1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

for various areas of applied science and technology.
The course includes studies of both com~uter-based and
non-computer-based instruments, used in isolation or as
systems, and their applications to imaging, nuclear, optical
and general scientific and industrial laboratories. Emphasis is
on electronic techniques, analogue and digital signal
processing and on the basic interfacing of transducers with
microprocessors and computers.
Career potential
Graduates may take up careers in industry or as hospital
scientists or technologists. In industry, there are
opportunities for graduates to take up development and
consultancy positions in organisations serving the medical
and biological professions. The manufacture of biomedical
instrumentation is a growing area of employment
opportunity.
In hospitals, duties may involve biomedical research, routine
clinical measurement responsibility, the development of
specialised electronic equipment and the maintenance of
equipment already in operation. Graduates are employed in
most hospital departments including cardiology, neurology,
thoracic medicine, physical sciences, anaesthesiology and
medical electronics.
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Professional recoanition
Graduates are eligible for membership of the Australian
Institute of Physics and the Australasian College of Physical
Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.
9 Prerequisites (entrance 1997)
q. Units 3 and 4: Physics, two units of Mathematics chosen
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Approximation, Extensions (C& A).
A limited number of places may be offered to students
without VCE Physics. These students will undertake a
special first semester program.
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Course structure
Full-time course (1996 syllabus)
Year 1
Semester 1
Credit points
SC127 Chemistry" 10.0
SC154P Chemistry" 10.0
SE112 Introduction to Biophysics A 10.0
SEl lOM Electronics and Measurement 10.0
SEll8M Physics 1 10.0
SM1215 Mathematical Methods 10.0
* Students with Year 12 Chemistry do SCZMP.
Students without Year 12 Chemistry do SC127.
Semester 2
SE122 Introduction to Biophysics B 10.0
SEl2OM Introduction to Instrumentation 10.0
SE128M Physics 2 10.0
SK290 Introduction to Programming 10.0
SM1215 Mathematical Methods 10.0
Year 2
Semester 1
SE2lOM Electronics
SE218M Physics 3
SE230 Cardiovascular Biophysics
SE240 Cellular Biophysics
SM3415 Mathematical Methods
Semester 2
SE220M Sensors, Interfacing and Control
SE228M Physics 4
SE250 Biomedical Instrumentation
SE260 Respiratory and Renal Biophysics
SM3415 Mathematical Methods
Year 3
Semester 1
SP222 Industry Based Learning
Semester 2
SP333 Industry Based Learning
Year 4
Semester 1
SP501 Signals and Systems
SP510 Scientific Instrumentation A
SP530 Scientific Instrumentation B
SP524 Biophysics (Neurosciences A)
SP525 Applied Biophysics A
95609 Physics 5/6
Semester 2
SP5609 Physics 5/6
SP602 Special Project
SP610 Instrumentation Systems A
SP624 Biophysics (Neuorsciences B)
SP625 Applied Biophysics B
9626 Applied Neurosciences
SP630 Instrumentation Systems B
Application procedure
Refer to pages 54 and 106.
2043 Multimedia Technology
1997 VTAC Course Code 34534
This course is intended to serve the rapidly growing
multimedia industry by producing graduates who can
function in a variety of capacities, most particularly as
generalists who understand the range of disciplines involved
in this industry and can function in a project leadership role.
Throughout the course students will gain experience in the
creative use of a wide range of technologies, with detailed
understanding of the human factors involved.
The various 'threads' that exist within the course are
intended to cover the range of disciplines involved in the
multimedia industry, with particular emphasis on the
underlying technologies:
computer hardware, electronics and image and voice
processing techniques;