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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.

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

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Tutition Patterns

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Area: Department of First Year Engineering Studies
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
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.
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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