Single-unit study
You can study individual units for personal or professional development without having to apply for a full QUT course.
If you successfully complete a unit, you may be eligible for credit if you decide to apply for a degree course in the future.
Units anyone can study
These units don’t have any requirements for previous study or background knowledge.
But if your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.
Engineering
Architecture and built environment
ABB103 Create and Represent: Process
This unit provides introductory skills in analogue (hand drawing and modelling) and digital processes for architecture, landscape architecture and interior design. It will cover methods for analysing and exploring the built environment, generative techniques, foundational graphic communication, and design principles. Through observation, analysis, drawing and modelling techniques, you will gain an understanding of key communication techniques and principles informing design processes and explorations. You will build on this unit in your future design studios, technology and environments units.
ABB206 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
The development of conflict management and negotiation skills is essential for those tasked with shaping the built environment. In this unit, you will acquire skills in effective communication, analysis of disputes and creative problem-solving through active participation in role-playing and reflective activities and intense investigation of real-world conflicts that arise through the development of land. You will learn to manage conflicting stakeholder perspectives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' perspectives. Learning to think about and respond to conflict in a rational manner will prepare you for group work within your studies and into professional practice. Stakeholder Engagement and Planning Law units build on this unit.
ABB243 Landscape Design 5: Design and Document
This third-year landscape design unit combines both design and advanced technical knowledge and skills, building on knowledge and skills developed in your previous design and technology units. This unit guides you through a high resolution design exploration to the development of a landscape architecture-specific documentation set commensurate to those produced in the profession for landscape construction contractors and other consultants. It encourages you to develop a greater level of skill in design resolution at a range of spatial scales and independent application of technical landscape design specificity, supporting your ongoing landscape design learning and preparing you for final year design studios and professional practice after graduation.
PMN505 Project Procurement
This unit identifies the optimal procurement strategy for a project from a client’s perspective taking a strategic approach and positions procurement in the project lifecycle and provides the detail required to be an effective client or tenderer for projects. Further, this unit considers project procurement from a contractor and contract management perspective recognising that procurement is a strategic and systematic process of acquiring the necessary goods, services, and resources required to successfully initiate, execute, and complete a project. This vital aspect of project management involves planning, sourcing, negotiating, and managing relationships with suppliers and vendors to ensure that the project's objectives are met within specified timelines, budget constraints, and quality standards. Effective project management procurement involves a comprehensive understanding of market dynamics, risk assessment, contract management, and stakeholder collaboration.
UXB120 Introduction to Heavy Engineering Sector Technology
This unit introduces resource sector technology associated with on and off Shore Oil and Gas (LNG), open cut and underground mining and power generation and distribution infrastructure including processing plants/plant design and infrastructure systems. Students will also develop introductory knowledge of safety and risk management within these sectors and develop an appreciation of mineral economics. It links to the work being undertaken in units Imagine Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering.
Civil & environmental engineering
EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems
Civil engineers undertake site investigations and project assessments as part of infrastructure planning and management activities that meet stakeholders' needs. This unit introduces you to knowledge and skills bases that are used in these activities. You will learn road network planning, design and management, bridges and bridge approaches design and construction, public utility plant management, engineering governance, and transport facility design and development. You will continue to learn about ethics, cultural awareness, and sustainable development practices and how they underpin professional work. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice and integrates your learning with EGB124 Engineering for the Environment. All units in your Civil Engineering major will build upon this unit.
Mechanical, medical and process engineering
EGB102 Fundamentals of Engineering Science
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the underpinning natural and physical sciences and the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This engineering foundation unit introduces concepts of physics and the strength of materials in an engineering context. You will develop the ability to recognise and apply methods to solve fundamental problems involving forces, motion and energy and to solve more complex problems involving pressures, mechanical stresses, strain and the deformation of solids as an introduction to predicting the behaviour of engineering systems. You will undertake laboratory work in groups to plan and conduct experiments to predict and analyse the behaviour of physical systems. You will build from this foundation in later units within your engineering major.
EGB160 Process Principles
This unit introduces students to the basic knowledge and fundamental approaches involved when taking a chemical reaction from the laboratory to full-scale industrial implementation. Basics and fundamentals in material handling, reactors and operations, mass and energy balances, process design, waste management, and materials of construction will be taught and discussed. Examples of how professionals integrate this knowledge into practice will be provided. You will gain an understanding of how to interact in a team environment to obtain satisfactory technical solutions to an industry relevant problem. This introductory unit prepares you for more advanced study in mass/energy balances and process design.
ENN530 Asset and Facility Management
Professionals are often involved in the management of processes and infrastructure including transportation, water, energy, buildings and telecommunications. In today's business environment, the safe and efficient maintenance and management of these assets and associated risks is critical. The professionals need to know how to manage the whole of life cycle of assets; organise maintenance based on condition and reliability assessments; and create as well as implement effective safety and environmental systems, asset management and maintenance plans so as to meet the business objectives of the organisation.
ENN570 Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Systems are now essential infrastructure to both large as well as to small-to-medium (SME) organisations, as they realise the necessity of a single central database instead of a large number of separate databases. By integrating core business processes in one single application, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) helps companies maximize the efficiency of business processes across the entire organization including increases in on-time delivery, productivity, forecasting demand and production capacity. This unit aims to provide the fundamental understanding of various Enterprise Systems, functions and modules and how they can be integrated in a business context. The students will be trained to develop a real-life ERP system based on actual data from industry. This unit will also aim to help students to refine their communication and group work skills and assist in the development of research-based skills. This is a core unit for Master of Engineering Management.
Units you need background knowledge to study
These units have requirements for previous study or background knowledge. Check the unit’s previous study requirements for details. If you have any questions, contact the unit coordinator for the semester you want to study.
If your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will also need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.
Engineering
Architecture and built environment
ABB104 Create and Represent: Presentation
This unit provides introductory hybrid presentation skills for architecture, interiors, and landscape contexts, in both natural and built environments . It will cover methods and techniques for communication including graphic layouts, drawing, making, rendering, written and verbal presentation. Students will gain an understanding of communicating conceptual design intent to a range of audiences.
