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 seven major branches, the faculty has four-year
undergraduate programs in aerospace engineering, computer systems engineering,
environmental engineering and telecommunications engineering; 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 faculty also offers a Bachelor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering through the School of Applied Sciences and
Engineering at the Gippsland campus.
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 of the world.
Engineering is a research-intensive faculty with 16 special purpose
externally-funded research centres, including 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 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, the chair of the faculty's Industry Advisory
Committee and other 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, presides over meetings of the
faculty board, and is 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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