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Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Information Technology (BEBT) - BEng BIT
QTAC code (Australian and New Zealand applicants): Toowoomba campus: 907352
CRICOS code (International applicants): 030304B
This program is only offered to continuing students.
No new admissions will be accepted. Students who are interested in
this study area should consider the which will be offered from S1 2014.
| | On-campus | Distance education |
| Semester intake: | Semester 1 (February)
Semester 2 (July) | Semester 1 (February)
Semester 2 (July) |
| Campus: | Toowoomba | - |
| Fees: | Commonwealth supported place
Domestic full fee paying place
International full fee paying place
| Commonwealth supported place
Domestic full fee paying place
International full fee paying place
|
| Standard duration: | 5 years full-time, 8 years part-time or external |
| Program articulation: | From: Associate Degree of Engineering ; Bachelor of Engineering Technology
; Bachelor of Engineering
|
Notes
See note on part-time study below within Admission requirements.
Contact us
| Future Australian and New Zealand students |
Future International students |
Current students |
Freecall (within Australia): 1800 269 500
Phone (from outside Australia): +61 7 4631 5315
Email: studyeng@usq.edu.au |
Phone: +61 7 4631 5543
Email: international@usq.edu.au |
Freecall (within Australia): 1800 007 252
Phone (from outside
Australia): +61 7 4631 2285
Email usq.support@usq.edu.au |
Program focus
This combined degree program will provide students with the
knowledge and skills required to design, develop and implement both
the hardware and software components of computer systems. The program
combines computer systems engineering with applied computer science.
The award may be conferred with Honours to high-achieving students.
Career opportunities
Computer programmer, software/hardware engineer, computer scientist,
systems designer, computer systems officer.
Professional accreditation
A graduate of this program is eligible to apply for membership
of Engineers Australia as a graduate Engineer. After further professional
development, a graduate member with a Bachelor of Engineering may
apply for chartered status as a Professional Engineer and, when granted,
may use the post-nominal MIEAust CPEng.
The Bachelor of Engineering program is accredited by Engineers
Australia and, through an agreement reached between the professional
engineering bodies of other countries (the Washington Accord), is
also recognised in the United Kingdom, the Unites States of America,
Canada, Ireland, Hong Kong, New Zealand and South Africa.
The Bachelor of Information Technology program is accredited
at professional level by the Australian Computer Society and through
the Seoul Accord, is recognised in other countries.
Program aims
This combination of an Engineering program with a program in
Information Technology provides students with the opportunity to become
qualified Engineers with a very strong background in Computer Systems
and Applied Computer Science.
Graduates of this combined program will have a high level of
knowledge of both hardware and software components of computer systems
and the interrelationships between the two. They will have well-developed
skills in both hardware and software design and development.
For more details of the two programs that comprise this award,
applicants are asked to refer to the and the sections of this Handbook.
Admission requirements
Applicants shall normally:
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have studied four semester units and achieved an exit assessment
of 'Sound Achievement' or better in each of the following Queensland
Senior Secondary School subjects: English and Mathematics B. It is
recommended that applicants should also have satisfactorily completed
the subject: Physics, or
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be able to demonstrate that they have achieved an equivalent
standard in these subjects at another institution, and
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Australian applicants: have achieved a Queensland Overall
Position (OP) band, or an equivalent Rank based on qualifications
and previous work experience, at or above the specified cut-off level.
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International applicants: have met the 精东传媒app鈥檚
English language requirements or have completed the 精东传媒app鈥檚 program..
To be admitted to the program, students who intend studying
part-time (i.e. less than six units per year) must be eligible to
receive at least 16 units of exemptions. This is necessary to ensure
that these students are able to complete the program within the maximum
duration of eight years.
How to apply
Domestic students
may be made through the Queensland
Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC). The same procedure applies whether
you plan to study on-campus or by distance education.
If you completed Year 12 at a Queensland secondary school you
will be assessed for entry on the basis of your Overall Position (OP)
or equivalent score. Year 12 students from other states or territories
are considered for entry on the basis of their UAI, ENTER or TER and
the subject prerequisites indicated. Other applicants will be based
on their overall Rank.
International students
This program is offered to international students. An international
student is a person who is not an Australian or New Zealand citizen
and not an Australian permanent resident. Please refer to for information about entry requirements, visa arrangements and
how to apply.
Program fees
Commonwealth supported place
A Commonwealth supported place is where the Australian Government
makes a contribution towards the cost of your higher education and
you as a student pay a , which varies depending on the
courses undertaken. You are able to calculate the fees for a particular
course via the .
Commonwealth Supported students may
be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called .
Domestic full fee paying place
Domestic full fee paying places are funded entirely
through the full fees paid by the student. Full fees vary depending
on the courses that are taken. You are able to calculate the fees
for a particular course via the .
