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Lismore Session 2 Session 2

Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Introductory

Former School/College

Former School of Environment, Science and Engineering

Unit aim

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

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.

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

Prescribed texts

  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.