Bachelor of Engineering Coop Diploma of Professional Practice Engineering

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Bachelor of Engineering Co-op / Diploma of
Professional Practice (Engineering)
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Bachelor of Engineering Co-op / Diploma of
Professional Practice

• Dual Award (Professional Engineering Degree
  Diploma of Professional Practice)
• 4 ½ years full time (compared to 4 yrs full time)
• 2 x 6 month work placements, external courses
  while on work placement

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The Generic Attributes of a Professional
Engineering Graduate

• ability to apply knowledge of basic science and
  engineering fundamentals
• ability to communicate effectively, not only with
  engineers but also with the community at large
• in-depth technical competence in at least one
  engineering discipline
• ability to undertake problem identification,
  formulation and solution
• ability to utilise a systems approach to design
  and operational performance
• ability to function effectively as an individual
  and in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural
  teams, with the capacity to be a leader or
  manager as well as an effective team member
• understanding of the social, cultural, global and
  environmental responsibilities of the
  professional engineer, and the need for
  sustainable development
• understanding of the principles of sustainable
  design and development
• understanding of professional and ethical
  responsibilities and commitment to them
• expectation of the need to undertake lifelong
  learning, and capacity to do so.

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Unique Program confident and competent

• Project Based Learning
• Inverted Curriculum
• Work Placements
• Diploma of Professional Practice

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Project Based Learning

• Inverted Curriculum
• Team Projects - Contextual
• Reflective
• Portfolio Assessment supported by skills audits
• First Year Team Industrial Projects
• Individual Final year Industrial or Research
  Project

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Work Placements

• 6 months, can be 8 months
• Start of 3rd year and end of 4th year
• Weekly Journal, Objectives, Employer Evaluation
• External Course while on workplacement
• Paid (60, 80 of graduate engineers wage)
• International Placements
• Out England, Wales, Canada, US, France, Sweden,
  Germany, Switzerland, South Africa etc
• In Northern Ireland, England, Canada, US,
  France, Germany, Sweden

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Diploma of Professional Practice

• Preparatory and Review Courses for each work
  placement
• Course timetables overlap for presentations from
  returning students
• First Prep and Review Courses aimed at finding a
  job
• Second Prep and Review Courses aimed at finding a
  career, preparing for CPEng

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First year Industry Projects (team)

• Integration of control systems across a
  WAN/internet
• Intersection Design at Heavy Vehicle Service
  Centre
• Waste Management
• Onsite stormwater management
• Boiler Feedwater System Energy Efficiency
  Improvements
• Automated IP5X Dust Test Chamber
• Review the Safety Shower System
• Design a Paint bay
• Design of a green educational workshop for school
  students
• GPS system Water Truck for Mine sites controlling
  amount of water output to soil type and water
  density.
• Design lifting device to suit an AFC Reeler.
• Sandy Creek North Floodway
• Landcare management project
• Compliance criteria for walkways and platforms

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Final Year Projects - Individual

• Alternative proposals to support network load
  growth at Bucasia
• Analysis of bleeding in sprayed bitumen resealing
• Experimental investigation and performance
  analysis of freestyle communication system for
  Powerlink Queensland substation automation
• Hay Point SL2 telescopic chute upgrade
• Large eddy simulation of fluid flow over ridges
  of parabolic and rectangular shape in a wind
  tunnel
• Redesign of dragline bucket rigging
• Stator cooling water hydrogen leak-rate
  monitoring and purge system for the Tarong North
  Power Station
• Susceptability to stress corrosion cracking (SCC)
  of carbon steel installed in the Bayer process at
  Rio Tinto Aluminium Yarwun
• Vertical shaft kiln CFD modelling
• Asset Management Study of Underground Coal Mining
  Equipment
• The design, prototyping and testing of a
  brushless DC motor
• Improving suburban passenger car comfort with
  semi-active control magnetorheological (MR)
  dampers
• Design and installation of a 2 tonne davit crane
  on surge bin
  2 at hay point coal terminal