Overview

Sustainable engineering and design with nanomaterials explores the selection, design and characterising of nanomaterials in developing sustainable engineering solutions that are verified using the life cycle assessment tool to enable you to design nanomaterials which are beneficial to the social and economic advancement. Examples include mineral nanotubes, titanium dioxide nanoparticles, … For more content click the Read More button below.

Requisites

Prerequisite

Notes

This unit is not offered in 2025.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.

Describe various properties of natural and synthetic nanomaterials and to be able to relate their structure-property to the processing and performance requirements for sustainable engineering

2.

Select and design nanomaterials for use in engineering applications that lead to improvements in their lifecycle analysis

3.

Reproduce and design nanomaterials by electrospinning and chemical processing methods

4.

Analyse the morphological and structural properties of nanomaterials characterised by scanning electron microscopy, X-Ray diffraction analysis, atomic force microscopy and instrumented impact tester

Assessment summary

Continuous assessment: 50%

Final assessment: 50%

This unit contains a hurdle requirement that you must achieve to be able to pass the unit. You are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component and at least 45% in the final assessment component. The consequence of not achieving a hurdle requirement is a fail grade (NH) and a maximum mark of 45 for the unit.

Assessment

1 - Literature review
2 - Mid-semester test
3 - Interactive session performance
4 - Oral presentation
5 - Guest talks
6 - Research paper
7 - Final assessment

Workload requirements

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