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Global Challenges in Engineering

ENSC1001

SEM-2, 2015

Campus: Crawley

Unit Coordinator: Dr Rita Armstrong

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Unit detailsUnit title Global Challenges in EngineeringUnit code ENSC1001 Credit points 6Availability SEM-2, 2015 (27/07/2015 - 21/11/2015)Location Crawley Mode Face to face

Contact detailsFaculty Faculty of Engineering, Computing & MathematicsSchool Faculty of Engineering, Computing & Mathematics OfficeSchool website http://www.ecm.uwa.edu.auUnit coordinator Dr Rita ArmstrongEmail rita.armstrong@uwa.edu.auTelephone 6488 2151Consultation hours Please arrange with your FacilitatorUnit contact hours Information sessions: 2 hrs per week; workshops: 2 hrs per week Online handbook http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/ENSC/ENSC1001Other contact details Please contact ensc1001@uwa.edu.au for any enquiries.

Unit rulesIncompatibility GENG1003 Introduction to Professional Engineering

Unit descriptionThis unit lies at the start of the pathway to becoming an engineer. Engineers conceive ways to rearrange objects, materials andsystems to achieve beneficial outcomes. There are many personal and professional skills and knowledge, which need to be gained inorder to make use of the technical knowledge that students acquire in other units, and to apply these to real projects. In the unit,students study a real project in one of three geopolitical contexts. They learn how the context influences the objectives, the process andthe outcomes; to work in small engineering teams with distributed expertise—no one person knows enough to reach the objective somembers of the team have to rely on working together; and to develop social interaction and other communication skills forming thefoundations of professional practice.

Learning outcomesStudents are able to (1) develop communication skills including accurate, active listening (note taking, acquiring language andterminology of the speaker), seeing (sketching, visual representation), reading and comprehension skills, oral and written presentationskills, the ability to clearly and concisely communicate the results of a project, and learn how to learn and teach others; (2) developteamwork skills including the development of a cooperative relationship with peers and experts in order to obtain information andassistance when needed, to become aware of distributed expertise/coordination, to develop the ability to work well in multidisciplinaryand multicultural teams and understand the role as team leader and player, and to manage effectively with dysfunctional teams andresolve conflicts; (3) develop project management skills including the ability to plan projects efficiently and effectively, as well as timemanagement; (4) develop enquiry skills including the ability to critique the historical function of engineering and its role in society, toappreciate and critique common ways of thinking, researching and practicing engineering as well as common modes of discourse; (5)develop literacy skills including the ability to source, critique, assess reliability of, and potential bias of, information from a variety ofsources and properly reference these; (6) demonstrate enhanced creative thinking and appreciate the barriers to creative thought; (7)develop the ability to critique, analyse the risk and synthesise data related to environmental, legal, ethical, health and safety impacts ofengineering; (8) demonstrate sensitivity and inclusivity towards cultural and gender diversity especially in relation to Indigenousknowledge, values and culture; (9) develop a critical understanding of sustainability including the ability to apply that understandingthroughout a project life cycle; (10) develop an understanding of the environmental, social and economic context in which engineering ispractised; (11) develop the ability to recognise and diagnose common failure modes of tools, components, structures and materials;(12) appreciate the difference between ill-structured and well-structured engineering problems and demonstrate the ability to frame anill-structured design problem in terms of functions, objectives and constraints; (13) identify critical design parameters and understandtheir use in guiding design decisions; and (14) utilise a systematic method for qualitatively evaluating a range of alternative designcandidate solutions.

AssessmentAssessment overviewTypically this unit is assessed in the following way(s): (1) a project proposal; (2) presentations; (3) design project; and (4) weeklyprogress report and attendance. Further information is available in the unit outline.

Assessment mechanism

# Component Weight Due Date

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1 Attendance and Participation in Workshops 15% Ongoing2 Weekly Progress Reports 15% Weekly3 Project proposal and first oral presentation 10% Week beginning August 254 Final Report 50% Week beginning October 275 Final oral presentation on team project 10% Week beginning October 27

Assessment items

Item Title Description Submission Procedure for AssignmentsAttendance andparticipation

Attendance at Information and Practical Workshopsis compulsory. If you are unable to attend either ofthese sessions, you must notify your Tutor inadvance and provide a medical certificate or otherdocumentation which explains your absence. If youmiss more than 2 tutorials, you are liable to fail thisunit and will need to submit a Special Considerationform to the ECM Student Office. You will also gainextra marks for active participation and evidence thatyou have done any preparatory work for the session.

Weekly ProgressReports

Individual members of the Project Team will taketurns to submit a weekly progress report. This is abrief statement (no more than 2 pages) whichshould address the following issues: 1. Progress to date 2. Issues arising and mechanisms to address these 3. Reflection on process of teamwork 4. Questions

The guidelines and marking criteria for writing theProgress Report are included in the Course Reader(under the Assessment section) and in theAssessment Topic on LMS

Project proposal andfirst oral presentation

Each team will submit a project proposal accordingto the Unit guidelines in week 5 (Practical Workshop4). Students will be also asked to give a five minuteteam presentation, discussing your project proposal(each student must speak). You will receive critiqueand feedback from the other teams.

The marking criteria which we will use for both theoral presentation and the project proposal areincluded in the Course Reader (under theAssessment section) and in the Assessment Folderon LMS. NB: all team members will receive the same markfor their project proposal and their oral presentation.

Project report The final report is due in the Information Session inthe final week of the course. The guidelines forwriting the report, and the marking criteria, areincluded in the Course Reader and in theAssessment Folder on LMS. Use the Cover Sheetprovided in the Assessment Folder on LMS. NB: team members may not receive the same markfor the Project Report. You will be expected toindicate which member of the team wrote whichsections of the Report, either in the Table ofContents or on a separate section of the Report. Ifthere is evidence of equal contribution in a) the Self& Peer Evaluation feedback and b) in the ProjectReport, then all team members will receive thesame mark. Otherwise marks will be adjustedaccordingly.

Final Oralpresentation

Project teams will give a ten minutes presentation ontheir design solution (set out in their Project Report).

You should arrive at your Information Session asearly as possible so that you can bring yourmodel/prototype up to the Information Sessions fordisplay during their presentation. Team memberswill receive a group mark for their final oralpresentation

Textbooks and resources

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Recommended textsThere is no text book for this unit. You should however purchase the Course Reader from the Co-op Bookstore; this contains a detaileddescription of the Unit, including the activities and readings for each Information Session, and a Guide to the Practical Workshops. TheCourse Reader should be available for purchase by the first week of semester.

Other important information

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