• 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 Christopher Browne
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in First Semester 2017
    Winter Session 2017
    Second Semester 2017
    See Future Offerings

This course is designed to mimic an industrial design problem as closely as practical in a university setting. Students are assigned to teams and given an ill-defined problem statement. From the problem statement, the students are responsible for developing the full set of requirements and key performance indicators to guide the design. The students then proceed through a systems design process including conceptual design, sub-system requirements, and quantitative tradeoff analyses, using the full range of engineering science and professional skills developed during the degree course. The course emphasises teamwork (both team leadership and membership), communication skills (formal and informal, written and oral), and team and personal management and a professional approach to engineering design.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Synthesise technical engineering knowledge and approaches to generate solutions to a complex design project.

2. Develop, analyse, and critically evaluate alternative design options in order to justify and generate designs in a real-world project.

3. Apply project management and organisational skills to produce time-sensitive deliverables in a multi-disciplinary team.

4. Effective transmission of engineering design decisions and solutions using appropriate media to professional and lay audiences.

5. Demonstrate and reflect on leadership and creativity as an individual and within a multi-disciplinary team.

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

Indicative Assessment

• project progress documentation (65%) including project initiation document, preliminary project plan, systems requirement specification, conceptual design review, project management plan and preliminary design presentation
• final design report (35%) and associated documentation.
The grade for each team member will be moderated around the team grade based on peer review.

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Workload

10 budgeted hours of group work as determined by the needs of your project plan, which will evolve over the semester. Indicative duties include design, research, management, and documentation tasks.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed ENGN2226 and ENGN3221.

Prescribed Texts

No required texts, however texts used in previous courses (especially ENGN2225 and ENGN3221) may be of use.

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
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2017 $3852
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2017 $5130
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
2310 20 Feb 2017 27 Feb 2017 31 Mar 2017 26 May 2017 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
6919 12 Jun 2017 07 Jul 2017 07 Jul 2017 01 Sep 2017 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
8094 24 Jul 2017 31 Jul 2017 31 Aug 2017 27 Oct 2017 In Person N/A

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