| Effective Term: | 2025/08 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Materials Handling and Hoisting |
| Unit ID: | ENGRG4404 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (ENGIN5513) |
| ASCED: | 030303 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit qualifies participants to apply an advanced body of knowledge in the area of surface and underground loading, haulage and hoisting and equips them with highly developed skills for research and enquiry. Students enrolled in this unit will be able to apply the body of knowledge to a range of contexts within the mining industry enabling them to undertake professional or highly skilled work within the mining industry and allow them to undertake further study. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| 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. | Interpret materials handling and hoisting systems used in surface and underground mining. |
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| K2. | Demonstrate cycle time calculations within materials handling. |
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| K3. | Identify the interaction between different materials handling systems. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Select appropriate systems for the various types of mineral deposits in varying conditions. |
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| S2. | Assess materials handling and hoisting systems. |
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| S3. | Select appropriate tools to solve problems in materials handling. |
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| S4. | Partition materials handling and/or hoisting systems. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Plan a materials handling and/or hoisting system for an underground mining system, and conceptualize the major infrastructure and equipment required. |
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| A2. | Design and optimise a materials handling and/or hoisting system as a core part of mine planning to faciliate the requests of mining production, mine ventilation and services. |
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| Unit Content: |
Hoisting, Underground Rail, Trackless Mining, Conveyors, Pipeline Systems, Pneumatic Systems.
Topics may include:
Selection of appropriate materials systems for differing mining systems.
Design features, design calculations accounting for the whole cycle of operations and system optimisation.
Interaction between different materials handling systems, determination of storage requirements.
Planning materials handling systems.
Tracked or fixed haulage systems comparison with trackless methods, which is the optimal choice.
Automation of mine materials handling systems, available and future systems. |
| 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 high-level skills to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups Students will be required to display (in person and/or online) high-level skills in-person and/or online in: • Effective verbal and non-verbal communication via a range of synchronous and asynchronous methods • Active listening for meaning and influencing • High-level empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating extended conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply leadership skills and behaviours Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating, contributing to, and enabling collegial environments • Showing self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect for personal growth • Inspiring and enabling others • Making informed and evidence-based decisions through consultation with others • Displaying initiative and ability to solve problems | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments, using their imagination to create new ideas Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically on complex problems • Synthesising, evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Proposing alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts through deep inquiry • Proposing creative solutions in problem solving | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work proficiently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks Students will be required to display high-level skills in: • Finding, accessing, collating, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and appropriately and securely sharing complex digital information at a high-level • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Using digital tools appropriately to conduct research • Contributing proficiently to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and utilising digital learning opportunities | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to think ethically and sustainably. Students will be required to display skills in: • The responsible conduct of research • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in multiple global economic environmental and societal contexts • Demonstrating commitment to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Generating research solutions which are sustainable,ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable • Extending lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Demonstrate extended actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, S4 | Numerical and conceptual tasks related to the learning outcomes of this unit. | Written assignments | 10-30% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2 | Design a materials handling or hoisting system for a mining method, or a component of the system | Design report/Presentation | 30-50% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2 | Written Test/Exam | Written Test/Exam | 30-50% |
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