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 Faculty of Engineering is committed to providing an environment in which
the brightest students and scholars can together pursue their educational and
research goals at the highest international standard in the major branches of
engineering and consequently contribute to the prosperity of Australia and its
region in the world.
Engineering is a research intensive faculty with 16 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, and participation in 10 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. New faculty institutes of
sustainable water resources and of vision systems engineering have been
established, and new ventures in biomedical engineering and nanotechnology are
being developed.
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), 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, the faculty academic manager
and the faculty business manager. As the chief executive of the faculty, the
dean provides academic leadership to the faculty and presides over meetings of
the faculty board and part of the senior management group of the university.
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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