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School: Engineering

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Offshore Science and Engineering

  • Unit Code

    ENS2180

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Emma Elizabeth TONGUE

Description

This unit provides students with a working knowledge of common practices in the offshore engineering sector. Students examine how the fundamentals of the marine sciences are applied to engineering projects. Offshore risk assessment and management practices are covered and relevant data collection, analysis and reporting skills are developed.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS2107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the fundamentals of marine geology, physical oceanography and marine meteorology to a variety of offshore technical problems.
  2. Describe the equipment, technology and methods that are fundamental to the most common offshore engineering activities.
  3. Apply scientific knowledge to solve engineering problems by demonstrating sound data collection, analysis and reporting methods.
  4. Perform a basic risk assessment for an offshore structure and develop a safety case in compliance with current offshore regulations.

Unit Content

  1. Meteorology: regional weather systems and seasonal variations; global pressure, air mass movement and circulation patterns; prediction of local weather; storms and tropical cyclones.
  2. Physical Oceanography: ocean structure, physical and chemical properties; global ocean circulations, tides, waves, winds and currents.
  3. Applied Ocean Science: strategies and equipment for collection, analysis and presentation of metocean data; data sources - measured, remote-sensed, and physically or computer modelled.
  4. Ocean Renewable Energy: industry challenges; types of technologies for wave, current, tidal and thermal energy extraction; device-behaviour control strategies.
  5. Marine Geology: geomorphology of the ocean floors, margins and shelves; sedimentation and origins of hydrocarbons and minerals in the oceans; formation and classification of coastal regions.
  6. Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: global regions of hydrocarbon exploration and production; industry infrastructure for Upstream and Downstream activities.
  7. Offshore Structures and Operations: types of offshore work vessels; types and features of fixed and floating exploration and production structures; subsea infrastructure including templates, pipelines and risers; moorings systems; offshore intervention methods (Remote Operated Vehicles, diving and surveying operations); offshore lifting operations; technical issues around offshore activities in typical and extreme environmental conditions.
  8. Offshore Safety: risk assessment and risk management on offshore structures; safety analyses based on plans, layout and equipment using applicable standards and regulations; classification of hazardous and non-hazardous areas; certification and insurance; development of a safety case for an offshore platform.
  9. Offshore Aquaculture and Commercial Fisheries: key concepts and design considerations; innovative solutions for maximised energy efficiency.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and workshops.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentRenewable ocean energy device: Performance-data analysis report20%
TestClass test I25%
AssignmentOffshore oil and gas technologies: Computer-simulations report 20%
PresentationOffshore-accident review: Oral presentation.10%
TestClass test II25%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Engineering

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Offshore Science and Engineering

  • Unit Code

    ENS2180

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Emma Elizabeth TONGUE

Description

This unit provides students with a working knowledge of common practices in the offshore engineering sector. Students examine how the fundamentals of the marine sciences are applied to engineering projects. Offshore risk assessment and management practices are covered and relevant data collection, analysis and reporting skills are developed.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENS2107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the fundamentals of marine geology, physical oceanography and marine meteorology to a variety of offshore technical problems.
  2. Describe the equipment, technology and methods that are fundamental to the most common offshore engineering activities.
  3. Apply scientific knowledge to solve engineering problems by demonstrating sound data collection, analysis and reporting methods.
  4. Perform a basic risk assessment for an offshore structure and develop a safety case in compliance with current offshore regulations.

Unit Content

  1. Meteorology: regional weather systems and seasonal variations; global pressure, air mass movement and circulation patterns; prediction of local weather; storms and tropical cyclones.
  2. Physical Oceanography: ocean structure, physical and chemical properties; global ocean circulations, tides, waves, winds and currents.
  3. Applied Ocean Science: strategies and equipment for collection, analysis and presentation of metocean data; data sources - measured, remote-sensed, and physically or computer modelled.
  4. Ocean Renewable Energy: industry challenges; types of technologies for wave, current, tidal and thermal energy extraction; device-behaviour control strategies.
  5. Marine Geology: geomorphology of the ocean floors, margins and shelves; sedimentation and origins of hydrocarbons and minerals in the oceans; formation and classification of coastal regions.
  6. Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: global regions of hydrocarbon exploration and production; industry infrastructure for Upstream and Downstream activities.
  7. Offshore Structures and Operations: types of offshore work vessels; types and features of fixed and floating exploration and production structures; subsea infrastructure including templates, pipelines and risers; moorings systems; offshore intervention methods (Remote Operated Vehicles, diving and surveying operations); offshore lifting operations; technical issues around offshore activities in typical and extreme environmental conditions.
  8. Offshore Safety: risk assessment and risk management on offshore structures; safety analyses based on plans, layout and equipment using applicable standards and regulations; classification of hazardous and non-hazardous areas; certification and insurance; development of a safety case for an offshore platform.
  9. Offshore Aquaculture and Commercial Fisheries: key concepts and design considerations; innovative solutions for maximised energy efficiency.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials and workshops.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentRenewable ocean energy device: Performance-data analysis report20%
TestClass test I25%
AssignmentOffshore oil and gas technologies: Computer-simulations report 20%
PresentationOffshore-accident review: Oral presentation10%
TestClass test II25%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentRenewable ocean energy device: Performance-data analysis report20%
TestClass Test I25%
AssignmentOffshore oil and gas technologies: Computer-simulations report20%
PresentationOffshore-accident review: Oral presentation10%
TestClass Test II25%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2018). Essentials of oceanography (8th ed., pp. xxi, 298). [""Boston, MA ;"", ‘Australia ;’]: Cengage Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/993810553

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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