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Monash University Handbook 2010undergrad eng-undergrad Engineering Undergraduate Handbook 2010 - Faculty of EngineeringEngineering - Undergraduate studiesFaculty information
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Course-related policies and rulesStructure and organisation of the faculty - Faculty of EngineeringFaculty structureThe Faculty of Engineering operates on the Clayton campus in Australia and on the Sunway campus in Malaysia. It also offers an undergraduate degree in civil and environmental engineering and graduate coursework programs in maintenance and reliability engineering through the School of Applied Sciences and Engineering at the Gippsland campus. The faculty comprises the following departments and schools:
Teaching and research strengthsIn addition to undergraduate degrees in five major branches, the faculty offers:
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. The faculty's ongoing success in raising competitive research funds translates into extensive support for researchers and state-of-the-art laboratories and research infrastructure. With a large network of research centres, institutes and participation in cooperative research centres, the faculty also collaborates with research organisations, including Australia's Synchrotron, the National Stem Cell Centre, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Major areas of teaching and research activity include:
Faculty organisationThe 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), 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 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 board, to the 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. Professional recognition of courses - Faculty of EngineeringAustralian accreditationThe following courses are accredited for the purpose of admission to membership of Engineers Australia at the level of Professional Engineer:
The following course is accredited for the purpose of admission to membership of Engineers Australia at the level of Engineering Technologist:
The following courses have been granted provisional accreditation by Engineers Australia pending first graduations:
The following courses are also accredited at the professional level by the Australian Computer Society:
International accreditationThe Bachelor of Engineering courses offered at Sunway are also accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Council of Malaysia (EAC), to comply with Malaysian expectations. The EAC consists of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, Lembaga Akreditasi Negara (LAN) and Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia (JPA). Graduates of a Malaysian-accredited, or BEM internationally recognised engineering program, satisfy the minimum academic requirements for registration as a graduate engineer with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia. The Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) has accredited the following as equivalent to the MEng degree from a recognised UK university:
Credit for prior studies - Faculty of EngineeringThe Faculty of Engineering awards credit towards its degree programs for completed or incomplete tertiary studies provided that it is satisfied that the units for which credit is sought were substantially the same in content, contact hours and standard of assessment as those units from which exemption is sought. Credit will also be given to the second year of the Bachelor of Technology (Computer Studies) and the Bachelor of Technology (Infrastructure - Design, Construction and Management) for completed studies in approved TAFE institutes or equivalent courses. The onus is upon the student to provide full documentation of previous studies for which credit is sought together with an academic transcript of results. This should be in the form of handbook unit entries and those sections of the handbook setting out course structure; in some cases course outlines handed out in lectures may provide the same information. This should preferably be done with the initial application for admission or, at the latest, at the time of enrolment. The minimum information required is number of years in course, level of unit in course, unit content and textbooks, number of contact hours and laboratory sessions etc per week, credit weighting of unit (percentage of year represented by unit), and method of assessment (number and length of assignments, length of examinations etc). Maximum credit allowedIrrespective of what study applicants may have undertaken prior to admission, or may be permitted to take during their course under cross-institutional arrangements or under the 'permission to take work elsewhere' regulation, it is the policy of the faculty that a certain amount of work must be completed at Monash University. Students in an undergraduate engineering degree program must complete at least 96 points, and students in a three-year Bachelor of Technology program must complete at least 72 points at Monash. The only exception is that students transferring between degree programs offered within a single department of the faculty shall be eligible for such credit as the department may recommend. Study modes - Faculty of EngineeringFull-time and part-time enrolmentThe faculty permits both full-time and part-time enrolment. Units to the value of 24 points constitute a normal full-time enrolment in any semester. There are therefore 48 points in a normal full-time year. An over enrolment of up to a total of 30 points in a semester is permitted. Part-time enrolment is allowed, provided the student is aware of the maximum time limit for degree completion stated in the regulations for the relevant course. International students on student visas should note that they are required by Commonwealth Government legislation to be enrolled on a full-time basis in any semester. Time limit and intermissionFor most engineering single-degree programs, the time limit is eight years from initial enrolment. All engineering double-degree programs have a time limit of 10 years, except for the double-degree programs with the Faculty of Law, where the time limit is 12 years. For the two Bachelor of Technology degrees, the time limit is six years including an allowance of one year for completion of approved studies at TAFE. Where circumstances arise which oblige students to suspend their studies for a time, intermission may be sought from the faculty for one semester or one year at a time (but not more). Information about the appropriate steps to be taken is available from the faculty's administration offices on each campus. Students should remember that periods granted as intermission are counted as part of their total time limit. Duration of degreesPassWith the exception of the two Bachelor of Technology degrees, all the single undergraduate degree programs are of four years duration if taken full-time or up to eight years duration if taken part-time. The Bachelor of Technology degrees are of three years duration (two years at Monash University) if taken full-time and up to five years (at Monash) duration if taken part-time. The double-degrees are of either five or six years duration if taken full-time, with some overloading. HonoursA candidate is awarded a degree with honours for meritorious performance throughout the course in engineering programs offered by the faculty. No additional time is required. All units which have a numerical mark are considered in the determination of an honours result for single degrees, but greater weight is given to the units in the later years of the course than to those in the earlier years. The honours grade for the engineering component of a double-degree is calculated on the engineering units only. The two Bachelor of Technology degrees do not have honours. Timetables - Faculty of EngineeringAll engineering students must use Allocate+ to allocate themselves into classes for each semester. Allocate+ collects information from all students on their timetable preferences and then carries out a sorting procedure which attempts to evenly allocate students to their preferences. It does not allocate student preferences on a first-come-first-served basis. Students undertaking double-degree programs should be aware that in some circumstances due to unit selection, clashes may occur in their timetables which may prohibit the completion of their degree in the minimum time. It is the student's responsibility to ensure that their choice of units does not result in a timetable clash. Timetable clashes may also occur in instances where a student is studying units across multiple year levels and/or is studying elective units. Students affected by timetable clashes should consult their departmental course advisers. Courses offered in 2010 - Faculty of EngineeringNOTE: The course details provided in in the entries below are for those students who began their studies in 2010 - students who commenced their studies prior to this date should consult the Handbook edition for the year in which they started their course. Archived Handbooks are available at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks. ClaytonSingle degrees
Double Degrees
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