UO Engineering Design and Innovation

Course aim

This course provides opportunities for students to build and extend a range of personal and professional skills. They will solve practical engineering design problems and recognise the roles of systems thinking, innovation and creativity in the design process. This course will help students to develop visual communication skills such as understanding and producing 2D engineering drawings and 3D engineering models.

Course content

Course resources will introduce students to the exciting and complex world of engineering design and
innovation. Activities and projects will help students to explore engineering problem solving, basic systems
engineering concepts, creativity tools, engineering design process, project management principles, professional
reflections, principles of safe design, link between ethics and creativity, and developing oral, written, and visual communication skills.
This course will develop 2D and 3D visualisation skills and engineering drawing skills, which are essential to communicate designs while meeting industry drawing standards.

Textbooks

Nil

Prerequisites

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY
Online	10 weeks x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assessment plan, Creative work, Presentation, Test/Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
International students and students undertaking this course as part of a postgraduate fee paying program must refer to the relevant program home page to determine the cost for undertaking this course.

Non-award enrolment
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation