Postgraduate courses and subjects 2000

Graduate certificates

These one-year part-time offerings at the Gippsland campus enable professional engineers to complete a specialist selection of subjects at final-year or postgraduate level and, on completion, to obtain the formal award of the Graduate Certificate in the following streams:

· Maintenance management
· Reliability engineering

The programs are designed to allow engineers in full-time employment to refresh some aspect of their academic training, or to embark on a new aspect of training related to changed employment expectations. Coursework is offered by distance education only.
It is possible for graduate certificate candidates to articulate to the Graduate Diploma in Engineering Maintenance Management and then to the Master of Engineering Maintenance Management. An average of 70 per cent or more is required for those wishing to articulate between courses. The maximum credit allowable for those transferring to the masters program is 36 credit points.
The normal entry requirement is a degree or diploma in an appropriate discipline from an approved Australian tertiary institution. In many cases, this will be an engineering degree, but applicants working in an engineering environment with degrees in areas such as science, business and architecture would be considered. Equivalent overseas qualifications will be acceptable for candidates competent in the use of English written language. Such other academic, industry-based training or management responsibility level that may be judged by the head of school to give the candidate a good chance of success in the course may also be taken into account. In such cases, specific documentation of industrial experience and responsibility must be supplied.
In some circumstances, candidates may be required to undertake preliminary studies before embarking on a graduate certificate program. There may be a restriction on the maximum number of non-graduate enrolments in any year. For the Maintenance Management program, attendance is required at a residential school of one week in July.