BH085 - Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Business (Management)

Plan: BH085CEHDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering)(Honours) /Bachelor of Business (Management)
Campus: City Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

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Approach to learning and assessment

In the engineering part of the program, project-based learning is the dominant teaching paradigm, focused in a spine of Engineering Design courses in each semester of the program. Sustainability concepts provide an essential aspect of the framework for decision making in this new program. You will develop your graduate capabilities through successively more complex projects across the breadth of industry sectors within chemical engineering, including waste water treatment, biotechnology, polymer production, minerals processing, and oil and gas processing. These projects will include all aspects of project design, i.e. the technical, environmental, social and sustainability aspects.

In the business part of the program, a range of teaching approaches will be used in addition to lectures to help you in developing your knowledge and generic capabilities. You will be expected to take responsibility for your own learning in a mature and independent way. You will also be encouraged to develop flexible and independent learning techniques and apply theory to solve business problems. The teaching approaches include: 

• Case-based learning, which engages you in critical thinking and decision making about realistic problems in a business discipline
• Project based learning, which engages you in design, problem solving, decision making, and investigative activities
• Problem-based learning, which engages you in problem analysis, research and provision of solutions
• Cooperative learning, which enables you to work in collaborative or team-based tasks
• Reflective learning, which allows you to reflect on your learning experiences

Class presentations, group assignments are used extensively in the program to develop personal qualities including clear thinking and resourcefulness and to extend your professional skills to enable you to work in a team and perform under pressure. 

Assessments in the program are designed to give you the opportunity to demonstrate your capabilities. You will find that various forms of assessment will be used throughout the program depending on the objectives and desired learning outcomes for each course. Assessment in this program may include:

• Formal examinations: which provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate your understanding  of fundamental principles to either practical or theoretical issues;
• Assignments and projects: may be completed individually or in teams. They will provide you with opportunities to develop your abilities in communication, research and analysis, and problem solving;
• Research projects: which assess your ability to assimilate, analyse, critically reflect on information, and your written communication skills;
• In-class tests: which provide you with timely feedback on your understanding within a course and allow feedback to assist you in further developing your skills and capabilities during the semester;
• Formal presentations: enable the development of verbal communication skills and organisational abilities;
• Portfolio: which enables you to report and reflect what you have learnt and to keep collection of a range of models, examples, articles and websites that you will take forward as a resource in your professional life;
• Design project: which assess your ability to integrate, apply, analyse the technical information and communicate through written reports. 

The Year Themes
Year themes are used to focus the attention of staff and students on the different aims of and aspects in each of the five years of the program:

Year 1: developing commitment in each student
In first year, the aim is to assist you make the transition to a university-style of education, and to start the process of making you think like engineers. At the end of the year, you should be able to confidently describe the role of chemical engineers in industry, and the skills needed to be successful in such a role, and have a commitment to become such an engineer. Introductory business courses delivered in this year will help you to understand and appreciate the business perspectives to the process industry. 

Year 2: the core technical concepts
This is the year in which you will learn the main conceptual ideas in chemical engineering, where the “core content” is taught. The emphasis is on conceptual understanding and quantification to a level appropriate to the task. Mathematical and scientific rigour is important, but no more so than practical application. Business courses included in this year help to introduce important concepts in marketing, accounting and organisational behaviour.

Year 3: the core business concepts
This year focuses mainly on developing your understanding of more core business concepts such as economics, law and leadership. Technical skill development is achieved by extending the concepts and skills introduced in years 1 and 2.

Year 4: extension and application
This year will extend your knowledge of some core materials in engineering to relate to processes rather than principles i.e. industry connections become much more explicit. Some options will be available to allow you to specialise in a particular field of chemical engineering. At the end of this year, you should have sufficient skills and confidence to perform as a junior engineer in a plant, eg through vacation work. Options will also be available to specialise in various business majors such as accounting, marketing, international management and logistics management.

Year 5: preparing for the workforce
In the first semester of fifth year, you can choose to be based in the workforce, doing engineering tasks under the guidance of both an industry person and an academic. You will, at the same time, maintain some studies. The major team-based design project will take place, and the emphasis will be on providing enhanced courses that build on streams developed in the earlier years. Further opportunities will be available to specialise in various business majors mentioned above.

