BH099 - Bachelor of Science(Food Technology & Nutrition)/Bachelor of Engineering(Chemical Engineering)(Hons)

Plan: BH099FTNDD - Bachelor of Science(Food Technology & Nutrition)/Bachelor of Engineering(Chemical Engineering)(Hons)
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.

You will experience a wide range of learning environments – lectures, tutorials, online delivery, laboratory practicals, field trips and individual and group work. Lectures, tutorials and seminars are used extensively in the program to communicate knowledge and ideas about scientific and engineering processes, problems and solutions. Of particular importance will be the high proportion of time spent in the laboratory and undertaking project work, which  gives practical emphasis, develops teamwork and time-management skills and provides context for your learning. In particular, final year projects in both food technology and engineering give you the opportunity to put your learning into context. Such projects offer the opportunity for you to undertake projects offered jointly by the School of Science and the School of Engineering and will allow you to integrate your learning from the two different disciplines.

Innovative teaching methods will be used to develop graduate capabilities:

Collaboration is a powerful way of helping you to be a more effective learner and of helping staff to be more effective teachers. In particular, team-based project-based learning will be the dominant teaching method across the engineering strand of the program.

Attention to learning styles is a means of creating an inclusive teaching environment.

A number of courses have already been adapted to online delivery. Courses in your program use Canvas for electronic delivery of course documents, tutorial problems, past exams and other relevant material, which can be accessed via myRMIT.

Your teaching and assessment will follow a problem-based approach to learning that combines the development of core academic skills with the acquisition of capabilities relevant to the fields of both science and engineering. Assessment measures technical competence through assignments, quizzes and exams as well as professional capabilities through class presentations, reports, debates, peer and self-assessment of team contributions. In Engineering, project-based learning builds professional skills in every semester of the program.

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 Service 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.

In the Food Technology and Nutrition program, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) courses are ONPS2509 Food Safety and Quality Assurance and ONPS2496 Product Development. ONPS2509 Food Safety and Quality Assurance involves working in a relevant industry context with feedback and assessment from industry-counterparts.

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. You may also take this course as your University elective course in the second year of the program.

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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 Engineering Mathematics 12 MATH2393 City Campus Creative Engineering CAD 12 OENG1204 City Campus Introduction to Chemical Engineering 12 PROC2128 City Campus Introduction to Microbiology for Food and Nutrition 12 ONPS2555 City Campus Introduction to the Food Industry 12 ONPS2137 City Campus Numerical Methods/Statistics for Engineers 12 MATH2114 City Campus Digital Fundamentals 12 OENG1206 City Campus
AND
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Seven (7) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Fluid Flow and Particle Mechanics 12 PROC2079 City Campus Nutrition Principles 12 ONPS1118 City Campus ONPS2041 Bundoora Campus Food Chemistry 12 CHEM1083 City Campus CHEM1286 Bundoora Campus Engineering Chemistry 12 PROC2129 City Campus Chemical Engineering Fundamentals 12 PROC2077 City Campus Heat and Mass Transfer 12 PROC2082 City Campus Process Principles 12 PROC2078 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
AND
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following Nine (9) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Process Thermodynamics 12 PROC2080 City Campus Reaction Engineering 12 PROC2083 City Campus Thermal Food Processing 12 ONPS2557 Bundoora Campus Human Sensory Evaluation 12 ONPS2189 City Campus ONPS2520 Bundoora Campus Food Microbiology 12 ONPS2113 City Campus ONPS2114 Bundoora Campus Food Toxicology, Allergens and Health 12 ONPS2135 City Campus ONPS2516 Bundoora Campus Food Packaging and Labelling 12 ONPS2558 Bundoora Campus Food Manufacturing: Plant Products 12 ONPS2146 City Campus ONPS2533 Bundoora Campus Food Ingredient Structure and Function 12 ONPS2553 City Campus
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Year Four of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Process Systems Design 12 PROC2088 City Campus Process Plant Design and Economics 12 PROC2089 City Campus Process Control and Simulation 12 PROC2090 City Campus Transfer Processes 12 PROC2085 City Campus Chemical Engineering Computer Design 12 PROC2121 City Campus Engineering Experimental Investigations 12 PROC2084 City Campus Environmental and Hazard Analysis 12 PROC2086 City Campus Food Industry Management 12 ONPS2552 Bundoora Campus
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Year Five of Program
Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Food Safety and Quality Assurance 12 ONPS2054 City Campus ONPS2509 Bundoora Campus Food Manufacturing Animal Products 12 ONPS2554 Bundoora Campus Non-Thermal Food Processing 12 ONPS2556 Bundoora Campus Product Development 12 ONPS1113 City Campus ONPS2496 Bundoora 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
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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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Program transition plan

Very Important: This program is being phased out from 2021. 

BH099 Bachelor of Science(Food Technology & Nutrition)/Bachelor of Engineering(Chemical Engineering)(Hons) 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 BH099:

1. BP199 Bachelor of Science (Food Technology and Nutrition); or
2. BH079 Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours)

For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Dr Jessica Danaher.

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
CHEM1030 Chemistry of Materials 1 CHEM1031 Chemistry of Materials 2 PROC2076 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design MATH2129 Mathematics and Statics MATH1122 Mathematics for Engineers MATH2128 Engineering Mathematics B	12 CP each	OENG1208 Engineering Science OENG1206 Digital Fundamentals MATH2393 Engineering Mathematics OENG1204 Creative Engineering CAD PROC2128 Introduction to Chemical Engineering PROC2129 Engineering Chemistry	12 CP each

The following courses have been moved 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:

• PROC2077 Chemical Engineering Fundamentals (year two) 
• PROC2121 Chemical Engineering Computer Design (year four)
• PROC2084 Engineering Experimental Investigations (year four)
• PROC2086 Environmental and Hazard Analysis (year four)
• ONPS2558 Food Packaging and Labelling (year three)
• ONPS2533 Food Manufacturing Plant Products (year three)
• ONPS2554 Food Manufacturing Animal Products (year five)
• ONPS2556 Non-Thermal Food Processing (year five) 
• ONPS2496 Product Development (year five) 
• University Elective (year two) 

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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