| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| 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 |
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| 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. |
| 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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| 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 will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • 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 | | 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% | | 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% | | 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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