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Structure and organisation of the faculty

The Faculty of Engineering operates on the Clayton campus in Australia and on the Monash Malaysia campus. The faculty comprises five departments: Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer Systems, Materials and Mechanical Engineering; and one school: 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, mechatronics 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; Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; 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 three institutes of research excellence, 18 special purpose externally-funded research centres, including the only UNESCO-supported International Centre for Engineering Education in the world, and participation in 11 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, four student members (two graduate and two 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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