BH090 - Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology)

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Plan: BH090MEHDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical 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.

The double degree program structure has been designed to enable you to build a solid foundation and subsequent strength in engineering whilst being progressively introduced to biotechnology. Throughout the program the program learning outcomes will be developed to greater breadth and depth.

You will experience a wide range of learning environments - lectures, seminars, tutorials, online delivery, workshops, practical and laboratory sessions and site visits and field work. Activities will include both individual and group work. You are expected to be responsible for the completion of all out-of-class learning activities which may require extra reading of both library and online materials. Lectures, tutorials and seminars are used extensively in the program to communicate both technical knowledge and broader professional ideas about the role of Engineering and Biotechnology in society. A high proportion of time will be spent in the laboratory and undertaking project and field work. The emphasis will be on developing practical skills and capabilities, teamwork and time-management skills.

Assessments are designed to give you the opportunity to demonstrate your capabilities, and to give teaching staff the opportunity to provide you with feedback where appropriate. Assessment is ongoing throughout the semester and includes class tests, essays, assignments and associated written reports, oral  presentations, group projects, research projects, laboratory and studio projects and associated reports, practical assignments (for example design and build) and end of semester examinations.

View the Assessment Policy here.

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 unit 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 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 experiences may be in a simulated workplace learning environment. 

The following two core courses 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 focused 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 your fourth year.

You will also undertake the core course ONPS2186 Science Project in your final year. In Science Project, you either undertake a project in industry or work on an industry-suggested project in a simulated work environment. In this course industry is involved both in suggesting problems for projects and in providing advice on assessment and feedback. All other biotechnology courses in your final year you will have laboratory practicals that mimic industry-relevant problems.

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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 Mathematics 12 MATH2393 City Campus
Digital Fundamentals 12 OENG1206 City Campus
Engineering Science 12 OENG1208 City Campus
Creative Engineering CAD 12 OENG1204 City Campus
Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics: What We Make and How We Make It 12 MANU2488 City Campus
Introduction to Mechanical and Automotive Engineering 12 MIET2514 City Campus
Chemistry Principles 12 CHEM1242 City Campus
CHEM1243 Bundoora Campus
Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12 EEET2249 City Campus
 
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Nine (9) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus
Fluid Mechanics of Mechanical Systems 12 MIET2422 City Campus
Engineering Dynamics 12 MIET2134 City Campus
Mechatronics Principles 12 MIET2370 City Campus
Advanced Mathematics for Engineers 12 MATH2414 City Campus
Mechanics and Materials 2 12 MIET2115 City Campus
Applied Thermodynamics 12 MIET2421 City Campus
Cell Biology and Biochemistry 12 BIOL1159 Bundoora Campus
BIOL2146 City Campus
Introduction to Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics 12 BIOL2256 City Campus
BIOL2257 Bundoora Campus
Mechanical Design 1 12 MIET2136 City Campus
 
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following Nine (9 Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus
Thermal Food Processing 12 ONPS2557 Bundoora Campus
Microbiology 12 BIOL2158 City Campus
BIOL2159 Bundoora Campus
Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 BIOL2262 City Campus
BIOL2263 Bundoora Campus
Bioinformatics 12 BIOL2254 City Campus
Food Microbiology 12 ONPS2113 City Campus
ONPS2114 Bundoora Campus
Biological Chemistry 12 BIOL2260 City Campus
Immunology 12 ONPS2388 Bundoora Campus
Renewable Energy Systems 12 MIET2032 Bundoora Campus
MIET2062 City Campus
Thermal-Fluid System Design 12 MIET2515 City Campus
MIET2518 Bundoora Campus
 
