1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
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problem solving and decision making. Australian industrial<br />
relations and anti-discrimination.<br />
Finance introduction to business finance, sources of funds,<br />
use of funds, financial accounting, double entry bookkeeping<br />
through to trial balance, management accounting,<br />
costing, capital investment, working capital.<br />
Textbook<br />
Samuelson, M. Superwijion and Management. Brisbane, Wiley, 1990<br />
~ecommended reading<br />
Brown, J.A.C. Social Psychology of Industry Human Relationships<br />
in the Factory. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1980<br />
Byrt, W. and Masters, P.R. 7%e Australian Manager. 2nd edn,<br />
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982<br />
Colditz, B.T. and Gibbons, R.W. Australian Accounting. 4th edn,<br />
McGraw-Hill, 1988<br />
Gole, V.L. Fundamentals of Financial Management in Australia.<br />
3rd edn, Sydney, Butterworths, 1981<br />
Lansbury, R.D. and Spilland, R. Organisational Bebaviour 7%e<br />
Australian Context. 2nd edn, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1991<br />
Robbins, S.P. Organizational Theory Structure, Design and<br />
Applications. 3rd edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hd, 1990<br />
EE403 Engineering Project Management<br />
fi credit points Hawthorn Prerequisites: EE402<br />
Management Fundamentals Assessment: assignment<br />
A fourth year subject in all streams of the degree of Bachelor<br />
of Engineering (Electrical)<br />
This subject is to be taken during the students' second<br />
industrial period. There will be no formal lectures for this<br />
subject. Students will work from a text and submit a<br />
combination assignment.<br />
0 b jedives<br />
To provide students with an understanding of engineering<br />
project management involving both personnel and plant<br />
management.<br />
Content<br />
The role of the manager in a high technology environment;<br />
senior management expectations, skill requirements of high<br />
tecchnology managers, dealing with priority problems,<br />
understanding matrix organisations.<br />
Working effectively with technical personnel; understanding<br />
professional productivity, leadership effectiveness, creating<br />
stimulating work environment, managing innovation and<br />
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c creativity, dealing with risk and uncertainty, leadership<br />
0-<br />
;. expectations, delegating effectively, evaluating technical<br />
performance.<br />
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3 Planning and organising the work, examining the work<br />
process, phased approach to engineering developments,<br />
developing schedules and measurable milestones, manpower<br />
planning, software for computer-assisted resource scheduling<br />
and program planning.<br />
Control of technical work; available software, optimising<br />
resources, measurement of performance, tools for<br />
measuremennt and reporting.<br />
Project management methodology; definition phase,<br />
planning phase, scheduling phase, control phase, advantagges<br />
of ~roject management.<br />
Recommended reading<br />
Meredith, J.R. and Mantel S.J. Jr. Project Management: A<br />
Managerial Approach. 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1989<br />
EE456 Electrical Design<br />
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn<br />
Prerequisites: EE384, EE386. Assessment: assignment<br />
A fourth year subject in the electrical power and control<br />
engineering stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering<br />
(Electrical)<br />
0 bjedives<br />
To give practice in the application of the design process in<br />
particular aspects of electrical power and control<br />
engineering. . To allow each student to select a topic for a<br />
.<br />
design project.<br />
Content<br />
Power electronics circuitry. EM1 from power switching<br />
circuits, regulations.<br />
Illumination lighting fundamentals and photometric units.<br />
Light Sources interior and office lighting.<br />
Floodlighting Australian Standards and lighting codes.<br />
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Electric machine design procedures. Examples of<br />
transformer or induct~on motor design.<br />
Electrical materials.<br />
The M.E.N. System<br />
Residual Current Devices (RCD's)<br />
Industrial Applications of Programmable Logic Controller.<br />
Distributed Control Systems.<br />
Design topic selection each student is to select a topic and<br />
ain approval of it by a staff member. The staff member<br />
becomes the desi n supervisor. Students are expected to<br />
carry out the prefiminary desi n procedures up to the stage<br />
of detailed calculations in the fourth year of the course, and<br />
to complete the construction, testing and evaluation stages<br />
of the process as their final year Des~gn Project. Students are<br />
to be given guidance from their supervisor.<br />
EE458 Electrical Design<br />
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn<br />
Prerequisites: completion of the third year of the degree of<br />
Bachelor of Enginewing (Electrical - unstreamed)<br />
Assessment: assignment, poster<br />
A fourth year subject in the communications and electronics<br />
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)<br />
0 bjedives<br />
To introduce the student to selected design considerations in<br />
the communications and electronics stream of the course;<br />
and to allow the student to elect a topic for the major design<br />
and project activities of the fifth year of the course.<br />
Content<br />
The process of design, functional partitioning, hardware<br />
description languages, basic features of VHDL, design<br />
entities. architectural bodies. block statements.<br />
,<br />
Drocesses.<br />
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data types, packages, control statements, basic modelling<br />
techniques for combinational and sequential logic, chip level<br />
modelling, system modelling, application of VHDL in the<br />
areas of chip-level modelling and test generation, chip level