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ENGG1111 Integrated Engineering Integrating professional knowledge and skill development with practice Presented by Dr. Tom Goldfinch Based on slides by A. Prof. Keith Willey Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies

Acknowledgement of Country Before we begin I would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which we meet; the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. It is upon their ancestral lands that you will be undertaking the very significant next step of your journey. As we share our own knowledge, teaching, learning and research practices within this university may we also pay respect to the knowledge embedded forever within the Aboriginal Custodianship of Country.

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Welcome ENGG1111 Team: – Dr Tom Goldfinch (unit coordinator) – Sareeta Zaid (Administration) – A/Prof Keith Willey, Dr Rod Fiford, & Dr Lynn Berry (past unit coordinators, content creators, contributors, and all-round nice folks) – Small army of tutors (facilitators of your learning)

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Who to contact

Questions relating to your specific circumstances: • Email: [email protected]

Questions relating to assessment tasks, class activities: • Post in Canvas discussion forums (don’t be shy, there’s 600 of you, someone else will want the answer too!)

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What is engineering to you?

With four people around you take it in turns to introduce yourselves and answer this question.

Ask permission to share any unusual responses to share with the rest of the class – you can share someone else response semi-anonymously!

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Engineering embraces creativity, problem solving, innovation, practice, interpersonal skills, communication (oral, visual and written), management skills, ethical behaviour, risk analysis and assessment, entrepreneurship, technical knowledge etc.

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Definitions of Engineering – “Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing”, Henry Petroski (engineer, academic, author) – “At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession”, Queen Elizabeth II – “Engineering is the ability to make for $1 what anyone can make for $2”, unknown – “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems”, Scott Adams (Dilbert comic fame)

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More than the technical…

‘What about this wheel thingy?’, said the captain. ‘It sounds a terribly interesting project.’ ‘Ah’, said the marketing girl, ‘we have a bit of difficulty there.’ ‘Difficulty?’ exclaimed Ford, ‘what do you mean, difficulty? It is the single simplest machine in the entire universe.’ The marketing girl soured him with a look. ‘Alright, Mr Wise Guy’, she said, ‘If you’re so clever, you tell us what colour it should be.’

- Douglas Adams (1980). Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books.

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Ideal Design Methodology ref Salt

What is the problem to be solved

How will problem be solved

But don’t underestimate:

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

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I am here to facilitate a series of learning opportunities. Why are you here?

– What are your expectations of this unit? – (what have you heard)? – What are your concerns or fears in regard to this unit? – How do you plan to get value from the unit?

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Course Objectives

– Develop your professional engineering knowledge/skills • Assist you to integrate this development into your engineering studies

– Become familiar with the broad range of activities engineers undertake • Develop your professional identity

– Experience the engineering design process by designing your own original product to meet specific objectives The University of Sydney

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Integrated engineering – 1 hour lecture – 1hr and 2hr tutorial – Flipped Format: There is often pre-work before tutorials and lectures – These are a learning opportunity! – Need to work consistently to manage delivery of assessment activities

– Assessment is a combination of individual and group work – – – – – –

Design Requirements Brief (group) Design Proposal (group) Design video presentation and answering questions (group) Threshold exam (individual) Job application (individual) Professional Development Cycle (individual)

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Classroom learning opportunities CUSP: https://cusp.sydney.edu.au/students/view-unit-page/alpha/ENGG1111 Week 1 2

Classroom learning Introduction to Integrated Engineering Engineers what do they do?

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Learning as a professional Critical thinking and Innovation Design principles, product life-cycle, requirements and testing Risk, uncertainty, hierarchy of control, economics of product development Communication (oral, visual and written) Engineering standards Threshold exam review and revision Threshold exam Guest lecture: Engineers Australia (professional organisation) What are employers looking for? Professional development, Job interview success and the STAR technique Subject review – best presentation video, finalising PDR Workshop & Supplementary threshold exam

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Design Project: Minus 5 Urban Greening – You will work as part of a small team to design an engineering solution to support community driven urban greening projects – Product has to meet project requirements – Project specifications on Canvas – Your tasks: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Requirements Brief Design Proposal Social Media Video Presentation

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Professional Development Cycle – Choose three professional skills (identified in Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards) to improve/further develop. – a self-evaluation of your current competency – a plan to improve the skills and obtain evidence to demonstrate and/or evaluate this improvement – an evidence-based reflective assessment of any improvement

– Professional Development Plan (PDP, week 3) + Project Experience + Professional Development Review (PDR, week 13) = Professional Development Cycle

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Job Application – You will need to write a job application (cover letter and response to specified selection criteria) discussing skills you demonstrated in the project. – Your Professional Development Cycle will assist you in putting this together – Your Job application will be shared with peers and you will complete a peer review. – PDR is self reflective – your space, your thoughts to be seen only by teaching staff – Job application is semi-public – will be seen by peers

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Threshold Exam – 25 marks Pass mark is 75% in the exam 75% equals 12.5 marks. 100% equals 25 marks If result ≥ 75% • Mark Calculation = (%Result - 75%) * 0.5 +12.5 – If result  75% • Mark Calculation = (%Result - 75%) * 0.167 – – – –

– Students who fail the initial threshold exam will be offered a workshop and supplementary exam in week 14 – Students who achieve less than 75% in the supplementary threshold exam, maximum unit mark is 45F.

