4 years
MATERIALS ENGINEERING
KPT / JPT( N10714 / 610028) 02 / 31- MQA / PSA 17375
February, July and October
Year 1 and 2 in Malaysia
RM53,280 Malaysian student
RM62,880 International student 2025 fees per year
Year 3 and 4 in Australia A $ 56,300 International student 2025 fees per year
Professionally accredited Industrial training
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
• Monash is one of only a few universities in Malaysia offering a degree in materials engineering.
• Build an exciting career focused on innovation in emerging industries such as semiconductors and electronics, and electric and hydrogen vehicles.
• Secure stable employment in established industries such as rubber, metal processing and steel.
• Enjoy a varied and stimulating experience with elements of physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry in this course.
CAREER PATHS Working across a range of exciting industries including aerospace, biomedical, mining, manufacturing, processing, semiconductor and recycling, materials engineers become:
• metallurgists
• plastics engineers
• ceramists
• adhesive scientists
• process and quality-control engineers
• corrosion or fracture engineers.
Materials engineering is all about making new materials and improving existing ones.
It’ s about making things stronger, lighter and more functional, sustainable and cost effective. It underpins much of engineering – if we want to make things, we need to have materials with the right properties. Whether it’ s a next-generation jet engine, a biodegradable tissue scaffold to grow organs from stem cells, or new types of solar cells and batteries, the structure, properties and processing of materials are crucial to the final product.
Materials engineers work with everything from the thermal protection of space shuttles to high-tech artificial hip and cochlear implants, and nanoparticles that seek and destroy cancer. Materials engineering is truly interdisciplinary. It involves physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry, culminating in a groundbreaking research field and a thriving job market.
Course structure
You’ ll complete 108 points of core units and 36 points of electives to graduate. Units offered in levels two to four are listed below. Units have a value of six credit points, unless stated otherwise.
LEVEL TWO
• Atomic-scale structure of materials
• Phase equilibria and phase transformations
• Mechanical properties of materials
• Functional materials 1
• Polymers
• Advanced engineering mathematics
• Two elective units
LEVEL THREE
• Materials life cycle
• Plasticity of metals and alloys
• Materials in a complex world 1: People, projects and data
• Functional materials 2
• Introduction to ceramics: Properties, processing and applications
• Materials in a complex world 2: Characterisation, identification and selection
• Two elective units
LEVEL FOUR
• Final year project A
• Final year project B
• Professional practice
• Advanced materials processing and manufacturing
• Integrated design project
• Three elective units
Elective units
• Biomaterials 1
• Special studies in engineering 1
• Engineering technology for biomedical imaging and sensing
• Implantable devices
• Nuclear energy: Science, technology and society
• Modelling of materials
• Advanced ceramics and applications
• Materials and sustainability
• Engineering alloy design, processing and selection
• Corrosion mechanisms and protection methods
• Biomaterials 2
• Engineering with nanomaterials
• Electron microscopy
• Applied crystallography in advanced materials characterisation
• Advanced polymeric materials
• Environmental durability and protection of metals and engineering materials
• Advanced photovoltaics and energy storage
• Biomaterials and biomechanics
• Additive manufacturing of metallic materials
• Additive manufacturing of polymeric and functional materials.
Transferring to the Clayton campus
You’ ll need to have:
• completed at least 84 credit points with an overall minimum WAM of >= 50 % if you’ ve completed your second year, or
• be in good academic standing for the past 12 months
• not been before an Academic Progress Committee( APC) panel in the year leading up to your application to transfer
• not be subject to an APC panel at the time of applying.
An engineering degree studied in two countries
The Bachelor of Materials Engineering( Honours) is a four-year degree where you’ ll study your first two years in Malaysia and your final years at our Clayton campus in Melbourne, Australia.
Immerse yourself in two cultures and academic environments while studying a degree of the highest education quality.
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