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Last updated: 4 June 2021
Not available from 2022 (replaced by SEP105 Programming and Visualisation)
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
2 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 2 hour practical per week.
1 x 1 hour scheduled online workshop per week.
Students entering the workforce as engineers will from time to time be expected to use, enhance or even develop software to complete their daily tasks solving engineering problems. This unit introduces students to the process of taking an engineering problem, identifying its components, and expressing a solution in computational terms. MATLAB and Excel are used to define, develop, analyse and solve engineering problems. Pseudo code and the C programming language is used to illustrate programming constructs, I/O basics, data types and storage, operators, control flow, repetition, functional decomposition, modularity and reuse.
On successful completion of this unit, students will have the ability to use a standard approach to problem definition, problem solving and program development, as well as understand the structure theorem and be aware of its consequences for algorithm design.
Students will develop the knowledge to enable them to analyse engineering problems, select the software tool or develop a software solution, process a solution and report results.
apply the use of spreadsheets to analyse data to create knowledge and to express data as information
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management
ULO2
define and create the logical control structures of sequence selection and repetition and their combined use to express any logic in pseudocode and to express data as information
ULO3
define and apply appropriate variables and use them in calculations and assignment operations in the C and Matlab programming environment and to express data as information
ULO4
define and create the logical control structures of sequence selection and repetition and their combined use to express any logic in the C and Matlab programming environment and to express data as information
ULO5
define and apply simple I/O methods using console and simple text files in the C and Matlab programming environment and to express data as information
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SIT172 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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