Domestic full fee paying students
may be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called provided they meet the residency and citizenship
requirements.
Australian citizens, Permanent Humanitarian Visa
holders, Permanent Resident visa holders and New Zealand citizens
who will be resident outside Australia for the duration of their program
pay full tuition fees and are not eligible for .
International full fee paying place
International students pay full fees. Full fees vary depending
on the courses that are taken and whether they are studied on-campus,
via distance education/online. You are able to calculate the fees
for a particular course via the .
Program structure
The program involves five years of full-time study and to be
eligible for the combined award, full-time students must complete
the requirements of the program within seven years of their initial
enrolment in the program.
Students may apply for admission to study part-time or by distance
education once they have completed 16 units of the Bachelor of Engineering
program or if they are eligible for advanced standing of 16 or more
units. This ensures that they are able to complete the program in
the maximum duration of eight years.
Where students intend to complete the program using a combination
of full-time and part-time study the maximum time for completion will
be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
The Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Information Technology
is a 40 unit program consisting of Academic courses and Practice courses.
Academic courses are normally one-unit courses and involve
approximately 155 hours of student work per unit.
Practice courses are zero unit courses offered by the
Faculty of Engineering and Surveying. Each involves approximately
50 hours of student work. The only grades available for a Practice
Course are Pass (P) and Fail (F). A Practice Course is designed to
enable students to acquire specific competencies associated with their
Engineering major study. These competencies range from specific practical
and communication skills through to generic competencies relating
to ethical and social responsibility, awareness of the environment,
teamwork, etc. For an external student a Practice Course generally
involves attendance on-campus for a one-week .
Residential Schools
Students enrolled in the external offer of a Practice Course must attend the residential school for that course. In some cases
students enrolled in the on-campus mode may also be required to attend
the residential school. Students should only enrol in a Practice Course
when they are able to attend the residential school for that course.
Practice courses may not be taken earlier than shown except
with the permission of the Program Coordinator responsible for the
program. In some cases students may enrol in two Practice courses
in one term so they can complete the two residential schools in a
two-week period. The actual dates for each residential school are
shown in the in this Handbook.
Safety boots are compulsory in engineering laboratories for
several of the Practice courses and are strongly recommended for all
other Practice courses.
Elective courses
Elective courses are included in the list of Academic courses.
Students should select these courses from the Electives list
Required time limits
Full-time students have a maximum of seven years to complete
this program. Part-time students have a maximum of eight years to
complete this program.
A pro-rata adjustment of the maximum time
period will apply for those students who transfer from one mode of
study to another. A pro-rata reduction in the maximum time period
will apply to students who are admitted to a program with advanced
standing.
IT requirements
Access to an up-to-date computer is necessary. On-campus students
can access appropriately equipped laboratories, but should consider
acquisition of their own computer. External students should be able
to access a computer with the following as advised by the 精东传媒app. All students
should have access to email and the Internet via a computer running
the latest versions of Internet web browsers such as Internet Explorer
or Firefox. The 精东传媒app has a wireless network for on-campus students'
computers. In order to take advantage of this facility and further
enhance their on-campus learning environment, students should consider
purchasing a notebook/laptop computer with wireless connectivity.
A notebook/laptop may be required for some courses.
Course transfers
Students who are enrolled in either the Bachelor of Engineering
program or the program may transfer to the program with advanced standing. If they
have completed up to one year of one of those programs they would
normally be able to complete the program in the minimum time, after
four more years of full-time study. Other students may require longer
than the minimum time.
Honours
The Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Information Technology
may be awarded with Honours in the engineering component of the award.
The class of honours to be awarded to a student is dependant upon:
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the Grade Point Average calculated from the grades achieved
in the courses studied in, or transferred to, the program;
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the grade achieved by the student in the courses and (unless the student
is exempted from these courses).
The minimum levels of achievement normally required for each
class of honours are shown in the following table. To be assured of
achieving a particular class of honours students must have achieved
the specified grade in the research project courses and the minimum
GPA requirements for all of the courses studied, for the last 16 courses
studied, or for the last eight courses studied.
| Class of Honours |
GPA Calculated from the Grades Achieved
in: |
Minimum Grade Achieved in Research
Project Courses |
| All Courses Studied in the Program |
The Last 16 Courses Studied*# |
The Last Eight Courses Studied*# |
| First Class Honours |
6.0 |
6.2 |
6.5 |
A |
| Second Class Honours - Division A |
5.5 |
5.7 |
5.9 |
B |
| Second Class Honours - Division B |
5.0 |
5.1 |
5.3 |
C |
| Minimum number of courses required |
20 |
16 |
8 |
|
Other information
To be eligible to graduate from the Bachelor of Engineering,
students must obtain an aggregate of at least 60 days of suitable
practical experience during their program. This experience may be
in an engineering office or laboratory where the student would be
working principally with professional engineers and engineering associates.