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Year Four of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus
Research Methods for Engineers 12 EEET2449 City Campus
EEET2572 Bundoora Campus
EEET2606 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Solid Mechanics 3 12 MIET1071 Bundoora Campus
Mechanical Vibrations 12 MIET1076 Bundoora Campus
Heat Transfer 12 MIET1081 Bundoora Campus
Mechanics of Machines 12 MIET1077 Bundoora Campus
Mechanical Design 2 12 MIET1068 Bundoora Campus
Engineering and Enterprise 12 MIET2116 Bundoora Campus
MIET2534 City Campus
Finite Element Analysis 12 MIET1084 Bundoora Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from the following Mechanical Options:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus
Professional Engineering Experience 12 OENG1165 City Campus
Humanitarian Experiential Learning Project 12 OENG1164 City Campus
Engineering Learning Factory Project 12 OENG1143 City Campus
OENG1223 Bundoora Campus
Engineering Computer Graphics 12 MIET1088 Bundoora Campus
Mechanical Design 3 12 MIET2004 Bundoora Campus
Applied Heat and Mass Transfer 12 MIET2039 Bundoora Campus
Remote Area Power Supply 12 MIET2009 Bundoora Campus
Computational Engineering 1 12 MIET2011 Bundoora Campus
Computer Integrated Manufacturing 12 MANU1418 Bundoora Campus
MANU2551 City Campus
Vehicle Power Systems 12 AUTO1006 Bundoora Campus
Industrial and Vehicle Aerodynamics 12 AUTO1018 Bundoora Campus
Mechatronic Design 12 MIET2362 Bundoora Campus
Advanced Robotics 12 MANU1417 Bundoora Campus
Advanced Engineering Computer Aided Design 12 MIET2002 Bundoora Campus
Computational Engineering 2 12 MIET2012 Bundoora Campus
Computational Fluid Dynamics 12 MIET2394 Bundoora Campus
Special Topics in Engineering 12 MIET2389 Bundoora Campus
 
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Year Five of Program
Complete the following Three (3) 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
Automatic Control 12 MIET2006 Bundoora Campus
AND
Complete the following Five (5) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus
Gene Technologies 12 BIOL2032 City Campus
BIOL2184 Bundoora Campus
Applied Science Project 12 ONPS2186 City Campus
Industrial Biotechnology 12 ONPS2115 City Campus
ONPS2116 Bundoora Campus
Functional Genomics and Proteomics 12 BIOL2267 Bundoora Campus
Molecular Agriculture 12 BIOL2269 Bundoora Campus
 

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Program transition plan

BH090MEHDD Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) (Honours) / Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology) will be discontinued and will no longer accept new students from Semester 2, 2022. The program will be taught out to current students until Semester 2, 2027. If you are unable to complete your program by the end of December 2027, you may consider applying to BH070P23 Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) (Honours) or BP226P7 Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology). 

Transition Plan 2021 

The following table shows courses that will be replaced from Semester 1 2021 for program transition purposes only and not necessarily course equivalencies. If you have successfully completed any of the previous courses prior to the commencement of semester 1 2021 they will continue to count as a course and contribute towards the successful completion of your program. 

Year one

Prior to 2021 Credit Points Replacement Courses Credit Points
MATH2117 Engineering Mathematics C 12 MATH2393 Engineering Mathematics 12
MIET2419 Mechanics and Materials 1 12 OENG1206 Digital Fundamentals  12
MIET2421 Applied Thermodynamics (moved to year two) 12 OENG1208 Engineering Science  12
MATH2118 Further Engineering Mathematics C 12 EEET2249 Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12
MIET2422 Fluid Mechanics of Mechanical Systems (moved to year two) 12 MIET2514 Introduction to Mechanical and Automotive Engineering 12

Year two

Prior to 2021 Credit Points Replacement Courses Credit Points
MATH2414 Math & Stats for Aero, Mech & Auto 12 MATH2414 Advanced Mathematics for Engineers 12
MIET2420 Mechanical Design 1 24

MIET2136 Mechanical Design 1

MIET2422 Fluid Mechanics of Mechanical Systems (moved from year one)

12

12
MIET2515 Thermal Fluid System Design (moved to year three) 12 MIET2421 Applied Thermodynamics (moved from year one) 12

Year three

Prior to 2021 Credit Points Replacement Courses Credit Points
University Elective 12 MIET2515 Thermal-Fluid System Design  (moved from year two) 12

Students who require enrolment advice should contact their program manager. 

