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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING
Requisites
Exclusion
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Learning outcomes
1.
Apply a structured design process to complete an assigned design task
2.
Understand the importance of ethics, safety and sustainability in product and experiment design
3.
Communicate to engineers and lay persons the purpose, processes and results of a design
4.
Understand the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of the professional engineer, and the need for sustainable development
5.
Appreciate the need to undertake lifelong learning, and develop the capacity to do so
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Appreciate the value of diversity in generating creative solutions to problems
7.
Be an effective team member and team leader
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:· Introduction to the Engineering Design Process – Fact finding (defining objectives); Idea finding (defining functions); and Solution finding (evaluating alternatives)
· Design of engineering systems – global objectives and unintended consequences
· Project Management – design teams
· Research and research writing – writing to learn; report writing; academic referencing; evaluating sources; oral presentations
· Engineering and social justice – social justice; listening to communities; sustainable development; hard and soft technological pathways; indigenous knowledge
· Design Challenge from Engineers Without Borders – design for disadvantaged communities