ENGGEN 705 : Engineering Product Development
Engineering
2025 Semester One (1253) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
- Welcome to the ENGGEN705 course at the Faculty of Engineering and Design. This is an engineering new product development course offered in the semester-1 academic year to final-year undergraduate honours engineering students who are interested in developing innovative new products to solve various issues and problems faced by targeted end users of new products.
- Potential students are encouraged to enrol in this course as soon as possible because the maximum intake for this course is only 60 students.
- This course is helpful for prospective students who want to become product development engineers and managers in public and private sectors, such as Rocket Lab, Fisher & Paykel and start-up companies, and also for students who have an entrepreneurial mindset to start a new company.
- This course is project-based, trains the students based on Washington Accord for knowledge profile and engineering graduate attributes, follows Collaboration-Based learning (CBL) and Problem-based Learning (PBL) principles, introduces key issues, and provides the student with a wide range of general engineering designs and the development of new products with innovation as a main focus. As this is a postgraduate-level course, students are also required to do some work, such as a literature review and market research based on Self-Directed Learning (SDL) principles.
- The course covers topics from ideation to prototyping, with a particular focus on starting a new business as one of the learning outcomes. Successful development of newly manufactured products and bringing them to market requires integration and consideration of a range of technical, commercial, and human/social issues. This course introduces key issues and provides the student with a range of methods to address each issue covered. Students will apply the concepts and methods in the context of team projects. Topics covered in this course include:
Course Requirements
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | People and Place |
| Capability 2: | Sustainability |
| Capability 3: | Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 4: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 5: | Solution Seeking |
| Capability 6: | Communication |
| Capability 7: | Collaboration |
| Capability 8: | Ethics and Professionalism |
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and explain an understanding of problems and issues regarding the need for innovative new product development. (Capability 1.1, 2.1, 4.2 and 6.1)
- Develop and analyse existing engineering designs using modelling methods to appreciate design issues and principles and prepare a technical report with integrated consideration of selected technical, commercial and human/societal issues. (Capability 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1)
- Develop and demonstrate an understanding of the business plan report of a new product developed for a potential investor that integrates several disciplinary specialisations and requires independent research. (Capability 2.1, 3.2, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 and 8.1)
- Articulate and demonstrate the final product development project prototype and skills learned for the effective business development of an engineering product. (Capability 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1 and 8.2)
- Describe, analyse and interpret the new product development process learned from ideation to prototyping, record minutes of project meetings to produce a design journal workbook, and critically reflect on the learning from all the lecture topics. (Capability 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1 and 8.2)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Idea Pitch (LO1) | 5% | Individual Coursework |
| Project Technical Report1 (LO2) | 25% | Group & Individual Coursework |
| Project Business Plan Final Report2 (LO3) | 30% | Group Coursework |
| Final Oral Presentation (LO4) | 20% | Group & Individual Coursework |
| Design Journal and Reflection On Learning (LO5) | 20% | Individual Coursework |
| 5 types | 100% |
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Idea Pitch (LO1) | ||||||||||
| Project Technical Report1 (LO2) | ||||||||||
| Project Business Plan Final Report2 (LO3) | ||||||||||
| Final Oral Presentation (LO4) | ||||||||||
| Design Journal and Reflection On Learning (LO5) | ||||||||||
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 15-point course, and students are expected to spend, on average, 10 hours per week involved in each 15-point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect 20 hours of lectures, 16 hours of tutorials, 4 hours of self-directed learning, 40 hours of reading and thinking about the content, and 70 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.
Delivery Mode
Campus Experience
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable (one lecture (2hr) and one tutorial per week). Attendance is required at scheduled activities, lectures, in-class group exercises, and group work tutorials to complete the components of this course.
Lectures will be delivered in person and will be available as slides or recordings. Other learning activities, including labs and tutorials, will not be available as recordings or slides.
There is no final exam in this course. However, attendance on campus is required for the initial individual idea pitch and group work final oral presentation.
Learning Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
There is no prescribed text book. Learning resources will be provided digitally on Canvas. Some individual/team research will be required outside of these provided resources.
Health & Safety
Students must ensure they are familiar with their Health and Safety responsibilities, as described in the university's Health and Safety policy.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
Based on feedback from 2024, one assessment will be reduced in scope to reduce student workload. However, the topics assessed will remain similar. Students requested to include intellectual property management-related topics, and these suggestions are implemented in the 2025 semester 1.
Other Information
All students are expected to contribute equally to team projects and to participate proactively in team management. A structured peer assessment system will be used and considered when assigning final marks.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.
Class Representatives
Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Learning Continuity
In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.