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BH091 - Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Computer Science
Plan: BH091CNHDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Computer Science
Campus: City Campus
Program delivery and structure
Approach to learning and assessmentWork integrated learningProgram structureProgram transition planApproach 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 following learning and teaching approaches form the basis of your learning experiences:
- In classes, including lectures, you will be encouraged to actively participate in activities such as discussions, asking and answering questions, and problem solving exercises.
- Projects will require you to effectively communicate outcomes across all communication modes (speaking, listening, writing, drawing and presenting) to a range of audiences.
- You will undertake team learning activities and projects that require you to work in mixed teams and critically engage with aspects of team development and conflict resolution.
- You will engage in learning activities and projects that require you to identify, plan, design, construct and manage solutions to engineering problems.
- Learning activities will focus on practical application of technical skills and you will be assessed on technical competence both in theory and practice.
- Projects will require you to access a variety of knowledge sources including professional journals, discussion lists and online resources.
- You will be required to solve complex, real-world problems.
- You will be given problems that require you to consider the business context and market potential of products that you design.
Assessment
Course assessment is designed to enable you to demonstrate your technical, design, research, and communication abilities. The forms of assessment will vary with each course, depending on the specific learning outcomes and capability development objectives.
Assessments may take the following forms:
- Timed Assessments: an individual form of assessment where you have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to explain fundamental principles and solve problems.
- Assignment and Projects: these may be done individually or in groups allowing you to demonstrate your ability to work alone or as a member of a team.
- Reflective Journals: where you pause to consider what you have learnt, along with the easy and hard issues associated with that learning.
- Assessed Tutorials: a form of in-class test, which may be done individually or as a team.
- Laboratory Reports: which provide an exercise in experimentation, report writing and critical analysis of data.
- Self-Assessment and Peer-Assessment: for assessment activities such as seminars you will assess yourself or your own group, or assess the work of other groups. This is part of equipping you to become more independent in your own learning and assessing your own and others' performance.
Most of the assessment tasks that you complete will enable your lecturer to provide you with feedback on your strong and weak points. This will enable you to improve your performance in the future.
To view the Assessment Policy go to: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-results
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
In addition to your studies for this program you also have the opportunity of undertaking an Industry Placement for six or twelve months either locally as advertised by local businesses, or internationally through the RMIT International Industry Experience and Research Program (RIIERP) http://www.rmit.edu.au/riierp.
Top of pageWork 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 learning 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 university elective 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 Year 4, you will enroll in COSC2408 Programming Project 1. This capstone project course is designed to provide you with hands-on practical experience developing software in a workplace environment. Your project team of 4 – 6 students will complete industry projects from inception to implementation. The emphasis is on understanding and working within a corporate environment, using formal project and software delivery methodologies and integrating all the skills and knowledge that you have acquired in the program.
The COSC2299 - Software Engineering: Process and Tools course simulates realistic work situations where you will have the opportunity to learn, apply and demonstrate professional software project management practice. You will work in a team on a software engineering project, interacting with a professional software project manager.
Top of pageProgram 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Program transition plan
Very Important: This plan is being phased out.
BH091CNHDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering)(Honours)/Bachelor of Computer Science 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 the new plan:
BH091CNH23 Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering) (Honours)/Bachelor of Computer Science
For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Samuel Ippolito (samuel.ippolito@rmit.edu.au).
Transition Plan 2022
Amendments to the program structure have been made to maintain alignment of BH091 Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering) (Honours)/ Bachelor of Computer Science with the relevant single degree programs. The following shows courses that will be replaced from Semester 1 2022 for program transition purposes only and not necessarily course equivalencies. If you have successfully completed any of these courses prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2022 they will continue to count as courses and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.
Core Courses:
Year one:
| Prior to 2022 | Credit Points | Replacement courses | Credit Points |
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| MATH2350 Introduction to Analytics | 12 | COSC2803 Programming Studio 1 | 24 |
| COSC1284 Programming Techniques | 12 | ||
| *COSC1076 Advanced Programming Techniques | 12 | COSC2801 Proramming Bootcamp 1 | 12 |
- Students will complete Seven (7) core courses in year one, reduced from Eight (8).
