With this combined degree program students can add their choice of an Arts plan to a professionally accredited engineering plan in Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering or Naval Architecture. Thus every session of the combined degree program contains only the standard 24 Units of Credit of courses and hence the workload should not be greater than in a single degree program. Students may enter directly in Year 1 or may apply to transfer from the normal engineering program later, although with late transfer it might not be possible to complete the course in minimum time. In this case the student will have to prescribe their own engineering plan following discussion with the School. The full range of Arts plans is available.

Because the Engineering and Arts plans have common content, such as mathematics and physics, only one more year of study is required to gain the additional qualification of Bachelor of Arts.

Please contact the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering and the Faculty of Arts for information on the Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes.

Plans within this Program

Aerospace Engineering(plan AEORA13712 plan AEROA13712+ Arts plan)
Manufacturing Engineering and Management(plan MANFA13712 plan MANFA13712 + Arts plan)
Mechanical Engineering (plan MECHA13712 plan MECHA13712 + Arts plan)
Mechatronic Engineering (plan MTRNA13712 plan MTRNA13712 + Arts plan)
Naval Architecture (plan NAVLA13712 plan NAVLA13712 + Arts plan)

Eligibility

Anyone who meets the entry requirements for both Engineering and Arts is eligible for the combined program.

Rules

1. In addition to their chosen engineering plan, students must complete a major sequence approved arts plan containing at least 60 units of credit of courses.

Mathematics majors are not usually permitted. BE BSc combined degrees are more appropriate for this.

2. There will be a testamur for each part of the combined degree program.

3. Students who complete the BE program first may proceed to graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in the usual way provided they have also completed 12 Units of Credit in General Education.

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following web-page:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

Organisation
The BE BA program is administered by the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

Students should start discussing their program with representatives of the School and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as soon as possible - preferably well before enrolment. Enquiries should be directed to the Executive Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Students should work out for themselves the arts program they would like to add to their chosen engineering plan. The Arts and Social Sciences Faculty section in this Handbook describes the options, and the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering can supply sample plans showing what previous students have arranged. Although the Arts and Social Sciences Faculty section in this Handbook lists courses from the Faculties of Engineering and Science, it is not permissible for BE BA students to include these courses.

There are no special rules on what to include in each year. Students should schedule the arts and engineering components to suit their preferences while meeting the constraints of timetables and prerequisites. The sample plans can help here too.

The Arts component must be approved by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

The final program and schedule must be approved by the School.