See the objectives for the BSc and BE degrees.
Course structure
The faculties of Science and Engineering have established a five-year course which, after three years of study, qualifies students for the BSc degree and, after a further two years, for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering.
In the first three years of study students' progress will be subject to Science faculty policies and rules, as regards examinations, etc., except that those students seeking to qualify with a BE in electrical and computer systems engineering combined with a BSc degree majoring in mathematics or physics in their second year of study, will be under the control of the Engineering faculty and subject to the policies and rules of that faculty. In their third year these students will be subject to the regulations of the Faculty of Science.
The fourth and fifth years of the course will be pursued entirely within, and under the control of, the Engineering faculty.
Students wishing to qualify with a BSc(Hons) may take the honours year before proceeding to their final two years in the Engineering faculty.
Students embarking on this course pursue combinations of subjects from both faculties. The course is structured so that progression to the BSc qualification, ie the first three years, is governed by the BSc regulations, except that restrictions in terms of subject choices have been imposed to ensure that only those studies which equip students to undertake the subsequent engineering studies can be pursued.
Within the chemical engineering, civil engineering and materials engineering streams students are able to include in the BSc part of the program, major studies in chemistry/chemical engineering science, geology and/or materials science, together with a further science major discipline of their choice in each stream. These studies are supported significantly by mathematics subjects.
The electrical and computer systems engineering stream includes science majors in mathematics, physics, physiology or computer science. The mechanical engineering stream includes a major sequence of studies in applied mathematics, computer science, mathematics, meteorology and oceanography, or physics.