Transition Plan 2020

The following table shows courses that will be replaced/ amended from semester 1 2020 as part of a program transition. If you have successfully completed any of the old courses before the commencement of semester 1 2020 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

MIET2093 Computer Aided Design

12

1

OENG1204 Creative Engineering CAD

12

1

MANU2095 Manufacturing Systems

12

1

MANU2488 Advanced Manufacturing & Mechatronics Engineering: What we make and how we make it

12

2

AERO2463 Computational Engineering Analysis*

12

2

MIET2515 Thermal-Fluid System Design

12

Students who meet the following criteria:

  • Have successfully completed 192CP or more before start of semester 2 2020; AND
  • Have not successfully completed AERO2463 Computational Engineering Analysis;

are not required to complete OENG1206 Digital Fundamentals, but must successfully complete an extra University elective in their third year instead.

Course title change will apply from semester two 2020 for the following course:

  • 'MIET1081 Advanced Thermo-Fluid Mechanics' has been changed to 'Heat Transfer'

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/s Credit Points

3

 BIOL2127 - Advanced Bioinformatics 12 3 BIOL2254 - Bioinformatics 12

3

 ONPS2508 – Food Manufacturing 12 3 ONPS2557 - Thermal Food Processing 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

AERO2248 Engineering, Society & Sustainability

12

1

OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice

12

4

MIET1199 Management of Design & Research

12

4

EEET2449 Research Methods for Engineers

12

4

MIET1081 Advanced Thermo-Fluid Mechanics^

12

5

MIET1081 Heat transfer (formerly Advanced Thermo-Fluid Mechanics)

12

5

OENG1074 Professional Research Project 1*

24

5

OENG1167 Engineering Capstone Project Part A and core course MIET1081 Heat Transfer or MIET2006 Automatic Control

2x12

5

OENG1075 Professional Research Project 2

24

5

OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B and and core course MIET1081 Heat Transfer or MIET2006 Automatic Control

2x12


 

^Students who have successfully completed the first four years (408 CP) of their Program including MIET1081 Advanced Thermo-Fluid Mechanics before Semester 1 2018 will be able to take AERO2463 Computational Analysis for Engineers or any fifth year Mechanical Option course as a fifth year alternative.

*Students who have successfully completed OENG1074 Professional Research Project 1 before semester 1 2018 will be able to complete OENG1075 Professional Research Project 2 in Semester 1 2018.

-Before 2018, OENG1075 Professional Research Project 2 (24cp) incorporated 12 credit points of compulsory WIL work experience.

From 2018, OENG1075 Professional Research Project 2 (24cp) will be replaced by OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B (12cp).

If you have not successfully completed OENG1075 Professional Research Project 2 (24cp) before the Commencement of Semester 1 2018, you will take OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B (12cp) and you may choose to take the Option course OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience or any other option course in your fifth year program structure.

Program Amendment 2014

This program was amended in 2014. The following Table advises students who have failed an old course(s) before 2014 what substitute course(s) they should complete.

Year or Semester Old course/s no longer offered Credit Points *Substitute Courses Credit Points
Year 1, Semester 1 AERO2247: Solid Mechanics and Materials 1 12 MIET2419: Mechanics and Materials 1 12
Year 1, Semester 2 MIET2095: Thermo-Fluid Mechanics (which was previously followed by MIET2135 Thermo-Fluid Mechanics 2) 12 MIET2421: Applied Thermodynamics (which is done concurrently with MIET2422 Fluid Mechanics of Mechanical Systems)

12

(12)
Year 2, Semester 1 MIET2115: Solid Mechanics and Materials 2 12 MIET2115: Mechanics and Materials 2 12
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