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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 | 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 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| BMEN90022 | Computational Biomechanics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90071 | Auditory and Visual Processing | Not available in 2023 | 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 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90010 | Sustainable Minerals and Recycling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90011 | Wastewater and Environmental Remediation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90012 | Design and Construction of Equipment | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90018 | Particle Technology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90019 | Advanced Heat & Mass Transport Processes | No longer available | |
| CHEN90027 | Future Fuels and Petroleum | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90031 | Sustainable Processing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90032 | Process Simulation and Control | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90034 | Research Methods | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| CHEN90035 | Downstream Bioprocessing | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CHEN90036 | Recent Advances in Separation Processes | No longer available | |
| ENGR90024 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (On Campus - 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 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90007 | Internet Technologies |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90014 | Algorithms for Bioinformatics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90015 | Distributed Systems |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90016 | Computational Genomics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90017 | Sensor Networks and Applications | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| COMP90018 | Mobile Computing Systems Programming | Semester 2 (On Campus - 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 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90038 | Algorithms and Complexity |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90041 | Programming and Software Development |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90042 | Natural Language Processing | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90043 | Cryptography and Security | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90044 | Research Methods |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90045 | Programming Language Implementation | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| COMP90046 | Constraint Programming | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| COMP90048 | Declarative Programming | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90049 | Introduction to Machine Learning |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - 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 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90054 | AI Planning for Autonomy |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| COMP90057 | Advanced Theoretical Computer Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| COMP90058 | |||
| GEOM90018 | Spatial Databases | No longer available | |
| GEOM90042 | Spatial Information Programming | No longer available | |
| INFO90001 | Health Informatics Methods | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
| INFO90002 | Database Systems & Information Modelling |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90026 | Concepts in Information Systems |
Semester 1 (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
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 2023 | 12.5 |
| ISYS90035 | Knowledge Management Systems | Semester 2 (On Campus - 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 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90040 | Managing Change for IS Professionals | No longer available | |
| ISYS90043 | Enterprise Applications & Architectures | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90045 | Professional IS Consulting |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90048 | Managing ICT Infrastructure |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90049 | Digital Business Analysis |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90050 | IT Project and Change Management |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| ISYS90051 | Digital Impacts on Business and Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90052 | Managing Large Projects | No longer available | |
| ISYS90055 | Managing IT Outsourcing | Not available in 2023 | 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 (Online) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90077 | Designing Digital Health Solutions | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90078 | Structuring and Managing Patient Data | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
| ISYS90085 | Interaction Design and Usability | No longer available | |
| ISYS90086 | Data Warehousing | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| SKIL90004 | Project Management in Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - 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 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SWEN90007 | Software Design and Architecture | Semester 2 (On Campus - 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 | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
Infrastructure Engineering
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVEN90016 | Design of Sustainable Structures | 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 | No longer available | |
| 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 | Steel and Composite Structures Design | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CVEN90043 | Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering | No longer available | |
| 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 1 (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 | No longer available | |
| 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 | No longer available | |
| 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 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90005 | Remote Sensing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90006 | Spatial Data Analytics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90007 | Information Visualisation | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90008 | Spatial Data Management |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| GEOM90015 | Spatial Data Infrastructure | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90016 | Advanced Topics in GIScience | No longer available | |
| GEOM90018 | Spatial Databases | No longer available | |
| GEOM90033 | Positioning Principles and Technologies | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90038 | Advanced Imaging | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| GEOM90039 | Advanced Surveying and Mapping | No longer available | |
| GEOM90040 | Mathematics of Spatial Information | No longer available | |
| GEOM90041 | Cadastral Surveying | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| GEOM90042 | Spatial Information Programming | No longer available |
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 | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ENGR90020 | Adv Topics in Biomechanics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ENGR90024 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ENGR90026 | Engineering Entrepreneurship | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90017 | Advanced Motion Control | Not available in 2023 | 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 Alloys and Polymers | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90023 | Quality and Reliability | No longer available | |
| MCEN90027 | |||
| MCEN90028 | Robotics Systems | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90029 | Advanced Solid Mechanics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MCEN90031 | Applied High Performance Computing | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MCEN90032 | Sensor Systems | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - 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 | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90012 | Measure Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90013 | Network Optimisation | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90014 | Optimisation for Industry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90017 | Representation Theory | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90019 | Random Processes | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90020 | Functional Analysis | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90023 | Algebraic Topology | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90025 | Commutative and Multilinear Algebra | No longer available | |
| MAST90026 | Computational Differential Equations | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90027 | Practice of Statistics & Data Science | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90029 | Differential Topology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90030 | Advanced Discrete Mathematics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90031 | Enumerative Combinatorics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90045 | Systems Modelling and Simulation | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90050 | Scheduling and Optimisation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90051 | Mathematics of Risk | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90053 | Experimental Mathematics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90056 | Riemann Surfaces and Complex Analysis | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
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 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90060 | Mathematical Statistical Mechanics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90064 | Advanced Methods: Differential Equations | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90065 | Exactly Solvable Models | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90067 | Advanced Methods: Transforms | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90068 | Groups, Categories & Homological Algebra | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90069 | Introduction to String Theory | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| MAST90080 | Advanced Modelling: Case Studies | No longer available | |
| MAST90081 | Advanced Probability | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90082 | Mathematical Statistics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90083 | Computational Statistics & Data Science | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90084 | Statistical Modelling | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MAST90085 | Multivariate Statistical Techniques | No longer available |
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 | No longer available | |
| ELEN90017 | |||
| ELEN90018 | Adv Topics in Engineering Mathematics | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90022 | |||
| ELEN90026 | Introduction to Optimisation | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| ELEN90027 | Linear Systems Theory | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90028 | Nonlinear Systems Theory | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90030 | Information Theory | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90031 | |||
| ELEN90071 | Auditory and Visual Processing | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90072 | |||
| ELEN90076 | Image Processing | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90078 | Distributed Systems and Game Theory | Not available in 2023 | 12.5 |
| ELEN90084 | Microwave Photonics | Not available in 2023 | 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: 13 November 2024