ABB106 Create and Represent: Documentation
This unit provides introductory skills of analogue and digital drawing standards for architecture, interiors, and landscapes. Applying conventions including dimensioning, annotation, cross-referencing and scale, students will learn requirements for accurate architectural documentation. Through exploration of orthographic projections students will gain an understanding of drawing conventions for particular audiences and purposes.
ABB108 Spatial Histories
In this foundation unit you will be introduced to the history of the built environment through the study of global architectures across a wide range of cultures throughout past millennia. The unit will introduce you to the importance of the specific contributions made by architecture, interior design , landscape architecture and urban and regional planning to the global understanding of spatial histories. Through engaging with lectures that introduce you to key concepts, and tutorials that will develop your skills in writing and critical thinking, you will become familiar with the critical moments and paradigm shifts of the built environment through global perspectives and spatial justice theories. This unit provides the foundation from which you will continue to develop an understanding of yourself as a participant in the continuum of the rich cultural tradition of designing and making places for human inhabitation.
ABB201 Building Services
This unit introduces the principles, codes, systems, and equipment relevant to the provision of building services for medium-rise buildings. You will learn about the architects’ and consultants’ roles, and legislative requirements in relation to building services such as understanding criteria for systems and equipment and their spatial requirements; interpreting building services drawings; and meeting the requirements of the National Construction Code of Australia (NCC) and related standards for a range of user requirements. You will engage in consultative decision making to integrate building services with architectural intentions and construction methods. In this unit, building services, fire safety, universal access, climate change implications, and code requirements are offered as drivers for the design of safe, functional, and comfortable buildings.
ABB202 Design Psychology
Drawing on environmental psychology theory and concepts relevant to spatial design, this unit provides the opportunity to develop a broad understanding of the transactional nature of the relationship between people and the built environment. You will learn core theoretical and technical knowledge to support evidence-based design, and inclusive and sustainable practice. Designers require an understanding of how people and the built environment engage physically and psychosocially and existentially if they are to help produce individually meaningful and socially responsive environments. They also require skills to explore person-environment interactions relevant to practice-based projects. This unit builds on introductory understandings of the nature of human engagement and inhabitation and, in so doing, prepares you to consolidate your design knowledge and skills.
ABB222 Construction Estimating
An advanced construction management unit focusing on construction cost quantification techniques linking to previous years’ basic work and understanding. It includes an introduction to the interrelationship between professions in estimating and the techniques available to quantify cost; definition of the fundamental elements of cost and the methods of evaluating labour, materials, and equipment; assessing base estimates for major trades; assessment of offers from sub-contractors and implications for the tendering process; first principles estimating; review of an estimate; subsequent negotiations and application of estimating to variations and profit monitoring; outcome performance indicators; and introduction to current industry practice, tools, and technology.
ABB224 Construction Legislation
This unit introduces the Australian statutory requirements, building laws and legal frameworks that regulate building works and construction activities to provide a broad understanding of how the mandatory technical requirements dictate the selection of the materials, construction elements, facilities and services in buildings. It articulates the potential risks and issues associated with non-conformance and non-compliance and their impact on project cost, time, and quality. The ability to identify, assess and resolve issues of non-compliance in relation to the application of National Construction Code (NCC), relevant building acts, Australian Standards and associated legislative frameworks is critically important to achieve the minimum necessary performance requirements of buildings in relation to health, safety, amenity and sustainability. The knowledge and skills developed in this unit are relevant to building professional practice in all areas of the built environment.
ABB244 Landscape Design 6: Urban Ecologies
More people are living in cities now than ever before, intensifying our unsustainable use of resources, increasing carbon emissions, reducing biodiversity, and increasing social inequities and negative psychological effects. In this third-year design unit you will explore contemporary ecological perspectives on how we occupy and design our urban landscapes such as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Ecological Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism, and Design for Social Justice. You will also learn about applications such as urban farming, constructed ecologies, green/blue infrastructure and disruptive urbanist interventions. You will apply this knowledge to research, develop and communicate a design proposition for positive urban eco-social change. The knowledge and skills you acquire will advance those from your previous design units, complement learning in your Environmental Planning and Landscape Ecologies units, and prepare you for complex, advanced-level design units.
ABB246 Landscape Ecologies
This third-year landscape architecture theory unit builds on principles learnt in your Planting Design unit. You will learn about and apply theories and methods of landscape ecology and restoration ecology in combination with an introduction to the geomorphological processes creating landforms and underpinning ecological systems. This unit expands your conception of landscape as site-based to understand it as a dynamic web of ecosystems, including a focus on the role of vegetation within these systems. You will first demonstrate an understanding of these base theories, then apply them in the development and communication of an ecological restoration plan to improve a specific site’s ecological wellbeing. This unit complements learning undertaken in your Environmental Planning and Urban Ecologies units, and the understanding of landscape systems you will develop across these prepares you for your advanced-level studio units.
ABB248 Landscape Materiality and Constructs
This second-year landscape technology unit builds on your introduction to the principles and processes of landscape construction, introducing landscape structural theories, material properties, design and construction techniques, principles and processes, and the legislative environment governing landscape construction. You will critically evaluate, explore and apply appropriate sustainable materials and construction techniques to landscape systems and communicate a detailed landscape design proposition using industry-standard communication conventions. The knowledge and skills gained in this unit will inform your work in the advanced design unit, Design and Document.
ABB301 Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
Professionals need a range of skills and knowledge, to thrive in contemporary professional workplaces. This unit provides a suite of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences which will give you the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills acquired during your studies to further strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation. The experiences provide particular settings to gain an understanding of professional communication protocols, codes of conduct and ethical considerations, and a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments.
ABB303 Environmental Planning
This unit increases your understanding of environmental issues, environmental policy frameworks, and strategies that support decision-making and problem solving in the face of uncertainty. You will learn about the multi-faced aspects of environmental issues and the multi-scaled policy frameworks that guide ethical, and responsive practice. You will build on your existing spatial and non-spatial analysis skills and work in diverse teams to analyse a complex real-world environmental sustainability problem and identify integrated recommendations to address it. The knowledge and skills learnt in this unit will inform your work in advanced design and project units as well as in professional practice.
