Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Diploma of Engineering (Industrial Management)

Diploma of Engineering (Industrial Management)

General information
Course structure
Entry requirements
Credits and exemptions

General information

The course is designed to meet the needs of people employed in technical, supervisory or management positions or people aspiring to such positions. The main aim of the course is to provide people employed in industry with the opportunity to obtain education and training in supervision and management supplemented, if desired, by the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in basic technical engineering topics.

Course structure

The Diploma of Engineering (Industrial Management) is a two-year equivalent full-time course offered by distance education that provides training and education in industrial supervision and basic business and management procedures. It also offers the option of studies in basic engineering subjects. The course provides supervision and management training for people working in industry in such positions as technical officers, engineering assistants, engineering and industrial supervisors. These people often work in a supporting role to professional engineers and other professionals, but can also work independently in smaller organisations which do not employ professional engineers. In other organisations employing professional engineers, they may also work independently on reaching senior positions.
The course gives particular attention to the needs of small and medium-sized industrial businesses. It is designed for part-time study, causing minimum interference to employment by use of distance education study with weekend schools. Well-motivated students can reasonably undertake four subjects each year, thus permitting completion of the course by four years of distance education study. The course is, however, designed to allow maximum flexibility for each student to proceed through the course at a rate appropriate to his or her particular circumstances.

Entry requirements

(a) Mature-age entry: People with an appropriate employment background who are over 23 years of age may gain entry as mature-age students under alternative category entry - mature-age provisions.
(b) Year 12 entry: The normal academic requirement for entry is successful completion of a Year 12 course of study, preferably including a pass in English (students wanting to do the technical module preferably should have passed mathematics and a science subject at Year 11).
(c) Successful completion of the first year of an associate diploma or advanced certificate course at a Victorian TAFE college or similar institution.
(d) Satisfaction of other categories of Monash's minimum tertiary entrance requirements.
(e) Applicants will not normally be accepted directly from Year 12 studies unless they are employed in industry.
An outline of the course structure and content of the diploma is set out in the subject lists included following this section.

Credits and exemptions

Applicants with appropriate engineering or industrial qualifications may obtain up to a maximum credit of 48 credit points. Applicants who have undergone formal employer-conducted industrial training may be eligible for credit up to 36 credit points.