Unit Synopsis
In this unit, you will engage with a complex, real-world problem that crosses disciplinary boundaries. You will use a systems engineering approach to explore stakeholder needs and to write a set of requirements. In approaching the design task, you will need to balance technical, economic, social, and environmental issues and constraints. At the heart of such problem solving are teamwork, communication, knowledge management, and evaluation using sustainability principles.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 8 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | HECS Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
At least 24 cp of the Master of Engineering.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 1 - 2026
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 12-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 3. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 4. Project (applied) | 30% |
| 5. Presentation | 10% |
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
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 1 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 96.77% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 100% 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
The guest lecturer's exposure to the students on 'bushfire and its mitigation in Australia' was interesting and helpful for the students to figure out one of the sustainability issues in Australia.
The similar engagement practice between the industry expert(s) and the students will be continued in the next offering.
An industry Guest Lecturer from Aus Net delivered a lecture on Bushfire due to electrical faults.
Source: Have your Say
There is a recommendation of providing with a few more recent sustainability issue related journal articles in the Moodle.
Relevant journal articles and websites for each week's classes and tutorials/workshops will be made available in the next offering.
A number of journals and website articles were made available in each week's tutorials/workshops.
Source: "Have your say" in Moodle
Additional real-world sustainability examples could be helpful.
Include more authentic examples of sustainable engineering design.
In Progress
Source: "Have your say" in Moodle
Some of the best aspects of this unit are timely reminders for assignments, appreciation of work done by the students, taking care of each student.
The same practice will be continued in the next offering.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Show evidence of grappling with complex issues through stakeholder engagement
- Develop a set of stakeholder requirements
- Apply a systematic design process (systems engineering) to develop solutions to an issue
- Demonstrate self-awareness of thinking processes and values, including socio-ecological thinking and uncertainty
- Develop and pitch a change proposal
- Reflect on the contribution of this project to professional development.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||||
| 3 - Written Assessment | • | • | ||||
| 4 - Project (applied) | • | • | ||||
| 5 - Presentation | • | • | ||||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | |||
| 2 - Communication | • | • | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | |||||
| 4 - Research | • | • | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | ||
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | ||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |