This unit of study aims build on the first placement unit to provide you with practical engineering experience in an environment outside the University and improve your awareness of the issues associated with professional practice. In so doing, it will ensure your perceptions of engineering during your studies develop alongside the realities of practice. This final placement unit will provide the...

Living with Fire is a level-100 unit offered as part of the Diploma of Sustainable Living. Fire has shaped the evolution of the world we see around us and is fundamental to life. Yet wildfire can also be devastating to human and ecological communities. Today, more and more of us are living in fire prone areas, and wildfires are behaving in new, less predictable ways. So how do we live with fire -...

This is an independent study project that requires the completion of an extended piece of writing such as a monograph, curriculum development document, professional development program, video, digital media output, or journal article for refereed publication. The design of the project should not involve research methods or publication of findings that require formal University Ethics Approval. ...

Do you know how you learn best? Do you know what skills you will need to be successful in your university studies? Academic literacies are the skills that you need to engage successfully with higher education, and this is a foundational unit which assists you to develop these literacies. In this unit you will consider your preferred learning styles and strategies, and make a concrete plan for...

This unit will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary environmental health concepts and examine the environmental and ecological determinants of health within the framework of national and international policy. Through this unit you will acquire valuable insights into the intricate relationship between our health and the environment, including the potential impacts of...

This unit provides opportunities for students enrolled in honours in a Surveying and Spatial Sciences related honours course to undertake a series of activities related to (but not replicating) their dissertation topic, with such activities being negotiated and documented with the staff member/s concerned and approved by the course coordinator. ...

This unit provides opportunities for students enrolled in honours in a Surveying and Spatial Sciences related honours course to undertake a series of activities related to (but not replicating) their dissertation topic, with such activities being negotiated and documented with the staff member/s concerned and approved by the course coordinator. ...

This unit provides you with a broad appreciation of the nature and importance of logistics activities, and introduces you to the most important concepts, principles, tools, and analytical skills used by logistics managers. It enables you to understand the key components of an integrated logistics system, such as procurement, inventory management, transport, warehousing, and customer services,...

In previous units you have learned about the components making up the structure of a track in the rail corridor, as well as learning about the broad range of other infrastructure within the corridor for which the civil engineer would be responsible. Everything within the corridor had to be built and needs to be maintained, and design of infrastructure is pointless without its eventual construction...

Discover how a truck driver reinvented shipping! This unit introduces you to the theory and practice of strategic management, focusing on strategic thinking and decision making in a networked industry.  Throughout your study you will be asked to place yourself in the position of a strategic manager and to use your creativity and ingenuity in mapping out strategic directions that will help...