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 BE/BDes(IndDes) double-degree program is also based on a
portfolio and interview entry requirement judged by the Faculty of Art and
Design. Students wishing to apply for this course should contact the Faculty of
Art and Design for a pre-selection kit.
Admission to the degrees of Bachelor of Technology (CompSt) and Bachelor of
Technology (Infrastructure) are available by direct entry only, and an
interview is part of the selection process.
Admission for the new Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering degree is by
direct entry for 2001 only. Admission for 2002 onwards will be via VTAC.
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.
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) and the Bachelor of
Technology (Infrastructure) for completed studies in approved TAFE institutes
or equivalent 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).
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) or
in the BTech(Infrastructure) must complete at least 72 credit points at Monash,
in order to qualify for a degree of Monash University.
While the 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). Some of the 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.
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