Please note that if you have a disability, long-term medical condition and/ or mental health condition ELS can support you to create reasonable adjustments to ensure you can participate in your studies. You can contact the Equitable Learning Services (ELS) unit if you would like to find out more. Information about ELS can be found at: www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-services/equitable-learning

If you have already developed areas of skill and knowledge included in this program (for example, through prior studies or work experience), you can apply for credit once you have enrolled in this program. There is information on the RMIT University website about how to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit/he.

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Work integrated learning

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:

• undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
• interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
• complete these activities in real work contexts or situations; and
• these interactions and the work context provide a distinctive source of feedback to you to assist your learning.

Any or all of these aspects of a WIL capstone experience may be in a simulated workplace environment.

The following two 12 CP core course include WIL activities where 50% or more of the assessment involves assessors from a WIL partner organisation:

• OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice where you will participate in an "Engineers Without Borders (EWB)" project which is focussed on sustainable development as identified by EWB and community organisations. 
• OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B where you will work under the guidance of a professional engineer who may be from industry or be an academic or research staff member. You will apply your technical knowledge, research, design and professional engineering skills to either discipline specific, or cross disciplinary engineering problems, through robust research and established engineering design processes. 

In addition to these courses you are strongly recommended to undertake at least 10 weeks of engineering work experience supervised by a professional engineer. If your work experience meets the requirements it may be assessed concurrently with your work experience as part of courses such as 

• OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience

You can enrol in OENG1165 while you are undertaking engineering work experience at any time during your program as a University elective course or you can enrol in it as a technical option course in some programs in your final year.

The designated Work Integrated Learning (WIL) courses as part of the Bachelor of Business Management program in this program are BUSM3125 Strategy (12 credit points) and BUSM4177 Leadership (12 credit points). These courses will provide you with opportunities to apply your academic skills to a work-based context. 

In particular, you will:

• undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice; and
• be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that includes industry feedback.

These learning opportunities may be in the form of industry-based projects, simulations or placements.

