School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Materials Technology 4
  • Unit Code

    DTM2201
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carol Kathleen PUDDICOMBE

Description

A theoretical and practical demonstration of the links between performance, composition, processing and structure in the informed selection of materials and engineering principles. Applying problem solving methodologies to engineering problems by applying knowledge of control systems and computational thinking to the safe design and manufacture of electronically controlled products. The unit is designed to focus on skills, knowledge and production requirements for secondary classes in Years 11-12.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed DTC2101, DTM1104, DTM1105, DTS3102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design and manufacture projects using a range of materials, tools, and equipment competently and safely in the design and manufacture of electromechanical products.
  2. Demonstrate a high range of both manipulative and cognitive skills such as the use of tools and equipment, problem solving, creativity and design using multiple materials.
  3. Using a design process, create a portfolio and produce drawings and design products to create a solution to a given brief for Years 11-12 secondary students.
  4. Analyse and evaluate information about material properties and electromechanical systems in order to choose appropriate materials for a design brief.
  5. Analyse and evaluate environmental concerns as they relate to classroom practice.
  6. Demonstrate safe working procedures in the area of occupational health and safety.

Unit Content

  1. Engineering materials including material properties and definitions, testing techniques for material properties, limitations and failure modes and material selection.
  2. Mechanism Design including the fundamentals of kinematics, analysing mobility and different types of mechanisms.
  3. Engineering processes including communicating ideas, following the engineering method of design, material selection, costing and understanding and producing engineering drawings through CAD/CAM.
  4. Year 11 and 12 Engineering Studies content in the Mechatronics context.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Laboratory work, demonstrations, discussion, research and lectures as appropriate. Students will be required to devote extra time to complete exercises and assignments.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject and folios60%
ProjectProject and resources40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Materials Technology 4
  • Unit Code

    DTM2201
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carol Kathleen PUDDICOMBE

Description

A theoretical and practical demonstration of the links between performance, composition, processing and structure in the informed selection of materials and engineering principles. Applying problem solving methodologies to engineering problems by applying knowledge of control systems and computational thinking to the safe design and manufacture of electronically controlled products. The unit is designed to focus on skills, knowledge and production requirements for secondary classes in Years 11-12.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed DTC2101, DTM1104, DTM1105, DTS3102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design and manufacture projects using a range of materials, tools, and equipment competently and safely in the design and manufacture of electromechanical products.
  2. Demonstrate a high range of both manipulative and cognitive skills such as the use of tools and equipment, problem solving, creativity and design using multiple materials.
  3. Using a design process, create a portfolio and produce drawings and design products to create a solution to a given brief for Years 11-12 secondary students.
  4. Analyse and evaluate information about material properties and electromechanical systems in order to choose appropriate materials for a design brief.
  5. Analyse and evaluate environmental concerns as they relate to classroom practice.
  6. Demonstrate safe working procedures in the area of occupational health and safety.

Unit Content

  1. Engineering materials including material properties and definitions, testing techniques for material properties, limitations and failure modes and material selection.
  2. Mechanism Design including the fundamentals of kinematics, analysing mobility and different types of mechanisms.
  3. Engineering processes including communicating ideas, following the engineering method of design, material selection, costing and understanding and producing engineering drawings through CAD/CAM.
  4. Year 11 and 12 Engineering Studies content in the Mechatronics context.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Laboratory work, demonstrations, discussion, research and lectures as appropriate. Students will be required to devote extra time to complete exercises and assignments.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject and folios60%
ProjectProject and resources40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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