The Faculty of Engineering and the School of Economics and Commerce in the faculty of Business and Economics offer combined degree courses which qualify students for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce after five years of successful study. This new program, which commenced in 1992, replaced the Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Economics program, formerly offered by the two faculties, which is being phased out. The BE/BCom course is available to students in the departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The course is intended for potential engineers who wish to become more aware of economic, social and managerial aspects of the engineering profession. It is thus expected that those so qualified would progress to entrepreneurial and management roles.
The decision to take the combined degree is normally made at the end of the second semester of study, ie the first two semesters of the combined degree program may be identical to the Bachelor of Engineering program. After that, students essentially complete all of the chemical engineering, civil engineering, materials engineering or mechanical engineering core subjects or equivalent, together with the subjects required for the commerce degree. The combined degree with commerce usually takes two semesters longer than the engineering degree. Advice on the combined degree program may be obtained from the departments involved. The course structure is set out in the subject lists included after this section of the handbook.
Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Laws (BE/LLB)
The faculties of Engineering and Law offer a combined degree course which qualifies students for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Laws. The course is available through the departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. It is intended to bridge the gap between technological and legal studies and to meet the need to have engineers who are knowledgeable in the legal, corporate and political arenas.
The decision to take the combined degree is normally made at the end of the second semester of study, ie the first two semesters of the combined degree program may be identical to the Bachelor of Engineering program. After that, students essentially complete all of the chemical, civil, materials or mechanical engineering core subjects or equivalent, together with the required law subjects. The course structure is set out in the subject lists included after this section of the handbook.
Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Arts (BE/BA)
The faculties of Engineering and Arts offer a combined degree course which qualifies students for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts. This combined degree program is available to students in the departments of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and was originally established to enable students to pursue interests in engineering and languages concurrently, but now students may complete any arts major sequence and any arts minor sequence for the BA degree. The language programs for which the combined degree was established are aimed particularly at engineers who wish to position themselves to take advantage of opportunities in industry and government requiring multilingual skills. There are obvious advantages also in the combination of visual arts and civil engineering, which enables engineers to enhance their ability to cooperate with architects in the design of building structures. The course also provides for students who, while completing engineering studies in one of the four participating departments, wish to pursue an interest in sociology, history, philosophy, Asian studies, psychology or any other of the many and varied disciplines available to arts students and listed in the Faculty of Arts handbook.
The BA/BE combined degree program commences at level one and is of five years duration, if taken full-time. Entry to the course is through the Victorian Tertiary Admission Centre (VTAC). Applications to transfer to the combined degree program from engineering students who have completed two (or more) semesters of study are considered on an individual basis. The course structure is set out in the subject lists included after this section of the handbook.