1999 Engineering Handbook - Master of Engineering Maintenance Management

Master of Engineering Maintenance Management

Introduction to course
Aims and objectives
Structure
Length of course/Workload required
Admission requirements
Credit provision

Introduction to course

Gippsland campus

It is now widely appreciated by industry that operations costs can be greatly reduced by the adoption of a scientific approach to maintenance activities. It is also appreciated that the reliability of plant can be measured, analysed and predicted with the aid of modern computer tools. This course will be of greatest benefit to graduate engineers who are involved with the operation and maintenance of industrial, public sector or defence systems. The MEngMaintMgt course articulates from each of the following existing courses: Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management; Graduate Certificate in Reliability Engineering; Graduate Diploma in Engineering Maintenance Management.

Aims and objectives

The Master of Engineering Maintenance Management aims to

provide a thorough knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of maintenance engineering and of current industry issues on a regional, national and global basis, and thus to equip the engineer for a wide range of commercial and career opportunities;
build or enhance the specialist skills needed to optimise the maintenance of industrial assets, and to develop critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills in a multidisciplinary engineering maintenance team;
encourage a cross-disciplinary and pro-active approach to the solution of maintenance problems, and
increase the standard of professionalism in the maintenance industry.

Structure

The degree comprises fifty-four credit points of course work followed by an eighteen credit point minor thesis. Depending on the manner of entry to the program, the first two years of part-time study cover course work required for one or other of the graduate certificates in maintenance management or reliability engineering and/or the Graduate Diploma in Engineering Maintenance Management. This enables articulation from the graduate certificates or graduate diploma to the masters program, with a maximum of thirty-six points of credit, for those who have performed at the requisite distinction standard, while providing alternative pathways for those who perform less well.
The following subjects are available in the maintenance management/reliability Engineering postgraduate programs:

GEG7014.06 Terotechnology and lifecycle costs
GEG7024.06 Maintenance management
GEG7034.06 Quantitative techniques for asset management
GEG7044.06 Industrial techniques in maintenance management
GEG7054.06 Machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis
GEG7064.06 Maintenance techniques
GEG7074.06 Computer applications in terotechnology
GEG7094.06 Research project
GEG7114.06 Basic quantitative skills
GEG7124.06 Understanding reliability
GEG7134.06 Advanced reliability
GEG7144.06 Reliability applications
GEG7154.06 Risk engineering
GEG8054.06 Machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis
GEG8074.06 Computer applications in terotechnology
GEG8124.06 Understanding reliability
GEG8134.06 Advanced reliability

Length of course/Workload required

Three years of part-time study by distance education. Each six cp full- year subject requires six hours of study per week, which corresponds to twenty-four hours per week for the year for a normal part-time load. Students are required to attend one four or five-day residential school each year.

Admission requirements

(a) a university honours degree in engineering; or
(b) in circumstances considered special by the faculty board, a university pass degree in engineering; or
(c) a university pass degree plus honours-equivalent experience appropriate to the field of study; or
(d) completion of the Monash Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management or the Graduate Certificate in Reliability Engineering or the Graduate Diploma in Engineering Maintenance Management with an average not less than 70% (distinction).

Credit provision

Candidates, who have completed the Monash graduate certificates or graduate diploma, or who have completed similar work in other universities or institutions recognised for this purpose by the faculty board, may be granted credit for up to 50 per cent (thirty-six credit points) of the requirements for the masters degree.