The professional undergraduate degrees offered by the Gippsland School of Engineering are designed to encourage personal development of the individual and to develop skills in the acquisition and application of appropriate technical knowledge to solve engineering problems. The courses lead to an in-depth core of scientific knowledge together with an adequate understanding of the humanities to enable the engineer to perform in a socially, economically and environmentally responsible manner.
The courses create a stimulating and supportive learning environment to develop within the student the ability to:
* efficiently apply intellectual, manipulative, experimental, design and problem-solving knowledge and skills to discharge the tasks expected of a graduate engineer;
* access sources of engineering information, knowledge and data to develop the ability to solve new problems;
* provide the community with affordable, safe, reliable and aesthetically pleasing designs for engineering products and services;
* manage the construction, operation and maintenance of those resources entrusted to professional engineers in a safe, reliable and environmentally responsible condition;
* understand the social, economic and environmental impacts of professional engineering decisions;
* communicate effectively on both technical issues and current affairs with peers, business associates, clients and the general public;
* stimulate a personal interest in continuing career development and the advancement of the profession by life-long improvement of their own ability to contribute to society as engineers;
* evaluate their personal responsibilities and the limitations of both professional engineering knowledge and practice in the light of institutional and ethical codes of practice.
Course of studies
The Bachelor of Engineering offered by the Gippsland school is a four-year fully professional course and offers specialisation in the following areas:
* civil engineering
* electronic and computer engineering
* electro-mechanical engineering
* mechanical engineering
* mining engineering
The bachelor degrees have a common first year, thus students do not have to select their speciality until after some study experience.
In each specialisation there are opportunities at final-year level to take electives suited to student interests. All of the engineering degree courses may be studied either full-time or part-time, and many first-year, second-year and fourth-year subjects within the courses are offered by distance education. Within the next two years it should be possible to study up to 75 per cent of the course by distance education. Residential school sessions for off-campus students are listed in the university principal dates and the university Calendar.
The Bachelor of Engineering in mining engineering may be completed by undertaking two years of full-time study at Monash University Gippsland campus and a further two years of full-time study at Ballarat University College.
An outline of the course structure and content of the Bachelor of Engineering is set out in the subject lists included after this section of the handbook.