Course Title: Communicate and apply standard industry procedures and policies in an engineering design office
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2013
Course Code: CIVE5654
Course Title: Communicate and apply standard industry procedures and policies in an engineering design office
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6093 - Advanced Diploma of Engineering Design
Course Contact: Program Manager
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468
Course Contact Email: engineering-tafe@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
A.S. (Ahmet) Ertuncay. Program Manager.
School of Engineering (TAFE)
Civil Operations
Tel : (03) 9925 8375
Fax : (03) 9925 4377
e-mail ahmet.ertuncay@rmit.edu.au
W.R. (Bill) Harding, Teacher
School of Engineering (TAFE)
Civil Operations
Tel. 9925 4443
Fax. 9925 4377
e-mail: bill.harding@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 60
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 covers the competency to enter an engineering design office with knowledge of the engineering disciplines, the contribution of engineering to society, basic structures, awards and work practices, including quality systems, risk management and the application of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare OHS&W legislation. The competency includes communication through writing technical reports and making short oral presentations.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
EDX010B Communicate and apply standard industry procedures and policies in an engineering design office |
Element: |
1. Apply knowledge of the different engineering disciplines and the impact of engineering on society. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 The term ‘engineering’ can be defined and explained. |
Element: |
2.Apply knowledge of the types of engineering occupations and employment, education, training and retraining requirements for a engineering design office. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 The role and functions of professional engineers, engineering associates, technical officers, technicians, design drafters, detail drafters and associated paraprofessional engineering occupations can be explained. |
Element: |
3. Participate in quality improvement activities. |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 The difference between Quality Control and Quality |
Element: |
4. Apply the legislative requirements of Occupational Health, Safety & Welfare. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 The relationship between Worksafe Australia and individual State and Territory Health and Safety Commissions can be explained so that their jurisdiction is clearly defined. |
Element: |
5. Conduct a workplace hazard audit. |
Performance Criteria: |
5.1 A description is given of a situation under which a given hazard presents a risk to safety and/or health. |
Element: |
6. Apply knowledge of risk management concepts. |
Performance Criteria: |
6.1 The need for risk management in the contemporary industrial and business climate can be explained. |
Element: |
7. Write a technical document . |
Performance Criteria: |
7.1 The document’s purpose, context, scope and method of organization are stated explicitly. |
Element: |
8. Make an oral presentation. |
Performance Criteria: |
8.1 The topic of the presentation is briefly outlined. |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to Learning Package on the Learning Hub.
Details of Learning Activities
Teacher Directed:
• Teacher–led face to face lectures for each element in designated areas of underpinning knowledge, including workplace scenarios and the use of overheads, videos and notes from local web page and covering:
• Engineering Organisations and their structure
• Quality Concepts and procedures within the workplace
• Occupational Health and safety in the workplace
• Writing technical reports for the engineering workplace.
Student-based learning activities
• Participate in individual or small group research related to an engineering company and including:
• Engineering disciplines
• Engineering Institutes & Associations.
• Engineering industrial awards
• Education and qualifications
• Design office structure
• Design office activities
• Participate in and OH&S induction program covering issues concerning RMIT and the workplace training facilities, conducted by the school.
• Using workplace scenarios, participate in simulations/role plays/case studies dealing with:
• OH&S procedures and covering the legal requirements, preventative nature of OH&S, workplace audits, employee/employer responsibilities, a health and safety program and risk management.
• Quality systems
• Quality control
• Quality Measurement testing
• Quality improvement and statistical techniques.
• preparation of written technical engineering reports
Group-based:
• Participate in individual or small group research using Self Help Questions/Answers for each element in designated areas of underpinning knowledge, accessed via local web site for this unit.
Teaching Schedule
See Online Learning Hub via MyRMIT (Blackboard) for details of weekly schedule.
Refer also to the Learning Guide/Package available on the Blackboard.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 |
References
George, C & Cole, K (1992) Supervision in Action – The Art of Managing 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall, Sydney. |
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ISO Standards for Quality ISO 9000-2000 Series |
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Ellyard, S & Taylor, P (2005), Communication for IT, 2nd ed., (Access Series) TAFE NSW, McGraw Hill, North Ryde, NSW |
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Assessment are conducted in both theoretical and practical aspects of the course according to the performance criteria set out in the National Training Package. Students are required to undertake summative assessments that bring together knowledge and skills. To successfully complete this course you will be required to demonstrate competency in each assessment tasks detailed under the Assessment Task Section.