ABB312 Architecture Design 6
This unit will assist you to develop more complex architectural design skills focusing on ethical and sustainable design solutions and practice. This requires the synthesis of issues, ideas, knowledge, and techniques of architectural design as a holistic practice. This unit also advances understanding of the interdependencies of social, cultural, economic, and environmental dimensions at local and global levels, which are crucial to sustainable design of human settlement. You will synthesise and integrate knowledge and skills from various domains of knowledge into a major project(s) in an urban context. As part of the research and learning focus in the course, emphasis will be placed on the exploration and application of concepts of sustainability in the design of multi-residential and mixed used building types in local and international contexts.
ABB336 Furniture Design and Fabrication
Furniture and its role in the built environment is fundamental to creating an enhanced user experience. This unit develops at an intermediate level your knowledge, skills and their application regarding furniture and joinery in the interior and exterior context with a specific focus on experimental design and prototype construction. It builds upon the technical issues introduced in prior design and technology units, such as design, detailing and working drawing documentation, materials and ergonomics. Through an investigation of furniture and its design, this unit introduces you to the broad base of knowledge and the well-developed skills necessary to the field of interior design. Furniture and joinery are integral elements in an interior environment aesthetically, socially and culturally. You will therefore investigate aspects of the interior environment through the design of furniture and joinery within an appropriate and authentic real world context.
DLB303 Resilient Landscapes Studio
This capstone unit builds on the critical thinking and design resolution skills that students have developed though their earlier design studios and associated units. The studio begins with students researching and presenting exemplar projects and threatened landscape case studies. This will be conducted through the framework of relevant landscape resilience theory. This research will then provide the standpoint upon which students develop design propositions to the identified problem site and/or scenario.
DLH800 Landscape Design 8
This capstone unit aims for you to be able to apply theories of Landscape Planning and Landscape Urbanism in landscape appraisal and design development. You will undertake a sustained thesis-style project at an advanced conceptual and schematic landscape design level based on substantial independent research and rigorous design development. Understanding landscape architecture as a contextual and relational discipline, you will formulate innovative and sustainable landscape planning and design propositions and implementation strategies to balance competing social, cultural, economic, and ecological constraints and opportunities. This unit develops independent skills in investigation and practice enabling you to engage with a wide range of projects. It consolidates your individual expression of the knowledge, skills and application of landscape design principles, theories and processes developed in your landscape architecture core units to date.
DTB211 Materials, Products and Processes
This unit explores the complex nature of material and product selections to further enhance interior design project outcomes. Your knowledge of materials and products relevant to commercial interior design applications will be developed with a focus on sustainable manufacturing processes. This unit then introduces you to appropriate documentation to communicate your research and understanding to relevant project stakeholders. Specifying appropriate products for a variety of interior design scenarios is a fundamental process in the delivery of an interior design project.
DTB305 Interior Studio: Integration
This unit provides you with the opportunity to undertake a ‘real world’ design project. You will develop design methodology and undertake an informed design exploration; critically analyse and generate solutions to unpredictable and complex problems. You will refine your written, verbal and visual communication skills to present design processes and solutions at a beginning professional standard. You will develop your critical knowledge of contemporary social contexts within actual built spaces, focusing on ‘process’ and ‘solution’. The projects will address the role and relevance of research, while applying theoretical, technical, ethical and legislative constraints. Through semi-directed learning and studio delivery, the projects allow for the exploration of interior environments with an increased level of complexity and resolution.
DTB306 Interior Systems
This advanced unit aims to develop an understanding of the relationship between design, environmental quality, access and egress and technology while developing your technical communication skills. It introduces a greater complexity in commercial interior construction, services integration and code compliance while also developing your technical documentation skills. The unit links directly to your previous studies in DTB200 and provides the necessary knowledge, skills and application required to document the construction of your designs through all of your core units. DTB306 sits at the developmental stage of your course and provides you with opportunities to develop your knowledge of services integration, digital drafting and documentation requirements in a commercial workplace application with an emphasis on meeting codes and standards relating to fire safety.
DTB311 Professional Interior Practice Delivery
This unit consolidates knowledge, skills, and practical abilities to understand and participate in an interior design practice as a beginning professional. It integrates the management and technical requirements associated with operating a design practice, the organisation and roles of the regulatory and professional bodies, the cultural and legal context, and values and attitudes that govern professional practice. Interior designers require knowledge of management theory; of building contract requirements and project management; contract documentation and administration, and communication skills. This unit covers a range of ethical, cultural, legal, operational, and technical concerns related to interior design practice. It links to related stakeholders and professional disciplines, providing authentic learning opportunities.
DYN106 Sustainable Urban Design: Approaches and Principles
This unit explores multiple dimensions of integrated approaches and principles in urban design. It is about adding quality to products and processes related to urban spaces that shape our everyday life experiences and reinforce sustainability and resilience. Participants will gain an appreciation and deeper understanding of the complex urban problems and different ways of thinking in order to respond to these multifaceted challenges and translate them into policy and design solutions. Key principles, frameworks and associated methods will be explored which enable good urban design practice that leads to socially just spaces for all.
DYN207 Management and Administration of Projects
This unit builds upon and consolidates key issues in understanding management, documentation and contract administration of built environment projects. The unit examines project phases including the inception, schematic design, design development, documentation, contract administration and completion. The unit is delivered in two key modules. Module 1 provides a detailed understanding of the professional management of a built environment project in practice. Module 2 examines forms of contracts, regulatory codes and standards across Australia, the contract administration of built environment projects including relevant laws and statutory regulations.
PMN603 Project Investigation 1
Problems that confront Project Managers are ill-defined and complex. Problem identification, evidence-based literature searching, research design and planning and effective communication through reports and presentations are essential attributes of the modern Project Manager. This unit provides you with the knowledge of applied and evidence-based methods to critically appraise and solve discipline-specific real world problems and effectively communicate processes and solutions verbally and in writing. This unit will also assist you in the development of clearly-defined questions and techniques to plan and execute an applied project of your own design in PMN606 Project Investigation 2.
