The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through one's thoughts, experience, and senses.
Knowledge and cognitive skills
Acquired skills that reflect an individual's ability to think. Cognitive skills include verbal and spatial abilities, concentration, memory, perception, reasoning, planning and organisation, flexible thinking, and problem solving.
- Introduction
Consistent and effective knowledge and cognitive skills must be demonstrated to provide safe and appropriate engineering services. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The capacity to locate appropriate and relevant information
- The ability to process information relevant to practice
- The ability to integrate and implement knowledge in practice.
- Justification of inherent requirement
Safe and effective delivery of project and services is based on comprehensive knowledge that must be sourced, understood and applied appropriately. - Adjustments
Adjustments must ensure that a clear demonstration of knowledge and cognitive skills is not compromised or impeded. - Exemplars:
- Ability to conceptualise and use appropriate knowledge in response to academic assessment items
- Appropriately applying knowledge of policy and procedures in engineering practice settings.
Literacy (language)
This relates to the ability to acquire, understand, and apply information in a scholarly manner.
- Introduction
Competent literacy skills, in English, are essential to provide safe and effective delivery of engineering projects and services. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The ability to accurately acquire information and accurately convey appropriate, effective messages
- The ability to read and comprehend a range of literature and information
- The capacity to understand and implement academic conventions to construct written text in a scholarly manner.
- Justification of inherent requirement
The ability to acquire information and to accurately convey messages is fundamental to ensure the safe and effective delivery of engineering projects and services. The ability to read, decode, interpret, and comprehend multiple sources of information is fundamental for the safe and effective delivery of engineering projects and services. - Adjustments
Adjustments to address literacy issues must enable demonstration of a capacity to effectively acquire, comprehend, apply and communicate accurate information. - Exemplars:
- Conveying a spoken message accurately and effectively in an engineering practice setting
- Paraphrasing, summarising, and referencing in accordance with appropriate academic conventions in written assignments
- Producing accurate, concise, and clear documentation which meets technical requirements.
Numeracy
This relates to the ability to understand and work with numbers.
- Introduction
Competent and accurate numeracy skills are essential for the safe and effective delivery of engineering projects and services. - Description of inherent requirement
Student interprets and correctly applies data, measurements and numerical criteria. - Justification of inherent requirement
Competent application of numeracy skills is essential in engineering to facilitate the safe and effective delivery of projects and services. - Adjustments
Adjustments must enable demonstration of a capacity to interpret and apply concepts and processes appropriately in a timely, accurate and effective manner. - Exemplars:
- Performing accurate calculations that represent an engineering system
- Demonstrate accurate interpretation of engineering system response data.