Unit Synopsis
Engineers are often required to evaluate the performance of various types of engineering assets. The ability to analyse maintenance data and develop effective maintenance plans are important skills for today’s engineers. This unit will introduce you to asset maintenance standards, strategies, philosophies, and procedures, including the basic principles of asset management systems. You will investigate and report on key concepts relating to asset and maintenance management in engineering organisations. You will learn the fundamentals of asset maintenance and management strategies, reliability, and life cycle engineering of assets to maximise and optimise their value. You will gain insight into the governing ISO standards and their application in real-world scenarios. You will learn how to use different diagnostic tools such as failure mode effect and critical analysis, reliability-centred maintenance, and collect and analyse maintenance data in several engineering contexts. These learning objectives will be achieved through successful completions of online quizzes, a group project, and an individual assignment. This knowledge will help to predict the future reliability performance of operating assets, as well as to develop and recommend appropriate maintenance strategies for different engineering assets.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2026
Term 3 - 2026 Profile
Attendance Requirements
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 92.86% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 32.56% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
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Source: SUTE report
Provide students with up-to-date learning materials.
To ensure students have access to the most relevant and up-to-date learning resources, the unit coordinator should include the latest editions of the recommended textbooks in the unit profile.
The latest edition of the textbooks followed in this unit were included in the unit profile.
Source: UC reflection
Students would benefit from personalised consultation with the lecturer.
The lecturer should provide extra consultation time for the required students.
In Progress
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