Course Title: Engineering Practice 2 (Environmental Principles for Sustainable Design)

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Engineering Practice 2 (Environmental Principles for Sustainable Design)

Credit Points: 12

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
CIVE1186	City Campus	Undergraduate	120H Civil, Environ & Chemical Eng	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2006, Sem 2 2007, Sem 2 2008, Sem 2 2009, Sem 2 2010

Course Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. John Brumley

Course Coordinator Phone: 03 9925 2379

Course Coordinator Email:john.brumley@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 10.12.1

Course Coordinator Availability: Send email for appointment.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

This course introduces you to sustainability as a decision making framework for design in engineering.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Explain how the need for environmental policy and codes of practice developed.
2. Recognize environmental issues pertinent to projects and prepare a basic Environmental Effects Statement.
3. Develop a conceptual design for a simple engineering project, which addresses sustainability aspects in all phases of the project.
4. Explain the principles governing environmental best practice.
5. Debate environmental issues within the context of sustainable professional practice.

Overview of Learning Activities

Learning activities include:
• Enhance the information presented in lectures and on-line with knowledge gained from reference reading.
• Participate in class discussions, group work and field activities.
• Use the project as a continuous focus for learning from week 1 onwards.

Overview of Learning Resources

The CIVE1186 course notes are available on the DLS site in electronic format.

Overview of Assessment

The course has a lecture component and a project component. A pass in each component is required to achieve a pass in the course as a whole.