2001 Swinburne Undergraduate and TAFE Course Guide

Mechanical Engineering
Course title
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)
Duration
Four years full-time or part-time equivalent.
An optional and additional year of Industry Based
Learning (IBL) is also available.
Location
Hawthorn.
Entry requirements
Satisfactory completion of an appropriate
Victorian Year 12 or its equivalent.
2001 VCE prerequisites: Units 3 and 4 – English,
Mathematical Methods and one of Physics,
Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Information
Technology (Information Systems) or Specialist
Mathematics.
Application procedure
VTAC (first year) or direct application (second year
onwards).
VTAC code: to be advised.
2000 ENTER: 82.05
Course overview
This course provides a thorough grounding in the
physical sciences, mathematics and engineering
science. It develops the skills and knowledge
needed to improve the environment, efficiently
utilise energy and natural resources, to design
consumer products for mass production and to
design, install, test, maintain and manage
complex mechanical projects.
Career opportunities
A diverse range of positions including: consulting,
project management, planning, research and
development, engineering design, quality control,
measurement and control of environmental
conditions, manufacturing and testing of
products, processes and services, sales,
installation and maintenance.
Professional recognition
Graduate membership of The Institution of
Engineers, Australia.
Information sessions
Sunday 27 August between 11.00am and 3.00pm
(Hawthorn), Tuesday 12 September at 6.30pm
(Prahran), and Wednesday 13 December between
4.00pm and 8.00pm (Hawthorn). Attendance at
one of these sessions is recommended.
Further information
School of Engineering and Science
Tel: (03) 9214 8372
Email: engsci@swin.edu.au
Daniel Wilcocks and Chen Lu Feng
Swinburne mechanical engineers are
certainly top of the pops with Citylink
developer Transfield Obayashi. The
company was so pleased with 1998 IBL
students Chen Lu Feng and Daniel
Wilcocks that they were asked back to
work for a further three months during
the summer vacation!
Daniel is working in procurement –
ordering the parts and products needed
for particular sections of construction and
then showing the workers on site how to
interpret the engineer’s drawings. Chen is
currently coordinating mechanical
services with consultant engineers
Connell Wagner.
Swinburne’s IBL program was a big
drawcard for Daniel Wilcocks when he
was looking at university courses.
“Swinburne had an excellent reputation
for engineering and for its year of
industry placement. Certainly my twelve
months of work was the best experience I
could have had. It gave me an
opportunity to look at all branches of
engineering – civil, mechanical and
electrical – and it’s certainly helped me
sort out what I want to do. The other unis
do a few weeks of work experience, and
it couldn’t possibly be enough. You need
the year, I believe.”
top of the pops
Bachelor of Engineering
“I’ve found Swinburne a very friendly
place – I’ve made a lot of good friends
there and some of the lecturers have
been really helpful.”
Chen Lu Feng came to Australia from
southern China in 1989, when he was
twenty. After five years working as a
quality controller in a whitegoods factory,
he did a TAFE engineering course parttime
and enrolled in the Bachelor of
Engineering at Swinburne in 1995.
“I have enjoyed the course. Some of the
teaching has been excellent and there are
plenty of other mature-age students. A
big plus is that seventy or eighty per cent
of the Swinburne graduates find jobs,
because of the IBL year.”
Both Chen and Daniel will complete the
final year of the five-year engineering
program full-time at Swinburne’s
Hawthorn campus. Daniel is keen to work
in water engineering once he graduates,
his other interests being fire protection
and the construction industry. Certainly
neither he nor Chen should be short of
opportunities.
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