Students may seek to undertake a five-year full-time dual degree program leading to the award of the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) (BE (Hons) BSc). The Faculty of Engineering administers the program, and delegates administration to the School which offers the Engineering discipline selected. Students should seek advice from the relevant School Office in the first instance, from the Faculty of Engineering, or from the School of Computer Science and Engineering for the Science component.

With this dual degree program, students take the 168 units of credit core of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) 3707 and the 96 units of credit core of the Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) program 3778. Because of the overlap of 24 units of credit of Science courses in both core, the total units of credit required for completion is 240 UOC, rather than 264 UOC (please see Academic Rules below for more details).

For the Engineering (Honours) component, please see Rules and the following stream pages.

For the Computer Science component, please refer to the following stream pages:

Contained in the University Handbook are typical program structures for each of the Schools within the Faculty of Engineering. The programs may be varied by students according to the rules governing electives, pre- and co-requisites and progression within each program. Subject to pre- and co-requisites and progression rules, students may take courses at any time during the program; it is the responsibility of each student to ensure that the rules governing award of the degrees have been met and that the program of study in each session of enrolment is feasible with regards to progression and timetabling.

Please see example program structure on School websites.

Honours in Engineering

Award of Class of Honours

Class 1: WAM of at least 80 and Thesis Mark of at least 65
Class 2 Division 1: WAM of at least 75 and Thesis Mark of at least 65
Class 2 Division 2: WAM of at least 65 and Thesis Mark of at least 65

(NOTE: First attempt counts. Honours WAM to be calculated to one decimal place.)

Honours in Science

Students undertaking the Bachelor of Science in Dual Award mode may apply to complete an additional year (48 UoC) of study for the award of Honours. For details of Honours please see Bachelor of Science (Honours) Program 4515

Requirements for the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in dual degree mode with the Bachelor of Science

To obtain the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), when taken with the Bachelor of Science, a student must successfully complete courses that total at least 264 units of credit and include courses making up at least 168 units of credit described in the stream requirements for the BE (Hons) specialisation for which the student is enrolled. Students must also complete 60 days of Industrial Training.

Students may not count more than 60 units of credit of level 1 courses in the168 units of credit required for the Engineering (Honours) component.

Progression

To ensure that all students who complete the Engineering component attain the honours level learning outcomes of the program, the progression rules for the program are as follows:

Substitution

COMP1917 - students are advised to undertake this in the BE (Hons)). An additional 6 UoC maths is counted towards both awards - students who do not do MATH1081 in their BE (Hons) can substitute one of their 6 UoC second years maths courses for MATH1081.

Students may substitute up to 12 UOC of Advanced Disciplinary courses (Level 5) in place of Disciplinary Knowledge courses from a school specified stream list of courses with the approval of the Program or Stream Authority.

Requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) in dual degree mode are as follows:

Students must complete one of the COMP major streams listed in the specialisation section.

Notes:

Programs of study

The programs of study which may be taken for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) are governed by the normal rules for award of the BE (Hons) and BSc in the Faculty of Engineering, which specify:

(i) units of credit;
(ii) corequisites, prerequisites, assumed knowledge;
(iii) the structure of the degree program; and
(iv) any special conditions.

Award of the degrees

A candidate for the award of the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) or Bachelor of Science as part of a dual degree program shall not be eligible to be awarded either degree until he or she has completed both degree requirements.

A student who completes the requirements for both the BE (Hons) and BSc degrees shall receive at graduation a separate testamur for each of the degrees.

A student may apply to discontinue the dual degree BE (Hons) BSc (Computer Science) programs and elect to complete either the BE (Hons) or BSc (Computer Science) degree in accordance with the rules governing award of that degree. Following discontinuation of one of the programs (BE (Hons) or BSc), courses which count toward that program may not in general count toward the remaining single degree unless they meet the single degree requirements in their own right. In particular, the General Education requirements of the single degree must be met in full.

Administration of the programs

(i) A student's general program will be administered by the Faculty of Engineering and delegated to administration by the School governing the engineering specialisation.
(ii) Students' programs will be administered by the School of Computer Science and Engineering for the BSc component of the program and by of the Faculty of Engineering for the BE part of the program.
(iii) The Faculty of Engineering and The School of Computer Science and Engineering shall jointly exercise authority in any matter concerning the dual degree programs not otherwise covered by these rules.

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