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About this course
Coordinator
Associate Dean (Research)
Contact
Melbourne School of Engineering
Ground Floor, Old Engineering (Building 173)
Course structure
Coursework Component
All PhD students in the School of Engineering must complete two subjects from the approved lists below prior to confirmation. Students in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering must complete two additional subjects after confirmation, which may be chosen outside of the Departmental list with additional approval.
Awarding of Final Mark & Grade
Students must successfully complete the required coursework component in order to be awarded the PhD-Engineering. Where there is a coursework component the final mark and grade for the degree is the mark and grade awarded for the PhD thesis.
Subject options
All students in the School of Engineering must complete two subjects from the approved lists below prior to confirmation. Students in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering must complete two additional subjects after confirmation, which may be chosen outside of the Departmental list with additional approval.
If a student does not have sufficient background in the subjects or their area of research, they may be required by the supervisory panel to take preliminary undergraduate subjects or complementary subjects such as ‘LING90002 Presenting Academic Discourse’ or ‘MAST90007: Statistics for Research Workers’. Preliminary undergraduate and complementary subjects will not count towards the postgraduate level coursework requirement for 351AA PhD-Engineering.
Students in the following Departments may select subjects from the complete list below;
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Computing and Information Systems
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
Graduate/Postgraduate subjects NOT listed below may be selected in consultation with the student’s supervisor and are subject to the endorsement of the subject coordinator and Head of Department.
Students in Electrical and Electronic Engineering must select from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering list.
Subjects Available:
Biomedical Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMEN90002 | Neural Information Processing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90004 | Advanced Neural Information Processing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90011 | Tissue Engineering & Stem Cells | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90012 | Soft Matter Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90021 | Medical Imaging | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90022 | Computational Biomechanics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90071 | Auditory and Visual Processing | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIEN90004 | Biochemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90011 | Tissue Engineering & Stem Cells | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90012 | Soft Matter Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90007 | Advanced Thermo & Reactor Engineering | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90010 | Minerals, Materials and Recycling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90011 | Bioenvironmental Engineering | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90012 | Process Equipment Design | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90018 | Particle Mechanics and Processing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90019 | Advanced Heat & Mass Transport Processes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90027 | Carbon Capture and Storage | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90031 | Bioprocess Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90032 | Process Dynamics And Control | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90034 | Research Methods | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90035 | Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| CHEN90036 | Recent Advances in Separation Processes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90024 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FOOD90029 | Food Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Computing and Information Systems Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BINF90002 | Elements of Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90007 | Internet Technologies |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90014 | Algorithms for Functional Genomics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90015 | Distributed Systems |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90016 | Computational Genomics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90017 | Sensor Networks and Applications | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| COMP90018 | Mobile Computing Systems Programming | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90019 | Distributed Computing Project |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
25 |
| COMP90020 | Distributed Algorithms | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90024 | Cluster and Cloud Computing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90025 | Parallel and Multicore Computing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90038 | Algorithms and Complexity |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90041 | Programming and Software Development |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90042 | Web Search and Text Analysis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90043 | Cryptography and Security | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90044 | Research Methods | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90045 | Programming Language Implementation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90046 | Constraint Programming | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| COMP90048 | Declarative Programming | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90049 | Knowledge Technologies |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90050 | Advanced Database Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90051 | Statistical Machine Learning | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90054 | AI Planning for Autonomy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90057 | Advanced Theoretical Computer Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90058 | |||
| GEOM90018 | Spatial Databases | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90042 | Spatial Information Programming | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| INFO90001 | eHealth & Biomedical Informatics Methods | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| INFO90002 | Database Systems & Information Modelling |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90026 | Fundamentals of Information Systems |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90031 | Research Methods in Information Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90032 | Emerging Technologies and Issues |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90034 | B2B Electronic Commerce | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90035 | Knowledge Management Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90036 | Enterprise Systems | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90037 | Managing IS Projects: People & Politics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90038 | IS Strategy and Governance |
March (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90040 | Managing Change for IS Professionals | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90043 | Enterprise Applications & Architectures |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90045 | Professional IS Consulting |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90048 | Managing ICT Infrastructure |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90049 | Business Analysis Modelling and Design |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90050 | IT Project and Change Management |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90051 | Impact of Digitisation |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90052 | Managing Large Projects | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90055 | Managing IT Outsourcing | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90068 | |||
| ISYS90069 | eHealth & Biomedical Informatics Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90076 | IT Infrastructure for eHealth | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90077 | EHealth Applications and Solutions | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90078 | Health Data, Information and Knowledge | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90085 | Interaction Design and Usability | No longer available | |
