ENEM13018 - Materials and Manufacturing

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit offers comprehensive information on material behaviours and manufacturing properties, principles, processes, and technologies. The unit aims to deepen the understanding of the material selection process and enables you to identify appropriate manufacturing processes for a particular product design and development. You will study bulk deformation, material removal, finishing and joining and other modern manufacturing processes. You will also study product design, quality management, and manufacturing in a competitive environment. You will apply information literacy skills to obtain relevant engineering information and identify appropriate standards and practices.

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
Prerequisites: (ENEG11008 Materials for Engineers or ENEG12005 Materials Science & Engineering) and MATH11218 Applied Mathematics or MATH11219 Engineering Mathematics. 

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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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2025

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Mixed Mode
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

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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%).

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Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 71.43% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 25% 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
Feedback
Topics were practical and interesting to learn.
Recommendation
To keep the unit content and assessments widely industry-oriented for better career outcomes for graduates.
Action Taken
The proposed recommendation has been implemented vigorously. All assessment items are gradually updated and set on current practices of manufacturing.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
The industry site visit was helpful to understand several manufacturing processes.
Recommendation
Continue industry site visits for all campuses and for all students. Visits are organised and coordinated by local academics. A written report on the visit constitutes Assignment 3 which is worth 20% of marks.
Action Taken
Industry site visits were organised for all campus locations. The visits were successful with kind collaboration among industry partners.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
More videos or demonstrations of manufacturing processes would be appropriate.
Recommendation
Recommended sourcing more demo videos for wider learning.
Action Taken
Fruitful and concise demo videos concentrated on manufacturing processes have been posted in weekly sections of Moodle site.
Source: Unit Evaluation and UC
Feedback
Short lectures and tutorials.
Recommendation
Proposed to revert back to 2-hour lectures and 2-hour tutorials to provide students with more time to assimilate the subject matter.
Action Taken
Two-hour lecture classes were reinstalled and two-hour tutorial classes allowed enough time.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Inadequate explanation of assessments
Recommendation
Revise assessments and ensure they clearly convey what is required.
Action Taken
Text in assessment items has been improved for better clarity resulting in escalating HD and D grades.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Due time return of marked assessments
Recommendation
Recommended returning marked assessments by the due date, as well as greater feedback helping further learning.
Action Taken
Enough written feedback has been provided but still, there is a scope for individual discussion.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Enough supplementary materials were provided to the students for their learning.
Recommendation
The same practice will be continued in next offering.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
The clarification of some Quizzes were not adequate.
Recommendation
The QUIZ questions will be revised to ensure clear clarification.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Assignment 2 requires multiple sources for data collection to solve.
Recommendation
Further guidance will be provided for student.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
The industry site visits were helpful to learn manufacturing processes in practice.
Recommendation
Recommended to keep site visits ongoing.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
The unit content was appropriate for a Mechanical Engineering degree.
Recommendation
The same practice will be continued in next offering.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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