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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 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90004 | Advanced Neural Information Processing | No longer available | |
| BMEN90011 | Tissue Engineering & Stem Cells | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90012 | Soft Matter Engineering | No longer available | |
| BMEN90021 | Medical Imaging | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90022 | Computational Biomechanics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90071 | Auditory and Visual Processing | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIEN90004 | Biochemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering | No longer available | |
| BMEN90011 | Tissue Engineering & Stem Cells | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90012 | Soft Matter Engineering | No longer available | |
| CHEN90007 | Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90010 | Sustainable Minerals and Recycling | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90011 | Wastewater and Environmental Remediation | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90012 | Design and Construction of Equipment | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90018 | Particle Technology | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90019 | Advanced Heat & Mass Transport Processes | No longer available | |
| CHEN90027 | Future Fuels and Petroleum | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90031 | Sustainable Processing | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90032 | Process Simulation and Control | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90034 | Research Methods | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| CHEN90035 | Chemical Product Development | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| CHEN90036 | Recent Advances in Separation Processes | No longer available | |
| ENGR90024 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| FOOD90029 | Food Engineering | No longer available |
Computing and Information Systems Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BINF90002 | Elements of Bioinformatics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90007 | Internet Technologies |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90014 | Algorithms for Bioinformatics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90015 | Distributed Systems |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90016 | Computational Genomics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90017 | Sensor Networks and Applications | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| COMP90018 | Mobile Computing Systems Programming | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90019 | Distributed Computing Project | No longer available | |
| COMP90020 | Distributed Algorithms | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90024 | Cluster and Cloud Computing | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90025 | Parallel and Multicore Computing | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90038 | Algorithms and Complexity |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90041 | Programming and Software Development |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90042 | Natural Language Processing | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90043 | Cryptography and Security | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90044 | Research Methods |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90045 | Programming Language Implementation | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| COMP90046 | Constraint Programming | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| COMP90048 | Declarative Programming | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90049 | Introduction to Machine Learning |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90050 | Advanced Database Systems |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Winter Term (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90051 | Statistical Machine Learning |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90054 | AI Planning for Autonomy |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90057 | Advanced Theoretical Computer Science | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90058 | |||
| GEOM90018 | Spatial Databases | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90042 | Spatial Information Programming | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| INFO90001 | Health Informatics Methods | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| INFO90002 | Database Systems & Information Modelling |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90026 | Fundamentals of Information Systems |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (Online)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90031 | Research Methods in Information Systems | No longer available | |
| ISYS90032 | Emerging Technologies and Issues | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90034 | B2B Electronic Commerce | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90035 | Knowledge Management Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90036 | Enterprise Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90037 | Managing IS Projects: People & Politics | No longer available | |
| ISYS90038 | IS Strategy and Governance |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90040 | Managing Change for IS Professionals | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90043 | Enterprise Applications & Architectures | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90045 | Professional IS Consulting |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90048 | Managing ICT Infrastructure |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90049 | Digital Business Analysis |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90050 | IT Project and Change Management |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90051 | Impact of Digitisation |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90052 | Managing Large Projects | No longer available | |
| ISYS90055 | Managing IT Outsourcing | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90068 | |||
| ISYS90069 | Digital Transformation of Health |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
July (Online)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90076 | IT Infrastructure for Digital Health | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90077 | Designing Digital Health Solutions | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90078 | Structuring and Managing Patient Data | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90085 | Interaction Design and Usability | No longer available | |
| ISYS90086 | Data Warehousing | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| SKIL90004 | Project Management in Science | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90002 | Engineering for Internet Applications | No longer available | |
| SWEN90004 | Modelling Complex Software Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90006 | Security & Software Testing | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90007 | Software Design and Architecture | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90009 | Software Requirements Analysis | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90010 | High Integrity Systems Engineering | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90070 | Information Security Consulting | June (Online) |
12.5 |
Infrastructure Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVEN90016 | Concrete Design and Technology | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90017 | Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90018 | Structural Dynamics and Modelling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90019 | Sustainable Water Resources Systems | No longer available | |
