1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: ED21, ED26
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: MDP501
■ MDP533 TEACHING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MODELLING
Designed for prospective teachers of information system modelling;
explores the pedagogies and approaches appropriate
for teaching students at a variety of levels including a secondary
school environment; development and writing of specification
documents for information system implementation
within an educational context; tools such as relational languages
and CASE used by students to implement small educational
information systems.
Courses: ED21 Prerequisites: MDP503
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: MDP509
■ MDP534 EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a discipline impacting on education,
philosophical issues, and methods used in AI; focuses
particularly on AI applications which cross broad areas of the
school curriculum; provides appropriate curriculum support
for teachers of the AI topic within the Information Processing
and Technology unit at a secondary school level.
Courses: ED21 Prerequisites: MDP535
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: CSP842
■ MDP535 EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
Data, procedural and object-orientated abstractions used in
conjunction with modular programming practices. These
understandings are used to solve problems from a wide range
of practical educational applications especially with respect
to the development of educational software.
Courses: ED21 Prerequisites: MDP532
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: CSP837
■ MDP536 COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN TEACHING
The use of computer graphics to enhance teaching and learning
in a school environment. A problem-solving approach is
employed and students are given the opportunity to apply what
they are learning to their own curriculum areas.
Courses: ED21, ED61
Prerequisites: MDP532 or MDP530
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: CSP843
■ MDP537 MAJOR ISSUES IN COMPUTER
EDUCATION
The application and implication of the use of information technologies
in an educational environment; the impact of teaching,
learning and the curriculum.
Courses: ED21, ED61
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: MDP502
■ MDP538 COMPUTERS IN THE SECONDARY
CURRICULUM
This unit explores the impact of information and communication
technologies on those segments of the secondary curriculum
where the emphasis is other than teaching about computing.
The impact on teaching and learning is discussed within
the framework of recent research, national, state, systemic and
local policy documents.
Courses: ED21, ED61
Prerequisites: MDP537 or MDP532
Credit Points: 12
■ MEB036 SAFETY TECHNOLOGY 1
The importance and relevance of safety in the workplace; engineering
materials and failure analysis; analysis of the accident
process; hazards with machinery.
Courses: PU44
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
762
■ MEB111 DYNAMICS
The principles of dynamics; kinetics of particles and systems
of particles in plane motion; coordinate systems; relative motion;
various methods for the solution of mechanisms; freebody
diagrams; work-energy equations; impulse; momentum and
impact.
Courses: EE43, EE44, EE45, IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46,
ME4
Prerequisites: MAB103, PHB134, MAB187
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB134 MATERIALS 1
Bonding; thermodynamics of solids; state and phase changes;
defects; elasticity, plasticity and fracture; recovery diffusion;
recystallisation; hot and cold deformation; creep and fatigue
mechanisms; heat treatment. Alloying and strengthening in
metals, polymers and ceramics.
Courses: CE42, CE43, EE43, EE44, EE45, IF42, IF56, ME45,
ME46, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB173 MANUFACTURING PRACTICE
Manufacturing in world and Australian contexts; concept of
manufacturing systems; conventional and non-traditional
manufacturing technology; introduction to value analysis,
product design and material selection; tolerancing and metrology;
workplace health and safety.
Courses: IF56
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB175 MANUFACTURING PRACTICE 1
Workplace health and safety practices. Lectures and handson
instruction on general fitting and fabrication; metal joining
(electric and gas); metrology. Industry visits.
Courses: ME35
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB181 ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION
An introductory course in engineering graphics covering the
application of the principles of geometric drawing to the
preparation of engineering drawings. Topics include orthographic
projection; auxiliary views; sectioning; use of manufacturing
symbols; dimensioning and tolerancing; pictorial
views and sketching; data presentation; oral and written reporting.
Computer aided drafting is introduced.
Courses: CE31, CE42, CE43, EE43, EE44, EE45, IF25, IF42,
IF44, IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME47
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB191 ENGINEERING IN THE MEDICAL
ENVIRONMENT
Overview of the health system in Australia; clinical disciplines
within medicine; medical terminology; history of health technology;
health technology from an engineering perspective;
case studies.
Courses: ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEB213 MECHANICS OF SOLIDS
Concepts of stress, strain and elasticity; analysis of stress and
strain; stresses in simple beams; torsion of circular shafts;
stresses in thin-walled pressure vessels; strain measurement
and strain gauging.
Courses: IF56, ME35, ME45, ME46, ME4
Prerequisites: CEB184
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
■ MEB221 ENGINEERING SCIENCE 1
Statics: forces in equilibrium; resolution of forces; friction;
inertia and change of motion: application to connected bodies;
dynamics of rotation; centripetal force; the hoist; periodic
motion; balancing: work and energy; impulse and momentum;
introduction to fluids at rest and in motion.
Courses: IF54, IF55, PS47, PS4 Prerequisites: MAB188
Corequisites: PHB172
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week