1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

EE403 Engineering Project Management
fi credit points Hawthorn Prerequisites: EE402
Management Fundamentals Corequisites: nil
Assessment: assignment
A fourth year subject in all streams of the degree of Bachelor
of Engineering (Electrical)
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.
0 b jectives
To provide students with an understanding of engineering
project management involving both personnel and plant
management.
Content
The role of the manager in a high technology environment;
senior management expectations, skill requirements of high
tecchnology 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.
L * 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 ~lanning.
Control of technical work; available software, optimising
resources, measurement of performance, tools for
measuremennt and reporting.
Project management methodology; definition phase,
planning phase, scheduling phase, control phase, advantagges
of project management.
Recommended reading
Meredith, J.R. and Mantel S.J. Jr. Project Management: A
Managerial Approach. 2nd edn, New York, Wiley, 1989
EE456 Electrical Design
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE384, EE386 Corequisites: nil
Assessment: assignment
A fourth year subject in the electrical power and control
engineering stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
(Electrical)
Objectives
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.
Content
Power electronics circuitry. EM1 from power switching
circuits, regulations.
Illumination lighting fundamentals and photometric units.
Light Sources interior and office lighting.
~loodli~htin~ Australian Standards and lighting codes.
Electric machine design procedures. Examples of
transformer or inducnon motor design.
Electrical materials.
The M.E.N. System
Residual Current Devices @CD's)
Industrial Applications of Programmable Logic Controller.
Distributed Control Systems.
Design topic selection each student is to select a topic and
ain approval of it by a staff member. The staff member
kecomes the desi n supervisor. Students are expected to
carry out the prekiminary desi n 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 from their supervisor.
EE458 Electrical Design
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: completion of the third year of the degree of
Bachelor of Enginewing (Electrical - unstreamed)
Corequisite: nil Assessment: assignment/poster
A fourth year subject in the communications and electronics
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
0 b jectives
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.
Content
The process of design, functional partitioning, hardware
description languages, basic features of VHDL, design
entities, architectural bodies, block statements, processes,
data types, packages, control statements, basic modelling
techniques for combinational and sequential logic, chip level
modelling, system modelling, application of VHDL in the
areas of chip-level modelling and test generation, chip level
emulation in parallel, human engineering, reliability
considerations, maintainability, documentation. Preparation
of a research project and a technical poster.
EE459 Electrical Design
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE363 Corequisite: Nil Assessment: test/
assignment
A fourth year subject in the computer systems engineering
stream of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
Objectives
For students to develop and demonstrate a sound
understanding of the various aspects of digital system design.