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Unit of Study FOR03084 - Forest Operations (2017)

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  • Enrolment information

    There will be a 3 day compulsory residential for all students (Online and On Campus) that will be held on the Lismore campus. Please refer to http://scu.edu.au/timetables for further information on timetables. Students of the unit are expected to participate in lectures and field exercises of the matching undergraduate unit in Forest Operations (FOR00104), and is a requirement to pass this unit.

Unit description

Requires students to consider a complex forest operations scheduling problem and to design a solution that optimises production, costs and safety, using simulation software.

Unit content

Topic 1: Describing complex problems as materials and flows
Topic 2: Introduction to simulation/optimisation software (SIMILE) and computer programming
Topic 3: Data collection and model building
Topic 4: Decision support under changing inputs to complex problems

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 1 Session 1
Online Session 1 N/A

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 demonstrate a capacity to understand and elucidate a complex problem
2 demonstrate skills in describing a complex problem as a computer based simulation model
3 demonstrate a capacity to use a model to manage decisions under changing operational environment

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

  1. demonstrate a capacity to understand and elucidate a complex problem
    • GA4:
  2. demonstrate skills in describing a complex problem as a computer based simulation model
    • GA4:
  3. demonstrate a capacity to use a model to manage decisions under changing operational environment
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:

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