It may, however, be preferable for students to spend some time in
field or factory activities to gain insight into industrial practice
and to see what is involved in converting designs into finished products.
Students are required to enrol in in the latter part of their program
and keep a record of appropriate experience as specified in the Course
Specification. The work experience is to be endorsed by an appropriate
person in the organisation providing the experience and submitted
to the examiner. The student must meet all costs associated with the
acquisition of practical experience to satisfy this requirement. The
record of work experience must be made available for perusal by the
Head of Discipline upon request. The acceptability or otherwise of
employment experience, and the period of that type of experience that
may be credited towards the 60 days, will be determined by the Examiner
of .
Computer Systems Engineering, Applied Computer Science recommended
enrolment pattern
To satisfy the requirements of the program students must complete
all of the Academic and Practice courses in the following table
that shows the recommended enrolment patterns for on-campus and external
students for our Toowoomba campus. Students following a non-standard
enrolment pattern should consult the section of this Handbook to ascertain if a
course is offered in another term.
Computer Systems, Applied
Computer Science recommended enrolment pattern
| Major 精东传媒app: Computer Systems Engineering; Applied Computer Science
(Major 精东传媒app Code: 11985) |
| Course | Year of program and semester
in which course is normally studied | Residential school | Enrolment requirements |
|---|
On-campus
(ONC) | Distance education
(EXT) | Online
(ONL) |
|---|
| Year | Sem | Year | Sem | Year | Sem |
|---|
|
Academic Courses
|
| < | 1 | 1 | | 1,2,3 | | | O | |
| 1 | 1 | | 1,2 | | | | |
| 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | O | |
| 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| < | 2 | 2 | | 1,2 | | | | |
| 1 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: |
| 1 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
| * | 1 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: ENG1500 or MAT1500 or or or Students must be enrolled in the following Program: MEPR |
| > | 1 | 1,2 | | 1,2 | | | | |
| ^^ | 2 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| 2 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| 2 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| 2 | 1 | | 1 | | | | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GDGS or GCEN or GDET or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT or MSBN or MSMS |
| 2 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: ( and (MAT1502 or )) or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MEPR or GCNS or GDNS or MENS |
| 2 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or MAT1502 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MENS |
| 2 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
| 3 | 1 | | 1 | | | | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCNS or GCEN or GDNS or MEPR or MENS or METC |
| 3 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| 3 | 1 | | 2,3 | | | | |
| 3 | 1 | | 1 | | | | Pre-requisite: ( and ) or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC |
| 3 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MEPR or GCNS or GDNS or MENS |
| 3 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
| 3 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in the following Program: MEPR |
| 3 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MENS |
| 4 | 1 | | 1 | | | | Pre-requisite: or |
| 4 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GDGS or GCEN or GDET or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT or MSBN or MSMS |
| 4 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GDGS or GCEN or GDET or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT or MSBN or MSMS |
| Elective (Select from the Electives list) | 4 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| 4 | 1 | | 1 | | | O | |
| 4 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GDGS or GCEN or GDET or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT or MSBN or MSMS |
| 4 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GDGS or GCEN or GDET or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT or MSBN or MSMS |
| 4 | 1 | | 1,2 | | | | |
| 5 | 1 | | 1 | | | | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in the following Program: GDST |
| 5 | 1 | | 1 | | | | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDTI or GCSC or GDGS or GCEN or GDET or METC or MCOT or MCTE or MCOP or MPIT or MSBN or MSMS |
| 5 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| 5 | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| ^ | 5 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: |
| 5 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
| Elective (Select from the Electives list) | 5 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
| 5 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
|
Practice Courses
|
| < | 1 | 1 | | 2,3 | | | | |
| | 1 | 2 | | 3 | | | | |
| | 2 | 1 | | 3 | | | | Pre-requisite: and and |
| | 3 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: and and |
| | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: and and |
| | 3 | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: and and |
| | 4 | 2 | | 2 | | | | |
| | 5 | 1 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: |
| | 5 | | | 1,2 | | | | |
|
Electives - Select two courses from the following:
|
| | | 1 | | 2 | | | | |
| | | 1 | | 1 | | | | |
| | | | | 2 | | | | |
|
Select two courses from the following:
|
| | | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: ( and ( or ) and ( or )) or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MEPR or MENS |
| ELE4607 Advanced Digital Communications鈥� | | 1 | | | | | | |
| | | 1,2 | | | | 1,2 | | |
| | | 2 | | 2 | | | | Pre-requisite: or |
Notes
Students should also refer to the '' at the beginning of the Faculty of Engineering
and Surveying section of this Handbook.
Other courses may be admissible as Electives. Interested students
should contact their Program Coordinator or Head of Discipline.