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ENGD3002: Sustainable Tech. and Community Innovation
2026 unit information
Understanding of sustainable technology helps students to mitigate pressing issues on global warming, clean energy, and sustainability. This unit will allow students to gain knowledge on creating more sustainable energy and environment through energy minimisation schemes, enhanced power generation and cooling systems, renewable energy, waste minimisation, and circular economy. The concepts are applicable to revitalise industry, transportation, manufacturing, business and community sectors to be more sustainable. Based on the knowledge, the students will work on community sustainable intervention project. Tutorials are given to help students consolidate the concepts and guide them to develop the project topics and undertake step-by-step approach on sustainability projects.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Engineering |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Energy principles (energy conservation, energy transformation, heat, power generation), basic calculations of energy (enthalpy, energy balance), and general ideas of land, air, and water pollution. |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. LO1. Competently address complex problems requiring a broad range of discipline knowledge, under some supervision
- LO2. LO2. Work in multidisciplinary team through analysis and design of sustainability case studies based on a structured process of inquiry and evidence-based research
- LO3. LO3. Analyse energy, environmental, economic and social parameters related to energy minimisation, renewable energy, waste management and waste minimisation
- LO4. LO4. Propose realistic solutions to mitigate climate change, environmental and sustainability related issues, considering multiple perspectives such as ecological, social, cultural, economic, risk, and technical.
- LO5. LO5. Provide structured responses to multidisciplinary open-ended questions
- LO6. LO6. Exercise sound critical and ethical judgement, at general level, on professional context and conduct issues.
- LO7. LO7. Engage with stakeholders to tackle multidisciplinary problems
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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