Unit details

ENVE5552 Environmental Engineering Design Solutions Part 2

Credit

6 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 1	UWA (Perth)	Face to face
Semester 1	Online	Online timetabled

Content

This unit is the fifth of a vertically-integrated series of design units forming the “Design Spine” of the Environmental Engineering program.
This unit requires students to implement a design solution to a real world, local environmental engineering problem. Working as a single class team, students implement a solution drawn from their own tender proposals formed in the preceding unit ENVE5551. Students are self-guided with the support of the instructor. They are given the freedom to determine how to organise their workforce, how to implement their tasks, and how to time and stage their project. Throughout the semester the instructor critically reviews progress, suggests issues for the class to consider addressing, related to technical and project management issues, and assists the class in accessing resources, resolving problems, and decision-making. At the end of the semester, the students present their solutions to their client and a public audience consisting of relevant stakeholders and participants from UWA. Where possible the class will be designed so that a tangible product can be handed over from the class to the client, representing the capstone design experience for the students.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) divide a large engineering task into achievable components; (2) employ technical expertise and suitable professional tools to implement component tasks; (3) manage a large project and its subcomponents effectively, including communication within a large team, evaluation of progress against goals, and adapting strategies as needed to meet goals; (4) produce common environmental engineering project deliverables including desktop studies, environmental management plans or impact assessments, design drawings, design reports, educational or communication materials ; (5) work effectively as a team member / leader ; and (6) professionally and persuasively communicate design deliverables.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) progress reports (individual); (2) project deliverables and presentation (group with peer assessment); and (3) professional conduct (individual). Further information is available in the unit outline.

For units commencing in May 2022 or later the availability of the supplementary assessment is subject to confirmation.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:

• Are in good academic standing overall;
• Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
• Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
• Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
• No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.

Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Sally Thompson

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

completion of at least 24 points of Level 4/Level 5 units in the Master of Professional Engineering (Environmental Engineering specialisation) and ENVE5551 Environmental Engineering Design Project 1

Co-requisites:

GENG5505 Project Management and Engineering Practice

Incompatibility:

Nil.