The degree course in Agricultural Engineering, the only such degree hi Australia, began at third year in 1956. As with other engineering degrees it enjoys the recognition of The Institution of Engineers, Australia; i.e., graduates may be admitted to Corporate Membership without further examination.
It is usually possible, after due enquiry, to enter into and or 3rd year of the course after completing appropriate years at another Australian university. It is also possible for appropriately qualified diplomates from Victorian Technical Colleges to enter 3rd year under the Block Exemption Scheme (see chapter 5).
The theme of the course is 'Engineering Applied to Agriculture', in particular to the field work of Agriculture, i.e., basically in the design of equipment, water systems and buildings.
The course introduces a sufficient agricultural background to enable the agricultural engineer to see that the applications are different from straight civil or mechanical engineering.
As with the other engineering courses at Melbourne, Agricultural Engineering runs for four years, the first and second being the same as for Civil, Industrial, and Mechanical;
any student passing second year in one of these or Electrical may enter Third Year Agricultural.
Third year takes in Earth Science and Fluid Mechanics with the Civils, and Agriculture (Engineering course) taken partly with Third Year Agricultural Science; the remainder of Third Year is taken from subjects in Third Year Mechanical.
Fourth year offers more agricultural background (Agricultural. Economics), continuation of dynamics and the three subjects in Agricultural Engineering.
Agricultural Engineering (Mechanical) is devoted to power and machinery; Agricultural Engineering (Structures) to buildings—the functional planning and inside environment as well as the structural design; and Agricultural Engineering (Hydrology) is a special treatment of soil and water—hydraulics and hydrology.
Apart from its being a general engineering education, the degree in Agricultural Engineering leads to interesting and useful employment within this particular field: in the tractor and farm machinery industry; in irrigation, drainage and water and soil conservation authorities (in all states); in electricity departments; in departments of agriculture as investigation and advisory officers; as teachers in the colleges of agriculture;
and, for those so gifted, in research in the C.S.I.R.O. and universities.
Post-graduate opportunities are open for research within the department itself where some half dozen projects are under study.
The Department of Agricultural Engineering is involved in a number of research and related activities; it operates the Australian Tractor Testing Station at Werribee and assists in the operation of the University Field Station at Mt Derrimut. Opportunities are given for students to take part in these activities.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
(a) The Institution of Engineers Australia : in Third Year students may join as Student members; (b) Australian Institute of Agricultural Science : students may join as students, or graduates as Members; (c) Agricultural Engineering Society—a non-professional group open to all interested persons (d) American Society of Agricultural Engineers; (e) Institu- tion of Agricultural Engineers (U.K.).
LOCATION OF THE DEPARTMENT
The department of Agricultural Engineering is located on the ground floor, under the Library, and is entered from the road running between the Engineering and Metallurgy schools.
Reader in Charge:
G. H. Vasey, B.C.E., M.I.E.Aust.
Senior Lecturer:
А. K. Turner, B.C.E., ME., A.M.I.E.Aust.
Lecturer:
R. Н. Cochrane, М
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(Cantab.)Tractor Testing Oбlcer:
W. F. Baillie, Dip.Mech.Eng., Dip.Elec.Eng., A.M.I.E.Aust.
PART-TIME TEACHING OFFICERS Lecturers in Agriculture:
Ј. Н. Wilson, Ph.D. (Loud.), B.Agr.Sc., Miss Y. Aitken, M.Agr.Sc.
G. Т. Levick, B.Agr.Sc., Dip.Ed.
Lecturers in Agricultural Economics:
A. G. Lloyd, B.Ec. (Syd,), N. I-1. Shirgess, B.Agr.Sc., M.Agr.Ec. (N.E.)
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Lecturer in Earth Dams:
R. B. Johnson, B.C,E., A.M.I.E.Aust.
Lecturer in Structures:
