BH094 - Bachelor of Engineering(Telecommunications Engineering)(Honours)/Bachelor of Computer Science

Plan: BH094ECHDD - Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic & Communication Engineering (Hons)/Bachelor of Computer Science
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

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:

• Examinations: 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 you receive (the exception is exams) 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.
For more information about assessments, go to: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams

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): http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit/he.

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.

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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.

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.

In Year 4, you will select one (12 credit points) of the capstone courses listed below. The 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 capstone options are:

• COSC2408 Programming Project 1
• COSC2409 Programming Project 2

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.

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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
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Year One of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12 EEET2249 City Campus Introduction to Analytics 12 MATH2350 City Campus Engineering Mathematics A 12 MATH2160 City Campus Digital Fundamentals 12 OENG1206 City Campus Introduction to Professional Engineering Practice 12 OENG1166 City Campus Programming Techniques 12 COSC1284 City Campus Advanced Programming Techniques 12 COSC1076 City Campus Physics 1 12 PHYS2082 City Campus
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Nine (9) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Electrical Engineering 1 12 EEET1316 City Campus Electronics 12 EEET2255 City Campus Digital Systems Design 1 12 EEET2251 City Campus Mathematics for ECE 12 MATH2161 City Campus User-centred Design 12 COSC2628 City Campus Software Engineering Fundamentals 12 ISYS1118 City Campus Signals and Systems 1 12 EEET2369 City Campus Communication Engineering 1 12 EEET2254 City Campus Database Concepts 12 ISYS1057 City Campus
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Algorithms and Analysis 12 COSC2123 City Campus Introduction to Embedded Systems 12 EEET2256 City Campus Engineering Design 2 12 EEET2257 City Campus Further Programming 12 COSC2391 City Campus Computing Theory 12 COSC1107 City Campus Software Engineering: Process and Tools 12 COSC2299 City Campus Electronic Circuits 12 EEET2097 City Campus Communication Engineering 2 12 EEET2115 City Campus
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Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
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Year Four of Program
Complete the following Three (3) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Operating Systems Principles 12 COSC1114 City Campus Engineering Design 3 12 EEET2609 City Campus Research Methods for Engineers 12 EEET2449 City Campus
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Select and Complete Three (3) of the following Courses from Electronic & Communication Options (List C):
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Electronic Engineering 3 12 EEET2098 City Campus Signals and Systems 2 12 EEET2113 City Campus Wireless and Guided Waves 12 EEET2114 City Campus Embedded System Design and Implementation 12 EEET2096 City Campus Network Engineering 12 EEET2290 City Campus
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Select and Complete Two (2) of the following Courses from Computer Science Options (List A1):
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Agent-Oriented Programming and Design 12 COSC1204 City Campus Peer-to-Peer Networks 12 COSC1235 City Campus Database Administration 12 COSC2404 City Campus Electronic Commerce and Enterprise Systems 12 COSC2353 City Campus Evolutionary Computing 12 COSC1207 City Campus Interactive 3D Graphics and Animation 12 COSC1187 City Campus Mobile Application Development 12 COSC2309 City Campus Network Programming 12 COSC1179 City Campus Real-Time Rendering and 3D Games Programming 12 COSC1226 City Campus Scripting Language Programming 12 COSC1093 City Campus Secure Electronic Commerce 12 INTE1071 City Campus Cloud Security 12 INTE2402 City Campus Unix Systems Administration and Programming (Linux) 12 COSC1133 City Campus Web Database Applications 12 ISYS1126 City Campus Web Development Technologies 12 COSC2276 City Campus Mixed Reality 12 COSC2476 City Campus iPhone Software Engineering 12 COSC2471 City Campus Database Applications 12 ISYS1102 City Campus Further Web Programming 12 COSC2758 City Campus Machine Learning 12 COSC2673 City Campus Security Testing 12 INTE2547 City Campus Database Systems 12 COSC2406 City Campus Computer and Internet Forensics 12 COSC2301 City Campus Data Mining 12 COSC2110 City Campus Web Search Engines and Information Retrieval 12 ISYS1079 City Campus Secure Electronic Commerce 12 INTE1071 City Campus Systems Architecture 12 ISYS1089 City Campus Software Requirements Engineering 12 COSC2274 City Campus Software Testing 12 ISYS1087 City Campus Usability Engineering 12 COSC1183 City Campus Mixed Reality 12 COSC2476 City Campus Cloud Security 12 INTE2402 City Campus Cloud Infrastructures 12 COSC2641 City Campus Big Data Processing 12 COSC2633 City Campus Big Data Management 12 COSC2632 City Campus
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Select and Complete One (1) Course from Capstone Project Courses (List A3):
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Programming Project 1 12 COSC2408 City Campus Programming Project 2 12 COSC2409 City Campus Web/Internet Project 1 12 COSC2392 City Campus Web/Internet Project 2 12 COSC2393 City Campus
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Year Five of Program
Complete the following Four (4) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Engineering Capstone Project Part A 12 OENG1167 City Campus Engineering Capstone Project Part B 12 OENG1168 City Campus Artificial Intelligence 12 COSC1127 City Campus Cloud Computing 12 COSC2626 City Campus
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Select and Complete Four (4) of the following Courses from Electronic & Communication Engineering Options (List D):
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Optical Fibre Systems and Networks 12 EEET1070 City Campus Antennas 12 EEET1074 City Campus Optical Fibre Technology 12 EEET1075 City Campus Satellite Communication Systems Engineering 12 EEET1080 City Campus Advanced Mobile and Wireless Systems Engineering 12 EEET1083 City Campus Audio Engineering 12 EEET1412 City Campus Sensors and Measurement Technologies 12 EEET1413 City Campus Biomedical Instrumentation 12 EEET1414 City Campus Circuit and System Simulation 12 EEET1415 City Campus Digital Signal Processing for Communication Engineering 12 EEET1416 City Campus Biomedical Signal Analysis 12 EEET1417 City Campus Bioelectromagnetism 12 EEET2160 City Campus Biosignal Processing and Computing 12 EEET2238 City Campus Electronic Materials 12 EEET2260 City Campus RF and Microwave Circuits 12 EEET2270 City Campus Radar Systems 12 EEET2271 City Campus Radar Systems 2 12 EEET2272 City Campus Control Systems 12 EEET2109 City Campus Advanced Control Systems 12 EEET2100 City Campus Humanitarian Experiential Learning Project 12 OENG1164 City Campus Professional Engineering Experience 12 OENG1165 City Campus
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Select and Complete One (1) of the following Courses from Year Four Technical Options (List E):
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Optical Fibre Systems and Networks 12 EEET1070 City Campus Antennas 12 EEET1074 City Campus Optical Fibre Technology 12 EEET1075 City Campus Satellite Communication Systems Engineering 12 EEET1080 City Campus Advanced Mobile and Wireless Systems Engineering 12 EEET1083 City Campus Network Access Systems 12 EEET1086 City Campus Network Services and Internet Applications 12 EEET1089 City Campus Audio Engineering 12 EEET1412 City Campus Sensors and Measurement Technologies 12 EEET1413 City Campus Circuit and System Simulation 12 EEET1415 City Campus Digital Signal Processing for Communication Engineering 12 EEET1416 City Campus Biomedical Instrumentation 12 EEET1414 City Campus Biomedical Signal Analysis 12 EEET1417 City Campus Embedded System Design and Implementation 12 EEET2096 City Campus Industrial Automation 12 EEET2105 City Campus Power System Analysis and Control 12 EEET2106 City Campus Control Systems 12 EEET2109 City Campus Wireless and Guided Waves 12 EEET2114 City Campus Embedded Systems: Operating Systems and Interfacing 12 EEET2145 City Campus Bioelectromagnetism 12 EEET2160 City Campus Smart Embedded Systems 12 EEET2161 City Campus Advanced Digital Design 1 12 EEET2162 City Campus Advanced Digital Design 2 12 EEET2163 City Campus Computer Robotics Control 12 EEET2165 City Campus Real Time Systems Engineering 12 EEET2166 City Campus Image Processing 12 EEET2169 City Campus Biosignal Processing and Computing 12 EEET2238 City Campus Electronic Materials 12 EEET2260 City Campus Computer Architecture and Organisation 12 EEET2261 City Campus Electrical Plant 12 EEET2263 City Campus RF and Microwave Circuits 12 EEET2270 City Campus Radar Systems 12 EEET2271 City Campus Radar Systems 2 12 EEET2272 City Campus Electrical Energy Conversion 12 EEET2274 City Campus Network Engineering 12 EEET2290 City Campus Enterprise and Cloud Networks 12 EEET2292 City Campus Network Management and Software Defined Networks 12 EEET2294 City Campus Network Design and Performance 12 EEET2318 City Campus Renewable Electrical Energy Systems 12 EEET2334 City Campus Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things 12 EEET2370 City Campus Introduction to Electrical Building Design 12 EEET2384 City Campus Electronic Systems for Automotive Applications 12 EEET2394 City Campus Mobile Computing 12 EEET2422 City Campus Engineering Project Design & Management 12 EEET2423 City Campus Computer and Network Security 12 EEET2424 City Campus Systematic and Inventive Problem Solving 12 OENG1045 City Campus
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Program transition plan