PMN605 Strategic Project Procurement
This unit identifies the optimal procurement strategy for a project. It takes a strategic approach and positions procurement in the project lifecycle. It also provides the detail required to be an effective client or tenderer for projects. A broader range of procurement strategies and contract forms are now available to the market and clients and providers need to understand the risk profiles of each of them before entering into such contracts. The tools and techniques required are not the same for every contract and so both clients and providers must be prepared with both systems and suitably qualified people. It builds on a sound understanding of projects and the project lifecycle and informs the project risk assessment and risk allocation for the project.
PMN606 Project Investigation 2
Problem definition, evidence-based literature searching, applied research, reflective practice and effective communication of solutions through reporting are essential attributes of the modern Project Manager. This unit enables you to plan and execute an independent and applied research project addressing a relevant real world problem in a related project management discipline area and effectively communicate processes and solutions in a reflective way. It provides an opportunity to individualise your studies by concentrating on a specific problem and build on the applied, evidence-based research skills and knowledge you have gained in PMN603 Project Investigation 1.
PMN607 Strategic Risk Management
This unit takes a strategic approach to risk in the project and business lifecycles. A broader range of risk management frameworks are now available and clients and providers need to understand the features of each before any implementation. The knowledge and skills developed in this unit contribute to effective identification, analysis, evaluation and treatment of risk to the project and the organisation in an integrated way. This unit builds on a sound understanding of risk and opportunities in projects to inform decision-making and the project and program risk allocation between client and provider. Teaching and learning approaches ensure that the skills acquired are applied.
PMN608 Managing the Project
The purpose of ’Managing the Project’ is to integrate your learnings from the other units that you have studied in the MPM in order to plan, manage and execute a major and complex programme comprising multiple and related projects within a topical case study involving a real-world styled venture. ‘Managing the Project will occur within robust governance and assurance settings, which will guide the programme and projects through a well-defined stage-gate process, into commissioning and hand-over, and finally benefits realisation after the transition to business as usual. In ‘Managing the Project’, you will develop and acquire practical programme/project management experience in a ‘real-world styled’ venture within an authentic learning environment.
PMN609 Leading Emerging Trends in Project Management
Understanding emerging trends and innovations in project management is of paramount importance in today's dynamic and competitive project and business environments. These trends offer valuable insights into evolving technologies, methodologies, and market demands that can significantly impact project outcomes. By staying informed and embracing innovation, project managers can enhance their ability to adapt to changing circumstances, optimise processes for efficiency, and effectively address complex challenges. Moreover, a proactive and evidence-based research approach to adopting emerging trends enables organisations to maintain a competitive edge and deliver projects that align with the evolving needs of clients and stakeholders. Ultimately, this understanding empowers project management professionals to lead with foresight, navigate uncertainties, and undertake innovation research to evaluate outcomes that drive both individual and organisational success.
PMN610 Project Management Principles
This unit introduces project management as a fundamental skill for all postgraduate coursework students of the built environment and engineering. It also supports other disciplines including Business, Health, and Law. The unit provides an overview of the project management methodologies, frameworks, processes and key knowledge areas.
UXB220 Services and Heavy Engineering Measurement
This unit develops deeper knowledge, skills and application of the measurement of more complex areas of services and heavy engineering including building services (hydraulics, drainage, mechanical and electrical) and heavy engineering works within the resources and infrastructure sectors. It builds on units previously undertaken in the earlier years of the course such as the Measurement of Construction, Heavy Engineering Sector Technology and Building services.
UXH321 Cost Planning and Controls
This unit applies the fundamental principles of cost management including design and construction cost planning (pre-construction) and project controls (during construction), including important techniques in managing project cost in the context of working closely in multidisciplinary teams. It covers cost management in both building and non-building sectors (for example, civil engineering and resource sectors).
UXH331 Environmental Planning
This unit increases your understanding of environmental analysis and planning issues, policies, and methods, aiming to prepare you for incorporation of environmental objectives and constraints in professional practice. In this unit you will engage in dialogues on contemporary environmental dilemmas, exploring ethical and practical aspects which underpin conflict. You will further refine skills acquired in site analysis units by learning to create and modify spatial models to facilitate collaborative problem-solving. These skills will aid in preparations for final year planning studio units as well as professional practice.
UXH410 Strategic Construction Management
This fourth year unit in the Construction Management (CM) course builds on the basic and intermediate knowledge, skills and understanding already gained in earlier units of the course. The unit is set within the real-world scenario of a medium-sized construction company that is planning to locate into a new and emerging sector of the Australian construction market and also trying to improve business growth and profitability. The learning in this unit is provided by study and practice using real-world case-studies and tools and techniques, some within a computer-based setting, that simulate the challenges, problems, issues and solutions that students will face in CM practice in the workplace.
UXH432 Community Planning
This unit provides opportunities for acquiring, refining and applying knowledge of and skills in community planning. The unit introduces planning techniques and urban theory applicable to communities that define successful community planning initiatives. Gaining skills to confidently apply community planning techniques in urban planning is critical for a planning practitioner whether working in public or private sector. This unit discusses principles of community planning, the relationships of community planning to community development, issues of power and participation in the planning processes, and the linkages and tensions between local and professional knowledge in planning and policymaking. The unit also helps in gaining knowledge and skills in understanding key community planning theories and concepts, and in applying methods and analysis to identify and respond to complex community issues.
UXH433 Regional Planning
You will learn to focus and apply material from a wide range of disciplines and locations to understand and develop current regional and metropolitan policy and apply the knowledge of policy formulation and skills of analysis and synthesis to real world problem-solving at a scale which is larger than a single local government.
Civil & environmental engineering
EGB121 Engineering Mechanics
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of the the engineering fundamentals applicable to the engineering discipline" (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This introductory unit provides the basic knowledge and skills in statics and mechanics of materials. It is a foundation engineering unit that will develop your skills in analysing mechanical and civil engineering systems including cranes, buildings, bridges and mechanical equipment. You will learn the importance of accurate design and analysis of mechanical components and structures. You will draw on the skills and knowledge learn in this unit in more advanced units such as Stress Analysis, Structural Analysis and Mechanical Design.
