Course code: 1253 + Course abbreviation: BEnvEng + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time
On-campus (Clayton)
The environmental engineering course has been designed to be multidisciplinary, to provide broad-based capability for the solution, implementation and management of engineering activities in an environmental context. Thus core engineering knowledge and skills are complemented by units from science, economics, arts and law. The selection of one major elective stream, or two minor elective streams, provides for in-depth treatment of one or more specific areas of application of environmental engineering principles. The elective streams are: water and land management, environmental process engineering, and transport and the built environment.
This
is a new course structure for students entering level 1 of the program from
2005 onwards. Students who entered the program prior to 2005 should refer to
the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.
Level 1 of the course provides a broad base of science, mathematics,
introductory engineering and environment units designed to form the basis of a
multidisciplinary engineering education. Level 2 increases the engineering
content, which is a mixture of core engineering units and more environmentally
directed units. Mathematics is continued. Environmental policy is introduced to
begin to integrate the content gained from the other units.
Level 3 introduces more environmentally focused engineering units. It builds
upon the core units of level 2, provides units that address environmental
impact and management systems, and sees the commencement of the selected
elective stream(s). From level 3, the course is divided into three streams: 1.
Environmental process engineering; 2. Water and land management; 3. Transport
and the built environment. Students must choose either one major or two minor
elective streams, taking core units at each level as well as stream core and
stream elective units from their chosen stream(s). Stream electives units are
divided into two groups: A and B. A major stream comprises a minimum of 16
credit points from group A and a minimum of 6 credit points from group B (total
22 credit points for Environmental process engineering, 26 credit points for
Water and land management, and Transport and the built environment); a minor
comprises 22 to 26 credit points from two elective streams in a combination
approved by the course director. Students' choice of electives must be approved
by the director of Environmental Engineering.
Level 4 seeks to integrate and provide application for much of the earlier
knowledge and skills developed by way of substantial engineering design and
project work within the various specific elective streams. These units are
complemented by further in-depth elective units, and interdisciplinary units
from environmental law, economics and policy areas.
Students should refer to 'Course map 13 - Bachelor of Environmental Engineering' at the back of this section for an outline of the course requirements for this program.
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