INFRASTRUCTURE

EnginEEring and

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OUR VISION

Victoria University’s vision for Engineering and Infrastructure is to provide excellence in teaching and learning that is supported by innovative research that benefits industry

and the broader community. We aim to prepare work-ready graduates, undertake research to support best practice in engineering and develop sustainable environmental

technologies and infrastructure.





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EXPERtISE IN EdUcatION aNd RESEaRcH



HIStORy Of ENgINEERINg ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE cOURSES

aNd INfRaStRUctURE Engineering and Infrastructure offered 131 courses in 2009. Most courses were

Engineering and Infrastructure has a 90 year history of teaching, research, and delivered by the following schools:

community service in: • School of Construction Industries

• building and construction • School of Engineering and Electrotechnology

• civil and architectural engineering • School of Engineering and Science

• communications and information technology • School of ICT and Electrotechnology

• electrical and electronic engineering • School of Industry Skills Training

• environment • School of Youth, VCE and Community Education Programs

• manufacturing engineering and Services



• mechanical engineering Other Engineering and Infrastructure courses are delivered by:

• Centre for Environmental and Safety Risk Engineering

ENgINEERINg aNd • Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

INfRaStRUctURE StRENgtHS • School of General Education Programs and Services

Engineering and Infrastructure strengths in education and research include: • School of Sport and Science

• applied informatics

• architectural engineering ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE

• biotechnology, chemistry, and ecology and environmental caREER PatHwayS

management, including sustainable environmental technologies We offer learning pathways to enable students to design their own career.

• building and construction industries Students can move from secondary school to courses at a Certificate level

through to Diploma, Degree and PhD. Pathways include transitions from:

• building engineering

• Advanced Diploma of Building Surveying to the Bachelor of

• building surveying Engineering (Building Surveying)

• civil engineering • Advanced Diploma of Engineering (Civil and Mechanical) to the

• communication and sensor technologies Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Mechanical)

• electrical and electronic engineering • Certificate IV in Residential Drafting to the Diploma of Building Design

and Technology

• mechanical engineering

• Various other trade qualifications and Certificate II and III courses into

• project and procurement management

Diploma courses



ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE StUdENtS

Approximately 70% of Engineering and Infrastructure students live in the Western

region of Melbourne. Approximately 25% of local students speak languages

other than English and 9% of students are located offshore.

ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE Research in communications and sensor technologies includes:

RESEaRcH • microelectronics

Engineering and Infrastructure undertakes research and develops sustainable • optics and photonics

environmental technologies to manage increasing and competing demands for • telecommunications based on future wireless communications

resources. Research in this area includes: services

• alternative energies Research in applied informatics includes:

• development of advanced oxidation materials and processes for • development of innovative e-technologies that can be applied to

organics destruction almost any industry

• effect of point source pollution on river water quality, and the • web mining, data management, health informatics and e-Health

development of non-point source pollution models service-oriented computing

• efficient use of nutrients in water streams This area of research is becoming increasingly important in the management of

• fire safety engineering, including fire and human behaviour issues in the environment, health services, sport performance, tourism, law and

other sectors.

• impact of human activities on water resources and aquatic

ecosystems

• lowering the energy required, and increasing water recovery from ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE

desalination INdUStRy PaRtNERS

• management of water and water assets Engineering and Infrastructure is part of an extensive network of experts

committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research. These partnerships

• process modelling and plant costing

provide opportunities for learning in the workplace and have been developed

• REALM - Resource Allocation Model widely used in Australia for around research projects that deliver real benefits to industry and the broader

resource planning and management community.

• residuals treatment Current industry partners include:

• river water quality management • Australia E-Health Research Centre

• scaling and fouling reduction of membrane systems • Australian Communications Research Network

• social and behavioural aspects of water use • Barwon Water

• stochastic hydrologic and climatic data generation • Central Highlands Water

• stream flow forecasting for short term planning of reservoir systems • City West Water

• sustainable buildings and risk engineering • CSIRO Cluster Program

• thermal distillation • EXIN

• urban and rural water supply systems and flood management • GWM Water

• use of non-traditional water sources, such as reclaimed waste water, • ITEL

grey water and storm water

• Melbourne Water

• viable food industries

• Microsoft

• waste water treatment and re-use of end products

• National Networked Teletest Facility for Integrated Systems

• water sensitive urban design

• Relationships Australia

• wetland ecology

• South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership

Engineering and Infrastructure also undertake research in communications and

• Tasmania Department of Health and Human Services

sensor technologies and applied informatics.

• Technion

• Victorian Institute of Sport

• Western Water We also have facilities to undertake research and test fire behaviour. These

facilities include:

• Westgate General Practice Network

1. Cone calorimeter – tests the reaction of materials to heat exposure.

• World Health Organisation

2. Fire test furnaces – used to study the thermal and structural

behaviour of elements of construction to enable improvements in

ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE products and structures.

INtERNatIONal lINkagES

3. Experimental small-scale rigs – model four storey building

Engineering and Infrastructure has international linkages with: incorporating stairs, lift and service shafts that is used to study the

• Aachen University (Germany) flow of smoke through floor openings and the influence of natural

roof venting and extraction.

• Bar Ilan University (Israel)

4. Calorimeter – a hood that collects combustion gas via a fan

• Beijing University of Technology (China) to enable measurements of gas flow, temperature and gas

• Chinese Academy of Sciences concentration to determine the heat release rate associated with

products in a fire.

• Free University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

5. ISO room – an enclosure used to test heat release rates of materials

• Henan University (China)

used to line structures to provide an indication as to how they might

• Hong Kong University behave in a fire.

• Kings College London (UK) 6. Large scale burn hall – Country Fire Authority (CFA) training facility

• Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) established to conduct experimental research on fires. It consists

of a three storey building incorporating a stair shaft that can be

• North Glasgow College (Scotland) pressurised.

• Sunway University College (Malaysia) Other facilities include:

• University of Nice (France) • A new welding and fabrication facility with modern industry

• University of Sunderland (UK) equipment



• Yellow River Conservancy Commission (China) • A rapid prototyping facility for the design and prototyping of

computers



ENgINEERINg aNd INfRaStRUctURE facIlItIES • State of the art computer numerical controlled machines used for

training CNC programmers

Victoria University’s Problem Based Learning (PBL) facilities are located at the

Footscray Park Campus. The PBL facility includes:

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• multiple PBL studios for small group work

aNd INfRaStRUctURE

• PBL multifunction or common room

The majority of Engineering and Infrastructure courses are located at Footscray

• soldering and experimentation laboratory Park, Newport, Sunshine, Footscray Nicholson, St Albans and Werribee.





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