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Master of Transport and Traffic


General information

Course code: 2862 Clayton campus Full-fee-paying course, with no HECS liability attached Cost: $975 per six-credit-point unit

Aims

The masters course is a response to the growing need for engineers with broad awareness of the characteristics and significance of transport, including its technological, economic, environmental and social impact. The course requires students to complete 72 credit points, which equates to 12 units. Eight units are specified as core with the electives drawn from other transport and traffic units, pavement units or units in the Master of Business Systems course. This will enable the course to meet the educational needs of practising engineers who are seeking to extend their technical knowledge while enhancing their management skills through better understanding of project management and operations research etc.

Professional recognition

The course satisfies the continuing education requirements of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.

Entry requirements

Participants will have an honours degree in civil engineering or equivalent. Alternatively, students can articulate from the postgraduate diploma.

Course duration

The course is normally completed in three years by distance education (based on two units per semester) with a maximum of six years part-time (based on one unit per semester).

Course structure

The course will be conducted by distance education part-time over six semesters or three years. It may be accelerated to an 18-month full-time course. The course is therefore equivalent to 1.5 EFTSU or 72 credit points.
Students are allowed a maximum period of six years to complete the course with a maximum intermission period of 12 months. Where appropriate, students will be encouraged to enrol in the Graduate Certificate of Transport and Traffic or the Postgraduate Diploma of Transport and Traffic in the first instance and then articulate to the masters.

Core units (all six credit points)

Elective units (all six credit points)

The following units offered by distance education as part of the Master of Business Systems through the Gippsland campus are also offered as electives:

Credit provision

Subject to individual assessment, credit may be granted for up to 50 per cent of the total course, on the basis of work of equivalent standard successfully completed at another institution and up to 25 per cent for work completed outside the Engineering faculty at Monash University, but which has not formed part of the work presented for any other degree.

Resource requirements

Distance education material in the form of study guides and CD-ROMs are currently being developed and will be made available to all students. Prescribed textbooks will be available from the university bookshop. Students will require access to a computer with email and internet access, either at home or via commercial access points or facilities at local libraries etc.

Further information

For more detailed information, contact the Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton campus on (03) 9905 4987.

Completed applications

Completed applications are to be forwarded to the Transport Postgraduate Administrative Officer, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Victoria 3800, by 24 November 2000. Late applications will be considered.

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