BH087 - Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology)

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Plan: BH087SCBDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology)
Campus: City Campus

Program delivery and structure

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

Approach to learning and assessment

Several courses in the program are delivered online, rather than on-campus, and you are likely to find that other courses transition to online delivery as you progress through the program.

You will experience a wide range of learning environments – lectures, tutorials, industry visits, field work, online delivery and individual and group work. Of particular importance will be the high proportion of time spent doing group work, in the laboratory and undertaking project work, which will give practical emphasis, a reinforcement of OHS principles, develop teamwork and time-management skills, and provide context for your learning.

Formative assessment
In-class discussions, revision problems, and past exam papers are available for you to gauge your understanding of the lecture material.

Summative assessment
You will be assessed using a variety of methods, as appropriate to the material being taught and the skills being acquired. Exams, assignments, oral and written presentations, laboratory reports and project reports will all be used as part of, and as a measure of, your learning.
Reports produced by you in both the science and chemical engineering courses will provide an extensive portfolio of material for you to show to prospective employers.

If you have a long term medical condition, disability and/or other form of disadvantage it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

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): https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/enrolment/apply-for-credit

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Work integrated learning

RMIT is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with workplace experience.  Work Integrated Learning will be undertaken in many courses in your program. As a student enrolled in this RMIT 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 and receive feedback through assessment tasks; and
  • complete these activities in real or simulated work contexts or situations.

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

Biotechnology:

All Biological Sciences students undertake the core course ONPS2186 Science Project 1 in final year, where you will either undertake work placement in industry or an industry-suggested project in a simulated work environment and industry is involved both in suggesting problems for projects and in providing advice on assessment and feedback.

Engineering: 

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.

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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 Nine (9) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice 12 OENG1166 City Campus
Engineering Science 12 OENG1208 City Campus
Introduction to Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics 12 BIOL2256 City Campus
BIOL2257 Bundoora Campus
Engineering Mathematics 12 MATH2393 City Campus
Chemistry of Materials 1 12 CHEM1030 City Campus
Chemistry of Materials 2 12 CHEM1031 City Campus
Creative Engineering CAD 12 OENG1204 City Campus
Introduction to Chemical Engineering 12 PROC2128 City Campus
Cell Biology and Biochemistry 12 BIOL1159 Bundoora Campus
BIOL2146 City Campus
 
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Year Two of Program

Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Numerical Methods/Statistics for Engineers 12 MATH2114 City Campus
Microbiology 12 BIOL2158 City Campus
BIOL2159 Bundoora Campus
Digital Fundamentals 12 OENG1206 City Campus
Chemical Engineering Fundamentals 12 PROC2077 City Campus
Process Principles 12 PROC2078 City Campus
Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 BIOL2262 City Campus
BIOL2263 Bundoora Campus
Biological Chemistry 12 BIOL2260 City Campus
Food Microbiology 12 ONPS2113 City Campus
ONPS2114 Bundoora Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
 
AND

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Year Three of Program

Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Heat and Mass Transfer 12 PROC2082 City Campus
Reaction Engineering 12 PROC2083 City Campus
Process Thermodynamics 12 PROC2080 City Campus
Fluid Flow and Particle Mechanics 12 PROC2079 City Campus
Functional Genomics and Proteomics 12 BIOL2267 Bundoora Campus
Bioinformatics 12 BIOL2254 City Campus
Immunology 12 ONPS2388 Bundoora Campus
Protein Technologies 12 BIOL2412 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) of the following Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Gene Technologies 12 BIOL2032 City Campus
BIOL2184 Bundoora Campus
Environmental Biotechnology 12 BIOL2324 City Campus
 
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Year Four of Program

Complete the following Seven (7) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Transfer Processes 12 PROC2085 City Campus
Process Plant Design and Economics 12 PROC2089 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
Engineering Experimental Investigations 12 PROC2084 City Campus
Environmental and Hazard Analysis 12 PROC2086 City Campus
AND
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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Year Five of Program

Complete the following Six (6) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Industrial Biotechnology 12 ONPS2115 City Campus
ONPS2116 Bundoora Campus
Applied Science Project 12 ONPS2186 City 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
Chemical Engineering Design Project 1 12 PROC2126 City Campus
Chemical Engineering Design Project 2 12 PROC2127 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) of the following Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Ecotoxicology 12 BIOL2162 City Campus
Ecology 12 ENVI1009 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) of the following Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Cell and Tissue Culture 12 BIOL2264 City Campus
Environmental Biotechnology 12 BIOL2324 City Campus
 

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Program transition plan

Very Important: This program is being phased out. 

BH087 has been discontinued and will no longer accept new students from 2021. The program will be taught out to current students until semester 2, 2026. If you are unable to complete your program by the end of 2026, you may consider transferring to one of the single degree offerings linked to BH087:

  1. BP226 Bachelor of Biotechnology; or
  2. BH079 Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours)

For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Dr Danilla Grando.

Transition Plan 2021

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

Prior to 2021 Credit Points Replacement Courses Credit Points

PROC2076 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design

MATH2128 Engineering Mathematics B

MATH2129 Mathematics and Statics

MATH1122 Mathematics for Engineers 

PROC2087 Chemical Engineering Specialisation

12 CP each

OENG1208 Engineering Science

OENG1206 Digital Fundamentals

MATH2393 Engineering Mathematics

OENG1204 Creative Engineering CAD

PROC2128 Introduction to Chemical Engineering 

12 CP each

The following courses have been moved or removed within the program. If you have successfully completed any of the courses before the commencement of Semester 1 2021 they will continue to count as a course in your program and contribute towards the successful completion of your program:

Courses moved

  • PROC2077 Chemical Engineering Fundamentals (year two)
  • PROC2078 Process Principles (year two)
  • ONPS2113 Food Microbiology (year two)
  • PROC2082 Heat and Mass Transfer (year three)
  • PROC2079 Fluid Flow and Particle Mechanics (year three)
  • PROC2080 Process Thermodynamics (year three)
  • PROC2083 Reaction Engineering (year three)
  • PROC2121 Chemical Engineering Computer Design (year four)
  • ONPS2116 Industrial Microbiology (year five) 

Option courses removed

  • OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience
  • OENG1164 Humanitarian Experiential Learning Project

Students who require enrolment advice should contact their program manager

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2019 Transition Plan

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

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