The University of Queensland

ENGG7600 Advanced Engineering Practice

“Advanced Engineering” course introduces students to special Engineering education, preparing future graduates to perform roles that go beyond routine engineering practice and require multidisciplinary approach and broad knowledge. Ability of understanding mathematics and science, managing complex systems, working with a diverse group of professionals specializing in different fields, finding solutions for seemingly unsolvable problems, combining knowledge and intuition and introducing reasonable simplifications, determining major goals and making decisions in evolving environments are crucial for advanced engineers. This course gives an overview and, hopefully, allows students to feel what lays beyond routine engineering (which is aimed at supporting existing technological base) in the area of advanced engineering -- the area where new technologies are created.

Two major directions can be distinguished in advanced engineering:

1.Research engineering -- aimed at advancing engineering knowledge

2.Systems engineering -- aimed at managing complex interdisciplinary engineering projects

3.Technology strategy -- aimed at analyzing and implementing long-term trends and goals in technological development

Teaching modes: Lectures and tutorials, discussions, seminars, project, homework, quizzes, final examinations

Topics covered:

(not all topics are taught every year)

· Methodology of Engineering and Science

· From Science to Engineering: modern Nuclear technology

· Reliability and Technological cycles (Prof. Murthy)

· Complexity in nature and industry; complex systems in evolving world

· Managing complexity: Systems Engineering and Space missions

· Engineering, economics and strategic decision-making

· Scaling the universe 1: dimensional analysis in Engineering

· Scaling the universe 2: fractal dimension, fractals around us, city as a fractal, complexity and fractality

· Known unknowns and unknown unknowns: why do engineering errors happen?

· Predicting the impossible: resonance and similar phenomena, flutter (case study: Tacoma Narrows bridge)   

· Solving unsolvable: ill-posed problems in engineering and their regularization (example: entropy and going back in time)

· Neglecting negligible: simplifying engineering problems, asymptotic methods, boundary layers, multi-scale expansions

· Elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic systems in Engineering

· Using functions that do not exist: generalized functions  

· Elements of programming, Matlab, Vectors and matrices in engineering problems

· Project on Advanced Engineering

Assessment:

Grade 4: Participation + weekly problems & discussions + satisfactory project

Grade 5: Grade 4 + in-class quizzes (closed book)

Grade 6: Grade 5 + final grade 6 examination (written and oral)

Grade 7: Grade 6 + final grade 7 examination (oral and written)

Grades 7,6,5 include the requirements of superior and consistent performance in achieving the lower grades.

Contact hours

Fridays, 10am-1pm, room 83-S301  

Teaching staff:

Alex Klimenko (lecturer and coordinator) a.klimenko@uq.edu.au

Lecturers: Pra Murthy, Bruce Littleboy, Dmitry Saulov, Anand Veeraragavan

Tutor  Junjun yin  j.yin2@uq.edu.au

Some interesting videos and links are here

Lecture notes have been shifted to the blackboard