School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Engineering Dynamics
  • Unit Code

    ENS5125
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kevin HAYWARD

Description

This unit provides a thorough coverage of the principles of motion and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, and applications of these to mechanical systems. The basic concepts of vibration analysis are also introduced.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENM2210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research a core topic of the unit at an advanced level.
  2. Analyse problems related to planetary motion and vibrations of machines and engineering structures and apply this when undertaking related design work.
  3. Evaluate the knowledge of kinematics, kinetics, inertia and gyroscopic motion to the design of simple mechanical and structural systems.
  4. Assess a variety of engineering dynamics problems in free space mechanics and general planar motion.
  5. Differentiate between the kinematics of particles and system of particles with accuracy.

Unit Content

  1. Gravitational force, gravity, motion of planets and satellites.
  2. Plane kinematics of rigid bodies: rigid body motion, rotation about a fixed axis, relative motion, instantaneous centre.
  3. Kinetics of particles: Newtons second law of motion, inertial system, work and energy, impulse-momentum principle, central-force motion.
  4. Plane kinetics of rigid bodies: force, mass and acceleration; plane-motion equations, general plane motion, work-energy relation, acceleration from work-energy, virtual work, interconnected rigid bodies.
  5. Kinetics of system of particles: work-energy relation, impulse-momentum, conservation principle, steady and variable mass flow problems.
  6. Vibrations: simple harmonic motions, free vibration, forced vibration, resonance, damping, vibrations caused by earthquakes.
  7. Kinematics of particles: rectilinear and plane curvilinear motion, motion in various coordinate systems, space curvilinear motion, relative motion, constrained motions of connected particles.
  8. Three-dimensional dynamics of rigid bodies: rotation about a fixed point, fixed-axis rotation, parallel-plane motion, momentum and energy equations of motion, gyroscopic motion.

Learning Experience

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

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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
AssignmentTheory based problems and design projects25%
TestMid-semester test15%
Examination ^End of semester examination50%
Research PaperA research paper on an approved topic10%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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