ENEM13012 - Maintenance Engineering

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit introduces you to the importance of effective maintenance management in the 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. You are introduced to techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment, and to processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring in the light of ISO55000. You will investigate maintenance management problems and prepare plans to solve such problems in context of relevant UN Sustainable Goals. The unit delineates methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and improving maintenance management systems and provides a platform for developing skills for working and learning autonomously to solve problems, document approaches used to solve problems, and communicate professionally.

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
Pre-requisite: ENEG11007 Industry Project Investigation OR ENTA11014 Aircraft Structural Maintenance Practices.

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 1 - 2025

Term 1 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2026 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 20%
2. Written Assessment 30%
3. Presentation and Written Assessment 50%

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

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 0.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 4.35% 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: Student's email & SUTE
Feedback
Overall rating of the unit delivery.
Recommendation
Recommended to make the real-life case studies, alive maintenance examples more accessible for the students.
Action Taken
Current industry case studies and maintenance examples have been sourced and delivered to students.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Clear and useful feedback.
Recommendation
Recommended to keep providing high-class elaborated feedback showing how a student lost marks, providing a written explanation of the answer, and indicating the fruitful sources.
Action Taken
Clear and informative feedback was provided, indicating how the marks had been lost and how they could be improved.
Source: Students' comments
Feedback
Materials sourced from more varied resources could enhance the lecture.
Recommendation
Since the class is multi-disciplinary, recommended, examples in the lecture should be added from different engineering discipline areas, so as the assessment setting.
Action Taken
Source case studies, examples from mining and bulk handling engineering and construction engineering; these have been delivered to students.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Maintenance data for assignments were hard to source.
Recommendation
Recommended, Lecturer to help sourcing the data, also recommended that the lecturer should offer information on the required data set for students.
Action Taken
UC collected and provided data for assignment works for those who failed to source a company.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Useful learning materials in-accessibility.
Recommendation
Strongly recommended to improve the accessibility to learning materials including enhancing quality of the materials.
Action Taken
New videos, articles, short stories and case studies have been sourced for the class.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Students are looking for enhanced learning materials.
Recommendation
Content-relevant short videos and case studies on industry maintenance practices for students should be made available in the unit Moodle site.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Overall impression of the unit delivery.
Recommendation
Modern industry maintenance practices, examples, case studies, and sufficient feedback on assessments for learning and other areas of delivery should be enhanced.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Clear and useful feedback in assessment marking.
Recommendation
Keep providing elaborate feedback indicating how the assessment item has lost marks, how it should be improved, and how and where they can learn more.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Students prefer to have clear scope of the unit in Wk 1 delivery.
Recommendation
A clear understanding of unit content, scope, and assessment items should be provided in the first lecture of the Term in the next offering.
Action Taken
In Progress
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
  2. Describe processes for developing maintenance strategies and plans including explanations of costs and benefits of maintenance management
  3. Analyse effective techniques and methods for condition monitoring of plants and equipment professionally in the context of ISO55000
  4. Investigate and statistically analyse maintenance problems and develop plans to solve maintenance management problems
  5. Apply modern methods for assessing maintenance management effectiveness, improving maintenance systems, and controlling maintenance
  6. Work and learn autonomously and professionally communicate problem-solving approaches observing relevant UN SDGs.

The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
Introductory
1.5 Knowledge of engineering design practice and contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline. (LO: 1N 2N 4N 6N 7N )
3.1 Ethical conduct and professional accountability. (LO: 1N 2N 7N )
 
Intermediate
1.1 Comprehensive, theory-based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline. (LO: 1I 2I 3I 4I 5I 6I 7I )
1.2 Conceptual understanding of the mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer and information sciences which underpin the engineering discipline. (LO: 7I )
1.4 Discernment of knowledge development and research directions within the engineering discipline. (LO: 1I 2I 3I 4I 5I 6I 7I ) 1.6 Understanding of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities, and bounds of sustainable engineering practice in the specific discipline. (LO: 1I 2I 3I 4I 5I 6I 7I )
2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving. (LO: 1I 2I 3I 4I 5I 6I 7I )
2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools, and resources. (LO: 1N 2N 3I 4I 5I 6I 7I )
2.3 Application of systematic engineering synthesis and design processes. (LO: 1I 2I 3I 4I 5I 6I 7I )
2.4 Application of systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects. (LO: 7I )
3.2 Effective oral and written communication in professional and lay domains. (LO: 1I 2I 4I 6I 7I ) 3.3 Creative, innovative, and pro-active demeanour. (LO: 1N 3I 4I 6I 7I )
3.4 Professional use and management of information. (LO: 1I 3I 4I 6I 7I ) 3.5 Orderly management of self, and professional conduct. (LO: 3I 6I 7I ) 3.6 Effective team membership and team leadership. (LO: 7I )
 
Advanced 1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering discipline. (LO: 1I 2A 3I 4I 5I 6A 7I )

Note: LO refers to the Learning Outcome number(s) that link to the competency and the levels: N – Introductory, I – Intermediate and A - Advanced.
Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for further information on the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers and course level mapping informationhttps://moodle.cqu.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1511

 

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • •
2 - Written Assessment • • •
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking •
4 - Information Literacy • • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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