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Program Structure

For students who commence their study in this program from 1 January 2016 onwards, please note that some courses listed in this structure will have their course marks count toward your program's weighted average mark. Your weighted average mark will determine the honours level of your award once you have completed the program. If a course counts toward your weighted average mark, that fact will be stated in its course guide. In Enrolment Online, after you completed your course enrolment, you will be notified which of the enrolled courses will count toward the weighted average mark.
For more information about the weighted average mark, please click here. To graduate you must complete the following: All courses listed may not be available each semester.
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Year One of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice 12 OENG1166 City Campus Engineering Science 12 OENG1208 City Campus Accounting in Organisations and Society 12 ACCT1044 East Gippsland TAFE Bairnsdale ACCT1046 City Campus ACCT2061 Bundoora Campus ACCT2282 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Engineering Mathematics 12 MATH2393 City Campus Creative Engineering CAD 12 OENG1204 City Campus Introduction to Chemical Engineering 12 PROC2128 City Campus Digital Fundamentals 12 OENG1206 City Campus Introduction to Management 12 BUSM4176 City Campus BUSM4400 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
AND
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Nine (9) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Numerical Methods/Statistics for Engineers 12 MATH2114 City Campus Engineering Chemistry 12 PROC2129 City Campus Fluid Flow and Particle Mechanics 12 PROC2079 City Campus Marketing Principles 12 MKTG1025 City Campus MKTG1337 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Macroeconomics 1 12 ECON1010 City Campus ECON1293 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Chemical Engineering Fundamentals 12 PROC2077 City Campus Heat and Mass Transfer 12 PROC2082 City Campus Process Principles 12 PROC2078 City Campus Prices and Markets 12 ECON1020 City Campus ECON1297 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
AND
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Process Thermodynamics 12 PROC2080 City Campus Reaction Engineering 12 PROC2083 City Campus Business Law 12 LAW2442 City Campus LAW2501 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Work, Health, Safety & Wellbeing 12 BUSM2708 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam BUSM3122 City Campus Organisations 12 BUSM1094 City Campus BUSM4454 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Professional Values, Ethics & Attitudes 12 ACCT1081 City Campus Work in Global Society 12 BUSM4558 City Campus BUSM4669 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Leadership 12 BUSM4177 City Campus BUSM4479 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
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Year Four of Program
Complete the following Nine (9) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Transfer Processes 12 PROC2085 City Campus Process Plant Design and Economics 12 PROC2089 City Campus Environmental and Hazard Analysis 12 PROC2086 City Campus Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems 12 BUSM4583 City Campus Chemical Engineering Computer Design 12 PROC2121 City Campus Process Systems Design 12 PROC2088 City Campus Process Control and Simulation 12 PROC2090 City Campus Strategy 12 BUSM3125 City Campus BUSM4386 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Engineering Experimental Investigations 12 PROC2084 City Campus
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Year Five of Program
Complete the following Six (6) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Engineering Capstone Project Part A 12 OENG1167 City Campus OENG1180 Bundoora Campus OENG1224 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Engineering Capstone Project Part B 12 OENG1168 City Campus OENG1179 Bundoora Campus OENG1231 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Organisational Experience 12 BUSM4546 City Campus BUSM4705 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Innovation Management 12 BUSM4550 City Campus BUSM4704 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Chemical Engineering Design Project 1 12 PROC2126 City Campus Chemical Engineering Design Project 2 12 PROC2127 City Campus
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Select and Complete One (1) of the following Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Advanced Chemical Engineering Specialisation 1 12 PROC2093 City Campus Environmental Engineering 12 PROC2094 City Campus Polymer Engineering 12 PROC2095 City Campus
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Select and Complete One (1) of the following Business Option Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Employment Relations 12 BUSM1080 City Campus BUSM2698 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam International Human Resources Management 12 BUSM2449 City Campus BUSM4492 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Negotiation and Conflict Resolution 12 BUSM1074 City Campus Issues in International Business 12 BUSM4178 City Campus BUSM4456 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Culture and Business Practice in Asia 12 SOCU1016 City Campus SOCU2274 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Applied Entrepreneurship 12 BUSM4052 City Campus BUSM4455 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Driving Innovation in Organisations 12 BUSM1321 City Campus BUSM4469 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Entrepreneurship and Global Challenges 12 BUSM4054 City Campus BUSM4540 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management 12 OMGT1082 City Campus OMGT2341 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Financial Accounting and Analysis 12 ACCT2033 City Campus ACCT2220 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Managerial Advisory Finance 12 ACCT1060 City Campus ACCT2219 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Company and Finance Law 12 LAW2450 City Campus LAW2507 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Financial Markets and Institutions 12 BAFI1002 City Campus BAFI3216 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Corporate Finance 12 BAFI1008 City Campus BAFI3217 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam International Monetary Economics 12 ECON1082 City Campus ECON1566 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Internet for Business 12 ISYS2061 City Campus ISYS3346 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Business IT Infrastructure 12 INTE2043 City Campus Human Resource Development 12 BUSM1137 City Campus People Analytics 12 BUSM1228 City Campus Entrepreneurial Finance 12 BUSM1313 City Campus Family Business and Entrepreneurship 12 BUSM4053 City Campus BUSM4381 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Global Political Economy 12 SOCU2112 City Campus SOCU2275 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam Intelligent Enterprise Systems 12 ISYS2425 City Campus
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Program transition plan

Very Important: This plan is being phased out

BH085CEHDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours) / Bachelor of Business (Management) plan has been discontinued and will no longer accept new students after Semester 2 2022. The plan will be taught out to current students until semester 2, 2028. If you are unable to complete your program by the end of 2028, you may consider applying to other programs within RMIT subject to entrance requirements. You may also consider applying to one of the new single degree offerings:

• BH079P23 Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours); or
• BP343 Bachelor of Business

If you commenced the program before Semester 1 2022, please refer to the following transition rules:

• BUSM3115 Ethics and Governance has been replaced with ACCT1081 Professional Values, Ethics & Attitudes.
• BUSM4554 Contemporary Management: Issues and Challenges has been replaced with BUSM4583 Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems.
• If you have completed LAW2442 Commercial Law, you do not need to complete LAW2442 Business Law, as this is a course title change only.
• If you have completed BUSM1094 Organisational Analysis, you do not need to complete BUSM1094 Organisations, as this is a course title change only.
• If you have completed BUSM4177 Leadership and Decision Making, you do not need to complete BUSM4177 Leadership, as this is a course title change only.
• If you have completed BUSM3125 Strategic Management, you do not need to complete BUSM3125 Strategy, as this is a course title change only.
• If you have completed BUSM4550 Creativity, Innovation and Design, you do not need to complete BUSM4550 Innovation Management, as this is a course title change only.
• If you have completed BUSM4546 Management in Practice, you do not need to complete BUSM4546 Organisational Experience, as this is a course title change only.

