Course abbreviation: BTech(CompSt)
The Bachelor of Technology (Computer Studies) degree is of three years duration if taken full-time or up to six years if taken part-time. These time limits include an allowance of one year for completion of approved studies at TAFE. It forms part of a program which links university degrees with courses in designated TAFE colleges.
The BTech(CompSt) is articulated with the Diploma of Technology (Computing)
run at the Holmesglen Institute of TAFE and Frankston campus of Chisholm
Institute. After successful completion of the first year of this program
(normally 70 per cent average), students may transfer directly into the second
year of the Bachelor of Technology (Computer Studies) at Monash University's
Clayton campus. The third year of the course is also conducted at the Clayton
campus. The course aims to produce technologists who are flexible in their
thinking and so are able to respond to the changing needs of industry.
The first level of the course is completed at an approved TAFE institute.
At second and third levels, six units (five in the last semester) are studied
in each of the four semesters which comprise the second and third years of the
Monash degree. Full-time study involves approximately 24 hours of class time
per week in each semester.
Level 2 of the course includes units in the areas of engineering programming,
electrical engineering, telecommunications, mathematics, computer organisation,
operating systems and digital design.
Level 3 builds on level 2, with more advanced units including management,
professional communications, computer engineering, microprocessor systems,
industrial electronics and instrumentation, data communications and an
industrial project.
Students take one elective unit at second level and three elective units at
third level, and may choose from a wide range of units including real-time
control and software engineering, internet architectures and protocols,
large-scale digital design, mechanoinformatics, computer graphics and computer
applications. All electives must be approved by the course leader.
The core and elective units required at levels 2 and 3 in the course are listed
in full in the course list for the Bachelor of Technology degrees included
after this section of the handbook. Students should become familiar with the
requirements for completion of the degree set out in the course list.
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