Important Note

BH094ECHDD Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic & Communication Engineering) (Honours)/ Bachelor of Computer Science has been discontinued and will no longer accept new students from 2020. 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 2027, you may consider transferring to BH091CNHDD 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, Dr Ke Wang.

 

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	EEET2248 Electrical Engineering Analysis	12	1	OENG1206 Digital Fundamentals	12
1	COSC2413 Web Programming	12	1	MATH2350 Introduction to Analytics	12
3	COSC1254 Programming Using C++	12	3	COSC2391 Further Programming	12
4	EEET2258 Engineering Design 3A	12	4	One Technical Option course	12
4	EEET2259 Engineering Design 3B	12	4	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 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 BH094 or its predecessor BP004 in both the Engineering and Computer Science components.

If you have completed the full 96 Credit Points of any Program Year as previously prescribed you will retain full credit for that Program Year and will not be required to undertake any further courses to meet the requirements of that Program Year even if the program structure has changed.

Transition Plan for Computer Science, commencing Semester 1, 2014

1. New Core Courses  (Computer Science)
   If you have completed 192 credit points or less, 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 192 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, you are not allowed to take equivalent courses listed in right column. Consult your Program Manager to confirm the courses needed to complete the Computer Science component of this double degree. 

Old course/s no longer offered	Credit Points	New or amended course	Credit Points
Mathematics for Computing	12	Discrete Structures for Computing	12
Computer Organisation	12	Introduction to Computer Systems	12
Programming 2	12	Advanced Programming Techniques	12
User Interface Design	12	User-centred Design	12
Engineering Software Project	12	SE Project Management	12

In 2015 two courses, COSC1114 and COSC1107, swap year level to avoid an overload in one semester, but this change will not affect your progression through the program.

You should consult the Program Manager for advice on which courses to take in order to graduate.

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