| CVEN90024 | High Rise Structures | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90026 | Extreme Loading of Structures | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90027 | Geotechnical Applications | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90035 | Steel and Composite Structures Design | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90043 | Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90044 | Engineering Site Characterisation | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90048 | Transport Systems | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90050 | Geotechnical Engineering | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90005 | Environmental Management ISO 14000 | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90006 | Solid Wastes to Sustainable Resources | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90011 | Energy Efficiency Technology | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90014 | Sustainable Buildings | September (Online) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90027 | Energy for Sustainable Development | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90028 | Monitoring Environmental Impacts | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90029 | Water and Waste Water Management | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90030 | Groundwater Hydrology | No longer available | |
| ENEN90031 | Quantitative Environmental Modelling | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90032 | Environmental Analysis Tools | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90033 | Solar Energy | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENEN90034 | Environmental Applied Hydrology | No longer available | |
| ENGM90006 | Engineering Contracts and Procurement | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGM90007 | Project Management Practices | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90026 | Engineering Entrepreneurship | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| GEOM90005 | Remote Sensing | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90006 | Spatial Analysis | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90007 | Information Visualisation | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90008 | Foundations of Spatial Information |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| GEOM90015 | Spatial Data Infrastructure | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90016 | Advanced Topics in GIScience | No longer available | |
| GEOM90018 | Spatial Databases | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90033 | Satellite Positioning Systems | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90038 | Advanced Imaging | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90039 | Advanced Surveying and Mapping | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90040 | Mathematics of Spatial Information | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90041 | Cadastral Surveying | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90042 | Spatial Information Programming | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Mechanical Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELEN90064 | Advanced Control Systems | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90019 | Adv Topics in Fluid Mechanics | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ENGR90020 | Adv Topics in Biomechanics | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ENGR90024 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90026 | Engineering Entrepreneurship | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MCEN90017 | Advanced Motion Control | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MCEN90018 | Advanced Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90019 | Advanced Thermodynamics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90020 | Additive Manufacturing of Metals | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MCEN90023 | Quality and Reliability | No longer available | |
| MCEN90027 | |||
| MCEN90028 | Robotics Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90029 | Advanced Solid Mechanics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90031 | Applied High Performance Computing | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MCEN90032 | Sensor Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGM90015 | Management and Leadership for Engineers | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Graduate School of Science
School of Botany
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL90001 | Microscopy for Biological Sciences | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - 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 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90012 | Measure Theory | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90013 | Network Optimisation | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90014 | Optimisation for Industry | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90017 | Representation Theory | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90019 | Random Processes | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90020 | Functional Analysis | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90023 | Algebraic Topology | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90025 | Commutative and Multilinear Algebra | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90026 | Computational Differential Equations | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90027 | Practice of Statistics & Data Science | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90029 | Differential Topology and Geometry | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90030 | Advanced Discrete Mathematics | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90031 | Enumerative Combinatorics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90045 | Systems Modelling and Simulation | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90050 | Scheduling and Optimisation | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90051 | Mathematics of Risk | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90053 | Experimental Mathematics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90056 | Riemann Surfaces and Complex Analysis | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90057 | Elements of Probability | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90058 | Elements of Statistics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90059 | Stochastic Calculus with Applications | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90060 | Mathematical Statistical Mechanics | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90064 | Advanced Methods: Differential Equations | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90065 | Exactly Solvable Models | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MAST90067 | Advanced Methods: Transforms | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90068 | Groups, Categories & Homological Algebra | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90069 | Introduction to String Theory | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90080 | Advanced Modelling: Case Studies | No longer available | |
| MAST90081 | Advanced Probability | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90082 | Mathematical Statistics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90083 | Computational Statistics & Data Science | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90084 | Statistical Modelling | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90085 | Multivariate Statistical Techniques | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
School of Physics
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHYC90006 | Quantum and Advanced Optics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| PHYC90007 | Quantum Mechanics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - 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 | No longer available | |
| ELEN90017 | |||
| ELEN90018 | Adv Topics in Engineering Mathematics | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90022 | |||
| ELEN90026 | Introduction to Optimisation | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90027 | Linear Systems Theory | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90028 | Nonlinear Systems Theory | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90030 | Information Theory | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90031 | |||
| ELEN90071 | Auditory and Visual Processing | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90072 | |||
| ELEN90076 | Image Processing | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90078 | Distributed Systems and Game Theory | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90084 | Microwave Photonics | Not available in 2022 | 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: 21 February 2025