EGB273 Principles of Construction
Construction engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that focuses on turning civil engineering infrastructure designs into reality. Construction engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to select and implement methods of civil construction. You will learn about site investigation, environmental management, construction planning and project management techniques, earthworks, equipment selection for various civil infrastructure types. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This units draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.
EGB275 Structural Mechanics
Structural engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that focuses on creation of safe, economical and sustainable structures. Structural engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn moment distribution, introduction to structural analysis software, principle of virtual work to determine deflections, transformation of stresses and Mohr's Circle, torsion, shear flow, shear centre, unsymmetrical bending, the principle of compatibility, and combined axial loading and bending of structural elements and systems. In this unit you will further develop your mathematical skills (20% of this unit is maths) in structural engineering applications, and professional skills in engineering communication. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB121 Engineering Mechanics and MZB127 Engineering Mathematics and Statistics. All structural engineering units in the Civil Engineering major will build upon this unit.
EGB373 Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical engineering is prominent field of civil engineering that focuses on design, construction, andmaintenance of foundations of structures (such as buildings, bridges), soil and water retaining structures(retaining walls and earth dams), soil slopes, road and runway pavements, and buried structures includingpipes and tunnels. Geotechnical engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit tomeet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the properties of geomaterials, geotechnical engineering principlesand theories, and their applications. You will further develop your personal and professional skills incommunication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB270 Civil EngineeringMaterials. EGH473 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering will build upon this unit.
EGB376 Steel Design
Structural engineering is a prominent field of civil engineering that includes a focus on the design, construction, operation and maintenance of steel structures such as buildings, bridges, cranes, and transmission towers. Structural engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this unit to meet stakeholders' needs. You will learn the behaviour, analysis and limit states design of steel structural elements such as tension and compression members, beams, and their connections. You will develop skills to analyse and design simple steel structures including continuous beams and trusses. You will further develop your professional skills in communication and engineering teamwork. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB270 Civil Engineering Materials and EGB275 Structural Mechanics. EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice will build upon this unit.
EGB387 Engineering Economy and Planning
In addition to design competence, Engineers require a sound understanding of construction and management principles and engineering economic analysis to fully meet the expectations of employers and the broader community. This unit addressing a complete financial and economic evaluation of project using several evaluation criteria commonly applied in the assessment of engineering project alternatives. This is a construction engineering second major unit and the knowledge and skills developed in this unit will help engineers to think creatively and to understand the decisions required in a project planning and feasibility environments as well as understanding projects within the economic (value and investment) environment. This advanced unit significantly integrates your prior knowledge and skills to effectively perform specific management tasks in typical civil engineering projects.
EGB475 Advanced Structural Analysis
This is an advanced structural engineering unit in which topics that are regularly used by structural engineers as well as some topics that become useful for special cases will be covered. Using knowledge from previous years, you will develop and present the computer based stiffness method for analyzing structures in order to design them. Dynamics and vibration of structures will be introduced with applications to buildings. Structures collapse when loaded beyond their capacity. The predictable pattern of structural failure through the formation of plastic hinges (or failure points) will be treated. The application of dynamics and vibration to structural health monitoring and damage detection and to seismic engineering will be covered. The Australian Standard AS1170.4 for seismic analysis will be used in the studies. On completion of this unit, students will be well prepared to face the challenges of a structural engineer.
EGB476 Advanced Steel Design
This is an advanced level civil engineering unit that provides the required knowledge and skills for the analysis, design and construction of steel buildings. Building on the structural, material and construction units of previous semesters, it provides detailed knowledge, skills and experience in determining the wind effects on buildings, modelling, analysis and design of steel framed buildings and all their components by engaging in a single storey steel portal frame building project on a real site. The ability to analyse and design steel buildings is a requirement for a range of graduate civil engineering positions. This unit is the second one in the civil engineering course that provides the knowledge and skills required for this purpose. It will prepare you to pursue a career in structures and/or construction. EGB473-Composite Structures builds on this unit by extending your knowledge and skills for more complex, composite steel-concrete structures.
EGH471 Advanced Water Engineering
Water engineers use knowledge and skills bases that you will learn in this advanced unit to analyse surface water systems including rivers, creeks and reservoirs, and to undertake design of related hydraulic structures including bridges, culverts and dams. You will continue to develop your knowledge of water engineering in the context of technical, practical and stakeholder perspectives. You will learn the hydrologic cycle and its applications in runoff estimations, probability and risk based flood analysis, estimating design floods, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling and water sensitive urban design concepts. You will work together with peers on assessing catchments for their hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics, modelling floods using software tools and designing simple hydraulic structures. This unit draws upon your learning in EGB123 Civil Engineering Systems, EGB124 Engineering for the Environment, and EGB371 Engineering Hydraulics.
EGH475 Advanced Concrete Structures
Structural engineers use knowledge and skills basis that you will learn in this advanced unit to create innovative solutions to complex planning and design problems about concrete structures to meet stakeholders' needs. You will continue to learn about loading, design standards, analysis and design of concrete structural systems and elements, economical and sustainable design, computer modelling, and professional design reporting and drawing. You will further develop your personal and professional attributes, especially teamwork, time and resource management, communication, and reflective practice. This unit draws upon your learning in structural units of the civil engineering major, in particular EGB375 Design of Concrete Structures.
EGH479 Advances in Civil Engineering Practice
Civil engineers use their full breadth of knowledge and skills bases to develop solutions to complex infrastructure planning and design problems that meet stakeholders' needs. In this final unit of the civil engineering major you will be presented with such a complex problem and in developing a solution you will hone your skills in critical review, analysis, synthesis and creativity. You will continue to develop your ability to communicate advanced knowledge and concepts in written, modelled and graphical forms to technical and non-technical audiences. You will hone your abilities in team working, reflective practice, and time and resource management. Emphasis is placed on your understanding of risk, ethics and stakeholder perspectives. This unit draws upon your learning throughout the civil engineering major.
