Unit Code: MCD523

Unit Name: Engineering Workshop Practice

Description: Engineering technicians must use essential workshop tools and measuring instruments to fabricate objects using metal and non-metals. You will understand the workshop principles and practices mentioned for each workshop below. This course will also enable you to demonstrate extensive hands-on experience to fabricate a task utilizing the workshop practices learnt in the six workshops. Fitting workshop - Supervised hands-on training will help you understand and demonstrate marking, cutting, drilling, filling and dressing metal plates. Welding workshop - Supervised hands-on training will help you develop an understanding and also demonstrate Arc Welding and Oxy-Fuel Welding procedures. Carpentry and Joinery workshop - Supervised hands-on training will help you understand and demonstrate the use of carpentry hand tools and making timber joints. Sheet-metal and plumbing - Supervised hands-on training will help you understand and demonstrate joining PVC, Polythene and galvanized pipe connections and riveting and soldering thin metal sheet. Electrical workshop - Supervised hands-on training will help you develop an understanding and also demonstrate basic electrical wiring circuits and connections. Electronic workshop - Supervised hands-on training will help you develop an understanding and demonstrate knowledge of wiring materials and components used in electronic applications and skills on soldering and de-soldering. OHS - Engineering technologists are expected to develop knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of Occupational Health and Safety Laws with Associated Regulations. To enable students to acquire the necessary skills to identify hazards and assess risk in their workplaces and develop control measures that effectively eliminate or reduce the risk to an acceptable level. You will understand the requirements of the HASAW Act 1996 and Legal Notice 168 Regulation for the Training of Health and Safety Reps and Committees in Fiji’s Workplaces. Metrology - This course provides the foundation for mechanical measurement techniques used in manufacturing environments. The system will integrate the concepts, principles and practices of automated measurement using various instruments, including micrometres, callipers, height gauges, and other measuring equipment.

Learning Target Outcomes: At the end of this unit, students will be able to: 1. Apply knowledge of engineering fundamentals respectively to comprehensive practical procedures and practices. 2. Understands the range of tools available, selects a suitable device and explains the selection, including consideration of the limitation of the tools available. 3. Demonstrates an understanding of the moral responsibilities of an engineering technician, including the need to self-manage in an orderly and ethical manner, balance the broader public interest with the interests of employers and clients, and uphold standards in the engineering profession. 4. Manages own activities with honesty and integrity and in an orderly manner to meet deadlines. 5. Contributes constructively to team decision making earns the trust and confidence of other team members. 6. Presents work verbally clearly and articulately, using visual aids appropriately. 7. Comprehends and responds appropriately to written and verbal instructions and properly instructs or briefs others in group exercises. 8. Applies independent workshop learning practices. 9. Demonstrates self-awareness of own level of competence and identifies opportunities to extend own competence promptly.

Prerequisite: MER

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 12

Offered In: Semester 2