Course Title: Produce computer-aided drawings

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2015

Course Code: COSC7352C

Course Title: Produce computer-aided drawings

School: 130T Vocational Engineering

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4336 - Certificate IV in Surveying

Course Contact: Program Manager

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468

Course Contact Email: vocengineering@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Surveying Senior Educator: Thierry Demathieu
School of Engineering (TAFE)
Ph: 9925 8359
Email: thierry.demathieu@rmit.edu.au

Teacher: Stephen Falzon
School of Engineering (TAFE)
Ph: 9925 8359
Email: stephenjoseph.falzon@rmit.edu.au

Nominal Hours: 80

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

Nil

Course Description

This unit of competency specifies the outcomes required to use a range of computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) program functions and features to produce drawings. The skills and knowledge required in this unit focus on the technical skills required to operate CADD, as well as the design skills required to support the needs of employees in surveying and spatial information services (SSIS).


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CPPSIS4037A Produce computer-aided drawings

Element:

1 Determine drawing requirements

Element:

2 Select and set up CADD package

Element:

3 Gather object parameters and measurements.

Element:

4 Prepare plots or drawings.

Element:

5 Check drawings and save files.


Learning Outcomes


Refer to elements


Details of Learning Activities

  • You will learn to use a range of computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) program
  • functions and
  • features

to produce drawings

The total number of scheduled hours of teaching, learning and assessment involved in this course includes all planned activities (face to face classes, lectures, workshops and seminars; workplace visits, online learning and other forms of structured teaching and learning). It also covers the amount of effort necessary to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, observation of work performance, discussions with supervisors and others providing third party evidence and one on one and group assessment sessions with students.


Teaching Schedule

 

Session/DateTopicElementAssessment

5

18/07/14

 Introduction  1,2  
6

15/08/14

 Plan of survey and AFR  1,2,3,4,5  Assessment 1

7

19/09/14

 Plan of feature survey  1,2,3,4,5  Assessment 2

8

17/10/14

 Setout and RE plan  1,2,3,4,5  Assessment 3


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

Check the Library Subject Guides:

http://rmit.libguides.com/geospatial

http://rmit.libguides.com/surveyingandspatial


Overview of Assessment

A person who demonstrates competency in this unit must be able to provide evidence of:

  • producing drawings that meet technical and client specifications
  • using the standard features and functions of a CADD program to produce drawings
  • knowledge of CADD capabilities and uses in relation to the SSIS industry.

Assessment Tasks 

Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.

 

Assessment

 

Weight

Assignment 1

Plan of survey and abstract of field records

40%

Assignment 2

Plan of feature survey

30%

Assignment 3

Setout plan and Record of having re-establish a parcel

30%

 

These tasks assesses the following Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

 Assessment Mapping Matrix

Elements/ Performance Criteria Covered

Assessment 1

Assessment 2

Assessment 3

1.1

X

 

X

1.2

X

X

 

2.1

X

X

 

2.2

X

X

 

2.3

 

X

 

3.1

 

X

X

3.2

X

 

X

4.1

X

X

 

4.2

X

X

 

4.3

X

X

 

5.1

X

X

 

5.2

 

X

X

5.3

 

X

X

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.


Assessment Tasks

Students must pass each of the following assessment tasks to demonstrate competent.

Assessment Task 1 – Assignment 1 Weight 40%
Assessment Task 2 – Assignment 2 Weight 30%
Assessment Task 3 – Assignment 3 Weight 30%

All assessment tasks need to be succesfully completed to demonstrate competence.

Courses delivered in accordance with competency-based assessment, but which also utilise graded assessment.
CHD (80-100%): Competent with High Distinction
CDI (70-79%): Competent with Distinction
CC (60-69%): Competent with Credit
CAG (50-59%): Competency Achieved – Graded
NYC (<50%): Not Yet Competent
DNS: Did Not Submit an assessment
 


Assessment Matrix

 

Element CoveredAssessment TaskProportion of Final Assessment Submission Time
1,2,3,4,5 Assessment 1 40% Session 6 - 15/8/2014
1,2,3,4,5 Assessment 2 30% Session 7 - 19/9/2014
1,2,3,4,5 Assessment 3 30% Session 8 - 17/10/2014

Other Information

Underpinning Skills and Knowledge

Spatial skills to:
       • exercise precision and accuracy in surveying computations
       • archive and retrieve spatial data
       • manage and manipulate spatial data 
       • manage files
       • solve problems relating to height, depth, breadth, dimension, direction and position in actual operational activity and virtual representation
• Apply the basic principles of algebra, geometry and trigonometry
• Computing traverse data from field information
• Spatial reference systems
• Understanding and application of significance in calculations
 

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Late submission:
If you require an Extension of Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) for 7 calendar days or less (from the original due date) and have valid reasons, you must complete and lodge an Application for Extension of Submittable Work (7 Calendar Days or less) form and lodge it with the Senior Educator/ Program Manager.
The application must be lodged no later than one working day before the official due date. You will be notified within no more than 2 working days of the date of lodgment as to whether the extension has been granted.

If you seek an Extension of Submittable Work for more than 7 calendar days (from the original due date) must lodge an Application for Special Consideration form under the provisions of the Special Consideration Policy, preferably prior to, but no later than 2 working days after the official
due date.

Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) submitted late without approval of an extension will not be accepted or marked.

Special consideration:
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Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is a form of cheating and it is very serious academic offence that may lead to expulsion from the University.

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