ENN544 Sustainable Practice in Engineering
Sustainable development has become a global agenda that impacts on our work and everyday life. Sustainability principles and practices are rapidly becoming embedded in all phases of engineering projects from planning, design, construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, through to mining and manufacturing, energy and water utilities. Engineers need to ensure that their decision making is guided by the fundamental principles of sustainable development.The unit will introduce you to principles, challenges and skills for dealing with a diversity of trans-disciplinary issues in engineering sustainable development. By introducing critical sustainability theory and challenging best practices, this unit will prepare you for the impending changes that are necessary in all built environment and engineering disciplines.
Electrical engineering and robotics
CAB202 Microprocessors and Digital Systems
This unit introduces you to the components inside a computer and how these components work together. The design and development of modern digital electronic systems requires a knowledge of the hardware and software to program the system. This unit identifies design requirements and lets you develop embedded microcontroller-based system solutions. Practical laboratory exercises progressively expose features of a typical microprocessor; and explain how an embedded computer can interact with its environment. This provides a valuable foundation for further studies in areas such as robotics and networking.
EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about strength of materials and load bearing mechanisms so that you can undertake introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
EGB120 Foundations of Electrical Engineering
In this foundational engineering unit you will learn concepts around the relationship between electrical energy, electronic instrumentation and measurements. This is key to begin your journey towards being a professional engineer. This unit introduces techniques for circuit analysis, instruments for measurement and practical applications in an engineering context. The ability to analyse and understand electrical circuits and related concepts plays a key role in most engineering disciplines and is highly useful not only for electrical engineers (electronics and mechatronic) but also for mechanical, biomedical, aerospace, and materials engineers. EGB120 combines real-world focused lectures, tutorials and practicals to give a hands-on experience learning about these fundamental skills. The concepts in this unit will be built upon in future engineering units and teach key fundamental concepts relevant to all engineering majors.
EGB242 Signal Analysis
Signal processing engineers have knowledge of engineering methodologies, and possess problem solving, communication, leadership and project management skills. They design, model, and analyze systems, and use a wide range of technologies and applications, including household appliances, communications systems, modern control, circuit design, biomedical engineering, and speech processing. They help transform society and enhance the quality of life. This unit will introduce you to the foundations of signal and system analysis in the time and frequency domains. You will learn and work individually and with peers to apply engineering and mathematical concepts and use programming techniques, to solve contextualized practical problems employing Fourier and Laplace analysis, LTI systems, filtering, and System modelling. This unit will draw on your knowledge and skills from EGB120 and MZB127, and prepare you for units in telecommunications, signal processing and control.
EGB320 Mechatronics Design 2
Mechatronics Design 2 is a project unit with a hands-on application to advanced mechatronics principles. You will focus on the mechanics, electronics, and embedded software principles behind mechatronics. In this unit, you extend your knowledge and skills from Mechatronics Design 1 to the research, design, and implementation of an advanced mechatronic product to meet a customer's needs. You will further extend your skills and knowledge in mechatronics design in Mechatronics Design 3.
EGB339 Introduction to Robotics
This unit introduces the fundamental concepts and algorithms of robotics and computer vision. You will learn how to solve typical fundamental real-world computer vision and robotics problems, working individually and in a team. You will build from this unit in EGB439 (Advanced Robotics).
EGB341 Energy Supply and Delivery
In this unit you will cover the concepts and technical aspects of electric energy generation and delivery. Thestructure of energy conversion and delivery from power stations through transmission and distribution tocustomer loads will be addressed, including the concept of electricity markets. Models of transformers,transmission lines, power flow, synchronous and induction machines will be studied as key component andfeatures of electricity network. This subject will lay the foundations for EGH441 Power System Modelling.
EGB342 Telecommunications and RF
This intermediate unit addresses core concepts, characteristics and performance requirements in analog and digital communications. Knowledge and skills developed in this unit are relevant to communication and signals stream in the electrical engineering major. This unit introduces basic building blocks of analog and digital modulation techniques for single and multi-user communications, as well as fundamentals of RF relevant to telecommunications. You will learn to use time and frequency domain signal analysis, apply information theory to compress digital data, choose appropriate modulation techniques to transmit signals and analyze the performance of communication systems in noisy channels. You will also gain knowledge on RF building blocks of telecommunications systems. You will build on this unit in EGH443 Advanced Telecommunications and RF and EGH444 Digital Systems and Image processing by extending analytical understanding for design and analysis of more complex systems.
EGB345 Control and Dynamic Systems
Control systems engineering is at the heart of most of the modern electrical and mechanical systems that you will encounter in your careers as practicing engineers. The unit provides theoretical and practical understanding of control systems to enable you to better apply and design engineering technologies. The unit is an intermediate level unit to be undertaken once you have sufficient mathematical and analysis skills to understand the theory and to apply the theory in practice.
EGB346 Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Unmanned Aircraft Systems have become a useful and common tool for engineers. As a future professional engineer it is critical to understand technical, practical and regulatory issues around the design and operation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. This unit introduces the key concepts and theory of Unmanned Aircraft Systems including mission design, airframes and propulsion, autopilots and sensors, ground stations and communications, and flight operations and risk management. You will work with your peers in a team and design an Unmanned Aircraft System-based solution to a real-world problem. You will draw on your experience in EGB243 Aircraft Systems and Flight.
EGB348 Electronics
Electronic devices and circuits are the building blocks of most electrical and computing devices. In this unit, you will identify the characteristics and operation of discrete and integrated circuit semiconductor devices, including diodes, transistors and op amps. You will learn how they are combined into circuits to perform useful operations on signals, such as amplification, filtering or switching. This unit also introduces digital electronics, including devices such as logic gates and flip-flops, and combinational logic, and digital circuit design. This unit is an Intermediate Electrical Option, which builds on basic electrical circuit theory learned in EGB120. It forms the foundation for later units in Advanced Electronics and Power Electronics.
