MANU1381 Sustainable Engineering Systems and Environment Assignment

Assignment 1: Systems concepts and methodologies

Assessment Type: Team Case Project Report                               Report length including Reference:

Team Size: 5

5000 words +/-10%

Due date:

Report submission date is given on Canvas

Weighting: 50%             Related CLOs: 1, 2, 3

Overview

This task evaluates your team's ability to understand systems approach in engineering management. You need to select,  investigate   and  present an   engineering   system, its   structure,   included  subsystems,   and examine relationships among the subsystems. Your team is going to identify stakeholders and their

expectations. Finally, you will identify problems, or challenges, existing in the system, and propose an appropriate solution, based on selected systems approach.

Maximum similarity report should be 15-20%.

Learning Outcomes

This assessment is relevant to the following learning outcomes:

apply a systems approach to problem definition and solution of an industrial, or other business systems

Specifically, this assessment will determine your ability to: characterise the system under study

• describe the relationships between the different subsystems belonging to the system and examine the system’s environment, complexity and dynamics

determine the objective/purpose of the system under study and how the subsystems support this objective

determine the appropriateness of the systems methodology in addressing the problem, or challenge identify all the players that are affected by this problem

choose an appropriate systems methodology and apply it to the problem or challenge

examine each stage needed to carry out the analysis using the appropriate systems' methodologies

examine the practical problems likely to be encountered in implementing the methodology (or methodologies) together with suggestions for overcoming them

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Assessment details

Task 1: Systems concepts

Select a c o m p a n y system to analyse. Good choices include large automotive manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers or industrial machine manufacturers. The best choice would be a company where you were or are currently employed. Alternatively, you can select any system for which you are able to gather sufficient relevant information to carry out the following tasks.

Characterise the system and specify system objectives. Describe the system in terms of the systems concepts. To put this system into context, consider the area you are working in, as part of a subsystem or element.

1. Examine the system under study in terms of its environment, complexity and system dynamics.
2. Describe and examine the relationships between the sub-systems and the system as a whole.
3. Evaluate the role of various stakeholders, shareholders’ expectations and the measurable requirements.
4. Explore how any future actions, or changes to any of the subsystems/elements, will affect the system as a whole.

Task 2: Systems methodology

Based on the system described in Task 1:

1. Identify any problems in the system under study and define the problems from a systems perspective.
2. For each problem identify and discuss if the problem is structured or unstructured.
3. Discuss which system approach (hard or soft) would be better suited for solving the specific problems.
4. Apply the chosen methodology to the problems and discuss its potential issues and limitations.

Suggested report structure

The following structure provides a guideline for the structure of the report and what you need to include in it. This forms the foundation for assessing your report’s completeness and quality.

Introduction

Background information System selection

Characterisation of system under study Systems objectives/purpose Environment

Subsystems objectives/purpose

Elements of the subsystems and their attributes System relationships

System: Between each of its subsystems

Subsystems: Between each of the subsystems’ elements System complexity

Dynamics of system Stakeholders/players

Problem/challenge identification Problem/challenge description Problem context

Selection of system methodology

Explain hard versus soft systems approaches

Application of system methodology

Examination of each stage in the context of the problem/challenge Implementation issues

Conclusion

References Peer Review

Referencing guidelines

You must acknowledge all the sources of information you have used in your assessments.

Refer to the RMIT Easy Cite referencing tool to see examples and tips on how to reference in the appropriated style. You can also refer to the library for more tools such as EndNote, http://rmit.libguides.com/endnote referencing tutorials and referencing guides for printing.

Submission format

Upload as one single file via the assignments’ submission page within Canvas.

Academic integrity and plagiarism

Academic integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.

You should take extreme care to make sure that you have:

• Acknowledged words, data, diagrams, models, frameworks and/or ideas of others you have quoted (i.e. directly copied), summarised, paraphrased, discussed or mentioned in your assessment through the appropriate referencing methods,
• Provided a reference list of the publication details so your reader can locate the source if necessary. This includes material taken from Internet sites.

If you do not acknowledge the sources of your material, you may be accused of plagiarism because you have passed off the work and ideas of another person without appropriate referencing, as if they were your own.

RMIT University treats plagiarism as a very serious offence constituting misconduct. Plagiarism covers a variety of inappropriate behaviours, including:

• Failure to properly document a source
• Copyright material from the internet or databases
• Collusion between students

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