Faculty information

• Faculty structure and organisation
  • Faculty structure
  • Research strengths
  • Faculty organisation

Course information

• Outline of postgraduate studies
  • Courses offered in 2014

Course-related policies and rules

• Government and University legislation

Faculty structure

The 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:

• Division of Biological Engineering
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
• Department of Materials Engineering
• Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Gippsland
• School of Engineering, Malaysia.

Research strengths

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 research activity include:

• asset performance improvement and maintenance
• biomedical-engineering
• bio-process and bio-materials engineering
• chemical engineering science and design
• civil structural engineering
• clean energy technologies
• electronic, magnetic and ionic materials and properties
• electronics and communications
• engineering alloys
• fluid dynamics research
• geotechnical engineering
• intelligent robotics
• materials characterisation
• micro-nano mechanical and optical engineering
• nanomaterials
• polymer engineering
• power electronics
• railway engineering
• structural integrity and safety
• sustainable transport
• sustainable water engineering.

Faculty organisation

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), 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.

NOTE: The course details provided in in the entries below are for those students who began their studies in 2014 - students who commenced their studies prior to this date should consult the archived Handbook edition for the year in which they started their course.

Clayton

Research

• 3292 Master of Engineering Science (Research)
• 3291 Doctor of Philosophy

Coursework

Masters

• 4612 Master of Bioresource Engineering
• 3262 Master of Infrastructure Engineering and Management
• 3272 Master of Transport
• 3271 Master of Traffic

Gippsland

Coursework

Graduate Certificates

• 1764 Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management
• 1765 Graduate Certificate in Reliability Engineering

Graduate Diplomas

• 1753 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Maintenance Management

Masters

• 2319 Master of Maintenance and Reliability Engineering

Sunway

Research

• 3292 Master of Engineering Science (Research)
• 3291 Doctor of Philosophy