EGB351 Renewable Electrical Energy Sources
Renewable energy sources play a key role in the continued reduction of the carbon footprint of our society. Understanding their availability, limitations and challenges is critical towards their successful application in our current engineering systems. In this unit you will gain an in-depth understanding of the operation, characteristics, energy production profiles, electrical grid integration aspects, as well as economic considerations, of the most important renewable energy technologies. The unit will also introduce key energy storage technologies that can be coupled with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar to compensate for their intermittent generation profile. This unit will draw on the concepts learned in EGB120, and will develop important understanding required for the more advanced units EGH451 and EGH452.
EGH444 Digital Signals and Image Processing
This unit covers fundamentals of digital signal and image processing, including image representation andacquisition, filtering (in both spatial and frequency domains), image enhancement. It will also introduce you to moreadvanced concept such as feature extraction, segmentation, compression and machine learning applied to computervision. You will learn how those techniques work and how and when to apply them. You will practice these conceptsindividually and in collaboration with peers. You will draw on the fundamentals of signals seen in EGB342.
EGH446 Autonomous Systems
Automation engineers play a key role in building practical control systems and designing navigation approaches for autonomous vehicles. This advanced unit will present the principles of operation of modern sensors necessary for robust navigation. This unit provides the required knowledge to develop state of the art navigation approaches in complex environments. Navigation is a fundamental building block for all aspects of autonomous systems. You will draw upon previous studies in mathematics and control systems, knowledge that underpins navigation systems.
EGH449 Advanced Electronics
This Advanced Electrical Option builds on the electronic and computing building blocks and concepts covered in Electronics (EGB348) and Microprocessors and Digital Systems (CAB202). This unit explores the extension and application of general electronic circuits to specific topic areas where special consideration and approaches are required. These topic areas include precision electronics, low noise electronics, the interface of analogue and digital electronics, digital systems, and Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The advanced unit EGH448 Power Electronics is complementary to this unit's content.
EGH450 Advanced Unmanned Aircraft Systems
This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application of aerospace concepts, building on aircraft systems and flight and Unmanned Aircraft systems (UAS) and Systems Engineering. The unit focuses on experimental design, integration and test of a UAS. You will also gain skills in setting design specifications and carrying out detailed design analysis to design, build and flight test a UAS.
EGH452 Design for Renewable Electrical Energy Systems
Delivering solutions for the sustainable and secure generation and distribution of electrical energy remains one of the greatest challenges facing the engineering discipline. This unit provides a capstone experience in which you will work within a team to apply systems thinking and design processes to the design, analysis, modelling and evaluation of a grid-connected renewable energy system. You will explore the diverse technological, economic, regulatory, and social considerations which inform the definition and execution of large-scale renewable energy engineering projects and incorporate these considerations into your own design. In addition, you will explore analysis techniques required to evaluate the performance of renewable systems in the context of environmental considerations and uncertainty, and the complementary engineering, risk-management and control strategies required to ensure security of supply.
EGH455 Advanced Systems Design
This advanced unit further develops your investigation, analysis, synthesis and problem solving skills when solving complex engineering tasks. The unit focuses on experimental design using a systems engineering approach to work on an engineering concept, starting from a basic need and opportunity description. You work in teams to identify customers, formulate a basic business case, establish a basic concept of operations, develop the system requirements, generate concepts, conduct trade studies, determine the most promising design, and pursue a design and testing and verification of the system. The unit replicates industry or government systems engineering practices as closely as possible.
IFN680 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
This is a specialisation unit in the area of computer science and data analytics. The aim of this unit is to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to design and implement artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions that can effectively and efficiently solve complex problems. The main advantage of intelligent systems is that they can combine the traditional computer's capacity to remember millions of facts with the human being's cognitive skills, including learning and refining the existing body of knowledge, solving problems with reasoning, helping businesses with strategic planning, diagnosing mechanical faults or human diseases, playing games, and so on. This unit will provide you with an understanding of the principles and basic techniques to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as an understanding of the strengths and limitations of these algorithms.
Mechanical, medical and process engineering
EGB125 Design for Manufacture
Professional engineers have a "comprehensive, theory based understanding of underpinning natural and physical sciences" (1.1) which supports their capability in the "application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving" (2.1) (Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer). This unit provides the opportunity for you to develop your capability in these competencies in mechanical engineering. It introduces the relationships between engineering design, manufacturing processes and mechanical properties of materials, which will provide a foundation for later units in engineering design, manufacturing, solid mechanics, and stress analysis. You will learn to communicate engineering concepts using drawings and industry standard computer aided drawing technologies, to convey dimensions and tolerances, and specify materials and manufacturing processes.
EGB161 Foundations of Engineering Chemistry
As a professional engineer, you are required understand fundamental scientific concepts which underpin the knowledge and skill base of professional engineers. This foundational unit introduces essential concepts of chemistry which are required for engineers. You will learn about key areas of chemistry including the relationship between atomic structure and reactivity, chemical bonding, chemical thermodynamics, and types of matter. Throughout the unit, you will be provided with engineering relevant examples to demonstrate the links between chemistry and different areas of engineering. These examples will highlight the links between engineering chemistry, risk management, and sustainability. It is expected that you will build from this unit in EGB264 (Engineering Chemistry).
EGB210 Fundamentals of Mechanical Design
Mechanical Design forms the backbone of the Mechanical Engineering Degree. This unit is an introduction into Mechanical Design. It brings together fundamental engineering units such as Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Fluid Mechanics and Materials Study and is a common unit for students studying Mechanical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Mechatronics. It will develop systematic knowledge and practice of methods of engineering problem solving, design procedures, design analysis, and introductory mechanical components design, highlighting the need for sustainable and contextually appropriate solutions. It lays the basis for advanced study in Mechanical Design.
EGB211 Dynamics
Mechanical engineers are required to have a sound knowledge in motion of particles and rigid bodies, which is essential in the design and production of machines and other engineering systems. Dynamic forces in systems such as motor vehicles, aircrafts and robotic devices are determined by kinematic and kinetic analysis of these systems. These forces play an essential part in the design of these systems. In this introductory unit, you are introduced to the concepts of dynamics in the context of real engineering systems. The basic principles for dynamics of particles and rigid bodies in 2D are introduced and discussed as related problems within various engineering systems. On completion of this unit, you will be able to apply fundamental principles of kinematics and kinetics in formulating and solving dynamics problems for particles and rigid bodies and analyse kinematics and kinetics of basic mechanical components and mechanisms.
