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Bachelor of Environmental Engineering

Course code: 1253 ~ Course abbreviation: BEnvEng ~ Total credit points required: 192 ~ 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time ~ Managing faculty: Engineering

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

The environmental engineering course has been designed to be multidisciplinary. At third year, the selection of one major stream, or two minor 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

First level

Core units
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:

Elective units*

Select none, one or two units from:

  • BIO2011 Ecology
  • CHM2735 Chemistry - principles and practice
  • 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

  • BIO2042 Conservation biology**
  • 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
  • CHM2735 Chemistry - principles and practice
  • 6 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

Fourth level

Core units
Stream units
Environmental process engineering stream
  • CHE4170 Design project (12 points)
  • 18 points from a list of approved stream electives is available from the course director
Transport and the built environment stream
  • ENE4212 Environmental design
  • ENE4603 Environmental project A
  • 18 points from a list of approved stream electives is available from the course director
Water and land management stream
  • ENE4212 Environmental design
  • ENE4603 Environmental project A
  • 18 points from a list of approved stream 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 http://www.eng.monash.edu.au

Course adviser

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