School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Advanced Industrial Control
  • Unit Code

    ENS5130
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Octavian BASS

Description

This unit extends the fundamentals introduced in ENS4240 Industrial Control with advanced concepts and techniques concerning the hierarchical levels of an industrial automation system: control, supervisory and execution. Students gain practical knowledge of advanced programming techniques for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Economically and practically relevant aspects of industrial control are addressed and modern industry specific solutions are introduced, concerning data communication, motor control, and safety systems.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass ENS5240 or ENS3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply appropriate planning, design and programming techniques for the development of advanced PLC, RTU and SCADA systems.
  2. Analyse industrial control scenarios and apply problem-solving and critical appraisal skills to develop specific solutions.
  3. Integrate various industrial communication protocols within an industrial control system.
  4. Devise motor control solutions for industrial applications.
  5. Apply effective teamwork skills to collaboratively plan, report and present findings of an automation design project.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced PLC and RTU programming: planning and design, multi-task applications, security, communication networks, derived data types and function blocks, text languages, operator screens.
  2. Advanced SCADA programming: design specifications, touch panel HMI, events, devices, security, troubleshooting.
  3. RTU programming: configuration, communication networks, programming languages.
  4. Motor control solutions: direct online motor starters, variable speed drives, soft starters.
  5. Industrial communication networks and automation protocols: Modbus, DNP3, Ethernet.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2.5 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot 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
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory sessions and report50%
Project ^Design Project50%

^ 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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