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Unit of Study ENG10758 - Humanitarian Engineering Project (2018)

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Unit description

Introduces students to humanitarian engineering and human-centred design. Students will undertake a group design project in order to test their understanding of the human-centred design principles, the engineering design process, and working effectively in a team. Students will gain experience in professional skills including team communication, report writing and formal presentations. 

Unit content

  • What is humanitarian engineering?
  • Human-centred Design
  • Working in teams
  • Appropriate Technology
  • Finding and evaluating literature
  • Identifying and evaluating engineering risk
  • Engineering professional skills and competencies
  • Engineering drawings and sketches
  • Ensuring project sustainability
  • Writing in the discipline and constructing an effective written report
  • Techniques for preparing presentations to describe proposed solutions clearly and succinctly

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 use the engineering design process to develop solutions to solve humanitarian engineering problems
2 demonstrate an ability to develop creative, alternative solutions to problems by adapting knowledge and skills considering contextual factors such as social and cultural needs, sustainability, ethical and professional accountability
3 use both written and oral formats to reflect on and explain ideas, concepts and processes to targeted audiences
4 obtain, manage and use information for the purposes of developing knowledge and applying it to engineering projects
5 critically evaluate the benefits and challenges of working as a member of a team
6 convey engineering solutions through engineering sketches.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. use the engineering design process to develop solutions to solve humanitarian engineering problems
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
  2. demonstrate an ability to develop creative, alternative solutions to problems by adapting knowledge and skills considering contextual factors such as social and cultural needs, sustainability, ethical and professional accountability
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
    • GA7:
  3. use both written and oral formats to reflect on and explain ideas, concepts and processes to targeted audiences
    • GA5:
  4. obtain, manage and use information for the purposes of developing knowledge and applying it to engineering projects
    • GA5:
  5. critically evaluate the benefits and challenges of working as a member of a team
    • GA5:
  6. convey engineering solutions through engineering sketches.
    • GA5:

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