Course code: 0032 (Caulfield, Clayton), 2241 (Malaysia) + Course abbreviation: BE + Total credit points required: 192 (48 credit points at Bachelor of Engineering level 1, plus 144 credit points from the relevant engineering branch) + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time (1 year full-time Bachelor of Engineering, 3 years full-time in the engineering branches)
On-campus (Caulfield; Clayton; Malaysia)
Candidates
for the Bachelor of Engineering choose to specialise in one of seven branches
of engineering: chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical and
computer systems engineering, industrial engineering and engineering
management, materials engineering, mechanical engineering and mechatronics
engineering. The common first level allows students to keep open the option of
entering any of the seven branches. There are limits on the number of students
who may enrol in each branch and, where demand exceeds supply, students will be
admitted on the basis of academic merit (their results at level 1). Students
who do not get their first choice will be offered a place in one of their other
preferences. If students wish to change branches at a later stage of the
course, some additional units may be required and the transition could extend
the duration of the course beyond four years full-time.
Following the completion of the common first level, students transfer into one
of the seven branches of engineering at Caulfield, Clayton or Malaysia.
Students may move campus to pursue a particular branch. Each of the seven
branches of engineering is outlined below and requires an additional three
years of study after the completion of level 1.
Two
of the eight units in the common first year are compulsory. A student's choice
of the remaining units must take into account two factors: the amount of
mathematics, chemistry and physics completed prior to admission to the course,
and the branch of engineering into which the student hopes to proceed at the
end of the first year. The large majority of students entering the faculty have
completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), and references in the
following paragraphs are to the prerequisite VCE subjects. Some domestic and
international students enter the faculty with other, equally acceptable,
qualifications, and advice about unit choice for students with qualifications
other than the VCE may be obtained from staff of the faculty administration
offices.
If a student has completed only one of VCE units 3 and 4 of Chemistry or
Physics and has not completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Specialist Mathematics, the
student will be required to complete ENG1090 (Foundation mathematics) and one
of ENG1070 (Foundation chemistry) or ENG1080 (Foundation physics), depending on
subjects not taken at VCE.
If a student has successfully completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Specialist
Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics the student will have space for two
electives. This will enable the student to take two units from ENG1061
(Engineering profession), ENG1071 (Chemistry for engineering) and ENG1081
(Physics for engineering). Alternatively, the student may take all five of the
Engineering electives and one of ENG1061, ENG1071 and ENG1081.
Students
should refer to 'Course map 1 - Bachelor of Engineering (level 1)' at the back
of this section for an outline of the course structure for this program.
For information about course requirements for later-year levels of this
program, students should refer to the degree entries in their chosen
engineering branch.
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