Courses Handbook 2010

310205 (v.2) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100


Area: Department of First Year Engineering Studies
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

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