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 two schools: the School of Physics and Materials Engineering and the School of Engineering and Science at Monash University Malaysia.
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 11 special-purpose centres
attracting external funding, including two National Key Centres for Teaching
and Research and the only UNESCO-supported International Centre for Engineering
Education in the world. The faculty also participates in 10 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, 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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