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~~403 Engineering Project Management
Prerequisites: nil
Instruction: seminars
Assessment: assignment
This subject is to be taken during the students' second
industrial period. There will be no formal lectures for this
subject. Students will work from a text and submit a
combination assignment.
Subject aims
To provide students with an understanding of engineering
project management involving both personnel and plant
management.
Subject description
The role of the manager in a high technology environment;
senior management expectations, skill requirements of high
technology managers, dealing with priority problems,
understanding matrix organisations.
Working effectively with technical personnel; understanding
professional productivity, leadership effectiveness, creating
stimulating work environment, managing innovation and
creativity, dealing with risk and uncertainty, leadership
expectations, delegating effectively, evaluating technical
performance.
Planning and organising the work, examining the work
process, phased approach to engineering developments,
developing schedules and measurable milestones, manpower
planning, software for computer-assisted resource scheduling
and program planning.
Control of technical work; available software, optimizing
resources, measurement of performance, tools for
measurement and reporting.
Project management methodology; definition phase, planning
phase, scheduling phase, control phase, advantages of project
management.
Textbook
Meredith, J.R. and Mantel S.J. Jr. Project Management: A Managerial
Approach. 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1989
~~456 Electrical Design
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: EE384 ~lectrical Power and
Machines, EE386 Electronics
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: assignment
Subject aims
To give practice in the application of the design process in
particular aspects of electrical power and control engineering.
To allow each student to select a topic for a design project.
Subject description
Power electronics circuitry: trigger circuits, for power semiconductor
devices. EM1 from power switching circuits,
regulations.
Illumination: lighting fundamentals and photometric units.
Liaht Sources: interior and office liqhting.
~16odli~htin~: Australian Standardiandjighting codes.
Electric machine design procedures: specific magnetic and
electric loading of materials, losses, thermal and mechanical
stress limitations. Similitude and scaling. Basic design
procedures. Examples of transformer or induction motor
design.
Electrical materials: mechanical and electrical properties of
conductors and insulters.
Electrical safety and residual current devices: The effects of
electricity on the human body.
The M.E.N. System
Residual Current Devices (RCD's)
Industrial Applications of Programmable Logic Controller.
Distributed Control Systems.
Design topic selection: each student is to select a topic and
gain approval of it by a staff member. The staff member
becomes the design supervisor. Students are expected to carry
out the preliminary design procedures up to the stage of
detailed calculations in the fourth year of the course, and to
complete the construction, testing and evaluation stages of
the process as their final year Design Project. Students are to
be given guidance in the use of computer and manual
methods of literature searching.
TextlReferences
To be advised
~~458 Electrical Design
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: completion of the third year of the
degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical -
unstreamed)
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: assignmentlposter
Subject aims
To introduce the student to selected design considerations in
the communications and electronics stream of the course; and
to allow the student to elect a topic for the major design and
project activities of the fifth year of the course.
Subject description
The process of design, functional partitioning, hardware
description languages, basic features of VHDL, design entities,
architectural bodies. block statements. orocesses. data tvDes.
packages, control statements, basic modelling technique; for
combhational and sequential logic, chip leveimodelling,
svstem modellina. -. aoolication . . of VHDL in the areas of chiolevel
modelling and test qeneration, chip level emulation in
parallel, hum6 engineeGng, reliability considerations,
maintainability, documentation. Preparation of a research
project and a technical poster.
TexVReferences
To be advised
~~459 Electrical Design
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: EE363 Computer Systems
Engineering
Instruction: lectures
Assessment: testlassignment
Subject aims
For students to develop and demonstrate a sound
understanding of the various aspects of digital system design.
Subject description
Aspects of digital system design including a formal treatment
of design for testability including observability and controllability,
generation of test sequences including self test and
automatic fault isolation to smallest replaceable component.