Diploma
This course has been Accredited by TEQSA as an AQF Level 5 - Diploma course.
Diploma of Science (Engineering Studies) (Year 1) is designed to enhance your learning experience, and provide you with the underpinning knowledge necessary to prepare you for studies in Engineering related courses at university level.
Diploma of Science (Engineering Studies) (Year 2) is specially designed for students wishing to enrol in the wide range of courses offered by ECU's School of Engineering. ECU Engineering courses are structured heavily around practical learning; you will have the opportunity to work with real hardware, not just simulation packages. Teaching facilities include advanced laboratories with modern industry-standard equipment. Students who complete the Diploma of Science (Engineering Studies) (Year 2) at ECC will receive up to 8 units (120 credit points) advanced standing, the equivalent of the first year, in the respective bachelor's degree at ECU. A minimum of 50% pass in all units is required for progression to ECU.
The program consists of 8 units of study and can be completed over 2 or 3 trimesters and provides opportunities for scaffolded learning and the development of core academic and employability skills. Students will study the 6 core units outlined below plus 2 Year 1 Electives.
This course will provide students entry into ECC Diploma of Science (Engineering Studies) (Year 2).
Students will identify analyse and apply communication social and intercultural skills for effective interpersonal and workplace relationships. This unit develops written skills oral presentation skills and research skills to prepare students for academic or professional environments. Students will make connections between learning and future employability through topics such as effective workplace relationships negotiation managing conflict and skills for teamwork and leadership.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit develops knowledge and skills in computing systems - software hardware digital security communication networks internet information and data management. Students will develop their digital literacy and gain practical skills in specific computing applications from the Microsoft Office Suite. Students will also be introduced to some basic hands-on skills in program design using Pseudocode.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit is designed for students who require a general mathematics background suitable for studies in business health sciences and computing/IT courses. Students will learn to use a scientific calculator and develop critical thinking skills to identify analyse synthesize and solve mathematical calculations in arithmetic statistics algebra functions and their graphs optimisation sequences series growth and decay trigonometry geometric sequences series set theory and interest.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit introduces the foundations of academic writing - from library research using databases selection of approved academic resources to writing paragraphs and essays using the APA referencing system and delivering oral presentations using multi-media. The unit also includes essential study skills to assist with time management note-taking and the use of memory aids for study purposes.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit is designed to provide students with knowledge in a broad range of physics concepts and to help students identify the impact of physics and technology on society. It is designed for those who do not have a physics background at secondary level but wish to study engineering or physical sciences at the university. This unit covers theory and practical investigations using logical and analytical thinking as well as developing skills in communicating scientific information. Physics principles and methods applicable to Newton's Laws forces heat motion electricity wave motion and optics are included.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit introduces students to functions calculus descriptive statistics probability and random variables and their application to solve applied problems. Students will be introduced to functions and their properties differential and integral calculus and its application to optimisation area and rectilinear motion problems arithmetic and geometric and sequences sets and probability descriptive statistics and discrete and continuous random variables.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
CHE100 - Introductory Chemistry
This Chemistry unit is designed for students who wish to study engineering physical sciences or health sciences at a tertiary level. It covers the study of matter and its interactions (chemical quantities atoms states chemical bonding chemical calculations electronic and molecular structures organic and inorganic chemistry). Students will develop skills in organising analysing and interpreting information and use simulated activities to prepare for future laboratory work.
SCN110 Foundation Science
This integrated Science unit enables students to investigate science issues in the context of the world around them. It incorporates aspects of biology chemistry and physics and is suited to students wishing to pursue a range of future career and study options. Integrated Science encourages students to be questioning reflective and critical thinkers about scientific issues. Students develop a range of practical skills and techniques through investigations and fieldwork in context and use scientific evidence to make informed decisions about scientific issues.
PMG100 - Project Management
This unit introduces concepts and skills used by managers to propose plan secure resources budget and lead project teams to successful project completion. Students will examine and apply fundamental principles strategies and approaches for project management in a variety of contexts that are universally applicable across organisations and project types.
ICS100 Intercultural Studies
The unit introduces students to intercultural interaction in the contemporary world focusing on multiple and diverse audiences modalities globalisation cultural symbols and values language and interpretations of intercultural sites. Accounting for the international students' experiences they are given a practical introduction to relevant processes leading to expanding their cultural knowledge. Global citizenship including intercultural communication skills is introduced and enhanced focusing on cultural diversity and contemporary implications for professional practice. Students will explore report and present on their intercultural communication journey and its' relevance to their discipline / professional interests.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
The course consists of 8 units of study and can be completed over 2 or 3 trimesters.
This unit introduces students to technical drawing and the use of computer-aided design tools. Students will progress from hand drawings which meet relevant Australian standards to the use of computer-aided design tools for engineering drawings.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit develops students' knowledge of common engineering materials and enables them to select materials based on their inherent properties and to develop a direct link between the structure and mechanical behaviour of materials.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit deals with complex numbers functions of two variables and their derivatives differentiation of hyperbolic inverse trigonometric and reciprocal trigonometric functions related rates problems integration techniques and their application to solve volume and length problems the solution of first and second order differential equations and their application to applied problems.
Pre-Requisite Units: Year 12 Calculus MAT137 - Introductory Applied Maths or equivalent
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit introduces students to the discipline and practice of professional engineering. The role of engineers and some of the important concepts that characterise the engineering approach to solving technical problems are described. In addition the importance of appropriate communication and the management aspects of engineering are introduced. The unit includes a group design project that takes the student through the engineering design process from client specification around an iterative design loop to a fully documented final solution.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit introduces linear algebra operations research probability and their application to problems arising in applied contexts. Students will be introduced to the vectors matrices the solution of linear systems of equations the formulation and solution of linear programming problems network optimisation continuous probability distributions and reliability analysis.
Pre-Requisite Units: Year 12 Maths Methods MAT137 - Introductory Applied Maths or equivalent
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit introduces a range of concepts that are fundamental to the fields of electrical and electronic engineering. Students will develop their conceptual and analytical understanding of electrical circuits and systems through lectures tutorials and laboratory work.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit provides an introduction to the concepts of energy and resources including resource estimation and extraction and the conversion and use of energy resources for supporting domestic commercial and industrial needs. The units covers principles of sustainable energy and resource use energy sources resource extraction and energy conversion transmission and utilisation; and the associated economic costs and benefits and environmental impacts. The design of simple energy systems is introduced together with their all-of-life costs and benefits using computer-based modelling tools.
Pre-Requisite Units: None
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15
This unit covers principles of engineering mechanics with a focus primarily on statics and application of these principles to problems related to engineering structures and systems. Students draw free-body diagrams to describe structural elements/systems; and use principles of statics to resolve forces and movements in engineering systems.
Pre-Requisite Units: Year 12 Physics or PHY100 or equivalent AND Year 12 Mathematics MAT 3C/3D or MAT137 or equivalent Calculus subject AND have passed MAT1250D - Mathematics 1 or equivalent
Tuition Pattern: Weekly 3hr Class
Credits: 15