Information for students

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) is Australia's leader in practice-oriented engineering and IT education and research, and currently enrols over 7000 students in industry-recognised courses from undergraduate to doctoral level.

The faculty prides itself on its high level of engagement with the engineering and IT professions locally and internationally, by offering short courses and consulting expertise to the local community, and internationally through its courses offered in Hong Kong and Singapore, a significant local international student population and a robust student exchange program. FEIT is also the leading research faculty at UTS, with a diverse range of research being undertaken in matrix across the faculty's eleven research centres (including one institute) and five academic schools.

The faculty structure comprises four portfolio areas in teaching and learning; research; international; and external engagement, each led by an Associate Dean. Five schools house the academic sub-disciplines of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology:

• School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• School of Computing and Communications
• School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems
• School of Software
• School of Systems, Management and Leadership.

Location, contacts and inquiries

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology is located at City campus, Broadway, in Buildings 1, 2 and 10. Key staff are:

Professor Hung Nguyen
Dean
telephone +61 2 9514 4441
email Hung.Nguyen@uts.edu.au

Dr Tim Aubrey
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning)
telephone +61 2 9514 2360
email Tim.Aubrey@uts.edu.au

Professor Mary-Anne Williams
Associate Dean (Research)
telephone +61 2 9514 2451
email Mary-Anne.Williams@uts.edu.au

Professor Keith Crews
Associate Dean (External Engagement)
telephone +61 2 9514 2619
email Keith.Crews@uts.edu.au

Professor Deepak Sharma
Associate Dean (International)
telephone +61 2 9514 2422
email Deepak.Sharma@uts.edu.au

Professor Bijan Samali
Head, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
telephone +61 2 9514 2023
email Bijan.Samali@uts.edu.au

Professor Doan Hoang
Head, School of Computing and Communications
telephone +61 2 9514 7943
email Doan.Hoang@uts.edu.au

Professor Jianguo (Joe) Zhu
Head, School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems
telephone +61 2 9514 2318
email Jianguo.Zhu@uts.edu.au

Professor Jie Lu
Head, School of Software
telephone +61 2 9514 1838
email Jie.Lu@uts.edu.au

Professor Igor Hawryszkiewycz
Head, School of Systems, Management and Leadership
telephone +61 2 9514 1809
email Igor.Hawryszkiewycz@uts.edu.au

Annette Giles
Faculty Manager
telephone +61 2 9514 4443
email Annette.Giles@uts.edu.au

Engineering and Information Technology Outreach Office

The Engineering and Information Technology Outreach Office manages all faculty marketing activities and school liaison. It is located in Building 2, level 4, room 16 (CB02.4.16). This connects with Building 1 at City campus, Broadway.

The office is generally open from 9am–5pm Monday to Friday.

telephone +61 2 9514 2666
fax +61 2 9514 7803
email engineering@uts.edu.au
www.eng.uts.edu.au

Postal address

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007

UTS Student Centres

All inquiries from currently enrolled UTS students are handled by the UTS Student Centres located across the City (Broadway and Haymarket) and Kuring-gai campuses.

Students enrolled in UTS: Engineering degrees (undergraduate and postgraduate coursework) are advised to direct all their course-related inquiries to:

Building 1 Student Centre
CB01.4 – City campus, Broadway, Building 1, level 4, foyer
telephone 1300 ask UTS (1300 275 887) or +61 2 9514 1222
Ask UTS www.ask.uts.edu.au

Key student liaison staff

The staff below are the key liaison staff for engineering and information technology students requiring specialist or academic advice to manage their enrolment and student candidature. All students are to direct all initial inquiries to the UTS Student Centre where their inquiry will be processed and forwarded to the key contact staff below only if the matter cannot be resolved by Student Centre staff. An appointment with these staff is based on referral from the UTS Student Centres or within staff consultation times.

Dr Rob Jarman
Director, Undergraduate Programs: UTS: Engineering
telephone +61 2 9514 2368
email Rob.Jarman@uts.edu.au

Dr Prasanthi Hagare
Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs: UTS: Engineering
telephone +61 2 9514 1952
email Prasanthi.Hagare@uts.edu.au

Chris Wong
Director, Undergraduate Programs: UTS: Information Technology
telephone +61 2 9514 4501
email Chris.Wong@uts.edu.au

Mr Rene Leveaux
Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs: UTS: Information Technology
telephone +61 2 9514 1958
email Rene.Leveaux@uts.edu.au

Mr Craig Shuard
Research Administration Officer
telephone +61 2 9514 4460
email Craig.Shuard@uts.edu.au

Ms Phyllis Agius
Research Administration Officer
telephone +61 2 9514 2686
email Phyllis.Agius@uts.edu.au