D. S. Mansell, Ph.D. (Wales), M.Eng.Sc., A.M.I.E.Aust.
List of Subjects for Agricultural Engineering Course
FIRST YEAR
551 Chemistry (Engineering course) 552 Engineering part I
553-1 Engineering Mathematics part I 554-1 Physics part I (Engineering course) SECOND YEAR
555-1 Applied Thermodynamics part I 556-1 Dynamics of Machines part I 557-1 'Electrical Engineering part IA 558-1 'Engineering Design part I 559 Engineering Materials
553-2 Engineering Mathematics part II 56o-1 Mechanics of Solids part I 554-2 'Physics part II (Engineering course) THIRD YEAR
561 Agricultural Science (Engineering course) 562-1 Earth Science A
558-2 Engineering Design part II 566-3 Engineering Mathematics part IIIA 563-1 Fluid Mechanics A
560-2 Mechanics of Solids part II FOURTH YEAR
564 Agricultural Economics (Engineering course) 565-1 Agricultural Engineering—Hydrology 565-2 Agricultural Engineering—Mechanical 565-3 Agricultural Engineering—Structures 556 Dynamics of Machines part IIA 567 Surveying (Agricultural Engineering)
1 The examinations in these subjects will be for pass only.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
The degree in Chemical Engineering was first conferred in 195z. In 196o the Department of Chemical Engineering was estaьІ ished and a Chair of Chemical Engineering created in 1963. A new building is under construction, the first stage of which will be occupied in the summer of 1968-g. Laboratory classes at present conducted at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology will be largely transferred to this new building in 1969; as will many post-graduate research projects at present scattered throughout the University buildings.
Chemical Engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the development and application of equipment for manufacturing processes in which certain chemical and physical changes take place. These processes may usually be resolved into a co-ordinated series of physical operations (unit operations) and chemical reactions. The sciences under- lying Chemical Engineering are chemistry, physics and mathematics, but as in other branches of engineering economic considerations determine final decisions on design and operation. Usually chemical engineers work in close association with engineers of other forms of training, and Chemical Engineering activity creates many positions in science and other branches of engineering.
Among the process industries the chemical manufacturing and petroleum industries are the most vigorous, providing employment for the majority of chemical engineering graduates. But the world over, an almost equal number is spread over the food and timber processing industries and in fuels and extractive metallurgy. Within Australia these amongst others offer employment to increasing numbers of graduates. For example, chemical engineering techniques are employed in both the research institutes concerned with primary food production and commercial undertakings producing processed foods, in the -utilization of timber for both paper and a source of chemicals. Responsibilities within these and other industries cover research and development, design, operation of plant, sales and management. There is an increasing tendency for graduates to be appointed to higher management in the process industries.
The course has been devised to enable students to secure an adequate grounding in the basic sciences in the earlier years and in the later years to acquire facility in that funda- mental analysis of industrial operations which is required to secure products manu
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factured to specification with optimal economy and necessary regard for human health and safety.
In the First Year course students wishing to proceed to a degree in Chemical Engineer- ing must take Chemistry IA or
IB.
The Chemical Engineering Department gives considerable importance to the establish- ment of a flourishing research school and promising young graduates are encouraged to proceed to the research degrees of Master of Engineering Science and Doctor of Philosophy. Since January 1964 the Brown Coal Research Laboratory, formerly associated with the Metallurgy Department, has been affiliated with the Department.
Teaching Staff Professor of Chemical Engineering:
S. R. Sicmon, B.Sc., M.App.Sc., (Q'ld), _ M.E., CEng.
F.R.A.C.I., F.N.Z.I.C., M.I.E.Aust.
Senior Lecturers:
W. R. B. Martin, M.Sc. (N.Z.), C.Eng., A.M.I.Chem.E., I. J. Harris, B.Sc. (Load.), Ph.D. (N.S.W.), C.Eng., A.M D. G. Wood, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Load.), A.M.I.Chcm.E.
Lectureri
R. S. Yost, B.App.Sc. (Tas.), A.R.A.C.I.
Special Lecturer:
B. J. Byrne, Ph.D. (Lind.), B.Sc., F.R.A.C.I.
Assistant Lecturer:
G. N. Kerkin, B.E. (Cantuar)
BROWN COAL RESEARCH LABORATORY Senior
Research Dficers:
F. A. Bull, Dr.rer.nat. (Karlsruhe), М.Sc., A.R.A.C.I.
D. G. Evans, M.Sc., A.R.A.C.I., M.Inst.F., A.М.I.Chеnд.Е:
Research Officer:
Vacant.
Part-time Teaching Olїicer:
Reader:
W. Strauss, Ph.D. (Shell.), M.E. (Syd.), B.Chem.E., М.Sc.
, M.I.C11em.E., A.M.A.LCh.E.;
A.M.I.Mech.E., A,R.A.C.I.
