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MICROCREDENTIAL

Digital Engineering for Infrastructure and Facilities

Meet the Experts

Julie Jupp

Julie Jupp
Associate Professor of Digital Engineering

Julie is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, who specialises in digital design and construction and through-life information management. She leads the development and delivery of BIM and digital engineering programs and leads the Digital Engineering Lab in the Centre for Built Infrastructure Resilience.

Julie is also a Director of buildingSMART Australasia, a member of Women in BIM, and part of the Australian BIM Academic Forum.  

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Aaron Traylen

Aaron Traylen
Strategic Enterprise and Solutions Architecture Consultant, UTS Industry Fellow

Aaron is a Strategic Enterprise and Solutions Architecture Consultant with over 16 years of experience in a variety of sectors on a global scale. He specialises in designing, building, and delivering digital and IT solutions across enterprise and project ecosystems.

Aaron has worked primarily as a digital and technology application expert across global businesses, specialising in data and information management, enterprise and solutions architecture, systems/application development, and support.

Aaron excels at working with large organisations, understanding their issues, and identifying their vision on how best to mobilise available people, infrastructure, systems, and technology to design and implement sustainable solutions.  

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Ryan Townsend

Ryan Townsend
Digital Transformation Specialist, UTS Industry Fellow

Ryan is a seasoned digital transformation specialist and visionary leader, specialising in digital twins, data analysis, cyber security, and model-based systems engineering delivery. With nearly two decades of experience, he has led the successful virtual life-cycle deliveries of significant projects across diverse sectors (oil & gas, rail, aviation, commercial, and residential), in both the public and private domains.

Ryan excels at fostering a digital-culture mindset and guiding clients towards the value of digital twins and data-driven project delivery. His expertise lies in leading multifaceted programs within matrix operating models, employing the cyber resilient safeguards for critical information whilst remaining client-centric and results focused in his approach.

Throughout his career, Ryan has gained extensive experience in strategic planning, leadership, and digital innovation within sensitive and high-stakes environments. His tenure with various major organisations, including Bechtel, Laing O’Rourke, Mott MacDonald, Suburban Rail Loop and Sydney Metro, has allowed him to develop strategies for the integration of digital technologies, establish digital engineering and information systems, and lead people through significant periods of change.

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Paul Haines

Paul Haines
Digital Engineering Manager & Industry Fellow

Paul’s role as Digital Engineering Lead at Degotardi, Smith & Partners Surveyors is a culmination of his desire to be at the forefront of digital technology in the built environment. His expertise is focused on the surveying space and in developing BIM solutions and workflows that feed seamlessly into engineering and construction processes.

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Jenny Tseng

Jenny Tseng
Digital Advisory Specialist, UTS Industry Fellow

Jenny is an accomplished Digital Advisory specialist and practice leader with over two decades of experience. Her expertise spans across digital engineering, enterprise data and information governance, asset management, architecture design, and digital transformation practices. Jenny holds an impressive track record of delivering successful digital projects across their lifecycle in diverse sectors such as rail, road, health, data centre, education, hospitality, commercial, and residential, in both public and private domains.

Jenny is adept at cultivating a collaborative digital culture, guiding clients towards the benefits of digital transformation and data-informed project delivery. She excels in leading integrated delivery programs within government and corporate organisations while safeguarding the quality and integrity of critical information. With a strong customer-centric and outcome-based approach, Jenny possesses extensive experience in strategic leadership, operational management and whole of lifecycle approach within highly sensitive environments.

Jenny’s tenure with esteemed organisations like Transport for NSW, Mott MacDonald, Suburban Rail Loop Authority, and Sydney Metro reflects her ability to establish Digital Engineering and information assurance, integrate digital technologies, and navigate teams through transformative change.

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Scott Beazley

Scott Beazley
Open BIM and IFC Specialist, UTS Industry Fellow

Scott is an Industry Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS and is an Open BIM consultant at Geometry Gym in IFC implementations and workflows. His expertise is in model checking and validation, quantification of models for costing, construction scheduling and carbon reporting on large building and infrastructure projects. He had been a member of buildingSMART for over 18 years and run a number of IFC training seminars.

