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Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Engineering

Course code: 0548 (first year), 1204 (chemical), 1205 (civil), 1376 (electrical and computer systems), 3835 (industrial engineering and engineering management), 1206 (materials), 1207 (mechanical) or 3821 (mechatronics*) + Course abbreviation: BCom/BE + 5 to 5.5 years full-time (depending on branch of engineering selected), 10 years part-time + Total credit points required: 240 to 258 (depending on branch of engineering selected) + Managing faculty: Business and Economics

* There is no further intake into this branch of the BCom/BE - refer to the new BCom/BMechatronicsEng entry below

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 Engineering (in the relevant specialisation) degrees.

This double-degree course is intended for potential engineers who wish to become more aware of economic, social, organisational and managerial aspects of the engineering profession.

Course structure

Areas of study

Students must complete a major specialisation in one of the following areas 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 one branch of engineering selected from chemical, civil, electrical and computer systems, industrial engineering and engineering management, materials or mechanical engineering. For details of these branches of engineering, refer to the entry for the Bachelor of Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering section of this handbook.

Note all students undertake a common first year in the engineering component of this course. The duration of study and total credit points required for the double-degree is dependant on which stream of engineering the student completes.

All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics at Clayton or those listed in the relevant engineering entry 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):

(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 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 between 138 and 156 points from the Faculty of Engineering as follows:

(i) first year - for all engineering branches of study, students complete six units (36 points) of engineering:

Completion of two compulsory core units:

and three or four electives units from:

and none, one or two (depending on VCE subjects completed) transition units from:

(ii) Students are required to complete one of the engineering branches listed below:

Chemical engineering

This is a new course structure for students entering second year of the program from 2006 onwards. Students who entered second year of the program prior to 2006 should refer to the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.

Second year (24 points)
  • CHE2162 Material and energy balances
  • CHE2163 Heat and mass transfer
  • CHE2164 Engineering thermodynamics
  • ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A
Third year (18 points)
  • CHE2161 Fluid mechanics
  • CHM2735 Chemistry – principles and practice
  • ENG2092 Advanced engineering mathematics B
Fourth year (36 points)
Fifth year (42 points)
  • CHE4117 Design project
  • CHE4118 Research project
  • CHE4161 Engineering in society
  • CHE4162 Particle technology
  • CHE4163 Transport phenomena and numerical methods
Civil engineering

This is a new course structure for students entering second year of the program from 2006 onwards. Students who entered second year of the program prior to 2006 should refer to the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.

Second year (24 points)
  • CIV2206 Mechanics of solids
  • CIV2226 Design of concrete and masonry structures
  • CIV2242 Introductory geoengineering
  • ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A
Third year (24 points)
  • CIV2207 Computing and water systems modelling
  • CIV2225 Design of steel and timber structures
  • CIV2263 Water systems
  • CIV2282 Transport and traffic engineering
Fourth year (36 points)
  • CIV3221 Building structures and technology
  • CIV3222 Bridge design and assessment
  • CIV3247 Geoengineering
  • CIV3248 Groundwater and environmental geoengineering
  • CIV3264 Urban water and wastewater systems
  • CIV3283 Road engineering
Fifth year (24 points)

and 12 points of electives from the following:

  • CIV4211 Project B (enrolment in this unit is by departmental approval only)
  • CIV4234 Advanced structural analysis
  • CIV4235 Advanced structural design
  • CIV4248 Ground hazards and environmental geotechnics
  • CIV4249 Foundation engineering
  • CIV4268 Water resources management
  • CIV4283 Transport planning
  • CIV4284 Transport systems
Electrical and computer systems engineering

Students should also note that considering the high computing content in the engineering programs, the commerce unit AFC2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling may not be taken by BCom/BE students in this branch of engineering.

This is a new course structure for students entering second year of the program from 2006 onwards. Students who entered second year of the program prior to 2006 should refer to the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.

Second year (24 points)
Third year (24 points)
Fourth year (36 points)
  • ECE3073 Computer systems
  • ECE3091 Engineering design
  • ECE3092 Systems engineering and reliability analysis
  • ECE3093 Optimisation estimation and numerical methods
  • electives totalling 12-points selected from the ECSE elective units coded ECExxxx
Fifth year (36 points)
  • ECE3031 Control
  • ECE4094 Project A
  • ECE4095 Project B
  • electives totalling 18 points selected from the ECSE elective units coded ECExxxx
Industrial engineering and engineering management
Second year (12 points)
  • ENG2091Advanced engineering mathematics A
  • IND2400 Industrial engineering
Third year (18 points)
Fourth year (36 points)
Fifth year (36 points)
  • IND3317 Design III
  • IND3321 Engineering computations
  • IND4309 Engineering project: project thesis A
  • IND4310 Engineering project: project thesis B
  • electives totalling 12 points selected from level 4 industrial engineering and engineering management units not otherwise taken.
Materials engineering

This was a new course structure for students entering second year of the program from 2005 onwards. Students who entered second year of the program prior to 2005 should refer to the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.

Second year (24 points)
Third year (18 points)
  • MTE2542 Microstructural development
  • MTE2546 Mechanics of materials
  • MTE2547 Structure-property relationships in materials
Fourth year (42 points)
  • MTE3541 Materials durability
  • MTE3542 Microstructural design in structural materials
  • MTE3543 Microstructure to applications: the mechanics of materials
  • MTE3544 Management and practice in materials engineering
  • MTE3545 Functional materials and devices
  • MTE3546 Engineering materials II
  • MTE3547 Materials characterisation and modelling
Fifth year (30 points)
  • MTE4525 Materials engineering project I
  • MTE4526 Materials engineering project II
  • MTE4571 Materials engineering design and practice
  • MTE4572 Polymer/composite processing and engineering
  • MTE4573 Processing and engineering of metals and ceramics
Mechanical engineering

This is a new course structure for students entering second year of the program from 2006 onwards. Students who entered second year of the program prior to 2006 should refer to the handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.

Second year (12 points)
Third year (30 points)
Fourth year (42 points)
Fifth year (18 points)
  • MEC4401 Project 1
  • MEC4402 Project 2
  • one 6 point final-year elective from the published list

Note that the units ENG4614/4616 (Schools technology project) may not be taken.

Mechatronics engineering

This branch ceased intake into second year at the end of 2005. Students seeking to combine commerce with mechatronics engineering should consider applying for a course transfer into the new Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering double-degree program (see below).

Second year (24 points)
Third year (30 points)
Fourth year (30 points)
Fifth year (30 points)

The course may be completed in five to five-and-a-half years of full-time study at a normal course load (depending on branch of engineering selected). 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 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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