Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering

Course code: 3275 + Course abbreviation: BAeroEng + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This course will focus on aerodynamics, aerospace materials, aerospace structures, propulsion and aerospace instrumentation and control. This will be complemented by a major emphasis on design, which will be taught with a project-based focus. Current industry practice and guidance on professional issues such as ethics, legal, environmental and safety issues will also be covered along with an understanding of the role of the aerospace industry in a wider, global context.

Course objectives

Students will acquire knowledge in the core disciplines underpinning aerospace engineering and incorporate this into the design of systems and components for the aerospace industry. They will be able to formulate problems, propose innovative solutions, analyse the technical and other aspects of these and make decisions about the preferred option. This will necessarily involve working in multidisciplinary teams learning through guided practice, how to handle such situations. They will develop a range of management skills, including project management and will gain a perspective on the rapid change of the industry, which will illustrate the need to engage in lifelong learning.

Course structure

Level 1 includes the basic sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, combined with one introductory aerospace engineering unit. 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.

The core discipline areas of aerospace engineering include: aerodynamics, propulsion, materials, structures, avionics/control, design and dynamics/mechanics. In each of these areas, the course has a unit that lays the foundations of the discipline at second level, followed by an advanced unit that provides a significant engineering practice component at third level. For the most part, the second unit at third level is a terminal unit in the discipline but there are integrative units in fourth level that further build on or complement these terminal discipline units.

At fourth level the orientation is towards professional and project-based units. There is also an inter-faculty elective and two electives drawn from across the faculty.

Course requirements

Level 4 of the program will be offered from 2008.

First level

ENG1020 Engineering structures
ENG1030 Electrical systems
ENG1040 Engineering dynamics
ENG1060 Computing for engineers
ENG1091 Mathematics for engineering
MAE1041 Aerospace engineering

Foundation units

Students who have not completed VCE units 3 and 4 of Chemistry or Physics and/or Specialist mathematics should 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:

ENG1010 Process systems analysis
ENG1050 Engineering materials
ENG1061 Engineering profession
ENG1071 Chemistry for engineering
ENG1081 Physics for engineering

Total: 48 points

Second level

ENG2091 Advanced engineering mathematics A
ENG2092 Advanced engineering mathematics B
MAE2400 Engineering materials (if ENG1050 not completed at level 1) or MTE3541 Materials durability (if ENG1050 completed at level 1)
MAE2401 Aircraft structures 1
MAE2402 Thermodynamics and heat transfer
MEC2401 Dynamics I
MEC2402 Engineering design I
MEC2404 Fluid mechanics I

Total: 48 points

Third level

MAE3401 Aerodynamics
MAE3402 Aerospace design project
MAE3403 Aerospace computational mechanics
MAE3404 Flight vehicle dynamics
MAE3405 Flight vehicle propulsion
MAE3406 Aerospace materials
MAE3407 Aircraft structures II
MAE3408 Aerospace control

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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