E3011 - Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Information Technology

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Overview

In an age of increasing technological advancements, the synergy between engineering and information technology will only become stronger. IT underpins engineering practice in all disciplines and industry needs graduates with skills and expertise spanning both. In this double degree course, you will acquire creative and problem-solving skills to use IT … For more content click the Read More button below. Depending on the chosen IT major, you could: use your technical skills from software development to create controllers, simulations and visualisations for anything from manufacturing to energy usage or medical devices apply your creative skills and design flair from multimedia to create a great app for controlling a 'smart house' use your practical understanding of business information systems to launch an online business in engineering services or products put your networks and security skills to work setting up the IT infrastructure and software needed for remote sensing or transportation monitoring.

In this double degree course, you will acquire creative and problem-solving skills to use IT in engineering applications. This could be anything from designing a stunning visualisation of engineering data to building an app for data collection to setting up the business IT processes to deliver an engineering product via the internet.

Depending on the chosen IT major, you could:

use your technical skills from software development to create controllers, simulations and visualisations for anything from manufacturing to energy usage or medical devices
apply your creative skills and design flair from multimedia to create a great app for controlling a 'smart house'
use your practical understanding of business information systems to launch an online business in engineering services or products
put your networks and security skills to work setting up the IT infrastructure and software needed for remote sensing or transportation monitoring.

Notes

You can enrich your degree to hone your academic and professional skills with a range of flagship rich educational experiences. These flagship rich educational experience units may be credited in place of your general electives in your first or second year if you have space.*

*If you are enrolled in a double degree there may be space available in the non-engineering side of your double degree to undertake flagship rich educational experiences. For information on eligible double degree combinations please see Flagship Rich Educational Experiences.

Mode and location

On campus

Learning outcomes

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework and Monash Graduate Attributes.

Students in the double degree course achieve the Course Learning Outcomes of the two partner courses.

Professional recognition

Refer to the Course description for each partner course.

Structure

Double degree courses include the features of the component degree courses, except that electives may be reduced.

Engineering

E3001 Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) is a specialist course that develops through four themes that combine to underpin engineering practice: fundamentals and foundational skills; design, knowledge and applications; and professional practice.

Part A. Engineering fundamentals and foundational skills

These units will develop your understanding of natural and physical sciences, mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer and information sciences that underpin all engineering disciplines. If you have not completed the Australian VCE (Units 3 & 4) or equivalent Specialist mathematics and/or Physics with the required study score you will be asked to enrol in the foundation units ENG1090 and/or PHS1001.

Part B. Engineering design

These units will develop the engineering techniques, tools and resources for the conduct, design and management of engineering design processes and projects, both in the industrial setting and in the development of research experiments.

Part C. Engineering knowledge and application

These units will provide in-depth knowledge of the specific engineering methods of a branch of engineering and will integrate the specific engineering methods and discipline knowledge into practice. You will develop skills to identify and apply knowledge of contextual factors impacting the engineering discipline. Additionally, your studies will focus on your understanding and application of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary engineering practice in your discipline.

Part D. Professional practice

These units will develop your skills in readiness for the engineering workplace. You will develop skills in effective team membership and team leadership, the use and management of commercially relevant data, and the legal responsibilities of engineers. This study will integrate the theme 'Engineering knowledge and application' with your specialist field of engineering.

Information Technology

C2000 Bachelor of Information Technology is a comprehensive course, structured into three equal parts. In the double degree course you complete:

Part A. Information technology specified study

This will provide you with foundation skills and knowledge for your IT education and ensure a breadth of understanding of IT and its applications in organisations and society.

Part B. Information technology listed major

Only the computer networks and security major is available in this double degree.

Course progression map

The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

Requirements
240 credit points

Engineering component144 credit points

You must complete 144 credit points from the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree comprising all of Parts A and B, 108 credit points of your specialisation core units from Parts C and D and one First year engineering technical elective from Part E if you are not required to undertake any foundation units from Part A as described in the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree.
Please note that you will need to overload by one unit and increase the double degree's total credit points by 6 points if you have to complete both foundation units.

E3001

192 CP

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

Engineering specialisations108 credit points

Information Technology component96 credit points

Alternative exit(s)

You may be eligible to exit the double degree program and graduate with either a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (E3001) named degree or a Bachelor of Information Technology (C2000) degree after four or three years, depending on the units studied.

If you wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (E3001) named degree prior to the completion of the double degree, you must have completed at least 192 credit points of studies, of which 168 credit points must be engineering study including all of the requirements in Parts A, B, C and D; plus 6 credit points of first year engineering technical elective and 24 credit points of elective units from Part E (Elective study - Specialisation) at level 3, 4 or 5 for your particular engineering specialisation in the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (E3001) degree.

If you wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Information Technology (C2000) prior to the completion of the double degree, you must have completed at least 144 credit points of studies, including all of the requirements in Part A and B for the Bachelor of Information Technology (C2000) degree.

Progression to further studies

Refer to the Course description for each partner course.

Additional information

Special requirements

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours): Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

CPD is a compulsory requirement for all Engineering students. You must complete 420 hours of continuous professional development in order to graduate with the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) qualification. It is a collection of all work including volunteer, personal and professional practice experiences outside the classroom which may be in the form of 12 weeks of relevant vacation employment or an equivalent combination of approved professional development and/or engineering employment taken throughout the duration of the course. You must submit a series of reflections on your experience with particular reference to the development of each of the key Engineers Australia Stage 1 competencies. Further information is available on the CPD website.

Other course costs

ENGINEERING BYOD

You are strongly advised to purchase a PC laptop for your Engineering study. Apple Mac is not suitable or recommended as some software required for your study is compatible only with PC.

Minimum PC requirements:

15.6" screen
i7 processor
16GB RAM (32GB recommended)
512GB SSD (1TB SSD recommended due to the various large engineering programs)
Dedicated graphics processor (Eg Intel Iris Xe, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, NVIDIA GeForce RTX3050Ti. Integrated graphics processors, such as Intel UHD Graphics, are NOT recommended).
Inbuilt camera and mic (Headset with boom mic recommended)

OTHER ENGINEERING STUDY-ASSOCIATED COSTS

Some items are mandatory for practical aspects of your study and should be purchased if required at your own cost as you will be reusing them throughout your course.