ENG5105 Integrated design
Faculty of Engineering
ENG5105 Integrated design is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Engineering, offered in 2027 in Semester 2 at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2027
- Semester 2
- Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 5 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
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Requisites
Before ENG5105
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ENG5105
No unit lists ENG5105 as a prerequisite in the 2027 handbook.
Enrolment rules
This unit is available only to students enrolled in E6011 Master of Professional Engineering
Admitted to Entry level 1 - Prerequisite: Completion of 96 credit points
Admitted to Entry level 2 - Prerequisite: Completion of 48 credit points
Overview
This unit provides you with an opportunity to work on a real-world, engineering design problem in a professional team environment. The project will integrate your previous sub-disciplines of study, providing you with a holistic capstone experience to prepare you for a career utilising your broad engineering skillset and specialist domain knowledge.
The project will involve a critical assessment of a complex open-ended design problem or opportunity from multiple perspectives, taking into account societal, health, safety, legal, cultural, ethical and environmental factors. The project work relies on using creative problem solving and decision-making skills and modern project management tools for developing practical solutions to the design problem. You will iteratively test your solution and seek the feedback of others while reflecting on your own practice.
The outcomes of the project will be communicated via presentations, demonstrations and professional reports.
Offerings in 2027
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Skills training activitiesDemonstration10%
- Workshop activitiesWritten10%
- Preliminary project reportWritten20%
- Final project submissionWritten50%
- Project presentationPresentation10%
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Appraise an engineering project brief as part of a design team to define the problem, identify stakeholders and set project requirements and specifications.
- 2
Generate creative solutions using engineering design processes, whilst considering societal, health, safety, legal, cultural, ethical and environmental factors.
- 3
Synthesise technical knowledge to generate engineering designs that meet justified performance requirements.
- 4
Demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a team, negotiating strategies to enable effective collaboration and task management.
- 5
Plan and timeline tasks, allocate resources and monitor progress towards the achievement of project goals by applying industry standard project management tools and techniques.
- 6
Demonstrate effective oral, written and visual communication skills suitable for professional practice.
- 7
Reflect critically upon the solutions to an engineering design problem and on the processes involved in successful teamwork.
Workload and teaching
- Workshops24 hours
- Practical activities24 hours
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of 4-6 hours of scheduled learning activities including unit workshops and discipline-specific classes, and 6-8 hours of independent study per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher-directed learning, peer-directed learning and online engagement. Project work is determined by your discipline and specific project requirements. Examples include design work, prototyping and testing, team meetings, readings, assessments, and preparation for scheduled activities.
Online peer assessment may be used to moderate an individual's mark in the team-based assessment.
Project-based learning
Teaching in this unit is problem-based learning through the team design project, which runs for the whole semester and has a number of components that form the final project submission. The design problem is large, complex and challenging, designed to bring together the various professional and technical skills already learnt within your course. The emphasis is on application and integration. The final concept and final designs must satisfy the requirements of the project brief or description, otherwise, it will result in either individual or group failure, just as it would in industry.
The tools used for teaching are a combination of hands-on activities, skills-based training and mentoring around the final objective of producing a completed project. There are no right or wrong answers to many of the project questions. This does not imply that any answer is adequate. Some answers will be better than others as they achieve the criteria in a better way.
Teams must meet on a frequent basis and work coherently as a team if a successful design is to be developed and deadlines are to be met. The development of team and leadership skills is seen as a fundamental part of this unit and you will have the opportunity to lead different aspects of the project.
Teams will have the opportunity to interact with each other in a multidisciplinary weekly workshop. Additional discipline-based learning activities will provide opportunities for learning and feedback, integrating the previous sub-disciplines of study in your course.
Due to the team-based nature of this unit, peer-based learning contributes significantly to achieving learning outcomes. There is no facility for the unit to be completed as an individual.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Joanne Tanner
- Associate Professor Vipul Agarwal
- Dr James Saunderson
- Associate Professor Scott Wordley
- Tamara Herzog
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Joanne Tanner
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ENG5105?
ENG5105 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ENG5105 offered?
In 2027, ENG5105 runs in Semester 2 at Clayton.
How much work is ENG5105?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ENG5105 have an exam?
No. ENG5105 has 5 assessment tasks and no exam.