Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Lismore |
Unit description
Introduces students to systematic project management, incorporating management principles, working as a team, leadership, and financial and economic aspects of project planning and control. The unit also introduces engineering ethics, focussing on the type of behaviour and professional practice expected of an engineer.
Unit content
Topic 1: Project management of engineering projects
Topic 2: Professional ethics and responsibilities of engineering organisations and engineers
Topic 3: Leadership in engineering organisations
Topic 4: Management in engineering organisations
Topic 5: Managing diverse teams in engineering organisations
Topic 6: Resource management: A behavioural view
Topic 7: Risk management
Topic 8: Quality management systems in the engineering industry
Topic 9: Sustainability management for engineering organisations
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand basic engineering and project economic principles including project risk. | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 2 | plan, schedule and manage typical engineering construction projects. | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 3 | understand leadership techniques and be able to effectively manage teams in multi-disciplinary environments. | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 4 | appreciate basic legal principles relating to contracts, industrial relations and human resources. | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | describe professional responsibilities and ethical conduct in a range of different scenarios. | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | ||||
| 6 | identify, quantify, mitigate and manage risk associated with workplace health and safety issues. | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- understand basic engineering and project economic principles including project risk.
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- plan, schedule and manage typical engineering construction projects.
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- understand leadership techniques and be able to effectively manage teams in multi-disciplinary environments.
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- appreciate basic legal principles relating to contracts, industrial relations and human resources.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- describe professional responsibilities and ethical conduct in a range of different scenarios.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- identify, quantify, mitigate and manage risk associated with workplace health and safety issues.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Workshop on-site 8 hrs during a single day (6 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Report | 20% |
| Report | 50% |
| Exam: open book | 30% |
Fee information
Domestic
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Fee paying courses
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International
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