.I.Chem.E., A.M.A.LCh.E,
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List of Sub jects for Chemical Engìneering FIRST YEAR
361-1 Chemistry part IA or 361-z Chemistry part IB 552 Engineering part I
553-1 Engineering Mathematics part I 554-1 Physics part I (Engineering course) SECOND YEAR
471-1 Chemical Engineering part I 36z-3 Chemistry part IIC
557-1 Electrical Engineering part IA 55з-z Engineering Mathematics part II 572. Metallurgy part IA
THIRD YEAR
571-z Chemical Engineering part II 558 Engineering Design part IA 566-3 Engineering Mathematics part IIIA бz3-1 Metallurgical Engineering part I 573 Physical Chemistry
574 Process Chemistry POURТН YEAR1
z32-3 Business Administration 3 (Business Decisions) 571
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3 Chemical Engineering part III575 Chemical Industry Organization 576 Chemical Plant Development and Design 577-г Discussion Sessions II
1 Students enrolling for Fourth Year Chemical Engineering in 196g arc required to take a preliminary course in Fortran Programming beginning 3 March.
CIVIL ENGINEERING
A school of Civil Engineering was set up in November 1860 and classes commenced in 1861. At first a certificate of Engineering was awarded, but in 1882 a chair of Engineering was established, and a degree course in Civil Engineering was introduced in 1883. This course was amended in 1893 to form the first B.C.E. course in which the foundations of today's curriculum can be traced.
The teaching of ` Civil Engineering continued to be administered within the single department of Engineering until 1947, when the first chair of Civil Engineering was established and the first professor (Dr J. A. L. Matheson) appointed.
Civil Engineering teaching now includes both the undergraduate course of B.E. (Civil) and the graduate (M.Eng.Sc.) courses.
At present about sixty civil engineers graduate with the degree of B.E. (Civil) each year. There are about thirty research students reading for the research degrees of M.Eng.Sc.
and Ph.D.
TI-lE B.E. (CIVIL) COURSE
The first two years of this course have much in common with the Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, Mining and Agricultural Engineering courses, the aims being to provide funda- mental training in the basic sciences of Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry and in the elements of the structure and mechanics of materials, Thermodynamics, Dynamics of Machines, Electrical Engineering, and Engineering Design
The third and fourth years of the course are concerned mainly with the Theory and Design of Structures, Soil Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Traffic and Transport and Surveying. Mathematics Statistics and the writing of English are taken in third year while in fourth year Mathematics is again available as an elective. A large part of the fourth year is devoted to structural and hydraulic design projects and selected research projects on which individual theses are submitted. About one-fifth of the time in this year is elective material and students have a wide choice of topics in Civil Engineering and allied subjects including Town Planning, Business Administration and a science language.
Non-technical activities in fourth year include Discussion Groups, Law afd Economics lectures and alternative short courses in Appreciation of Art, Music and Practice in Painting, etc.
Accepted В.Е. (Civil) graduates may study for the higher degrees of M.Eng.Sc. and Ph.D. by study and research within the Department. For further details see University Calendar.
THE M.ENG.SC. (CIVIL) COURSE
In 1g6o full-time graduate courses leading to the degree of M.Eng.Sc. were introduced in the department of Civil Engineering. The courses Structural Engineering, Soil Engineer- ing, Hydraulics Engineering and Transport Engineering extend over twelve months, about half an academic year being devoted to formal teaching and the remaining time to a selected research project. It is also possible to proceed to the M.Eng.Sc. degree by full-time research work on a selected project.
THE CÍVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES These consist of the following:
1. Metals Testing Laboratory (Melbourne)
i. Concrete Laboratories (Melbourne and Sупdal) .
;. Soil Mechanics Laboratories (Melbourne and Synda!) 4. Structures Laboratory (Syndal)
ç. Hydraulic Laboratory (Melbourne)
The departmental laboratories are not all located at Melbourne. Owing to shortage of space it has been found necessary to expand to an external site at Syndal about twelve miles east of Melbourne.
A Soil Mechanics Laboratory has been operating for some years in collaboration with the C.S.I.R.O. Division of Soil Mechanics at Syndal and more recently a Structural Testing Laboratory 9,00o square feet in area has been built nearby. Part of the latter area is available for research and testing structures of all types.
The Hydraulics Laboratory (q,000 square feet in area) was recently completed and large scale research and testing in this field is now possible.