Scott currently co-ordinates the buildingSMART Australasia TfNSW\ TMR IFC 4.3 Implementation Working Group. He has been a researcher and lecturer in BIM at technical colleges and universities over the past 32 years.

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Gain an in-depth understanding and practical skills in digital engineering for infrastructure and facilities with this UTS microcredential. Participants will be guided through digital engineering project strategy and the set-up of the common data environment (CDE), survey and existing conditions modelling, design coordination and quantity take-off for planning, cost and carbon estimation. This course addresses an industry-recognised need to establish core competencies in digital engineering as a foundational area of study for contemporary infrastructure and facilities projects.

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Course details

  • Start date: 3 February 2025
  • End date: 20 June 2025
  • Duration: 20 weeks
  • Commitment: 5 hrs/week
  • Delivery mode: Online

About this microcredential

The Digital Engineering for Infrastructure and Facilities microcredential provides a comprehensive curriculum designed to equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills required to bridge traditional project delivery and the rapidly evolving digital practices that underpin data centric engineering and construction processes, as well as more strategic approaches to asset data management. The program provides theoretical foundations and applied experience in the principles and practices of digital engineering implementation. With a focus on real-world project scenarios and workflows, the microcredential includes a targeted scope that covers the following four blocks:

  • Digital strategy, CDE setup and collaboration
  • Survey and existing conditions modelling
  • Design coordination
  • Quantity take-off for planning, cost estimating and carbon quantification.

Key benefits of this microcredential

Upon successfully completing this microcredential, participants will be well-prepared to take a leading role in the implementation of digital engineering on infrastructure and facilities projects, making them more efficient, sustainable and adaptable to the evolving needs of modern methods of design and construction management. The core areas covered in the program include:

  • Standards and frameworks pertaining to data and information management
  • Digital engineering across lifecycle phases and the continuous integration and interoperability between different stages
  • Project strategy, CDE setup and best practice collaboration
  • Managing site, GIS, base map, digital survey and existing conditions data
  • Design coordination, multidisciplinary clash detection and model data validation
  • Quality assurance and reviewing technical designs against project specifications, standards and stakeholder expectations
  • Model-based quantity take-off for planning and cost estimating
  • Introduction to model-based carbon measurement.   

This microcredential aligns with the 12-credit point subject, Digital Engineering for Infrastructure and Facilities (42127) in the Master of Engineering (C04271), Master of Engineering (Extension) (C04277), Master of Environmental Engineering Management (C04272), Master of Engineering Management (C04275) and the Master of Professional Engineering (C04309).  This microcredential may qualify for recognition of prior learning at this and other institutions. 

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Who should do this microcredential?

This microcredential is suitable for professionals looking to enhance or consolidate foundational skills in information management as it relates to BIM and digital engineering.  The course prepares participants for engaging with new digital ways of working, providing a comprehensive grounding in the core enablers of structured data. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Design managers
  • Technical managers
  • Systems assurance managers
  • Civil engineers
  • Civil drafts people
  • Surveyors
  • Quantity surveyors
  • Project controls managers
  • Project information managers
  • Engineering designers
  • Architects
  • Early career digital engineering managers
  • Early career BIM managers
  • Early career BIM coordinators.  

Price

Full price: $2,329 (GST-free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

Enrolment conditions

Microcredential purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions

COVID-19 response 

UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

This microcredential is structured into four distinct blocks, with a week to complete assessment interspersed between each block. Each block includes self-study materials and facilitated online lectures and workshops:

Block 1: Digital Strategy, CDE Setup and Collaboration (Weeks 1-3)

Participants will develop skills in creating a unified, shared project vision to ensure coordination across disciplines, collaborative teamwork and minimisation of potential conflicts. Participants also build practical skills in the setup of master data management schemas and tools, and establishing and effectively utilising a 'common data environment', supporting data creation, validation, sharing and updating of workflows. This block therefore focuses on the role of communication, selection of technology and design of digital workflows.

Block 2: Survey and Existing Conditions Modelling (Weeks 5-8)

This block introduces participants to the intricacies and structure of 3D data-rich models, including both their geometry and metadata. This knowledge is applied to surveying and modelling existing conditions, cultivating practical knowledge across several pivotal topics essential to the implementation of digital engineering in linear infrastructure projects, including site, GIS and base map data; digital survey (Digital Terrain Modelling); managing point cloud and GIS data; geo-referencing and model setout.

