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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Engineering

Structure and organisation of the faculty

The Faculty of Engineering operates on the Caulfield and Clayton 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 at Monash University Malaysia. In addition to undergraduate degrees in five major branches, the faculty has four-year undergraduate programs in civil and environmental engineering, computer systems engineering, environmental engineering, industrial engineering and engineering management, 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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