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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Engineering

Structure and organisation of the faculty

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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