Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering

Course code: 3823 + Course abbreviation: BCom/BAeroEng + Total credit points required: 240 + 5 years full-time, 10 years part-time + Managing faculty: Business and Economics

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This double degree course allows students to qualify with both the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering degrees.

In this double-degree program, the aerospace engineering component will develop strength in the core discipline areas of aerodynamics, aerospace materials, aerospace structures, propulsion and aerospace instrumentation and control, complemented by a major emphasis on design, which will be taught with a project-based focus. In addition, the program provides a professional education in a range of commerce disciplines, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills and professional competence for careers in the business or public sector.

Course structure

Areas of study

Students must complete a major specialisation in one of the following disciplines taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics: accounting, Asian development and transition business law and taxation, competition regulation and public policy, econometrics and business statistics, economics, finance, human resource management, information strategy and decision making, international commerce, labour and employment, management or marketing. All units taken as part of the major specialisation are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the Clayton campus. For details of the units required for major specialisations, refer to the Bachelor of Commerce course entry in the ‘Outline of undergraduate studies – Clayton’ section of this handbook.

Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the Clayton campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Students must also complete the prescribed sequence in aerospace engineering listed below.

Course requirements

The degree requirements are:

(a) students must complete 17 units (102 points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics as follows:

(i) completion of six compulsory common core units (36 points):

AFC1021/AFC1022 Accounting principles
BTC1110 Business law
ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics
ETC1000 Business and economic statistics
MGC1010 Managing people and organisations
MKC1200 Principles of marketing

(ii) completion of at least two units (12 points) from the following:

AFC2100 Introduction to finance, or
AFC1030 Introduction to financial accounting
ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics
ETC1010 Data modelling and computing
MGC1020 Organisations: contexts and strategies

First-year students normally may not take a second-year-level unit until at least four first-year units have been completed successfully.

(iii) a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 points) in a discipline or field of study of the faculty with at least 12 points at each of second and third-year level.

(iv) a maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 points).

(v) a minimum of four third-year-level units (24 points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

(b) students must complete 23 units (138 points) from the Faculty of Engineering as follows:

First year

Students must complete four (24 points) compulsory core engineering units as follows:

ENG1040 Engineering dynamics
ENG1060 Computing for engineers
ENG1091 Mathematics for engineers
MAE1041 Aerospace engineering

plus those who have not completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Chemistry or Physics and/or Specialist Mathematics must select none, one or two appropriate foundation units from:

ENG1070 Foundation chemistry
ENG1080 Foundation physics
ENG1090 Foundation mathematics

plus none, one or two engineering electives (depending on prerequisites) from the following list:

ENG1020 Engineering structures
ENG1030 Electrical systems

Second year

Students must complete two engineering units (12 points) as follows:

MEC2401 Dynamics I
ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A

Third year

Students must complete three engineering units (18 points) as follows:

MAE2400 Engineering materials, or MTE3541 Materials durability
MAE2402 Thermodynamics and heat transfer
ENG2092 Advanced engineering mathematics B

Fourth year

Students must complete six engineering units (36 points) as follows:

MAE2401 Aircraft structures
MAE3404 Flight vehicle dynamics
MAE3406 Aerospace materials
MAE3408 Aerospace control
MEC2402 Engineering design I
MEC2404 Fluid mechanics I

Fifth year

Students must complete six engineering units (36 points) as follows:

MAE3401 Aerodynamics
MAE3405 Flight vehicle propulsion
MAE3407 Aircraft structures
MAE4xxx*
MAE4xxx*
MAE4xxx*

^{*These units are subject to final faculty board approval.}

The course may be completed in five years of full-time study at a normal course load. The maximum time for completion is 10 years.

Professional recognition

Students who wish to obtain professional recognition should refer to 'Professional recognition' earlier in this section of the handbook and the relevant Faculty of Engineering entries in this handbook.

Contact details

Telephone +61 3 9905 2327, fax +61 3 9905 5499, email enquiries.clayton@buseco.monash.edu.au or visit www.buseco.monash.edu.au.

Course director:

Dr Ross Booth

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