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Contacts
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Learning outcomes
Formulate and execute simple experiments that properly gather and record data.
Effectively use a range of computational tools, software packages, programming techniques and statistical methods to collect and ethically analyse and present quantitative data.
Discuss the use of simple models of materials engineering systems, construct such models using appropriate tools (including software), and use these models to draw appropriate conclusions from data.
Discuss theories of how teams operate and what it means to act responsibly and professionally in an engineering role.
Manage workload and communications effectively as a team member, and reflect on the effectiveness of a team's work during an extended project.
Apply standard management methods to allocate resources to an open-ended project and track project progress and quality.
Teaching approach
Assessment summary
Continuous assessment: 80%
Final assessment: 20%
This unit contains threshold hurdle requirements 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
Supplementary assessment
Supplementary assessment is not available if a specific assessment in this unit is failed. Check the supplementary assessments page for details about exemptions.
Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities
Workload requirements
Other unit costs
The following items are mandatory for practical aspects of the unit and should be purchased at your own cost as you will be reusing them throughout your course.
- Calculator
- Protective clothing and equipment:
- Laboratory coat (Approximately AUD35 to AUD55)
- Safety glasses (Approximately AUD8)
- Laboratory-appropriate enclosed footwear (Non-porous material, equipped with non-absorbent, slip-resistant soles)
Costs are indicative only.