ENG4105 - Biomedical engineering integrated design

Overview

This unit provides you with an opportunity to work on a real-world, biomedical engineering design problem in a professional team environment. The project will integrate your previous subdisciplines of study, providing you with a holistic capstone experience to prepare you for a career utilising your broad engineering skillset and specialist … For more content click the Read More button below. 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.

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

S2-01-CLAYTON-ON-CAMPUS

Requisites

Prerequisite

Prohibition

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Ms Kathy Petkoff

Unit Coordinator(s)

Ms Kathy Petkoff

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:

Appraise an engineering project brief as part of a design team to define the problem, identify stakeholders and set project requirements and specifications.

Generate creative solutions using engineering design processes, whilst considering societal, health, safety, legal, cultural, ethical and environmental factors.

Synthesise technical knowledge to generate engineering designs that meet justified performance requirements.

Demonstrate the ability to work effectively as a team, negotiating strategies to enable effective collaboration and task management.

Plan and timeline tasks, allocate resources and monitor progress towards the achievement of project goals by applying industry-standard project management tools and techniques.

Demonstrate effective oral, written and visual communication skills suitable for professional practice.

Reflect critically upon the solutions to an engineering design problem and on the processes involved in successful teamwork.

Teaching approach

Problem-based learning

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 weekly studio. Additional design and build-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.

Peer assisted learning

Assessment summary

Continuous assessment: 100

Assessment

1 - Studio activities

2 - Preliminary design submission and presentation

3 - Final design submission and presentation

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is not available for this unit. Check the supplementary assessments page for details about exemptions.

Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities

Studio activities

Workload requirements

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of 3-6 hours of scheduled learning activities and 6-9 hours of independent study per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher-directed learning, peer-directed learning and online engagement. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities.

Other unit costs

Prototyping materials

You may incur small additional costs for prototyping materials/consumables for the team project. These costs should be shared by all team members.

Availability in areas of study

E3001 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Specialisation: Biomedical engineering