• Offered by Research School of Engineering
  • ANU College ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Course subject Engineering
  • Areas of interest Engineering
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Woei Ming Lee
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in Summer Session 2015
     First Semester 2015
     Winter Session 2015
     Second Semester 2015
     Spring Session 2015
     See Future Offerings
Special Topics in Engineering I (ENGN4520)

Winter Session 2015 - Engineering for a Humanitarian Context

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Professional Skills Mapping:
Mapping of Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Professional Competencies 

Other Information

It is run as a 4-week intensive course (approximately June 23 -  July 24).  The course will provide students with perspectives and tools to sensitively and appropriately apply their engineering practice for humanitarian contexts and development. It aims to expand students’ existing engineering knowledge to work with vulnerable, disadvantaged and marginalised individuals and communities in challenging and uncertain environments, informing and improving their overall engineering practice.  It is aimed at 3rd and 4th year students with an interest in humanitarian engineering or considering a research project in that area.

Students will have an opportunity to travel to and attend the Engineers Without Border Humanitarian Summit in Cambodia for a section of the course. Mandatory coursework will be completed prior to, during and following the summit. The summit is not a work experience unit and is supported by the course convenor and the College.

For Engineering students it will count as an ENGN elective or a general elective in the Bachelor of Engineering program. For Software Engineers it will count as a science/engineering/general elective. For all other computing degrees it will count as a general elective.

To enrol in this course, please email studentadmin.cecs@anu.edu.au for approval by the course convenor and a permission code to enroll into ENGN4520 (undergrad) or ENGN6520 (postgrad).

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Requisite and Incompatibility

You will need to contact the Research School of Engineering to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Assumed Knowledge

Need to have completed ENGN2225 or COMP3530

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
2
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500

Course fees

Domestic International
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2015 $3096
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2015 $4146
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.
2015
2016
2017

Summer Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
1702 01 Jan 2015 23 Jan 2015 23 Jan 2015 31 Mar 2015 In Person N/A

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
Biomedical Imaging
1415 16 Feb 2015 06 Mar 2015 31 Mar 2015 29 May 2015 In Person N/A

Winter Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
Engineering for a Humanitarian Context
1582 23 Jun 2015 03 Jul 2015 03 Jul 2015 24 Jul 2015 In Person N/A

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
Nanotechnology & Applications
1401 20 Jul 2015 07 Aug 2015 31 Aug 2015 30 Oct 2015 In Person N/A

Spring Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
1653 23 Nov 2015 11 Dec 2015 11 Dec 2015 12 Feb 2016 In Person N/A
EWB India Summit December 2015
1662 05 Dec 2015 25 Dec 2015 25 Dec 2015 22 Feb 2016 In Person N/A

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