Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) (Honours) / Bachelor of Business

Course rules

To qualify for the Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) (Honours) / Bachelor of Business, students must complete a total of 400 credit points as follows:

• 12 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Core units (150 credit points)
• 16 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Major studies units from one of the following majors: Electrical and Power Systems, Software or Telecommunications (200 credit points)
• 4 Business Core Units (50 credit points) ^
• 8 units from one of the following Business Majors: Accounting,  Business Administration, Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management or Marketing (100 credit points)
• Professional Experience in Engineering non-credit bearing unit (0 credit points)
• Domestic students also have an opportunity to undertake a WIL Professional Placement in lieu of Professional Experience in Engineering (see below). This option is not available to international students.

^ In total there are 8 x Core Business Studies units. 4 of the 8 units are undertaken by the double degree students in this course. The remaining 4 units have been cross-credited with other Engineering units.

Students may not complete more than 150 credit points (12 units ) at Stage 1 (unit codes with a first digit of '1').

A unit of study can only be counted once. Where units are shared between majors and/or minors, students must choose an approved alternative unit.

Professional Placements (Domestic students only)

Professional Placements are subject to a competitive selection process.

Students who undertake a 12 month professional placement are subject to the following course rules and must complete 600 credit points comprising:

• 12 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Core units (150 credit points)
• 16 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Major studies units from one of the following majors: Electrical and Power Systems, Software or Telecommunications (200 credit points)
• 4 Business Core units (50 credit points) ^
• 8 units from one of the following Business Majors: Accounting,  Business Administration,  Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management or Marketing (100 credit points)
• 4 units of study from the Professional Placement Co-Major (100 credit points)

Students who elect to undertake a 6 month professional placement are subject to the following course rules and must complete 550 credit points comprising:

• 12 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Core units (150 credit points)
• 16 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Major studies units from one of the following majors: Electrical and Power Systems, Software or Telecommunications (200 credit points)
• 4 Business Core units (50 credit points) ^
• 8 units from one of the following Business Majors: Accounting,  Business Administration, Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Business, Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management or Marketing (100 credit points)
• 2 units of study from the Professional Placement Minor (50 credit points)

Honours Merit Calculations

Honours merit calculation will be based on the averaged results of 12 units in the final two years of the course with the following descriptive outcomes:

• BEng (Electrical and Electronic) (Hons) / BBus with High Distinction; for students who achieve ≥ 80
• BEng (Electrical and Electronic) (Hons) / BBus with Distinction; for students who achieve 70 – 79
• BEng (Electrical and Electronic) (Hons) / BBus with Credit; for students who achieve 60 – 69
• BEng (Electrical and Electronic) (Hons) / BBus; for students who achieve < 60

Students who transfer with advanced standing are required to undertake at least 9 of the following units at Swinburne, including all 6 Outcome units, to qualify for an honours merit calculation. This honours merit calculation will be based only on units completed at Swinburne. If a student has not completed at least 9 of the specified units, they will graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) (Honours) / Bachelor of Business as an award title, but not be eligible for a merit based honours description.

Depending on the student Major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the following units will be used in the Honours merit calculation for the Engineering component of the Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) (Honours) / Bachelor of Business:

Electrical and Power Systems Major
EEE30001 Analogue Electronics 2
RME30002 Control and Automation
EEE30002 Electrical Power Systems
TNE30003 Communications Principles
EEE30004 Digital Signal Processing
MME30001 Engineering Management 1
PHY40001 Electromagnetic Waves *
EEE40002 Integrated Circuit Design *
EEE40005 Power Electronics *
EEE40007 Power Systems Analysis and Control *
EEE40011 Final Year Research Project 1 *
EEE40012 Final Year Research Project 2 *

Software Major
COS30017 Software Development for Mobile Devices
SWE30003 Software Architectures and Design *        
COS30008 Data Structures and Patterns
SWE30004 Software Deployment and Evolution *
SWE40001 Software Engineering Project A *
SWE40002 Software Engineering Project B *
SWE30001 Real-Time Programming
COS30041 Creating Secure and Scalable Software
SWE30009 Software Testing and Reliability
EEE30005 Electrical Integrated Design Project
EEE40011 Final Year Research Project 1 *
EEE40012 Final Year    Research Project 2 *

Telecommunications Major
TNE30019 Unix for Telecommunications
TNE30003 Communications Principles
EEE30004 Digital Signal Processing *
MME30001 Engineering Management 1
PHY40001 Electromagnetic Waves *
TNE30009 Network Security and Resilience
TNE30023 Advanced Switching
TNE30004 Communications Information Theory
TNE40001 Broadband Multimedia Networks *
TNE40003 Wireless Communications *
EEE40011 Final Year Research Project 1 *
EEE40012 Final Year Research Project 2 *

* Denotes outcome unit