- * COSC1076 Advanced Programming Techniques moved to year three
Year two:
| Prior to 2022 | Credit Points | Replacement Courses | Credit Points |
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| COSC2628 User-Centred Design | 12 | ^COSC2391 Further Programming | 12 |
| ISYS1057 Database Concepts | 12 | MATH2411 Maths for Computing 1 | 12 |
Year three:
| Prior to 2022 | Credit Points | Replacement Courses | Credit Points |
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| ^COSC2391 Further Programming | 12 | *COSC1076 Advanced Programming Techniques | 12 |
| 1 Technical Option Course | 12 | MATH2412 Maths for Computing 2 | 12 |
- ^COSC2391 Further Programming moved to year two
Year four:
| Prior to 2022 | Credit Points | Replacement Courses | Credit Points |
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| 1 Computer and Network Engineering Option Course | 12 | EEET2169 Image Processing | 12 |
| 2 Computer Science Option Courses | 24 | ~COSC2626 Cloud Computing | 12 |
| ~COSC1127 Artificial Intelligence | 12 |
- Students will complete Two (2) Computer and Network Engineering Option Courses in year four (reduced from three).
- ~COSC2626 Cloud Computing and COSC1127 Artificial Intelligence moved to year four
- Two (2) Computer Science Option Courses moved to year five
Year five:
| Prior to 2022 | Credit Points | Replacement Courses | Credit Points |
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| ~COSC2626 Cloud Computing | 12 | 2 Computer Science Option Courses | 24 |
| ~COSC1127 Artificial Intelligence | 12 |
The following changes have been made to the Computer Science Option Course list:
| Removed from the Computer Science Course Options List | Added to the Computer Science Course Options List |
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COSC2404 Database Administration |
COSC2814 Programming Autonomous Robots |
The following changes have been made to the Computer and Network Engineering Option Course list:
| Removed from the Computer and Network Engineering Course Options List | Added to the Computer and Network Engineering Course Options List |
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EEET2161 Smart Embedded Systems |
EEET1089 Network Services and Internet Applications |
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 these courses prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2021 they will continue to count as courses and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.
Prior to 2021 |
Credit Points |
Replacement courses |
Credit Points |
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MATH2160 Engineering Mathematics A |
12 |
MATH2393 Engineering Mathematics |
12 |
PHYS2082 Physics 1 |
12 |
OENG1208 Engineering Science |
12 |
EEET2251 Digital System Design 1* (year 2) |
12 |
EEET2257 Engineering Design 2 moved from year 3 to year 2 |
12 |
EEET2254 Communication Engineering 1^ (changed from core to Technical option in year 3) |
12 |
EEET2261 Computer Architecture and Organisation (changed from Computer and Network Engineering Option to core in year 3) |
12 |
*EEET2251 Digital System Design 1 has been removed from year 2, If you have successfully completed EEET2251 Digital System Design 1 in year 2 prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2021 it will continue to count as a course and contribute towards the successful completion of your program, and you should enrol in EEET2257 Engineering Design 2 in year 3.
^EEET2254 Communication Engineering 1 has changed from core to a Technical Option course, If you successfully completed EEET2254 Communication Engineering 1 in year 2 prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2021 it will continue to count as a core course and contribute towards the successful completion of your program. If you have completed year 3 of your program you may choose to complete EEET2261 Computer Architecture and Organisation in year 4 or any other Computer and Network Engineering Option course.
COSC2408 Programming Project 1 has been made core, and the following courses have been removed. If you have successfully completed any of the old capstone courses prior to the commencement of Semester 1 2021 they will continue to count as courses and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.
COSC2409 Programming Project 2
COSC2392Web/Internet Project 1
COSC2393 Web/Internet Project 2
The folowing courses have been removed from the year 4 Computer and Network Engineering Option list. If you successfully completed these courses in year 4 prior to Semester 1 2021, they will continue to count as courses and contribute towards the successful completion of your program.
EEET1089 Network Services and Internet Applications
EEET2165 Computer Robotics Control
EEET2423 Engineering Project Design & Management
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 |
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Replacement / amended course/s |
Credit Points |
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EEET2248 Electrical Engineering Analysis |
12 |
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OENG1206 Digital Fundamentals |
12 |
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COSC2413 Web Programming |
12 |
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MATH2350 Intro to Data Analytics |
12 |
3 |
COSC1254 Programming Using C++ |
12 |
3 |
COSC2391 Further Programming |
12 |
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EEET2258 Engineering Design 3A |
12 |
4 |
One course from Computer and Network Engineering Options List. |
12 |
4 |
EEET2259 Engineering Design 3B |
12 |
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EEET2609 Engineering Design 3 |
12 |
Transition Plan 2018
-From Semester 1 2018, EEET2247 Electrical Engineering Practice will be replaced by OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice. Students who have not successfully completed EEET2247 Electrical Engineering Practice before the commencement of Semester 1 2018 will be able to take OENG1166 Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice as a substitute.
