School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Project Development
  • Unit Code

    ENS4152
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Haitham Elmohamdy KHALED

Description

This unit provides students with the opportunity to gain experience applying the engineering principles and skills they have learned in their coursework units to a specific practical engineering project. The project is selected in consultation with an academic supervisor, and can be nominated by the supervisor, by the student, or by an industry partner. Students will produce a project proposal and risk assessment at the start of the unit and will need to document the work completed towards the development of the project up to the end of the semester in a project development report. The project will be continued and completed in the follow-up unit ENS4253 Engineering Project.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 330 credit points

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess the scope and dimensions of an engineeringproject as a starting point for estimating costs and scale of effort required.
  2. Carry out a review of literature relevant to a project area.
  3. Complete a detailed options study and trade-off analysis.
  4. Effectively communicate research ideas and outcomes, both orally and in written form.
  5. Evaluate the commercial, financial and marketing aspects of an engineering project.
  6. Formulate solutions to a chosen problem with due consideration to the requirements for successful innovation.
  7. Maintain a project journal documenting findings, progress and achievements.
  8. Prepare a detailed project proposal.
  9. Prepare a formal risk analysis for a project.

Unit Content

  1. Conceptual development of alternative solutions.
  2. Critical review and analysis of the solutions.
  3. Literature review.
  4. Preparation of progress report.
  5. Presentation of a project seminar.
  6. Problem analysis.
  7. Problem formulation.
  8. Risk theory, assessment and management.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Regular meetings with the project supervisor.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportProposal and risk assessment report20%
ProjectProject work and journal30%
ReportProgress report40%
PresentationSeminar presentation10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Project Development
  • Unit Code

    ENS4152
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Haitham Elmohamdy KHALED

Description

This unit provides students with the opportunity to gain experience applying the engineering principles and skills they have learned in their coursework units to a specific practical engineering project. The project is selected in consultation with an academic supervisor, and can be nominated by the supervisor, by the student, or by an industry partner. Students will produce a project proposal and risk assessment at the start of the unit and will need to document the work completed towards the development of the project up to the end of the semester in a project development report. The project will be continued and completed in the follow-up unit ENS4253 Engineering Project.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 330 credit points

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and evaluate appropriate information from a range of sources, including a literature review, to define clear objectives in order to effectively investigate, implement or evaluate an engineering device, system or concept.
  2. Prepare a detailed project proposal and plan, including ethical considerations and a risk assessment, in relation to a substantive engineering project.
  3. Select and apply appropriate engineering principles and methodologies to effectively implement initial tasks from an approved project plan.
  4. Compile a detailed written project progress report and orally present the key progress information to a technical audience.

Unit Content

  1. Conceptual development of alternative solutions.
  2. Critical review and analysis of the solutions.
  3. Literature review.
  4. Preparation of progress report.
  5. Presentation of a project seminar.
  6. Problem analysis.
  7. Problem formulation.
  8. Risk theory, assessment and management.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Self-directed project work supported by regular meetings with a project supervisor.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportProposal and risk assessment report20%
ProjectProject work and journal30%
ReportProgress report40%
PresentationSeminar presentation10%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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