Tracey Moore
Manager, Academic Programs Office
telephone +61 2 9514 2671
email Tracey.Moore@uts.edu.au

Beate Buckenmaier
Manager, International
telephone +61 2 9514 2590
email Beate.Buckenmaier@uts.edu.au

Faculty contacts and areas of interest

A comprehensive list of UTS: Engineering academic staff and their research areas is available from:

www.feit.uts.edu.au/about.html

Additional English language and mathematics requirements

UTS: Engineering requires commencing students to undertake English language and mathematics readiness surveys so that the most effective study patterns can be advised. UTS: Engineering reserves the right, when appropriate, to require students who are identified as needing additional support to undertake preparatory English language and/or mathematics courses prior to progressing further in the course, or to restrict the level of advanced standing awarded where this is indicated as appropriate by these readiness surveys.

UTS: Engineering clubs and societies

UTS: Engineering has an active student-run society — the UTS Engineering Society — supporting over 1000 members. The Society runs both industry networking events and a social calendar. It also proudly runs Orientation Camp annually for all new engineering students.

Further information is available from:

www.engsoc.org.au

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2387194794

email utsengsoc@gmail.com

UTS: Engineering facilities

UTS: Engineering has a strong commitment to providing an effective and supportive learning environment for its students. The Remote Laboratory, one of the first of its kind in the world, enables students to conduct experiments in real time on real experimental equipment via the internet. State of the art labs within the faculty include the Civil Engineering Lab which houses the Shaker Table, the only earthquake simulator of its size in Australia. Engineering students have access to both University computing laboratories as well as a number of faculty computing laboratories adapted for specific courses. The Learning and Design Centres are located at CB01.25.15 and CB02.6.39. They provide access to tutors for individual and small group support, reference material, and software and hardware resources, on a drop-in basis, and are open for extended hours.

Compulsory safety induction

As part of the faculty's commitment to safety, all engineering and IT students are required to annually complete a safety induction in order to access PIN-protected facilities within the faculty. Completion of the safety induction is not required to be able to attend scheduled/supervised lab sessions or use some IT labs during business hours. Students enrolled in an engineering or IT course are automatically given access to enrol in the safety induction through UTS Online (the forum is called 'UTS: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology - Safety Induction').

Students from outside the faculty who enrol in engineering or IT subjects and who need PIN access to faculty facilities must contact the faculty to get enrolled in the safety induction forum:

email FEITPinAdmin@uts.edu.au

This is also the contact for students who have problems with their PIN access.

Professional bodies in engineering

Engineers Australia

Engineers Australia is the principal professional body and learned society for engineers in Australia. Its membership covers all branches of engineering, with specialist colleges catering for the main fields of practice. Its headquarters is located in Canberra, with operating divisions in capital cities and regional centres. The local division, which covers UTS, is the Sydney Division. It runs an annual program of lectures, seminars and professional activities, with particular events for young engineers. The division's office is located in Chatswood:

telephone +61 2 9410 5600
www.engineersaustralia.org.au

The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia

The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (APESMA) provides advice and assistance on employment-related matters for professional engineers, scientists and managers. Student members receive the publication The Student Update three times a year, which gives practical insight into the workplace and employment issues that affect them as professional engineers. For information and student membership application forms contact APESMA on:

telephone 1300 273 762

Other bodies

There are a number of other national and regional associations representing particular branches of engineering. UTS: Engineering staff with interests in the field concerned are often active in these bodies and able to provide information.

Women in Engineering and IT program

The Women in Engineering and IT (WiE&IT) program at UTS is a long-standing initiative to redress the low rate of female participation in the field by: communicating the opportunities of engineering and ICT careers as a course of study; promoting the involvement of women in the course, the Faculty and research at UTS; and by networking with professionals from engineering and ICT fields and professional organisations. It also seeks to address attitudes and behaviours which may deter students and staff from achieving, in a safe and rewarding learning, research and working environment.

The WiE&IT program invites students, staff and industry to support the ongoing activities in 2013 and contribute ideas for new initiatives which will attract and support more women to choose to study engineering and IT.

Read more about the program at:

www.utswomeninengineeringandit.blogspot.com
www.feit.uts.edu.au/women

Practice-oriented engineering education

What does it mean?

Practice-oriented engineering education requires students to experience the reality of engineering from an early stage in their professional formation — through internship. It actively relates this experience to their developing understanding of engineering theory, analysis and laboratory work, and to studies in other disciplines, and it promotes critical and creative thinking based on knowledge gained outside as well as within the University. This interaction requires that most academic staff have significant experience of engineering practice and keep it constantly refreshed. Educational programs in which students or a majority of staff do not have current experience cannot validly be called practice-oriented.

