The Faculty of Engineering operates on the Caulfield, Clayton and Gippsland
campuses in Australia and on the Monash Malaysian campus. The faculty comprises
five departments: Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer Systems, Materials
and Mechanical Engineering; and two schools: the Gippsland School of
Engineering and the School of Engineering and Science at Monash University
Malaysia. In addition to undergraduate degrees in the five major branches
related to the departments, the faculty has four-year undergraduate programs in
computer systems engineering, environmental engineering, industrial engineering
and engineering management, interdisciplinary engineering, mechatronics and
telecommunications engineering; three-year Bachelor of Technology programs in
computer studies and in infrastructure and a range of double degree programs
with Art and Design, Arts, Commerce, Law and Science.
The mission of the faculty is ´to provide teaching, research and
professional community services to the highest international standard in major
branches of engineering central to the prosperity of Australia and its region
in the world'. Engineering is a research intensive faculty with 12
special-purpose externally-funded research centres, including the only
UNESCO-supported International Centre for Engineering Education in the world;
and participation in seven Cooperative Research Centres with other academic and
industry partners. Major areas of research activity include biomedical
engineering; catchment hydrology; electrical power engineering; fuels and
energy; fluid dynamics; maintenance technology; maritime engineering; polymers
and advanced composite materials; pulp and paper; railway engineering;
robotics; structural mechanics; telecommunications; timber engineering and
transport engineering.
The term ´Faculty of Engineering' in the wider sense includes all students
enrolled for degrees offered by the faculty, and all engineering academic and
general staff at the campuses at which it operates.
The faculty is a statutory body comprising all full-time members of the
teaching staff. The responsibility for making decisions in the faculty lies
with the faculty board, which comprises senior members of the academic and
general staff, representatives of the full-time teaching staff, six student
members (two graduate and four undergraduate), representatives of other
faculties and the library, and members from outside the university representing
industry and the engineering profession.
The student members are elected during April each year by students enrolled for
the degrees taught by the faculty. Except in certain matters on which it has
power to act, the faculty board makes recommendations to the Academic Board and
its Education Committee or, through the Academic Board, to the Council.
The chief officers of the faculty are the dean and the head of administration.
The dean provides academic leadership to the faculty, presides over meetings of
the faculty board and its committees and is concerned with staffing and
finance. The head of administration is responsible for the administration of
the faculty with a particular concern for matters relating to university
statutes and faculty regulations and the provision of advice on policy to
faculty board and its related committees. Together with the faculty
administrative staff at each campus, the head of administration is available to
attend to the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students within the
faculty.
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