FIRST YEAR COURSES IN ENGINEERING
The first year course for all Engineering courses consists of the follow- ing four subjects:
Chemistry (Engineering course) Engineering Mathematics part I Introduction to Engineering Physics part I (Engineering course)
Upon completion of these subjects, students may enrol in any second year Engineering course, subject to any quota restrictions which may be imposed.
FIRST YEAR COURSES IN SURVEYING
The first year of the Surveying course consists of the following four subjects:
Principles of Statistics Engineering Mathematics part Introduction to Engineering
Physics part I (Engineering course) FIRST YEAR COURSES IN APPLIED SCIENCE
The first year course for the two Applied Science courses (Applied Chemistry and Metallurgy) consists of the blowing four subjects:
Chemistry part I
Physics part IB (Applied Science) Engineering Mathematics part 1 Economic and Social History (AppSc)
The first year of the Applied Science (Electronics) course consists of the following four subjects:
Chemistry (Engineering course) Engineering Mathematics part I Introduction to Engineering Physics part IB (Applied Science) FIRST YEAR COURSES IN SCIENCE
Students enrolled for the BSc degree course who pass the following subjects In first year:
Chemistry
Introduction to Engineering Mathematics IC
Physics
may apply for admission to the second year BE or BAppSc courses.
Applications will be dealt with on the basis of results obtained
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AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Agricultural engineering Is the application of engineering principles and experience to many of the problems of agriculture. As practised In Australia, this means that it is relevant to a wide range of specific agricultural Industries, and land-use determinations over a wide range of climates, soils and topography.
The degree course offered at this University is the only one of its kind at an Australian university, although there are many provided at over- seas institutions. The course is an Inter-disciplinary one; It draws on basic subject matter taught in the other Engineering departments, and the school of Agriculture, and presents the material in the context of its agricultural applications. The subjects taken In the school of Agri- culture are Intended to give a sufficient background In agricultural practices and to Introduce the student to problems that are peculiar to biological and organic products. With this background, the course Is then essentially engineering in character.
The first two years of the course provide basic engineering training, and are much the same as for other engineering courses; students pass- ing these two years in other courses may be able to enter the Agricul- tural Engineering course at third year. Similarly engineering students from other institutions can also transfer at this level, subject to certain conditions being met.
Third year has components from Civil Engineering such as soil mech- anics and fluid mechanics, and Mechanical Engineering such as engin- eering design. The subject Agriculture (Engineering Course) is taken In the school of Agriculture, together with some material on soll chem- istry.
The greater part of fourth year Is taken up with the detailed study of agricultural engineering including designs and project work. The main themes are soil and water conservation, agricultural machines and pro- cesses, farm structures and the rural environment. fn addition, a course in agricultural economics is provided by the school of Agriculture.
The Agricultural Engineering Section is located In the new Eastern Extension to the Civil Engineering-Surveying Building; in addition it has a teaching laboratory and experimental areas of б ha at the Mt Derrimut Field Station of the University, and a Sheep Handling Laboratory adjac- ent to the Australian Tractor Testing Station at Werribee. Students do
much of their field work in fourth year at these two centres.
The breadth of engineering training offered in this course opens the way to useful employment in a wide variety of agricultural engineering and associated organisations. Most graduates have found their Initial employment in government departments, but many have also gone Into private employment; others have worked overseas on agricultural aid programmes of various types.
A number of graduates have made their careers in University or other teaching and research. Opportunities for postgraduate study are open for higher degrees or on continuing research projects with which the department is associated. A cooperative arrangement exists whereby many of the facilities of the State department of Agrloulture are avail- able for agricultural engineering research.
Agriculture In the future will be called to ever Increasing levels of efficiency and production, and because of their Importance In this regard, agricultural engineers will play a correspondingly Important part in these technical and scientific developments.
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
Students in third year may join The Institution of Engineers, Australia as student members; on graduation they are eligible for full member- ship of the Institution without further examination. The Australian Institute of Agricultural Science also welcomes graduates from other disciplines who are employed In the agricultural industries.
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Agricultural Science (Engineering course) Engineering Design part
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Engineering Mathematics part Fluid Mechanics A
Mechanics of Solids part II Geology (Engineering course) Soil Mechanics
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Agricultural Economics (Engineering course) Agricultural Engineering part I
Dynamics of Machines part IIA Surveying (Engineering course)
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The Agricultural Engineering Society of Australia provides a meeting ground for professional and non-professional people Interested In this area, while at the International level membership Is open to Australian Agricultural Engineering graduates In the American Society of Agricul- tural Engineers and the British Institute of Agricultural Engineering.
TEACHING STAFF
See department of Civil Engineering.
SUBJECTS FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING COURSE FIRST YEAR
610-004 Chemistry (Engineering course) 400-101 Introduction to Engineering 618-005 Engineering Mathematics part I 640-006 Physics part I (Engineering course) SECOND YEAR
436-201 Applied Thermodynamics part I 436-202 Dynamics of Machines part I 431-211 Electrical Engineering part IA 436-203 Engineering Design part I
441-221 Engineering Materials
618-025 Engineering Mathematics part Il 421-211 Mechanics of Solids part I 421-221 Agricultural Engineering Studies 451-202 Computer Programming
THIRD YEAR 200-031 436-303 618-036 421-311 436-371 626-022 421-312 FOURTH 200-041 421-470 436-471 451-312