These laboratories cover a total area of zz,000 square feet and contain much costly and specialized equipment with ancillary workshop and maintenance facilities. They are available for teaching, research and testing, and provide a valuable service to industry and government bodies when special tests and investigations are required.
RECOGNITION
The B.E. (Civil) degree at Melbourne is recognized by The Institution of Engineers, Australia
The Institution of Civil Engineers, London The Institution of Structurаl Engineers (London) The American Society of Civil Engineers
The Board of Examiners for Engineers of Water Supply, Victoria The Board of Examiners for Municipal Engineers, Victoria
and carries exemptions from all or part of the written examinations of these bodies.
Teaching Sta$
Professors of Civil Engineering: - .
А. J. Francis, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Birro.), M.Ć.E., M.I.C.E., M.1.Struct.E., M.I.E.Aust.
L. K. Stevens, Ph.D. (Cantab.), B.C.E., M.Eng.Sc., A.M.I.C.E., A.M.I.E.Aust.
Reader:
J. D. Lawson, B.E. (W.A.), Ph.D. (Aberd.), М.Е., M.A.S.C.E., A.M.I.E.Aust.
Senior Lecturers:
§В. В. Sharp, М.Е. (Adel.), Ph.D., F.S.A.S.M., A.M.I.E.Aust.
L. C. Schmidt, B.C.E., M.Eng.Sc., Ph.D., A.M.I.E.Aust., M.A.S.C.E.
P. J. Moore, B.E. (Syd.), M.S. (I1I.), Sc.D. (M.I.T.), A.M.I.E.Aust., A.M.A.S.C.E.
§D. S. Mansell, Ph.D. (Wales), M.Eпg.Sc., A.M.I.E.Aust.
I. C. O'Neill, B.C.E., M.Eng.Sc., Dip.C.E., A.M.I.E.Aust., A.M.A.S.C.E.
J. R. Morgan, Ph.D., A.M.I.E.Aust.
G. D. Base, B.Sc. (Eng.), Ph.D., A.M.I.C.E._
N. F. Clark, B.E., B.Com. (Q'Id), A.M.I.E.Aust.
§W. T. O'Brien, B.E. (Civil), Ph.D., C.E.
Lecturer:
H. R. Graze, B.C.E., Ph.D., A.M.I.E.Aust., A.M.A.S.C.E.
Senior Demonstrators:
H. Hughes, B.C.E., M.I.E.Aust:
L. P. Ilott, D.Tech. (Vienna), A.M.I.E.Aust.
G. Nicoll, Dip.Eng. (R.T.C., Glas.) . Part-time Teaching Officers:
Lecturers in Structural Design:
R. T. A. Hardcastle, B.C.E., A.M.I.E.Aust.
H. C. Richards, Dip.C.E., A.M.I.E.Aust.
R. M. Johnson, B.C.E., S.M. (Harv.), A.M.I.E.Aust.
T. J. Langley, В.С.Е., A.M.LE.Aust.
Lecturers in Transport Engineering:
R. L. Pretty, Л4.Eng.Sc.. Ph.D. (N.S.W.), А.M.I.E.Aust.
N. S. Guerin, B.C.E., С.Е., E.W.S., A.M.I.E.Aust., Cert.H.T. (Yale), A.M.I.T.E.
L. M. Jones, B.C.E., C.E.; A.M.I.E.Aust., Dipl. Highway Eng. (Dunelm) R. T. Underwood, М.Е., Ćert.H.T. (Yale), D.P.T.R.P., A.M.I.E.Aust.
Lecturers in the Civil Engineering Graduate Schооl:
J. D. Boyd, M.C.E., M.I.E.Aust.
J. F. Brotchie, B.C.E., D.Eng. (Berkeley, Calif.), A.M.I.E.Aust., M.A.S.C.E.
O. G. Ingles, B.A., M.Sc., F.R.I.C.
D. Lafeber, D.Sc. (Amsterdam)
List of Sub jecis for Civil Engineering Course
FIRST YEAR
551 Chemistry (Engineering course) 551 Engineering part I
553-1 Engineering Mathematics part I 554
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Physics part I (Engineering course)§ On sabbatical leave.
