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. 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. Thus core engineering knowledge and skills are complemented by units from science, economics, arts and law. The elective streams are: environmental process engineering, transport and the built environment, and water and land management.

Course objectives

This course provides students with the broad-based capability for the solution, implementation and management of engineering activities in an environmental context.

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. The large majority of students entering the faculty have completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), and references in the following paragraphs are to the prerequisite VCE subjects. Some domestic and international students enter the faculty with equivalent qualifications, and advice about unit choice for students with qualifications other than the VCE may be obtained from the faculty administration offices. Foundation units are required for students who have not completed appropriate VCE studies.

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. Students who entered the program prior to 2005 should refer to the handbook for the level in which they commenced the course. Level 4 of the program will be offered from 2008.

First level

Core units

BIO2042 Conservation biology
ENE1621 Environmental engineering
ENG1010 Process systems analysis
ENG1020 Engineering structures
ENG1060 Computing for engineers
ENG1091 Mathematics for engineering

Foundation units

Students who have not completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Chemistry or Physics and/or Specialist mathematics are required to select one or two appropriate foundation units(s) from:

ENG1070 Foundation chemistry
ENG1080 Foundation physics
ENG1090 Foundation mathematics

Elective units*

Select none, one or two units from:

BIO2031 Biodiversity and bioresources
ENG1050 Engineering materials
ENG1061 Engineering profession
ENG1071 Chemistry for engineering
ESC1022 Planet Earth: dynamic systems, environmental change and resources
PHS1042 Physics for bio and environmental sciences

Total: 48 points

Second level

BIO2011 Ecology**
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

*Students who commenced first level in 2005 or 2006 may have completed BIO2011 as an elective

**Students who commenced second level in 2006 will have completed BIO2031 instead of BIO2011

Total: 48 points

Third level

Core units

CIV3248 Groundwater and environmental geoengineering
CIV3264 Urban water and wastewater systems
ENE3048 Energy and the environment
ENE3606 The air environment
ENE3608 Environmental impact assessment and management systems

Stream units

Select one of the following streams:

Environmental process engineering stream

CHE3163 Sustainable processing I
12 points from a list of approved stream electives is available from the course director

Transport and the built environment stream

CIV3205 Project management for civil engineers
12 points from a list of approved stream electives is available from the course director

Water and land management stream

CIV3205 Project management for civil engineers
12 points from a list of approved steam electives is available from the course director

Total: 48 points

Contact details

Telephone +61 3 9905 3404, email eng.info@eng.monash.edu.au or visit www.eng.monash.edu.au

Course adviser

Visit www.eng.monash.edu.au/current-students/course-information.html#1

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