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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Challenges students to engage in engineering management for a wide range of social, environmental and economic aspects of a sustainable future. Decision-making strategies for shaping sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology and new Innovations are explored. A case study enables students to apply strategies for a sustainable future across the engineering system life cycle, from concept to implementation and operation.
Unit content
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Introduction:
- What is wrong with our current lifestyles and business paradigms; and
- Why embedding sustainability in engineering practice is essential;
- A history of the evolution of sustainability thinking;
- Why engineers must embrace the delivery of sustainability outcomes - visioning a safe future;
- A cultural change in Engineering Philosophy - from compliance, through “green”, to “blue";
- A critical analysis of the interdependence of earth systems with technical, economic, and social systems;
- Tools and mechanisms for the analysis and delivery of Sustainability Outcomes; and
- Case studies in the delivery of regenerative outcomes for nature and society.
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: | |
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| 1 | critically evaluate social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability when planning engineering projects |
| 2 | apply engineering management and decision-making processes for managing sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology |
| 3 | identify, evaluate and recommend emerging technology for improving sustainability outcomes of engineering systems |
| 4 | formulate and integrate sustainability practices into engineering projects of today and the future |
| 5 | apply analytical/software tools to support the management of sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically evaluate social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability when planning engineering projects
- apply engineering management and decision-making processes for managing sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology
- identify, evaluate and recommend emerging technology for improving sustainability outcomes of engineering systems
- formulate and integrate sustainability practices into engineering projects of today and the future
- apply analytical/software tools to support the management of sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.