1999 Engineering Handbook - Structure and organisation of the faculty

Structure and organisation of the faculty

The term 'Faculty of Engineering' in the wider sense includes all students enrolled for degrees offered by the faculty, and all engineering academic and general staff at the Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland and Monash University Sunway, Malaysia campuses.
The faculty is a statutory body comprising all full-time members of the teaching staff. The responsibility for making decisions in the faculty lies with the faculty board, which comprises senior members of the academic staff, representatives of the full-time teaching staff, six student members (two graduate and four undergraduate), representatives of other faculties and the library, and members from outside the university representing industry and the engineering profession.
The student members are elected during April each year by students enrolled for the degrees taught by the faculty. Except in certain matters on which it has power to act, the faculty board makes recommendations to the Academic Board and its Education Committee or, through the Academic Board, to the Council.
The chief officers of the faculty are the dean and the head of administration. The dean provides academic leadership to the faculty, presides over meetings of the faculty board and its committees and is concerned with staffing and finance. The head of administration is responsible for the administration of the faculty with a particular concern for matters relating to university statutes and faculty regulations and the provision of advice on policy to faculty board and its related committees. Together with the faculty administrative staff at each campus, the head of administration is available to attend to the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students within the faculty.