Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Bachelor of Information Technology (BEHI) - BEng(Hons) BIT
QTAC code (Australian and New Zealand applicants): Toowoomba campus: 907352; Distance education: 907355
CRICOS code (International applicants): 079517G
| On-campus | Distance education | |
| Semester intake: | Semester 1 (March) Semester 2 (July) | Semester 1 (March) 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 Science ; Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) | |
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: study@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 |
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 (Honours) may apply for chartered status as a Professional Engineer and, when granted, may use the post-nominal MIEAust CPEng.
The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) 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.
Program objectives
Graduates of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Information Technology program will have met the separate objectives of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and the Bachelor of Information Technology programs.
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.
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.
Domestic and International Applicants from a non-English speaking background are required to satisfy .
If you do not meet the English language requirements you may apply to study a 精东传媒app-approved . On successful completion of the English language program, Applicants may be admitted to an Award Program.
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 (Honours) 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 (Honours) 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 and 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 Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences. 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.
Exit points
Students who, for whatever reason, are unable to complete the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Bachelor of Information Technology and who satisfy all of the requirements of either the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), the Bachelor of Engineering Science, the Associate Degree of Engineering or the may be permitted to exit with that award.
Course transfers
Students who are enrolled in either the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) 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
There is a need to have a standard approach for the grading of honours throughout the 精东传媒app, both through embedded honours, and the additional year honours programs.
For all honours programs, the level of honours awarded will be determined on the basis of both the grade point average over the mandatory 8 credit point honours component and the grade achieved in the honours project. For embedded honours programs, the grade point average achieved over the remaining 24 credit point component of the program will also be used to determine the level of honours. The USQ standard honours assessment framework is outlined below. All GPA ranges reflect the range after straight rounding, i.e. the cutoffs shall be calculated by straight rounding, e.g. 6.48 would round to 6.5 and 6.44 would round to 6.4.
| Mandatory 8 credit point Honours component* | 24 credit point component** | |||
| Honours Grade | Standard of Work | Grade Point Average | Performance in Honours project component | Grade Point Average |
| First Class Honours | Work of excellent quality showing clear understanding of subject matter and appreciation of issues, well formulated; arguments sustained; figures and diagrams where relevant appropriate literature referenced; strong evidence of creative ability and originality; high level of intellectual work. | 6.5鈥�7.0&苍产蝉辫; | Minimum A | Minimum 6.0 |
| Second Class Honours (2A) | Work of a high quality showing strong grasp of subject matter and appreciation of dominant issues though not necessarily of the finer points; arguments clearly developed; relevant literature referenced; evidence of creative ability and solid intellectual work. | 5.8鈥�6.4&苍产蝉辫; | Minimum A | Minimum 5.5 |
| Second Class Honours (2B) | Work of solid quality showing competent understanding of subject matter and appreciation of main issues though possibly with some lapses and inadequacies and with clearly identifiable deficiencies in logic, presentation or originality; some evidence of creative ability; well prepared and presented. | 5.2鈥�5.7&苍产蝉辫; | Minimum B | Minimum 5.0 |
| Third Class Honours | Adequate report, reasonable quality but showing a minimal understanding of the research area with major deficiencies in content or experimental rigour; little evidence of creative ability or original thought. Sufficient to merit only a bare pass mark. | <5.2 | Minimum C | Minimum 3.0 |
* Schools may, in exceptional circumstances, make a case to the Executive Dean of a Faculty for the award of Honours for a student who does not meet the mandatory conditions.
** Optional extra for embedded programs.
Other information
To be eligible to graduate from the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), 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 Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences 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
Students are able to enrol in any offered mode of a course (on-campus, distance education or online), regardless of the program mode of study they enrolled in.
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 | |||||
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| On-campus (ONC) | Distance education (EXT) | Online (ONL) | ||||||
| Year | Sem | Year | Sem | Year | Sem | |||
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Academic Courses | ||||||||
| < | 1 | 1 | 1,2,3 | O | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1,2 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1,2 | O | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| < | 2 | 2 | 1,2 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 2,3 | Pre-requisite: | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| * | 1 | 2 | 2,3 | 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 | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MENS | |||||
| 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 )) or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MEPR or GCNS or GDNS or MENS | |||||
| Elective (Select from the Electives list) | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Elective (Select from the Electives list) | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: MEPR or GDNS or MENS | |||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | |||||
| 鈥� | 5 | 1 | 1,3 | |||||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| ^ | 5 | 2 | 2 | Pre-requisite: | ||||
| Elective (Select from the Electives list) | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Elective (Select from the Electives list) | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Pre-requisite: or USQIT16 or or have experience using Linux systems 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 | |||||
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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 | |||||||
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Electives - Select two courses from the following: | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 2 | ||||||||
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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 | ||||||
| 鈥� | 1 | Pre-requisite: or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GCEN or GDET or METC or MENS | ||||||
| 鈥� | 2 | 2,3 | ||||||
| 1,2 | 1,2 | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | Pre-requisite: or | ||||||
| Footnotes | |
| < | The on-campus offering of this course has been timetabled for Semester 1. Students may consider enrolling in semester 2 however they may experience timetable clashes. |
| * | Students who have been granted an exemption from , are advised to purchase the study materials from the and work through this prior to attempting courses for which is an enrolment requirement. |
| > | |
| 鈥� | The semester 3 offering of this course is offered in odd numbered years only. |
| ^ | It is recommended that students in the Bachelor of Engineering Bachelor of Information Technology should also be enrolled in while undertaking this course. |
| 鈥� | The semester 3 offering of this course is offered in even numbered years only. |
Notes
Students should also refer to the Other Requirements in the section of this Handbook.
Other courses may be admissible as Electives. Interested students
should contact the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences.