ENEM29002 - Fluid Power Engineering and Control

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This project-based unit is about designing fluid power systems for automated and semiautomated industrial plants. This unit deals with exploring fluid power elements and their ISO standard symbols, designing fluid power circuits using actuators, directional control, and other valves, sensors, and control systems. Control technology may include both hydraulic and pneumatic systems integrated with programmable controllers (PLCs and microcontrollers). In small teams, you will undertake project work involving solving real-life industrial problems. There are also several laboratory experiments in the areas of hydraulic and pneumatic operating system design and control circuit design integrated with PLCs for automated machines. You will use simulation software (SimScape and/or FluidSim) for confirming the functionality of designed projects prior to prototyping. You will communicate professionally using discipline-specific terminology to present designs and problem solutions. Students enrolled in online mode must attend a compulsory residential school to facilitate peer collaboration and attainment of the unit learning outcomes.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 12
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.25
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).

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Residential School Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026

Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Melbourne
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 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

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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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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: SUTE
Feedback
Students are looking for clear scope of the unit.
Recommendation
The unit scope should be delivered in a broader sense and more appropriately in the first lecture.
Action Taken
The clear scope, unit content, assessment items have been delivered in Week 1 lecture with high acceptability.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
More short videos for each items of the unit content could help better.
Recommendation
Short and quality video recordings relevant to each topic or sub-topic should be provided in the unit Moodle site throughout the Term and existing ones should be replaced by quality ones videos.
Action Taken
Quality short and relevant videos sourced for Fluid Power companies have been provided via the Unit Moodle site and that's for different sections of the unit content.
Source: UC & SUTE
Feedback
Learner-friendly assessment items may help better learning.
Recommendation
Innovative type assessment method should be introduced while individual student will work on his/her own mini-project of his own interest.
Action Taken
Creative and innovative problems relevant to modern engineering automation industries have been targeted in assignments and in lab exercises.
Source: Students
Feedback
Students are looking for better conceptual understanding of the projects they do in both Assignment 1 and Assignment 2.
Recommendation
Selection of project topics should be completed in Week 1 and the lecturer should provide clear concept of the selected topics in Week 1 so that the students can start working on their group assessment item from Week 2.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Students
Feedback
Students are preferring to start Lab experiments as early as in Week 3.
Recommendation
There are six lab experiments and these should be spread over the Term starting in Week 3 or 4 instead of all labs concentrated together in week 8 or 9.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Students
Feedback
Pneumatic control integrated with PLCs was a good experience for students.
Recommendation
Recommended to continue delivery of the unit with the developed structure (Hydraulics, Pneumatics and PLCs). This helps students to become job-ready graduates in areas of automation and smart production.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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