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ENGD3002: Sustainable Tech. and Community Innovation
2025 unit information
Knowledge of the STEAMM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Medicine) is required, together with the interdisciplinary skills of STEAMM students, to enhance community education and facilitate creative solutions to the complex problems in developing a sustainable physical environment and human society in Australia. This unit will allow students to deepen their experience of the interdisciplinary teams while working with groups external to the University on community focused projects. The wide range of skills to be developed by students include: team development; project management; community consultation; client relationship development; research skills; problem identification and solving, presentation skills; verbal and written communication; and team evaluation and individual reflection. The learning approach will be a mix of lectures, together with project consultations and workshops held at university, and on-site, with community project partners. Schools, particularly Stage 5 (Years 9 and10) students and teachers, will be a primary client group. Other potential project partners may include public, private and non-government sector organisations. Projects undertaken will involve a process of client consultation, research and investigation, project design, implementation and evaluation.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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must be in the Dalyell stream |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. LO2 - Competently address complex problems requiring a broad range of discipline knowledge, under some supervision
- LO2. LO3 - Justify creative solutions to non‐routine and complex problems/opportunities based on a structured process of inquiry and evidence-based research to clarify reasoning and decisions, and experiment with different (systems) methodologies or thinking approaches and strategies for innovation.
- LO3. LO4 - Understand the impact of high uncertainty and/or context on the design cycle and the benefit of systems design framework
- LO4. LO5 - Analyse, evaluate and articulate system design solutions against a broad and interdisciplinary set of requirements, taking into account multiple perspectives such as ecological, social, cultural, economic, risk, and technical.
- LO5. LO6 - Engaged with stakeholders, carry out managed inquiry / research activities, evaluating and interpreting information, merging with disciplinary theoretical and methodological knowledge to synthesise new or customised contextual knowledge that may involve ambiguity, uncertainty and/or internal conflicts
- LO6. LO7 - Proficiently apply standard project management tools and methodologies for assigned project activities on a small team scale.
- LO7. LO8 - Exercise sound critical and ethical judgement, at general level, on professional context and conduct issues.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
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