EDT705 - Design and Systems Thinking
| Year: | 2025 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 teaching period 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 | 1 x 2-hour online seminars per week in early February, mid-March and late April 4 x 6.5-hour on-campus intensive (seminars) per week in approx. weeks 0 & 8 |
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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