lectures should be maintained in the future.
The quality lectures were maintained.
Source: Student Evaluations
Some assessment items were old and needs to be replaced with newer versions much earlier.
The newer versions should be made available sooner.
The newer versions were made available earlier in the term.
Source: SUTE
There were some unnecessary resource links on the course website.
The unnecessary links should be reviewed and removed when necessary.
In Progress
Source: SUTE
A discussion forum will be good for discussing ideas after the first assignment.
While online forums were available, alternate digital ways to share initial ideas should be facilitated.
In Progress
Source: SUTE
The design change notes were hard to manage as evidence towards the final assignment.
The submitted design notes should be shared periodically by creating a new website for better visualisation.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Pitch a design idea that proposes to investigate opportunities for improvement, solve a problem or produce a new product
- Develop a design specification by incorporating relevant Australian Standards and gathering information from potential users or clients
- Produce a functional prototype by applying project management skills, stakeholder feedback, relevant discipline knowledge, and the principles of sustainable development
- Communicate effectively, work productively, and be professionally accountable as part of a design team
- Reflect on the processes of creative design, project management, and prototype production.
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.
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| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | |||
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