Current students

Engineering Faculty Handbook: The Engineering Faculty Handbook contains all the rules and regulations of our degrees.

Changing Your Enrolment: At the beginning of semester many students wish to change their enrolment.

Please be patient and expect some delay if you are planning to see the Undergraduate Student Administrative Advisor re change of enrolment due to the large volume of student enquiries.

You can speed up the process and avoid waiting yourself by doing the following before seeing Cynthia Papangelis in person concerning any change of enrolment:

* Please try to make any change of enrolment yourself via the internet using MyUni. Most enrolment changes can be done in this way.I

* If MyUni does not let you make the required changes, please send an email to Undergraduate Student Administrative Advisor clearly stating your name and student number, and what enrolment changes you need. Provided these changes are acceptable, the advisor can do this, and will send you a confirmation email.

* In tricky cases, you may need to see theUndergraduate Student Administrative Advisor in person. Please bring along any relevant information, and have thought about what units of study you want to do.

Following this procedure will make changes of enrolment quicker and reduce waiting times for all students.

Please note that at all times students have the responsibility to ensure that they are enrolled in the appropriate units of study.

Enrolment

Enrolment Procedures and Advice

The school has produced guidelines to help students make their unit of study choices.

The recommended enrolment tables (PDF - 783 kB). outline the recommended enrolment sequence for all students - Civil, Civil Streams (Structural, Geotechnical, Construction, Environmental), Project Engineering & Management, and Combined Degrees with Science, Arts, Commerce and Law

Enrolment Restrictions & Failing a Unit of Study

There are certain Faculty rules that must be followed when considering your enrolment. You should check the rules as set out in the Engineering Faculty handbook.

Two key resolutions relating are Resolutions 10.2 and 14.3. In simple English those rules state that if you failed a core unit of study last year you must enrol in it this year, or where you have a clash the earlier year subject must take precedence. Also, students are not generally permitted to enrol in later year subjects unless they have done all the previous cores (eg a 2nd year is not permitted to attempt 3rd or 4th year subjects).

If a student is deliberately not attempting failed core units then this may considered as being on par with successive failures and may result in being asked to show cause why the student should not be excluded. Please visit our students at risk page for more information.

Students should be aware that a consequence of failure may be that they will not graduate in eight semesters. The usual enrolment for students is 24 credit points per semester. Special permission is required for students to enrol in more than 30 credit points in a semester and/or a total of 54 credit points in a year. It is recommended that only students with a good academic record attempt more the 24 credit points in a semester, and permission for high enrolments (more than 30 credit points) will only be given to students who have demonstrated academic merit over the past year.

Timetable clashes

At the start of semester some of you may find you have timetable clashes. These can occur where you are taking units across different years. We have removed formal prerequisites to allow enrolments of this type, however, it is your responsibility to ensure that any clash is manageable. We strongly recommend against you enrolling in more than 24 credit points in the semester or in a program with clashes without first seeking the advice of your academic advisor. Advisors will normally only recommend high loads or clashes for students with a good academic record.

If a clash occurs between a lecture in one subject and a tutorial in another it may be possible to rearrange tutorial times and you should approach the course coordinator of the subject with the tutorial. If you have any other concerns about clashes you should speak to your year advisor.

Visit the timetable unit site to see approximate timetables of each unit of study to assist students when assessing clashes.

Electives

Please visit the electives information page.

Changing Streams

Enrolment into streams, or transfer between streams, can occur either at entry to the University or by application, at the end of year 1,2 or 3 of your candidature (transfer must be requested before commencing your final year), if you meet the following requirements:
1. Your UAI is greater than or equal to the UAI required for entry into that stream in the year you first enrolled at the University
2. Your WAM (weighted average mark) is >65 for the previous two semesters.
3. Please contact the Undergraduate Student Administrative Advisor if you wish to change streams.

Thesis

Thesis is a core requirement for all students. It is generally taken in the last year of study and a prerequiste is successful completion of 30 credit points of 3rd year units of study. Thesis 1 and Thesis 2 must be taken in 2 consecutive semesters. There are two options:

1: (Preferred option). Thesis 1 is taken in Semester 1 and Thesis 2 is taken in Semester 2.

2. In some cases, it is possible to take Thesis 1 in Semester 2 and Thesis 2 in Semester 1. With this arrangement supervision will generally not be available over the summer break, and only a limited choice of topics will be provided. Special permission is required from the thesis co-ordinator (A/Prof Stuart Reid and the School Director of Learning and Teaching A/Prof David Airey). Note that generally permission is not given to do thesis individually - it should be done in groups of 2 or 3 students.

For students who anticipate finishing their degree in Semester 1 of a given year, it is strongly recommended that they take Thesis in the preceding year (option 1 above) and complete outstanding core/elective units of study in the final semester.

Permission to complete Thesis 1 and Thesis 2 in a single semester will only be given in the case of exceptional and unforeseen reasons.

Civil Engineering