| Effective Term: | 2027/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Engineering Design 1 |
| Unit ID: | ENGRG1003 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (ENGIN1005) |
| ASCED: | 039999 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit uses active learning to apply basic statics and engineering methods for building, design and testing. Theories of statics are introduced to analyse structures including beams and trusses. Material properties and their integration in the analysis and design process are also covered. The unit includes a major group project where students design a solution to an engineering problem with defined boundaries and specifications. Students learn how to select and apply analysis methods and make justifiable design decisions to achieve the set outcomes. The engineering builds will be tested and assessed for performance and efficiency. Attendance is required to complete laboratory-based activities in this unit. On-campus students must attend laboratory sessions throughout the semester. Online students enrolled in the Bachelor of Engineering must attend compulsory block-mode laboratory sessions at Mt Helen campus. These sessions provide students with the opportunity to complete practical work, build engineering skills, and complete assessments. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Develop a comprehensive understanding of actions, and internal and external reactions in rigid body equilibrium, including the principles of statics and their application in engineering design. |
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| K2. | Demonstrate knowledge of the key properties of structural materials, and their relevance to specific engineering applications. |
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| K3. | Explain measurement systems, and their significance in assessing the performance and integrity of structural designs. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Recognize different structural systems and simplify physical structures into reliable models for analysis and design. |
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| S2. | Determine reactions, internal member forces in basic beam and truss systems and apply design methods to select and propose members effectively. |
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| S3. | Assess the mechanical properties of structural material to guide engineering designs regarding structural performance and environmental considerations. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Demonstrate effective teamwork skills by collaborating with team members to define professional goals and discern the practices that lead to successful teamwork in a multicultural context. |
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| A2. | Utilize appropriate engineering and mathematical techniques to justify design decisions, considering factors such as structural integrity, safety, and efficiency. |
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| A3. | Perform laboratory experiments, analyse results, and report the behaviour of structural members and systems professionally. |
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| Other outcomes: |
| Unit Content: |
Topics may include:
1. Structures and loads
2. Equilibrium and reactions
3. Mechanical properties of materials
4. Material properties and selection
5. Centre of gravity, centroid, moments of inertia and area
6. Analysis of beams and trusses
7. Shear force and bending moment diagrams
8. Deflection, strains and sensors |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K1, K2, S1, S2, S3, A2 |
Active participation in classes and other forms of learning activates including workshops or lab sessions and completing required readings practices and groupwork logs. |
Worksheets, tests |
10% - 30% |
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| 2. |
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 |
Apply fundamental statics and engineering mechanics methods to build a solution for an engineering problem. |
Major design project |
30% - 50% |
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| 3. |
K1, K2, S1, S2, S3, A2 |
Test(s) on any or all of the material covered in the unit. |
Final test/Exam |
30% - 50% |
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