Courses Handbook 2009

310205 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100


Area: School of Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Studio: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Design horizons. Design as a process; cost-benefit as a driver, and top-down as an approach. Requirements specifications; identifying features, design specifications, and setting priorities. Systems design; creative thinking methods for innovative solutions. Design tools. Management and design. Operational design; reliability, sustainability, ergonomics, maintainability. Engineering information systems. Legal protection for designs.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030799 Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Technology not elsewh classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2009 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2009 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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