The Faculty of Engineering operates on the Caulfield, Clayton and Gippsland
campuses in Australia and on the Monash Malaysia campus. The faculty comprises
four departments: Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer Systems, and
Mechanical Engineering; and three schools: the Gippsland School of Engineering,
the School of Physics and Materials Engineering and the School of Engineering
and Science at Monash University Malaysia. In addition to undergraduate degrees
in five major branches, the faculty has four-year undergraduate programs in
computer systems engineering, environmental engineering, industrial engineering
and engineering management, interdisciplinary engineering, mechatronics and
telecommunications engineering; a five-year aerospace double degree; three-year
Bachelor of Technology programs in computer studies and in infrastructure and a
range of double-degree programs with the faculties of Art and Design, Arts,
Business and Economics, 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 nine 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, functional communication surfaces 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, the faculty academic manager
and the faculty business manager. The dean is the chief executive of the
faculty, and provides academic leadership to the faculty, presides over
meetings of the faculty board and its committees and is concerned with staffing
and finance. The academic manager is responsible for administrative matters
such as implementation of university statutes, regulations and academic policy,
development and management of the faculty's courses and units and all issues
connected with undergraduate and postgraduate candidatures and academic
progression. The business manager is responsible for financial and physical
resources planning and the marketing of the faculty's teaching, research and
consultancy activities.
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