Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group activities on campus, and most will keep an online version available to those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face-to-face and online activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Nicholas Tse
Contact via via email
50 Waterloo Road
Appointment via Email
Rex Di Bona
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The 1st SPINE unit aimed to develop professional, transferable and employability skills. The unit has two objectives; 1) to develop the required self-management skills to be successful in the field of engineering. this includes time management skills, professional behaviour, empathy and metacognitive skills. 2) to develop related and transferable hands-on prototyping skills through a serious of workshops. In the process, students will be able to contextualise their learning and develop basic fundamental prototyping skills required for them to be involved in a team-based project by the subsequent SPINE unit. The SPINE units are serious of scaffolded units across the engineering curriculum that aims to develop self-agency and self-efficacy that will help you transition into University study. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Grading and passing requirement for unit
In order to pass this unit, a student must obtain a mark of 50 or more for the unit (i.e. obtain a passing grade P/ CR/ D/ HD).
For further details about grading, please refer below in the policies and procedures section.
Hurdle Requirements
"You must attend and participate in at least 8 of the 10 hands-on skills development workshop classes to pass this unit. This is a hurdle requirement.
Prototyping Skill Development
There are multiple options of the skills development activities, however once assigned, the student must remain with that activity and should not be changed to another mid way through the 5-week block. A list of competencies checklist will be marked off either from ongoing weekly activities or via the submitted 'proof of work'. These submittable are due as per the skills activities and may slightly vary between each skills development activities. All details will listed on iLearn.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Weekly Quiz | 30% | No | Week 3,5,7,9,11,13 |
Prototyping skill development 1 | 20% | No | Week 6 |
Participation of scheduled activities | 10% | Yes | Weekly |
Prototyping skill development 2 | 20% | No | Week 13 |
Professional portfolio on professional development | 20% | No | Week 13 |
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 3,5,7,9,11,13
Weighting: 30%
Weekly Quiz on audio podcasts and other professional development topics
Assessment Type 1: Design Implementation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: Week 6
Weighting: 20%
Developing the required hands-on competency relating to a chosen engineering field. The hands-on skill development will be translatable across other engineering domains. The skills will be chosen based on a preference selection during week 1. The availability of the skills will be dependent on whether students choose to engage in face-to-face mode or via online medium. Some skills are only available in face-to-face mode.
Example of cross-disciplinary hands-on skills: Technical drawing skill is an underpinning skill in both mechanical and civil engineering design communication.
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 10%
This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
Engagment of scheduled activties which includes workshop attendence, mentorship program etc. More information will be provided on iLearn.
Assessment Type 1: Design Implementation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 20%
This is the 2nd skill development activity. Similar to the 1st skill development, it emphases on the hands prototyping skill required in any engineering field. The skill allocation will be assigned in week 1 as well.
The iterative exposure to new skills development is also to develop the required metacognitive skills in being successful with embarking with new knowledge fields. To put it simply is learning to learn.
Assessment Type 1: Portfolio
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 20%
Curate a professional portfolio that demonstrates the development of professional identity, self-improvement and learning artifacts.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Required resources can either be purchase or loan. Refer to iLearn for more information.
Refer to iLearn and lecture notes for the unit schedule.
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Unit information based on version 2021.03 of the Handbook