Block 3: Project Coordination (Weeks 11-14)

Develop your expertise in design coordination covering the essentials of coordinating infrastructure systems, including streamlined multidisciplinary coordination, identifying and resolving discrepancies early and minimising errors. Acquire the skills to verify and validate project data, ensuring accuracy, relevance, and completeness. Navigate the common challenges in data management, understanding how to maintain data integrity throughout the project lifecycle. Delve into the structured process of reviewing technical designs, ensuring they meet project specifications, standards, and stakeholder expectations. Learn how to facilitate collaborative design reviews, gather feedback, and make informed adjustments to designs, promoting project success.

Block 4: Quantity Take-Off for Planning, Cost and Carbon (Weeks 16-19)

The focus of this block is on model- based quantity take-off and is tailored to equip participants with the skills and knowledge required to harness digital engineering and 3D models to support the quantification of project essentials, facilitating planning, cost and carbon estimating. Participants will dive into the nuances of model metadata that enables extracting accurate quantity take-offs from 3D models, facilitating detailed project planning, near real-time cost updates as the design evolves and the innovative use of 3D models for carbon measurement.

This microcredential will cover the main datasets, processes and technologies of digital engineering and the role of building information modelling. The course content and case studies span the acquisition phase (design, build, integrate and accept), providing deeper insight into digital project delivery using integrated data-driven approaches.  

Course delivery

The course involves interactive online workshops, small group projects, large group discussions and individual industry-based digital projects. Authentic assessment is informed through industry partners, reflecting the work-ready requirements of digital and model-based information management.  

Acknowledgment 

This microcredential course was developed with the support of the Australian Government’s Microcredentials Pilot in Higher Education.

Course learning objectives

This course is designed to equip you with:

  • Principles and concepts of digital engineering and the role of international and national information management standards
  • Knowledge of digital engineering strategy and project setup, including process of developing a unified and shared project vision with client agencies
  • Practical skills in establishing and effectively using a common data environment (CDE) to support linear infrastructure projects, including how to build metadata into the contractor-CDE from the start
  • Understanding of the relationships between CDE processes, data schemas and tool chains that make up the wider technology ecosystem on major infrastructure projects
  • In-depth knowledge of the key phases of information management across data creation, validation, sharing, and updating workflows
  • Selection and specification of technology and digital workflow design
  • Knowledge of surveying and modelling existing conditions, including: site, GIS & base map data, digital survey (Digital Terrain Modelling)
  • Management of point cloud & GIS data, and geo-referencing and model setout
  • In-depth knowledge and skills in design coordination, including multidisciplinary clash detection for infrastructure, and data verification of project data
  • Practical skills in establishing processes supporting technical design review
  • Model based quantity take-off for estimating project essentials, supporting planning and cost
  • Introductory knowledge on the utilisation of model-based quantities for carbon measurement.  

Assessment

Your understanding of foundational knowledge, applied concepts and core enablers of digital engineering and building information management (BIM) will be measured through your capacity to articulate solutions to problem-based assessments via short tests, projects and practical work, creation of digital models, reports and presentations. 

The weighting for each assessment type is indicated in brackets.

  • Online quiz x 4 (40%)
  • 4 x workshop activities (60%)

Online quiz component (40%) - All quizzes will be undertaken online in the Canvas learning management system.

Workshop activities (60%) - this graded assessment task is an individually completed activity, which may either take the form of a practical activity or a written report.  

Requirements

Mandatory

To complete this online course, you will need:

  • A personal computer with adequate internet access and sufficient software and bandwidth to support web conferencing
  • An operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Mentimeter, and Muralme. You may also be required to install Citrix Workspace. Slide Presentations will be made available in .pdf format.

Desired

The following prior experience is recommended for participants in this course:

  • A background in engineering or construction related disciplines, OR
  • One year of relevant work experience on infrastructure construction projects, AND
  • Basic familiarity with general CAD or BIM concepts.

Contact us

For any questions regarding  enrolment or payment, please email microcredentials@uts.edu.au

If you have any questions about course content, delivery, progression, or requirements, please email microcredentials@uts.edu.au

 

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Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.

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