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SECOND YEAR
555-1 Applied Thermodynamics part I 556-1 Dynamics of Machines part I 557-1 Electrical Engineering part IA 558-1 'Engineering Design part I 553-2 Engineering Mathematics part II 559 Engineering Materials
56o-1 Mechanics of Solids part I
554-2 'Physics part II (Engineering course) THIRD YEAR
583-t Civil Engineering I
5бi6-3 Engineering Mathematics part INA 582-1 Surveying part I
FOURTH YEAR
58з-г Civil Engineering II
List of Subjects for Block Exemption Course2
THIRD YEAR'
566-2 Engineering Mathematics part II8 554-2 Physics part II (Engineering course) 583-I Civil Engineering I
553-3 Engineering Mathematics part III 559 Engineering Materials
FOURTH YEAR (As for standard course) I The examination in these subjects will be for Pass only.
2 The subjects shown are to be taken by candidates who have completed diploma courses to the old sylla bus. Candidates who have completed the new courses introduced in 1965 will be required to take a course as prescribed by Faculty on the recommendation of the Head of Department.
n Candidates who have passed the subject Mathematics IV (5965 diploma courses) at credit or near-credit standard, and included the sections on matrices and vector methods in the course may be granted exemption from Engineering Mathematics IIB.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
The degree of Electrical Engineering in the University of Melbourne was first conferred in 1915. Until 1947 the teaching of Electrical Engineering was administered within the single department of Engineering by Associate Professor E. B. Brown. The course was primarily directed towards the traditional heavy current Power subjects.
In 1947 a department of Electrical Engineering was formed and the first professor appointed in 1948. The scope of the department was enlarged to include the field of Electronics as well as that of Power. The immediate post-war period was a difficult time for expanding the department facilities afd it was not until 1955 that permanent Electronics laboratories could be occupied.
In 1959 the establishment of a Control System. Laboratory reflected the recognition of this subject as appropriate to a department of Electrical Engineering.
These three main groups reflect the department's interests, courses and research activities.
The laboratories cover a total area of some 16,ооo sq. ft. and have specialized workshop and maintenance facilities with staff for constructing new equipment, together with facilities for instrument calibration.
The main undergraduate laboratories are:
(a) D.C. Machines (d) Control Systems
(b) A.C. Machines (e) Electronics
(c) Circuits and Measurements (f) Communications
together with laboratories for graduate research work and for special equipment such as the large general purpose analogue computer which was purchased by the Faculty in 1962 with a special grant from the Australian Universities Commission.
Within the past decade the number of undergraduates in the department has risen steeply until it is now one of the largest departments within the Faculty and there has been a steady increase in the number of graduate research workers.
The Electrical Engineering course is basically common with several other courses in the Faculty up to the end of second year. The first and second years lay a foundation of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics together with subjects in the fields of Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering and of Engineering Materials.
The third and fourth years are designed around the core subjects of Electrical Engineer- ing and, for students who show the ability, Mathematics can be taken in both years.
Lectures present a foundation of fundamental principles common to almost every branch of electrical engineering. There is an opportunity in the fourth year for students to elect lecture series of a specialist nature in fields such as Communications, Electronics, Power or Control.
Laboratory computer programming and design work are treated as an integral part of the course. In the final years theses and project work play a significant part being orga- nized on a more flexible basis to satisfy the
project
range of interests created by the more specialized fields.
Integral parts of the later years, though not formally examined, are the courses in the writing of English, the study of modern literature largely conducted by members of the University Staff outside the Faculty of Engineering, and the opportunity for final year students to participate in non-technical sessions in which the appreciation of art, music or practice in painting may be chosen. This is made possible by the co-operation of organizations such as the National Gallery, the Conservatorium of Music and the R.M.I.T. Art School.
After obtaining the bachelor's degree, suitably quali5ed students may proceed to the higher degrees of M.Eng.Sc. and Ph.D. in the Department. For the М.Eng.Sc. candidates will be expected to take some further formal course work involving some specialized advanced work in the Department, and further Mathematics, Physics, Statistics or other course of study. These courses will amount to about z5 per cent of the Master's year.
The remainder of the time is spent on a research project selected in consultation with the staff.
Regular research seminars by senior students and staff are organized so that research students have frequent opportunities of keeping up to date in fields other than their own.
The Electrical course is recognized by The Institution of Engineers, Australia, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London and the Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers (Australia), so that possession of the degree exempts students wishing to join any of these from further examination. Students are recommended to apply for student membership of at least one of these institutions during their courses.
Teaching
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Professor of Electrical Engineering:
C. E. Hoorhouse, D.Eag., M.I.E.Aust., F.I.E.E., F.A.C.E.
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