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Unit Code: PEB702

Unit Name: Engineering and Society

Description: This course provides you with the opportunity to carry out a real engineering project involving students from different disciplines to design and build an engineering system. The success of the project depends largely on your initiative and working closely with your team members to develop innovative solutions. The project requires the construction of a system that can be demonstrated to the required performance levels. You will be assessed at various stages of design throughout the course. The design project will include the selection, analysis, design, construction and testing of hardware and software so that the components and parts can be operated as one integrated system. Depending on the design of your system, in some cases, this will also involve the manufacture of components, sourcing of functional parts, writing computer software and developing procedure to control the system\'s hardware. The specified engineering system will involve engineering design and build from multiple engineering disciplines, i.e. at least two disciplines in your team. Team members are required to contribute to the system design accordingly. Examples of specified engineering systems include a remote-controlled opening bridge, a hydro system in a small river, a power supply to isolated villages, modular house construction system. The course is project-based learning supported by lectures and tutorials to strengthen your knowledge of engineering system development. You will be assessed on the unit learning outcomes through several assessments individually and in groups.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Apply to reason informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to professional engineering practice and solutions to the given complex engineering problem (WA6) • Identifies the responsibilities of a professional engineer generally, and demonstrates an awareness of the issues associated with international engineering practice and global operating contexts • Identifies hazards and justifies relevant strategies and systems to reasonably assure public health and safety (including as appropriate to the discipline, safety in construction/fabrication, operation, maintenance, deconstruction/disposal, failing-safe and occupational health and safety) • Apply relevant standards to matters of national and global concerns 2. Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of engineering practice (WA8) • Demonstrates professional ethics and responsibilities in engineering projects and teamwork. • Recognizes, defines and appreciates the organizational, legal, ethical and behavioural constraints on management decisions. 3. Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering concourse and with society at large, such as being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions (WA10) • Comprehends and responds appropriately to written and verbal instructions and appropriately instructs or briefs others in group exercises • Undertake analytical studies for engineering tasks and projects and presents a report. 4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of engineering management principles and economic decision-making and apply these to one’s work, as a member or leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments (WA11) • Selects and applies relevant project management techniques to the planning and execution of future work • Understands the issues of leadership, delegation, motivation, team building, productivity, and industrial relations to typical engineering organizations. • Estimates the capital and ongoing costs of engineering work

Prerequisite: PEB601

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1