Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Session 1,2 | Session 1,2 |
Unit description
Challenges students to engage in engineering management for a wide range of social, environmental and economic aspects of a sustainable future. Decision-making strategies for shaping sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology and new Innovations are explored. A case study enables students to apply strategies for a sustainable future across the engineering system life cycle, from concept to implementation and operation.
Unit content
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Introduction:
- What is wrong with our current lifestyles and business paradigms; and
- Why embedding sustainability in engineering practice is essential;
- A history of the evolution of sustainability thinking;
- Why engineers must embrace the delivery of sustainability outcomes - visioning a safe future;
- A cultural change in Engineering Philosophy - from compliance, through “green”, to “blue";
- A critical analysis of the interdependence of earth systems with technical, economic, and social systems;
- Tools and mechanisms for the analysis and delivery of Sustainability Outcomes; and
- Case studies in the delivery of regenerative outcomes for nature and society.
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 | critically evaluate social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability when planning engineering projects | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | |||||
| 2 | apply engineering management and decision-making processes for managing sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 3 | identify, evaluate and recommend emerging technology for improving sustainability outcomes of engineering systems | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | formulate and integrate sustainability practices into engineering projects of today and the future | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | apply analytical/software tools to support the management of sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- critically evaluate social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability when planning engineering projects
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- apply engineering management and decision-making processes for managing sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- identify, evaluate and recommend emerging technology for improving sustainability outcomes of engineering systems
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- formulate and integrate sustainability practices into engineering projects of today and the future
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- apply analytical/software tools to support the management of sustainability outcomes from infrastructure and engineering technology.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
Prescribed texts
- Mulder, K, 2006, Sustainable development for engineers: A handbook and resource guide, Taylor and Francis, USA. ISBN: 978-1-874719-19-9.
- Mulder, K, 2006, Sustainable development for engineers: A handbook and resource guide, Taylor and Francis, USA. ISBN: 978-1-874719-19-9.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Literature review | 25% |
| Reflective writing | 30% |
| This assessment contains a Project Report and Presentation. | 45% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 2
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International
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