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Threshold Exam – Similar to a driving test – you might be great at parking, indicating, intersections, but you fail if you can’t do roundabouts and merging… 25 Threshold level of knowledge + accuracy, attention to detail

Mark

20 15 10

Insufficient knowledge across all topics Threshold level of knowledge = pass

5

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Exam result (%)

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Self and Peer Assessment

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Self and Peer Assessment – Use SPARKPLUS to rate your own and your team members’ contribution to the group project. – RPF or Relative Performance Factor is used to change group project mark into an individual mark. – Individual mark = group mark * individual’s RPF – Eg: if a group receives 80/100 for their project and a student in group receives a RPF of 0.9 for their contribution (reflecting a lower than average team contribution): • Individual mark = 80 * 0.9 = 72

– RPF Applied to: – Requirements Brief – Design Proposal – Video & Presentation

– SA/PA factor – How you rate yourself compared to how others rate you The University of Sydney

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Canvas Tour

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How have you been learning?

What are some techniques and processes you have been using to learn over the last few years? – Whiteboard activity

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Knowledge and how students behave and respond

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Formative activities opportunity for feedback Engineering

In general

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The enquiring mind – Some questions you may ask: – – – – – – –

Why is it so? Is it true? What is the evidence? Can I do it better? How else could I do it? How does it work? Can I do it better?

– Search for greater meaning – Deeper learning – Greater understanding

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Educational Integrity in Engineering & IT Why should it be important to you? Why is it important to us?

Devaluing your degree – even if you are honest

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What are the professional consequences?

• “Fake” engineer worked on the CTV tower in Christchurch (115 dead) •

https://sourceable.net/fake-engineer-confesses-four-decades/#

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What are the professional consequences?

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg a German politician, who was Federal Minister for Economics and Technology, before in 2009 becoming the Minister of Defence of Germany. Highly regarded and expected to have a successful career in German Federal politics, in February 2011 it was discovered that his PhD thesis contained substantial texts from other authors without citation. The University of Bayreuth started investigating, and [Wikipedia, CC0] less than a month later revoked Guttenberg's doctorate. Due to public and political pressure, in March 2011 Guttenberg had to step down as Minister of Defence and resigned as member of the German parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg

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Rewarding you for your own input • Researching, using, analysing, critiquing and comparing the work of others - as long as you reference it correctly.

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Examples of academic dishonesty • Copying without acknowledgement, either word-for-word or by paraphrasing. • Recycling work you or others have previously submitted • Fabricating data (eg putting fake results in a lab report) • Engaging another person to do an exam • Obtaining a medical certificate that misrepresents the nature or extent of any illness or misadventure • Giving your assignment to someone else with the reasonable expectation they will copy it – to someone either in your class, or in the class a year behind you.

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Is working and studying with friends OK? We work "together" – Studying in groups and working with friends is acceptable and we encourage you to work together to help you learn. This social type of learning is good if you contribute positively. – In most circumstances, it is acceptable to discuss assignment questions, methods and answers, or ask another student how to do a particular problem, provided that your submission is a result of your own intellectual input and efforts. – It is academic dishonesty once there is no intellectual input from yourself, such as by directly cutting and pasting (even if then subsequently edited) from another's work.

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Education: The Academic Honesty Online Module • See link in Assignments section in Canvas.

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Details of previous submission it matches

Turnitin Student to student (copied from previous semester)

Most matches to just one student’s assignment

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Other systems Computer programming assignments may also be checked by specialist code similarity detection software. The Faculty of Engineering & IT currently uses the MOSS similarity detection engine. These programs work in a similar way to TurnItIn in that they check for similarity against a database of previously submitted assignments and code available on the internet, but they have added functionality to detect cases of similarity of holistic code structure in cases such as global search and replace of variable names, reordering of lines, changing of comment lines, and the use of white space.

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Find out more Your lecturer should give you any specific instructions that are particular to your assignment or unit of study. http://sydney.edu.au/students/academic-dishonesty-andplagiarism.html

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Make sure your degree is valued

http://dentistrylibrary.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/pictures-from-2011-graduation-ceremony.html

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Code of Conduct – Most of you are studying to become professional engineers – Your conduct needs to reflect the expectations of society and the profession – Both academic staff and students are required to treat each other with respect – Conversations and Emails containing inappropriate , rude, hostile or inflammatory language and/or false and tenuous accusations will be regarded as academic misconduct – Any incidences will be regarded as such and reported accordingly.

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This week – Tutorial 1 (1 hour) – Culture in design – Meeting new people

– Tutorial 2 (2 hour) – Design challenge – Starting your professional development cycle

Check Canvas Regularly! Sync emails on your phone! Use the [email protected] email Use the Canvas forum for general queries The University of Sydney

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