Your assessment for this course will be marked using the following table:
NYC (<50%) Not Yet Competent
CAG (50-59%) Competent - Pass
CC (60-69%) Competent - Credit
CDI (70-79%) Competent - Distinction
CHD (80-100%) Competent - High Distinction
Assessment Tasks
Test: Engineering Organisations
Your course coordinator/tutor will give you specific test instructions for the semester of your study, including:
• Date and time of test
• Any other specific requirements
However, it is expected the test will have the following:
o Short answer questions
o True and false
o Multiple choice
o Essay
• 1 ½ hours duration.
This test has a pass grade of 50% and will contribute 10% of the final overall mark. Like all assessments within this course, this assessment task must be passed in order to meet the requirements of this course.
Test: Occupational Health & Safety
Your course coordinator/tutor will give you specific test instructions for the semester of your study, including:
• Date and time of test
• Any other specific requirements
However, it is expected the test will have the following:
o True or false questions
o Multiple choice questions
o Short answer questions
o Essay
• Open book test using the Victorian OH&S Act 2000
• 1 ½ hours duration.
This test has a pass grade of 70% and will contribute 15% of the final overall mark. Like all assessments within this course, this assessment task must be passed in order to meet the requirements of this course.
Test: Quality Systems
Your course coordinator/tutor will give you specific test instructions for the semester of your study, including:
• Date and time of test
• Any other specific requirements
However, it is expected the test will have the following:
o True or false questions
o Short answer questions
o True and false
o Multiple choice questions
o Essay
• 1 ½ hours duration.
This test has a pass grade of 50% and will contribute 10% of the final overall mark. Like all assessments within this course, this assessment task must be passed in order to meet the requirements of this course.
Written report:
Covering - Engineering Organisations, Occupational Health & Safety, Quality Systems and Technical report writing.
This report features all major topic areas of this course.
The report is in two parts:
• consisting of a report regarding the running of an engineering company, and
• secondly a report regarding an accident occurring at the site of a project run by the company.
This report has a pass grade of 50% and will contribute 40% of the final overall mark. Like all assessments within this course, this assessment task must be passed in order to meet the requirements of this course.
Oral presentation:
Covering the major topic areas of: Occupational Health & Safety, and Delivering an Oral presentation.
Your course coordinator/tutor will give you specific test instructions for the semester of your study, including:
• Date and time of test
• Any other specific requirements
The oral presentation consists of the findings of an investigation into the accident at the project site (part two of the report) being presented to an “Investigating Commissioner”
This oral presentation has a pass grade of 50% and will contribute 25% of the final overall mark. Like all assessments within this course, this assessment task must be passed in order to meet the requirements of this course.
Assessment Matrix
Element Covered | Assessment Task | Proportion of Final Assessment | Submission Time |
1 | Test – Engineering Organisations | 10% | Week 7 |
2 | Test – Occupational Health & Safety | 15% | Week 10 |
All | Report | 40% | Week 14 |
3 | Test – Quality Systems | 10% | Week 16 |
2 & 5 | Oral Presentation | 25% | Wek 17 & 18 |
Note: All tests are on-line supervised tests.
Other Information
Underpinning Skills and Knowledge
Meaning of “Engineering”
Fields of Engineering
Engineering Industry Structure:- Contexts for Engineering Design Offices
Roles, responsibilities and qualifications of Design Office
Personnel
Design Office procedures (Drawing standards; Company manuals; Plotting; Filing, storage and retrieval; Scheduling work through the office; Checking design work and drawings)
Industrial awards and trade unions
Quality Systems:- Quality Perspectives
Quality Improvement
Quality Assurance and Quality Management Systems
Assurance and Improvement.
Occupational Health, Safety & Welfare:-
• Legal Framework
• Preventative nature of occupational health and safety
• Workplace audit
• Employer/Employee responsibilities
• Health and Safety programme
• Risk Management concepts:- Definition of risk management
• Risk management terminology
• Risk management process
• General sources of risk and their areas of impact
• Documentation
Technical Report writing:
• Technical writing skills
• Technical writing strategies
Oral presentations:- Use of presentation aids
- Overhead projector (presentation of slides)
- Pointers
- PowerPoint presentation
- Demonstrations
Voice projection
Organisation and timing of presentation
Study and Learning Support:
The Study and Learning Centre (SLC) provides free learning and academic development advice to all RMIT students.
Services offered by SLC to support numeracy and literacy skills are:
* Assignment writing, thesis writing and study skills advice
* Maths and science developmental support and advice
* English language development
Please refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/studyandlearningcentre to find more information
Disability Liaison Unit:
If you have a disability or long-term medical condition you should contact the DLU to seek advice and support.
Please Refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/disability to find more information about their services
Late submission:
If you require an extension for 7 calendar days or less (from the original due date) 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. The student 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 require an extension of more than 7 calendar days (from the original due date) you 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.
Assignments submitted late without approval of an extension will not be accepted nor marked.
Special consideration:
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