1997 QUT Handbook

■ MEN172 COST ANALYSIS & ASSET
MANAGEMENT
The aim is to provide students with skills to: analyse cost and
understand different costing methods and their implications;
evaluate projects under different cost allocation methods; appreciate
the role of variance analysis as a management tool;
estimate cash flows; make lease versus buy decisions.
Courses: ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEN175 ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
Properties and testing methods of solid, liquid and gaseous
fuels; combustion calculations; flue gas analysis; energy tariffs
and audits; major applications of energy management, eg.
buildings, process plant, compressed air systems, vehicle
fleets; economic evaluation of energy projects; introduction
and management of energy-saving programs; field visit. Environmental
aspects will be considered for each topic.
Courses: ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEN177 TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
The aim is to provide students with an understanding of the
underlying philosophy and practice of TQM including learning
some basic tools for quality control. Topics covered include:
quality as a competitive strategy; the evolution of quality
management; elements of quality management; continual
improvements; customer measurements; managing change;
total employee participation; bench marking.
Courses: ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEN190 PROJECT
Substantial piece of work relevant to the course and carried
out by each student on an individual basis; report is examined
and marked by academic supervisor in consultation with industrial
supervisor.
Courses: ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEN241 RELIABILITY & MAINTENANCE
MANAGEMENT
Overview of maintenance responsibilities and tasks; maintenance
vision and mission; organisation for maintenance; creating
a maintenance plan with reliability centred maintenance
(RCM); real time maintenance planning and control; availability;
maintainability; repair pools; spare parts inventory
management; cost of downtime; downtime reduction; maintenance
project planning; shutdowns/turnarounds; performance
measures; documentation and document control; configuration
management; computer based maintenance management
systems; total productive maintenance (TPM); condition
monitoring technology and management; budgetary
control; performance measures; financial analysis for asset
management.
Courses: ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEN270 MANUFACTURING RESOURCE
PLANNING
Functions and interrelationships between the three major components
– production planning, operations planning and operations
control – of a manufacturing requirements planning
(MRP) system; practical exercises to provide hands on experience
with a MRP system such as FACT.
Courses: ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEN280 ENGINEERING PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Definition of project management; organisational structures
for project management; planning the project; feasibility analysis;
organising the project; legal aspects; project control; quality
control.
Courses: BS93, ME75, ME76
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
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■ MEP172 QUALITY PLANNING & COST
ANALYSIS
Focus on planning for quality systems, especially QA systems;
basic coverage of the costs of quality; quality terminology;
SQC and the Deming philosophy; quality costs; the business
plan; total quality management; the place of QA; quality
improvement techniques; quality assurance, the essential requirements;
quality manual, program and plan; setting and
programming appropriate QA program; organisation for quality
procedures; activities action and QA role for design, procurement
and manufacturing, audit and corrective action.
Courses: BS93, IF69
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEP201 SAFETY TECHNOLOGY & PRACTICE
Overview of models of the accident phenomenon; technological
background of potential hazards with electrical power;
construction site mechanical equipment hazards and failure;
failure modes of engineering materials; mechanical properties
of engineering materials and their effect on failure mode.
Courses: HL88, PU65
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEP274 QUALITY SYSTEMS
IMPLEMENTATION & MAINTENANCE
Expectations in relation to AS/NZS ISO9000 series of quality
standards; system implementation principles, complexities and
solutions; state purchasing policy; auditing objectives, philosophy,
methodology and standard; attainment of an internal
audit qualification through the Queensland Quality Centre;
syndicate work involving presentations by groups of students
on nominated aspects of the subject matter.
Courses: BS77, BS93, IF69, ME75
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MEP373 RELIABILITY & MAINTENANCE
MANAGEMENT
Overview of maintenance responsibilities and tasks; maintenance
vision and mission; organisation for maintenance; creating
a maintenance plan with reliability centred maintenance
(RCM); real time maintenance planning and control; availability;
maintainability; repair pools; spare parts inventory
management; cost of downtime; downtime reduction; maintenance
project planning; shutdowns/turnarounds; performance
measures; documentation and document control; configuration
management; computer based maintenance management
systems; total productive maintenance (TPM); condition
monitoring technology and management; budgetary
control; performance measures; financial analysis for asset
management.
Courses: BS93, IF69
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MGB001 HUMAN RESOURCES & INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS
Influences impacting on human resource management and
industrial relations in an engineering environment; theoretical
foundation of human resource management and industrial
relations.
Courses: ME35
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
Incompatible with: HRB149
■ MGB002 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
The management process, planning, leading, organising, controlling;
human resources management aspects of communication,
motivation, leadership and teamwork, with practical
applications to planning and control, personnel relations, job
design.
Courses: EE43, ME45, ME46
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
Incompatible with: HRB111
■ MGB004 MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK
Introduction to the theory, process and practice of management
and organisations with special reference to an engineering
environment; importance of people in the achievement of