Practice-oriented education is more than practice and more than education. A university education should impart a thorough grasp of fundamental principles, a respect for knowledge, a capacity for critical inquiry and lateral thinking, a fluency in communication, a pride in excellence and an eagerness to contribute to shaping the future. Practice-oriented engineering education claims that these attributes can be more effective when they have been developed in contact with the human and technical challenge of real engineering situations.

Engineering education at UTS

In Australia, the basic qualification for professional engineering is the Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree. At most universities, the BE occupies four years of full-time academic study. At UTS, as well as completing the academic program, all undergraduate engineering students must gain substantial approved engineering experience in industry or in other authentic professional settings. This experience must be distributed over the period of the course and must meet standards of quality and relevance. This experience is recognised in the award of a Diploma in Engineering Practice (DipEngPrac). The combined BE DipEngPrac degree takes five years to complete.

Graduates of most university engineering courses need up to two years' experience in industry, after graduation, before they are able to assume real responsibility. UTS: Engineering graduates have already gained much of this experience together with a real understanding of the interrelations between theory and practice, technology and human factors. They are equipped to undertake professional responsibility much sooner than graduates of other courses at other universities — often upon graduating.

The combination of formal academic learning in the University and experiential learning in the workplace is called cooperative education. UTS: Engineering courses have embodied this principle for over 30 years. The courses are highly regarded in industry and, according to many reports and surveys, the graduates enjoy the highest employment rate of any engineering degree courses in Australia. Cooperative education is also well known and highly regarded in other countries, particularly in North America. UTS is a member of the World Council for Cooperative Education.

The UTS BE DipEngPrac extends the concept of practice-oriented engineering education into one of total professional formation and leads to the combined award of Bachelor of Engineering Diploma in Engineering Practice (C10061). Students' perception of the value of the periods spent employed in industry — the internships — is illustrated by the very high percentage of students who choose to continue to mix work and study even after completing the formal internship requirements.

Other UTS: Engineering courses, undergraduate and postgraduate, are also designed to interact strongly with industry, though the work-experience requirements are mostly less structured than those of the BE DipEngPrac. In all programs, the majority of students already have significant industrial experience or are gaining it concurrently. UTS: Engineering has policies for maximising opportunity for its academic staff to maintain first-hand experience in industry and engages many practising engineers as adjunct teaching staff. It also strongly encourages collaborative research and consultancy with industry and many of its research students are industry-based. The predominant culture, therefore, is strongly practice-oriented and this also benefits the relatively small number of students who do not yet have engineering work experience.

In all of its activities, UTS: Engineering seeks to promote a better understanding of the role of engineering in society and to promote and support service to the community through other channels as well as industry.

Continuing professional education

Practising engineers wishing to undertake continuing professional education may, if class sizes permit, enrol in single subjects. All enrolments on this non-award basis incur full-cost recovery fees. Their successful completion creates the possibility of advanced standing credit under existing University policies, should candidates decide to enrol in a course.

Further information is available at:

www.uts.edu.au/study/fees.html

In addition, in-house short courses, seminars, workshops and other professional development programs are offered from time to time, frequently in response to corporate invitations or opportunities arising from visits by international experts.

Further information on continuing professional opportunities through UTS: Engineering is available at:

www.eng.uts.edu.au/courses/short

Short courses

Courses in playground safety

The Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and UTS: Engineering offer regular short courses on playground safety, design, maintenance and inspection including:

• Accredited Outdoor Playground Inspectors Course: Routine Inspections Level 1 (1 day)
• Accredited Outdoor Playground Inspectors Course: Operational Inspection Level 2 (3 day)
• Accredited Outdoor Playground Inspectors Course: Revision and Reaccreditation Operational Inspection Level 2R (1 day)
• Designing Playgrounds and Outdoor Spaces: Module A – Standards and Accessibility (2 day).

Floodplain Risk Management

The Floodplain Risk Management subject is aimed at elected local government councillors, community representatives on floodplain risk management committees, engineers and planners in both government and consultancies seeking a background in floodplain risk management and associated land use planning issues.

This course is conducted by UTS in conjunction with the:

• Floodplain Management Authorities (FMA), and
• NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC).

Taught by industry experts, including those from DECC, the NSW State Emergency Service, local government and consultancy, this course shows how to develop and implement floodplain risk management in accordance with the Floodplain Development Manual.

Courses available:

• Introduction to Floodplain Risk Management
• Managing Flood Risk to Existing Property
• Effective Consideration of Flood Risk in Land using Planning.

Further information

For further information, contact:

Angelia Lawah, UTS: Engineering Short Course Administrator

telephone +61 2 9514 1806
email Liuangelia.Lawah@uts.edu.au

www.eng.uts.edu.au/courses/short