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Bachelor of Environmental Engineering

Course code: 1253 + Course abbreviation: BEnvEng + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

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: environmental process engineering, transport and the built environment, and water and land management.

Course structure

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) Transport and the built environment; (3) Water and land management. Students must choose 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). 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.

Course requirements

This was a new course structure for students entering the program from 2005 onwards. Level 2 of the program will be offered from 2006, level 3 from 2007 and level 4 from 2008. Students who entered the program prior to 2005 should refer to the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.

First year

Core units

Subtotal: 36 points

Foundation units

Students who have not completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Chemistry or Physics and/or Specialist Mathematics are required to select none, one or two appropriate foundation units(s) from:

Elective units

Select none, one or two units from:

  • BIO2011 Ecology
  • ENG1050 Engineering materials
  • ENG1061 Engineering profession
  • ENG1071 Chemistry for engineering, or
    CHM1011 Chemistry
  • ESC1022 Planet Earth: dynamic systems, environmental change and resources
  • PHS1042 Physics for bio and environmental sciences

Total: 48 points

Second year
  • BIO2031 Biodiversity and bioresources
  • CHE2162 Material and energy balances
  • CHE2164 Thermodynamics I
  • CIV2263 Water systems
  • CIV2282 Transport and traffic engineering
  • ENE2503 Materials properties and recycling
  • ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A
  • GES2420 Environmental policy and management

Total: 48 points

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