School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Engineering Management
  • Unit Code

    ENS5543
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    8
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nuha S MASHAAN

Description

This unit covers organisational structure and the strategies and approaches used in directing, controlling, planning and forecasting within engineering and related organisations. Personnel management and an overview of financial analysis as it relates to engineering management are included as well as a detailed overview of engineering project management tools and practices. The unit also addresses professional responsibility and awareness of ethical, cultural and environmental implications for professional engineers.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Online delivery: If offered, only in summer semester.

Prerequisite Rule

B. Eng. Hons and B. Tech students must have completed ENS2159 Engineering Innovation and Ethics Bachelor of Aviation students must have completed SCA1117 Human Factors in Aviation

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate organisational structures and management strategies within engineering teams for planning and execution of engineering projects.
  2. Reflect upon the ethical and professional responsibilities of a professional engineer in managing and implementing engineering projects including consideration of indigenous/cross cultural, occupational health and safety, and sustainability issues.
  3. Create a plan for an engineering project using appropriate tools and techniques.
  4. Apply effective team work skills to produce a range of engineering project and planning documentation.

Unit Content

  1. From conceptual design to project execution: an introduction to project planning processes in engineering consulting and operations.
  2. Developing technical specifications for engineering projects.
  3. Analysing technical specifications and their links to resource constraints.
  4. Forming the engineering team: assessing the technical skillset for delivering an engineering project.
  5. Managing discipline interfaces in multidisciplinary engineering projects.
  6. Occupational health and industrial safety in engineering sites, plants and production facilities.
  7. Ethical responsibilities of a professional engineer in relation to social, cultural and environmental impacts of engineering projects including indigenous cultural competency.
  8. Interpersonal and professional communication in a technical environment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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 lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
AssignmentReview of engineering business plan25%
AssignmentEngineering project planning group report25%
AssignmentReview of engineering operations and management group project20%
PresentationReview of engineering operations and management group presentation10%
PortfolioEmployability skills20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReview of engineering business plan25%
AssignmentEngineering project planning group report25%
AssignmentReview of engineering operations and management group project20%
PresentationReview of engineering operations and management group presentation10%
PortfolioEmployability skills20%

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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