EGB322 Thermodynamics
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practice as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers, including discipline specific knowledge and skills in engineering thermodynamics.This unit introduces the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, together with the use of state diagrams to describe thermodynamic systems and processes. In this unit you will apply these principles and analysis methods to real world engineering problems involving air compressors, internal combustion engines, steam power plant and refrigeration systems. This unit relies on a prior understanding of mathematics and mechanics studied in your first year or equivalent units. You will build from this unit in subsequent engineering units in advanced thermodynamics and fluid dynamics.
EGB364 Process Modelling
This unit builds technical competence in mass and energy balances for process design. Moving from simple mass and energy balances towards realistic and complex balances requires developing deeper modelling skills involving computer software, bringing together chemical thermodynamics and mathematics. You will learn how to use process simulation software through individual problem solving tasks and how it mimics the chemistry through practical laboratories. The unit builds on introductory concepts learned in EGB263 Process Systems, leading into EGH462 Process Control which focuses on dynamic behaviour. The embedded mathematics content constitutes 30% of the unit and provides intermediate level computational mathematics techniques to support student learning in intermediate level engineering units.
EGB422 Energy Management and Sustainability
Global energy issues are having a profound effect on engineering practice in relation to energy utilisation. Energy management is generally regarded as an effective solution for immediate energy consumption reduction and to address global warming. It is also concerned with increasing productivity, improving standards of living and saving money. You will learn how to apply the principles of thermodynamics, heat transfer and electricity along with an introduction to financial analysis and managerial practice. This will enable them to conduct an audit of energy systems and develop a sustainable energy management plan. This unit also details energy auditing of commercial buildings, industrial energy systems and processes, and explore their energy-saving opportunities. It equips students with the skills and knowledge required to conduct energy audits, analyse data, and provide reports for their energy-related customers. This unit also includes guest lectures from industry experts.
EGB435 Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Automation
This unit builds on the formative knowledge from Materials and Manufacturing (EGB214) with a particular focus on advanced manufacturing techniques, lean manufacturing, and industrial automation basics. The unit develops student knowledge and skills around various machining and super finishing techniques including 3D printing and Bio-fabrication. This unit also introduces some key concepts of Lean Manufacturing along with industrial automation basics to ensure growth in the highly competitive global marketplace, ensuring organisations maximise customer value and minimise process waste. Broadly this unit will provide knowledge in manufacturing including process capability and process sequencing with a Lean manufacturing edge. The students will benefit from a Mid-semester quiz, a semester-long group project focussing on the manufacturing processes supported by two lab demonstration sessions on machining techniques and 3D printing, and a Final Exam (invigilated).
EGH413 Advanced Dynamics
The analysis, design, and control of many practical engineering systems require analysis of rigid bodies in three dimensions, e.g. gyroscopes, amusement park rides, space vehicles, and robots. The aim of this unit is to develop skills and techniques to analyse the behaviour of mechanical systems in three dimensions using both Newton-Euler and Lagrangian approaches. This capstone unit builds upon the concepts of 2D kinematics and kinetics from earlier units (EGB211, EGB321) and introduces Lagrangian methods, which are powerful tools in developing equations of motion for complex engineering systems.
EGH418 Biomechanics
Biomedical engineers require the ability to analyse the mechanics of the human body for a large variety of applications. The first type of problems deal with prosthetic design, design of assistive devices for people with disabilities, sporting performance, and ergonomic tasks which can be addressed within the context of rigid-body dynamics. The second type of applications is related to characterisation of tissue mechanical properties to bone fracture fixation, development of cartilage and ligament replacement materials and dynamic adaptation of living tissues.In this advanced unit, the concepts of dynamics and continuum mechanics are further developed in the context of biomechanical systems and human movement. Skills for the measurement of human movement and lab-based testing of biological tissues are developed.
EGH420 Mechanical Systems Design
This unit brings together a number of Engineers Australia's Stage 1 competencies. Students will demonstrate their knowledge and skill base, their engineering application ability all whilst being expected to demonstrate the professional and personal attributes. This unit builds on previous introductory and intermediate design units to be the final unit in the mechanical design stream. You will bring together design knowledge and skills to design and analyze systems of increasing complexity and interdependence. You also will be given the opportunity to consider the broader role mechanical engineers often play in relation to human interaction, quality, safety, ethics and sustainability in design.
EGH424 Biofluids
This unit is an advanced unit in medical engineering. Towards a professional medical engineer, It is designed to build up your knowledge and skills to examine the particular properties of the biological fluids and to introduce techniques to analyse their behaviour. This unit introduces the fundamental principles of fluid dynamics that are used to explain the mechanisms of biological flows and their interrelationships with physiological processes, in health and in disease. You will work together with peers to learn basic numerical methods in solving the flow of biofluids and propose design concepts by taking consideration of biological fluid property and behaviour. You will build on EGB323 Fluid Mechanics and LSB231 Physiology to develop your engineering knowledge and skills, with particular emphasis on an improved ability in applying the biological fluid dynamics principles in development of strategies for disease prevention or medical device design.
EGH435 Modelling and Simulation for Medical Engineers
Traditional analytical and experimental techniques can often not be applied to investigate the mechanics of medical devices in biological systems. Biomechanical systems exhibit substantial non-linearity due to complex geometries, materials and interactions. Medical engineering professionals use modelling and simulation techniques in the design of biomechanical systems. This unit advances modelling and simulation techniques through their applications in Biomedical Engineering. This advanced unit will develop your knowledge and skills in analysing biomechanical components and systems in the course of medical device development. The unit focuses on modelling and simulation techniques using industry standard software. It applies content introduced in EGH418 Biomechanics, builds upon the finite element capabilities introduced in EGH414 Stress Analysis and adds quantitative analysis tools to the medical device design process commenced in EGB319 BioDesign.