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
the school-based 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 by September in the year before
admission.
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.
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 advanced standing (credit) towards its
engineering degrees and technology degrees at Monash for units passed in
completed or incomplete tertiary studies elsewhere (including TAFE
post-secondary education courses), provided that it is satisfied that the units
for which advanced standing is sought were substantially the same in content,
contact hours and standard of assessment as those units 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 advanced
standing is sought together with an academic transcript of results. This should
be in the form of handbook unit 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 unit in course, unit content and textbooks, number of contact hours and
laboratory sessions etc per week, credit weighting of unit (percentage of year
represented by unit), 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 units required for completion of this
program are available by off-campus distributed learning (distance education).
Candidates taking off-campus units 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 units 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 units at one of the
metropolitan campuses, must still complete units to the value of 96 credit
points offered at the Gippsland campus.
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