The faculties of Engineering and Science offer a five-year consecutive degree course which qualifies students for the Bachelor of Science degree after three years of successful study of an approved combination of science and engineering subjects, and for the Bachelor of Engineering degree after two further years of study of engineering subjects only. Admission to this course is subject to the approval of both faculties.
In the first three years of study students are subject to Faculty of Science regulations and policies as regards examinations etc, except that students seeking eventually to qualify with a BE degree in electrical and computer systems engineering combined with a BSc degree majoring in mathematics or physics will be subject to the regulations of the Faculty of Engineering in their second year and the regulations of the Faculty of Science in their third year. The fourth and fifth years of the consecutive degree course are pursued entirely within and under the regulations of the Faculty of Engineering.
In the course structure for the BSc degree, restrictions have been imposed in terms of prescribed subjects to ensure that students pursue studies which suitably equip them for the subsequent years in engineering. Current programs permit a student to graduate with a BSc degree combined with a BE degree in chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical and computer systems engineering, materials engineering or mechanical engineering.
In the chemical engineering stream, biochemistry, chemistry, materials science, computer science, mathematics, microbiology or physics may be taken as majors for the BSc degree. The consecutive degree with civil engineering provides for majors with mathematics, computer science and earth sciences to be carried out in the minimum time. There is opportunity to major in other fields, but these will require a longer period of study. Computer science, mathematics, physiology or physics are the BSc majors offered with the electrical and computer systems engineering stream. The materials engineering stream offers majors in chemical engineering science, chemistry, mathematics or physics, and the mechanical engineering stream offers majors in applied mathematics, computer science, mathematics, meteorology and oceanography, or physics.
The first two semesters of the course are common to all streams, with the exception of a variation to the course pursued by electrical and computer systems engineering stream students, chemical engineering stream students and mechanical engineering stream students wishing to take computer science as their science major. The first two semesters for these three groups of students consist of computer science CSC1011 or CSC1021, CSC1030, the required selection of four out of the six engineering subjects (CHE1110, CIV1210, ECS1310, MEC1410, MTE1510, ECS1610), engineering mathematics MAT1910, MAT1920, and physics PHS1011, PHS1022 (mechanical and electrical) or chemistry CHM1011, CHM1022 (chemical engineering). All other students undertake a first year comprising chemistry CHM1011, CHM1022, the required selection of four out of the six engineering subjects (CHE1110, CIV1210, ECS1310, MEC1410, MTE1510, ECS1610), engineering mathematics MAT1910, MAT1920, and physics PHS1011, PHS1022.
A full outline of the first three years of the BSc/BE may be found in the Faculty of Science handbook. An outline of the last two years may be found in the subject lists included after this section of the handbook.