-From Semester 1 2018, EEET2267 Engineering Design 4A and EEET2268 Engineering Design 4B will be replaced by OENG1167 Engineering Capstone Project Part A and OENG1168 Engineering Capstone Project Part B respectively.
Students who completed EEET2267 Engineering Design 4A in 2017 will be able to complete EEET2268 Engineering Design 4B in Semester 1 2018.
-Before 2018, OENG1097 Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate was part of Program structures as a core course.
From 2018, OENG1097 Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate will be replaced by OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience which will be an Option course.
If you commenced your program before 2018 and have not successfully completed OENG1097 Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate before the Commencement of Semester 1 2018, you may choose to take the Option course OENG1165 Professional Engineering Experience or any other option course in your program structure.
Transition Plan 2017
The following table lists normal course equivalencies for transition purposes only (not necessarily content equivalent). All courses listed are 12 credit points.
| 2016 course | From 2017 | ||
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| EEET2248 | Engineering Methods | EEET2248 | Electrical Engineering Analysis |
| EEET2247 | Enterprise Engineering | EEET2247 | Electrical Engineering Practice |
| EEET1316 | Electrical Engineering 1 |
EEET2368 | Network Fundamentals and Applications |
| EEET2251 | Engineering Design 1 | EEET2251 | Digital Systems Design 1 |
| EEET2369 | Signals and Systems | EEET2369 | Signals and Systems 1 |
| EEET2254 | Communication Engineering | EEET2254 | Communication Engineering 1 |
| EEET1070 | Optical Fibre Communication Systems | EEET1070 | Optical Fibre Systems and Networks |
| EEET2115 | Communication Engineering 3 | EEET2115 | Communication Engineering 2 |
| EEET1083 | Mobile and Personal Communication Systems Engineering | EEET1083 | Advanced Mobile and Wireless Systems Engineering |
Transition Plan 2015
Prior to 2015, Professional Experience was assessed as part of the course Engineering Design 4A (EEET2267).
From 2015, Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate (OENG1097) is added to structure as a stand-alone course.
If you commenced the program before 2015 one of the following transition cases will apply.
Case 1: If you have successfully completed all courses for your degree except the professional experience component of Engineering Design 4A by the end of 2014, you will be given the appropriate passing grade in Engineering Design 4A when you have satisfied the professional experience component of Engineering Design 4A (as required by the 2014 course guide for Engineering Design 4A).
One of the following cases will apply if you will complete the remaining courses for your degree in 2015 or later.
Case 2A: If you have already passed Engineering Design 4A, including the professional experience component, in 2014 or earlier, you must take a technical elective in place of the new course Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate.
Case 2B: If you only have to take Engineering Design 4A and 4B, and possibly other core courses from earlier years of the program, to complete your degree, you must complete the professional experience component of Engineering Design 4A as required by the 2014 course guide for Engineering Design 4A.
Case 2C: In all other cases you must take and complete the new course Professional Engineering Experience Undergraduate to satisfy the professional experience requirement for your degree, as it will not be assessed as part of Engineering Design 4A.
Retained Credit
You will retain credit in this program for all Credit Points earned and taken pursuant to any previously approved Program Structure for BH091 or its precedessor BP002 (this applies to both the Engineering and Computer Science components).
The following transition rules apply to the Computer Science component of the double degree.
1. New Core Courses (Computer Science)
If you have completed 288 credit points or less by the end of 2013, you are required to do the following new core courses: User-centred Design, SE Project Management, Security in Computing. If you have completed more than 288 credit points, you will need to consult the Program Manager to determine what courses you need to take to graduate.
2. Courses no longer offered as core (Computer Science)
The following courses are no longer considered as core courses: Programming 1, Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems. If you have already completed these courses, they are counted as Computer Science electives.
3. Equivalent New Core and Elective Courses (Computer Science)
As outlined in the table below, some of the previous core and elective courses have new course titles, or substituted with new courses. If you have already completed any of the courses in the left column of the following table, then you will receive credit for the corresponding new course and you must not undertake the corresponding new course.
| Old course/s no longer offered | Credit Points | New or amended course | Credit Points |
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| Programming 2 | 12 | Advanced Programming Techniques | 12 |
| User Interface Design | 12 | User-centred Design | 12 |
| Engineering Software Project | 12 | SE Project Management | 12 |
You should consult the Program Manager for advice on which courses to take in order to graduate.
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