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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
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:

Elective units

Select none, one or two units from:

Total: 48 points

Second level

Total: 48 points

Third level

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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