ENTM12006 - Industrial Fluid Power

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will teach students about designing fluid power systems for automated and semi-automated industrial plants. You will be exploring fluid power elements and their ISO standard symbols, designing fluid power circuits using hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, power sources, directional control and other control valves, sensors and control systems. Control technology may include both hydraulic and pneumatic systems integrated with programmable controllers (PLCs and micro-controllers). During the mandatory residential school you will attain, in a team, hands-on skills in automation circuit design experiencing several laboratory experiments in areas of hydraulic and pneumatic operating system design and control circuit design integrated with PLCs for automated machines. Simulation systems like SimScape and FluidSim may be applied for confirming the functionality of your designed projects. You will communicate professionally using discipline-specific terminology to present designs and problem solutions accomplishing a Student Portfolio. Relevant problem solving, technical reports on projects and laboratory experiments are the formative assessment items during the Term. Online students are required to have access to a computer and internet to make frequent use of the Unit Moodle.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prereq: ENAG11002 Energy & Electricity or ENEG11009 Fundamentals of Energy & Electricity or PHYS11185 Engineering Physics B

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 - 2026

Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode

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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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% 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: Evaluation feedback
Feedback
More organised, on weekly basis, learning materials in the Moodle site.
Recommendation
Suggested to organise and sort out, more appropriately making easy-accessible, all learning and assessment materials at the beginning of the term.
Action Taken
Attempts were made to organise the huge span of the unit Moodle site and sort out learning materials, additional materials, videos, etc.
Source: UC reflection and students' wish
Feedback
Sourcing and using automation industry simulation software (free for students) to test their designed fluid circuit prior to lab experiments.
Recommendation
Recommended continuing sourcing fluid circuit simulation software (complimentary) from prominent industrial automation companies assisting students to use it for their tutorial and lab experiments.
Action Taken
Sourced fluid circuit simulation software from SMC. This was highly helpful for students in their lab work.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Lab instruction sheets
Recommendation
Revisiting the Lab instruction sheets and rewriting and reorganising the unit should make it easier to comprehend.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Lab report submission
Recommendation
Lab experiments should be started earlier in the term to avoid report submission in two stages.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Evaluation report
Feedback
The contents of the unit are aligned to modern day industry practices.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the unit content should be kept as is and that more modern examples and experiences from the industry should be included.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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