| ISYS90086 | Data Warehousing | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SKIL90004 | Project Management in Science | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90002 | Engineering for Internet Applications | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| SWEN90004 | Modelling Complex Software Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90006 | Software Testing and Reliability | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90007 | Software Design and Architecture | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90009 | Software Requirements Analysis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90010 | High Integrity Systems Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90070 | Information Security Consulting | Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Infrastructure Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVEN90016 | Concrete Design and Technology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90017 | Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90018 | Structural Dynamics and Modelling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90019 | Sustainable Water Resources Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90024 | High Rise Structures | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90026 | Extreme Loading of Structures | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90027 | Geotechnical Applications | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90035 | Structural Theory and Design 3 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90043 | Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90044 | Engineering Site Characterisation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90048 | Transport Systems | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90050 | Geotechnical Engineering | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90005 | Environmental Management ISO 14000 | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90006 | Solid Wastes to Sustainable Resources | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90011 | Energy Efficiency Technology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90014 | Sustainable Buildings | September (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90027 | Energy for Sustainable Development | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90028 | Monitoring Environmental Impacts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90029 | Water and Waste Water Management | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90030 | Groundwater Hydrology | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ENEN90031 | Quantitative Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90032 | Environmental Analysis Tools | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90033 | Solar Energy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90034 | Environmental Applied Hydrology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGM90006 | Engineering Contracts and Procurement | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGM90007 | Project Management Practices | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90026 | Engineering Entrepreneurship | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90005 | Remote Sensing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90006 | Spatial Analysis | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90007 | Spatial Visualisation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90008 | Foundations of Spatial Information |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| GEOM90015 | Spatial Data Infrastructure | July (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90016 | Advanced Topics in GIScience | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| GEOM90018 | Spatial Databases | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90033 | Satellite Positioning Systems | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90038 | Advanced Imaging | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90039 | Advanced Surveying and Mapping | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90040 | Mathematics of Spatial Information | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90041 | Cadastral Surveying | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90042 | Spatial Information Programming | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Mechanical Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELEN90064 | Advanced Control Systems | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90019 | Adv Topics in Fluid Mechanics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90020 | Adv Topics in Biomechanics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ENGR90024 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90026 | Engineering Entrepreneurship | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90017 | Advanced Motion Control | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90018 | Advanced Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90019 | Advanced Thermodynamics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90020 | Advanced Materials | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90023 | Quality and Reliability | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MCEN90027 | |||
| MCEN90028 | Robotics and Automation Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90029 | Advanced Solid Mechanics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90031 | Applied High Performance Computing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90032 | Sensor Systems | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGM90015 | Management and Leadership for Engineers | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Graduate School of Science
School of Botany
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL90001 | Microscopy for Biological Sciences | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
School of Chemistry
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEM90009 | Chemical Synthesis & Characterisation 1 | No longer available | |
| CHEM90010 | Advanced Chemical Applications 1 | No longer available | |
| CHEM90017 | Chemical Synthesis & Characterisation 2 | No longer available | |
| CHEM90018 | Advanced Chemical Applications 2 | No longer available |
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Students are permitted to undertake the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Masters level Mathematics and Statistics subjects listed below.
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAST90011 | Mathematical Biology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90012 | Measure Theory | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90013 | Network Optimisation | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90014 | Optimisation for Industry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90017 | Representation Theory | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90019 | Random Processes | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90020 | Functional Analysis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90023 | Algebraic Topology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90025 | Commutative and Multilinear Algebra | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90026 | Computational Differential Equations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90027 | The Practice of Statistics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90029 | Differential Topology and Geometry | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90030 | Advanced Discrete Mathematics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90031 | Enumerative Combinatorics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90045 | Systems Modelling and Simulation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90050 | Scheduling and Optimisation | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90051 | Mathematics of Risk | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90053 | Experimental Mathematics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90056 | Riemann Surfaces and Complex Analysis | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90057 | Elements of Probability | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90058 | Elements of Statistics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90059 | Stochastic Calculus with Applications | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90060 | Mathematical Statistical Mechanics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90064 | Advanced Methods: Differential Equations | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90065 | Exactly Solvable Models | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90067 | Advanced Methods: Transforms | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90068 | Groups, Categories & Homological Algebra | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90069 | Introduction to String Theory | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90080 | Advanced Modelling: Case Studies | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| MAST90081 | Advanced Probability | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90082 | Mathematical Statistics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90083 | Computational Statistics and Data Mining | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90084 | Statistical Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90085 | Multivariate Statistical Techniques | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
School of Physics
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHYC90006 | Quantum and Advanced Optics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| PHYC90007 | Quantum Mechanics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering students may select subjects from the list below;
Subjects Available:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMEN90004 | Advanced Neural Information Processing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90017 | |||
| ELEN90018 | Adv Topics in Engineering Mathematics | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90022 | |||
| ELEN90026 | Introduction to Optimisation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90027 | Linear Systems Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90028 | Nonlinear Systems Theory | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90030 | Information Theory | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90031 | |||
| ELEN90071 | Auditory and Visual Processing | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90072 | |||
| ELEN90076 | Digital Image Processing | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90078 | Distributed Systems and Game Theory | Not available in 2018 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90084 | Microwave Photonics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Graduate/Postgraduate subjects NOT listed above may be selected in consultation with the student’s supervisor and are subject to the endorsement of the subject coordinator and Head of Department.
Last updated: 30 January 2024