the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health on +61 7 4930 9733 or email engineering-enquiries@cqu.edu.au or Education & Creative Arts on +61 7 4930 9351 or email c.tomlin@cqu.edu.au

All engineering courses except Engineering Practice Skills are offered in the distance (external mode). Students attending on-campus will receive internal tutorial support.  The scope of the support may vary between full class sessions, support tutorial sessions and individual consultation sessions according to student needs and class size.

Work experience and fieldwork

An integral part of the program, and a requirement of The Institution of Engineers, Australia, for the award of the Bachelor of Engineering Technology component, is a minimum of 6 weeks of approved work experience in an engineering environment.  This may be completed during the student vacation(s).

As proof of work experience, students will be required to submit a formal report indicating the type of work done, the degree of responsibility involved, the person(s) to whom the student was directly responsible, and the general activities of the employer.  This report must be certified as correct by the employer.

To graduate students must successfully complete and submit their Engineering Practice report at least six months prior to their nominated Expected Graduation Term (EGT). Failure to meet this deadline may result in a delay to the expected graduation date.

It is a requirement of the Queensland Board of Teacher Registration that in the course of their education component of study students complete a minimum of 100 days of teaching fieldwork, 80 of which are under the supervision of registered teachers.

Degrees with Distinction

It is the intention of the Faculties to recognise outstanding academic achievement of students, by awarding the Bachelor of Engineering Technology Degree and the Bachelor of Learning Management (Secondary) Degree with Distinction to students who achieve a designated GPA of 6.0 and above in each of the program components.  This will be in their first attempt result in each of their last 8 scheduled enrolled courses in the engineering component (of which 7 are level 3 courses, and with at least Distinctions in 64301 BET Project 1 and 64302 BET Project 2).

Articulation and credit transfer

Through alignment in the engineering technology component with national standards, the program allows the recognition of students' previous appropriate study with TAFE and other tertiary providers and experience gained from working in industry, through 'Recognition of Prior Learning' (RPL) and 'Recognition of Current Competencies' (RCC).

Students seeking RCC as the basis for credit transfer may be required to submit a portfolio of their work and any other supporting evidence, as well as a statement giving the specific reason for the claim.  There will be a 6-month assessment period, during which the student (if the claim is provisionally granted) will be allowed to enrol in 'follow-on' courses.  The final granting of exemption is normally subject to students passing the follow-on course(s).

In determining the criteria for a student's eligibility to graduate, the Faculties will take a holistic, liberal perspective.  The attainment of the necessary knowledge and skills, in addition to the accumulation of a particular combination of course choices, will be used by the Faculties to determine whether a student has met all the program requirements to graduate.

Part of the final stage of the curriculum in the program will require students to put together the elements of skills which they have developed throughout the program into simulated professional practice, by the successful completion of a final year engineering technology project and education professional practice courses.  In addition, where students' learning programs differ significantly from the nominal program, they may be required to prepare a document substantiating their claim of achieving the necessary professional competencies and skills.

Rules for progression and exclusion for the BET/BLM program

The BET/BLM program is knowledge and skills competency-referenced.  As such, progress is conditional upon students having acquired the specified learning objectives in their courses of study.  Students seeking to enrol in a particular course will need to confirm that they have necessary pre-requisite knowledge and skills.  Students failing a course twice will be required to demonstrate to their Program Advisor why their third attempt is likely to be successfully before they enrol again.

Satisfactory academic performance will be defined, for a full-time student, as passing a minimum of 70% of the enrolled courses within each year.  Students who do not perform satisfactorily will be counselled to either change program or re-structure their program.

Computing requirements

It is a requirement of enrolment in this program that all students have access to the CQU World Wide Web site via the Internet.  Students may be required to undertake various components of study in the program using email and the Internet.