For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Nevena Todorova (nevena.todorova@rmit.edu.au).

Transition Plan 2021

The following table shows courses that will be replaced/ amended from Semester 1 2021 as part of a program transition. If you have successfully completed any of the old courses before the commencement of Semester 1 2021 it will continue to count as a core course in your program and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.

Old Course	Credit Points	Replacement/Amended Course/s	Credit Points
CHEM1030 Chemistry of Materials 1 CHEM1031 Chemistry of Materials 2 MATH1122 Engineering Mathematics B PROC2076 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design MATH2129 Mathematics and Statics	12 CP each	OENG1208 Engineering Science OENG1206 Digital Fun- damentals MATH2393 Engineering Mathematics OENG1204 Creative Engineering CAD PROC2129 Engineering Chemistry	12 CP each

Transition Plan 2019

The following table shows courses that will be replaced/ amended from Semester 1 2019 as part of a program transition. If you have successfully completed any of the old courses before the commencement of Semester 1 2019 it will continue to count as a core course in your program and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.

Year	Old course	Credit points	Year	Replacement / amended course	Credit points
4	OENG1167 Engineering Capstone Project Part A	12	4	PROC2126 Chemical Engineering Design Project 1	12
4	OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B	12	4	PROC2127 Chemical Engineering Design Project 2	12
4	PROC2122 Research Project	12	4	OENG1167 Engineering Capstone Project Part A	12
4	PROC2120 Research Project (Advanced level)	12	4	OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B	12

Transition Plan 2018

The following table shows courses that will be replaced/ amended from Semester 1 2018 as part of a program transition. If you have successfully completed any of the old courses before the commencement of Semester 1 2018 it will continue to count as a core course in your program and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.

Year	Old course	Credit Points	Year	Replacement / amended course/s	Credit Points
1	CIVE1185 Engineering Practice 1 (Skills for Engineering)	12	1	OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice	12
4	BUSM4550 Creativity, Innovation and Design^	12	5	BUSM4550 Creativity, Innovation and Design	12
5	PROC2114 Research Project	24	5	PROC2122 Research Project and one 12 credit point final year option course from your Program structure	2x12
5	PROC1025 Design Project	24	5	OENG1167 Engineering Capstone Project Part A and OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B	2x12
5	PROC2091 Process System Integration	12	4	PROC2121 Chemical Engineering Computer Design	12

^Students who have successfully completed BUSM4550  before Semester 1 2018 can either undertake the new course PROC2121 Chemical Engineering Computer Design OR select an extra final year Engineering option course from their Program structure.

-Before 2018, PROC2114 (24cp) Research Project incorporated 12 credit points of compulsory WIL work experience.

From 2018, PROC2114 (24cp) Research Project (24cp) will be replaced by PROC2122 (12cp) and you may take the Option course OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience or any other option course in your final year program structure.

Program Amendment 2017

Amendments as outlined in the table below will be implemented in stages from Semester 1 2017 for all students.

All credits gained prior to these amendments will count towards the amended program plan.

The following table advises students who have failed an old course as to the substitute course they should complete.

Old course(s) no longer offered from Sem 1, 2017	Credit points	Substitute course	Credit points
BUSM1222 International Business	12	BUSM4558 Work in Global Society	12
BUSM3123 Organisational Theory	12	BUSM4546 Management in Practice	12
BUSM3119 Human Resource Management	12	BUSM4554 Contemporary Management: Issues and Challenges	12
BUSM1311 The Entrepreneurial Process	12	BUSM4550 Creativity Innovation and Design	12
Course no longer offered from Sem 2, 2017	Credit points	Substitute course	Credit points
BUSM1094 Organisational Behaviour	12	BUSM1094 Organisational Analysis	12
BUSM4177 Leading for Change	12	BUSM4177 Leadership and Decision Making	12

For any enrolment or transition advice regarding these changes, you should contact the College of Business.

Program Amendment 2014

If you have completed PROC2092 Research Project in 2014 or earlier you will need to undertake one additional University elective. This is required for you to graduate with the correct number of credit points.

Final Year	Old course/s no longer offered	Credit Points	New or amended course	Credit Points
Semester 1	PROC2092 Research Project	12	PROC2114 Research Project	24
	PROC2093 Advanced Chemical Engineering Specialisation 1	12	as above*	as above*

* The new 24 credit point course PROC2114 Research Project replaces two previous 12 credit point courses.

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