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ENEM13012 - Maintenance Engineering

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit outlines the importance of effective maintenance management in industry, the costs of maintenance and the benefits of effective maintenance planning and strategies. Emphasis is placed on practical aspects of managing maintenance for plant and equipment. Students are introduced to techniques and method for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment, and to processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring. They investigate maintenance problems and prepare plans to solve such problems. The unit outlines methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and improving maintenance systems, and provides a vehicle for developing skills for working and learning autonomously to solve problems, to document approaches used to solve problems and to communicate professionally. Distance education (FLEX) students are required to have access to a computer and to make frequent use of the Internet.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

[ENEG11002 Engineering Skills 2 or ENEA 11002 Engineering Skills 2]

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 - 2014

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

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. Written Assessment 15%
2. Written Assessment 25%
3. Written Assessment 60%

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 1 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 66.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 37.50% 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: Unit Evaluation Report
Feedback
Assessment items missing out on real-life industry practices.
Recommendation
Suggested to re-narrate assessment items for more comprehensiveness and making them more closely aligned to industry practices.
Action Taken
Each student was given the opportunity to contact an individual engineering company to collect real-life maintenance data and they processed these data for their assessment items.
Source: Unit Evaluation Report
Feedback
The unit is well-constructed and informative.
Recommendation
Suggested to keep the current unit content and possibly to add any item from the latest development.
Action Taken
The well-developed unit content was kept as it was but additional real-life industry examples have been added.
Source: UC
Feedback
Knowledge on LO3 is missing in the content.
Recommendation
Decide to add a topic on condition monitoring industrial plants for next delivery.
Action Taken
Well-exhausted content and condition monitoring management in progress.
Source: Unit Evaluation data
Feedback
Enhance feedback on assignment.
Recommendation
Continue to add comments to students’ submitted assignments but also explore grading sheets based on the marking rubric for students to see grade distribution/calculation.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Unit Evaluation report
Feedback
Assignment marking in due time.
Recommendation
Recommend returning all assessments within two weeks of the due date or after students with extensions have submitted.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Unit Evaluation report and UC reflection
Feedback
Source industry data for assessment items for real life skills development.
Recommendation
Recommended to continue sourcing individual industry projects for data collection and processing the collected data for their assessment items.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management [3, 7, 8]
  2. Describe processes for establishing maintenance needs of engineering operations, and developing maintenance plans and strategies, and explain costs and benefits of maintenance management [2, 3, 5, 8]
  3. Describe techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment [1, 2, 3]
  4. Describe processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring programs for specific applications of plant and equipment [2, 3, 5, 7]
  5. Investigate and analyse maintenance problems and develop plans to solve these problems [ 3, 4, 5]
  6. Describe methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and methods for improving maintenance systems and control of maintenance [2, 3, 5, 8]
  7. Work and learn autonomously to solve problems and record and communicate clearly and professionally the approaches used to solve problems and the rationale for adopting such approaches to problems [2, 6, 9, 10]

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 - Written Assessment
2 - Written Assessment
3 - Written Assessment
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 - Communication
2 - Problem Solving
4 - Information Literacy
8 - Ethical practice
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Written Assessment
2 - Written Assessment
3 - Written Assessment