Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000

Admission

Entry requirements
Credit for previous studies
- Maximum credit allowed

Entry requirements

Admission to the Faculty of Engineering is based on the assessment of students' results in the Victorian Certificate of Education (or equivalent) in those subjects important to engineering - English, Mathematics, Physics and/or Chemistry. Selection for engineering degrees at Monash is based on the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER), a percentile score which ranks applicants in the cohort on a comparative basis. Consideration will be given to the full range of an applicant's VCE studies and results and the level of performance in common assessment tasks in prerequisite studies. Admission to the degrees of Bachelor of Technology (CompSt) is available by direct entry only, and an interview is part of the selection process. Subject to availability of places, limited mid-year entry may be possible into some courses.
Information about tertiary entrance requirements and prerequisites for admission to the faculty's courses and about the possibility of mid-year entry may be obtained from the faculty's administration offices on each campus.

Credit for previous studies

The Faculty of Engineering awards credit towards its engineering degrees and technology degrees at Monash for subjects passed in completed or incomplete tertiary studies elsewhere (including TAFE post-secondary education courses), provided that it is satisfied that the subjects for which credit is sought were substantially the same in content, contact hours and standard of assessment as those subjects from which exemption is sought. Advanced standing will be given to the second year of the Bachelor of Technology (CompSt) for completed studies in approved TAFE courses.
The onus is upon the student to provide to relevant administrative officers on each campus full documentation concerning previous studies for which credit is sought together with an academic transcript of results. This should be in the form of handbook subject entries and those sections of the handbook setting out course structure; in some cases course outlines handed out in lectures may provide the same information. This should preferably be done with the initial application for admission or, at the latest, at the time of enrolment. The minimum information required is number of years in course, level of subject in course, subject content and textbooks, number of contact hours and laboratory sessions etc per week, credit weighting of subject (percentage of year represented by subject), and method of assessment (number and length of assignments, number and length of examinations etc).

Maximum credit allowed

Irrespective of what study applicants may have undertaken prior to admission, or may be permitted to take during their course under cross-campus arrangements or under the 'permission to take work elsewhere' regulation, it is the policy of the faculty that a certain amount of work must be completed at Monash University. Students must complete at least 96 credit points in a particular undergraduate engineering degree program, and students in the BTech(CompSt) Caulfield or in the Bachelor of Engineering Studies at Gippsland must complete at least 72 credit points at Monash, in order to qualify for a degree of Monash University.
While the new Bachelor of Engineering program has been designed to enable greater mobility between campuses, some restrictions on enrolments at other campuses do apply. Information is available from the faculty administration office on each campus.
There are two exceptions to the requirement for minimum work to be completed at Monash University. The first concerns applicants admitted to candidature for an engineering degree, on the basis of a professional qualification obtained in another engineering or non-engineering specialisation, under an approved 'conversion course' arrangement leading to the award of a second qualification. Such a conversion program exists at Gippsland, and typically requires completion of 48 to 96 credit points (one to two years full-time or two to four years part-time study). Many subjects required for completion of this program are available by distance education. Candidates taking distance education subjects should anticipate the need to attend a residential school at Churchill each teaching semester. The second exception relates to people who have completed the three-year Bachelor of Engineering Studies degree at Gippsland and who wish to convert to the Bachelor of Engineering at Gippsland. The conversion program for BEngSt graduates requires a further year of study to be taken full-time at the Gippsland campus.
Students should note that the requirement concerning the minimum number of credit points to be completed on the 'home' campus applies also where students are permitted to enrol for subjects offered on another campus within the Faculty of Engineering. For example, a student enrolled in an engineering degree program at Gippsland, who is permitted to enrol for subjects at one of the metropolitan campuses, must still complete subjects to the value of 96 credit points offered at the Gippsland campus.