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 3 - 2024

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Mixed Mode
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2026 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 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 20% 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
Enough supplementary materials were provided to the students for their learning.
Recommendation
The same practice will be continued in next offering.
Action Taken
Additional new materials (videos, case studies, examples) were included to replace the old versions, but care was taken not to overload them.
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
Considering student's comments and concerns, quiz questions were reviewed and updated for quicker and easier understanding.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Assignment 2 requires multiple sources for data collection to solve.
Recommendation
Further guidance will be provided for student.
Action Taken
Special drop-in sessions were run for students, providing guidance on identifying and sourcing the process optimisation tables and graphs from the latest peer-reviewed published sources.
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
Meaningful collaborative communication has been conducted with all partner industries with much appreciation.
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
The content and delivered materials and resources are kept at a higher level and useful for manufacturing industries.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
More interaction during delivery helps students better.
Recommendation
The lecturer should interact with students more frequently during lectures by asking relevant challenging questions.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Students and UC
Feedback
Industry site visit is exceptionally helpful.
Recommendation
To develop practical knowledge for students, it is recommended that industry site visits should be held in areas of different campus locations, making it easier for students to attend.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: UC
Feedback
Industry practice oriented assessment and unit content are making students ready for jobs.
Recommendation
The assessment questions should be based on real-life industry experiences to keep the lectures and tutorials more relevant to modern manufacturing industry practices.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Students and UC
Feedback
Implication of latest research output in unit content (lecture, tutorial, assessment) is creating inspiration for students.
Recommendation
The latest and relevant-to-topic research output should be used in lectures, tutorials and assessments.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Provide in-depth knowledge of individual manufacturing processes.
Recommendation
Lectures, tutorials, and assessments should reflect clear and in-depth specialist knowledge of individual topics.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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