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Unit of Study FORS5006 - Forest Operations (2021)

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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 (FORS2003 - Forest Operations), 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

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

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Not currently available in 2021

Learning outcomes

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:

demonstrate a capacity to understand and elucidate a complex problem

demonstrate skills in describing a complex problem as a computer based simulation model

demonstrate a capacity to use a model to manage decisions under changing operational environment