Structure and organisation of the faculty - Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering operates on the Clayton campus in Australia and on the Sunway campus, Malaysia. The faculty comprises five departments: Aerospace and Mechanical; Chemical; Civil; Electrical and Computer Systems and Materials Engineering, and the School of Engineering at Sunway. In addition to undergraduate degrees in five major branches, the faculty offers:

• four year undergraduate programs in aerospace engineering, computer systems engineering, environmental engineering and mechatronics engineering
• three-year Bachelor of Technology programs in computer studies and in infrastructure
• a range of double-degree programs with the faculties of Art and Design, Arts, Business and Economics, Law, Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Science and the Victorian College of Pharmacy
• a Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering via the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering at the Gippsland campus.

The Faculty of Engineering is committed to providing an environment in which the brightest students and scholars can together pursue their educational and research goals at the highest international standard in the major branches of engineering and consequently contribute to the prosperity of Australia and its region of the world.

Engineering is a research-intensive faculty with 15 research centres and institutes, participation in 11 cooperative research centres, and strong links with other research organisations and cross-institutional centres, including Australia's Synchrotron, the National Stem Cell Centre, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Major areas of research activity include nano-structuring and nano-manufacturing, advanced polymers, materials characterisation, biomaterials and bioengineering, high-performance engineering alloys, rheology, particle technology, paper science and technology, reaction engineering, fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, intelligent robotics, mechatronics and automated manufacturing, railway engineering, asset performance improvement and maintenance, biomedical engineering, condition monitoring and maintenance, power electronic conversion systems, telecommunications, vision systems engineering, advanced thin-walled structures and crashworthiness, integrated urban water management, environmental geotechnics, lifetime integrity of structures, and transport management.

The faculty is a statutory body comprising all full-time members of the teaching staff. The responsibility for making decisions in the faculty lies with the faculty board, which comprises senior members of the academic staff, representatives of the full-time teaching staff, four student members (two graduate and two undergraduate), the academic adviser, representatives of other faculties and the library, the chair of the faculty's industry advisory committee and other members from outside the university representing industry and the engineering profession.

The student members to the faculty board are elected during April each year by students enrolled for the degrees taught by the faculty. Except in certain matters on which it has power to act, the faculty board makes recommendations to the Academic Board and its Education Committee or, through the Academic Board, to the University Council.

The chief officers of the faculty are the dean, the faculty academic manager and the faculty business manager. As the chief executive of the faculty, the dean provides academic leadership to the faculty, presides over meetings of the faculty board, and is part of the senior management group of the university. The academic manager is responsible for administrative matters such as implementation of university statutes, regulations and academic policy, development and management of the faculty's courses and units and all issues connected with undergraduate and postgraduate student candidatures and academic progression. The business manager is responsible for financial and physical resources planning and the marketing of the faculty's teaching, research and consultancy activities.