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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

310544 (v.1) Professional Practice 434

Note

Tutition Patterns

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.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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.

Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     3864 (v.4) Electrical Plant 342 or any previous version
    OR
    12835 (v.3) Power Electronics 304 or any previous version
AND
307660 (v.4) Engineering Sustainable Development 201 or any previous version
AND
307664 (v.1) Engineering Law 202 or any previous version
AND
    308801 (v.1) Thermal Engineering Processes 331 or any previous version
    OR
    12855 (v.4) Embedded Systems Engineering 301 or any previous version
AND
    308803 (v.1) Mechanical Design 337 or any previous version
    OR
    308826 (v.1) Manufacturing for Mechatronics 332 or any previous version
AND
    308810 (v.1) Fluid Flow Modelling 332 or any previous version
    OR
    308825 (v.1) Mechatronic Project 332 or any previous version
AND
    308812 (v.1) Industrial Technology 342 or any previous version
    OR
    308827 (v.1) Mechatronic Automation 331 or any previous version
AND
    308813 (v.1) Materials 337 or any previous version
    OR
    308828 (v.1) Mechanical Design 321 or any previous version
AND
    308814 (v.1) Dynamic Systems 334 or any previous version
    OR
    308829 (v.1) Automatic Control 321 or any previous version
AND
    308815 (v.1) Automatic Control 333 or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into 154410 (v.5) Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic Engineering) or any previous version
    OR
    Admission into 312635 (v.1) Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic Engineering) or any previous version
Syllabus: The engineering profession. Professional behaviour and image. Professional institutions and qualifications. Recruitment. Health and safety aspects. Project research. Communication, negotiation and presentation skills. Meetings format. Project engineering and management. Maintenance management. Leadership skills. Human resources management. Engineering contracts. Technological change. Topics for presentation.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*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
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 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