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 School of Physics and Materials Engineering, the Gippsland School of 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 10 special purpose
externally-funded research centres, including the only UNESCO- supported
International Centre for Engineering Education in the world; and participation
in eight Cooperative Research Centres with other academic and industry
partners. Major areas of research activity include biomaterials; 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 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 staff,
representatives of the full-time teaching staff, six student members (two
graduate and four undergraduate), the academic adviser, 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 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 student 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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