EDT705 - Design and Systems Thinking

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Online with intensive seminars

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in E522
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - online

4 x 2-hour online seminars, 4-days of face-to-face seminars

Ad-hoc additional optional online sessions will be offered by CIRCLS team to support return-to-study, academic skills, and study skills.  Mentoring groups of five or six students led by experienced Design and Technologies teachers will also meet regularly. 

Content

Design and systems thinking will be taught through explicit and modelled design challenges, experiential learning, and design pedagogies. Students will build confidence in using systems design processes to investigate authentic problems, generate and produce material and system solutions and evaluate products.

In this unit, you will observe different perspectives and apply your knowledge by creating valuable connections across thinking and doing. You will develop new skills by interacting with established, new, and advanced technologies whilst investigating and working with various materials and techniques. You will investigate and work with a variety of materials and techniques. You will explore the process of problem framing, identifying users, performing academic and commercial research, conceptualising and evaluating engineering ideas and developing a fit-for-purpose product. The methodology used within this unit encourages skilled and applied research and project management in response to given design challenges. In this Unit, students will plan, construct and manage projects enabled by technologies from conception to realisation.  

Unit Fee Information

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