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Department of Civil Engineering1. The departmentThe Faculty of Engineering is made up of five departments and two schools and offers a range of disciplines in undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the Clayton, Gippsland and Malaysia campuses. There are also opportunities for undergraduates to study for double degrees with other faculties There are approximately 4100 students in the faculty, including 650 postgraduates (research and coursework), and an academic staff of 270 (2005 figures) The departments and schools within the faculty are: Chemical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Materials Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering which are all based on the Clayton campus; the Malaysian School of Engineering and the Gippsland School of Applied Science and Engineering. There is a common first year undergraduate program offered at the Clayton and Malaysian campuses after which students choose their area of specialisation. At Gippsland the Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and postgraduate programs in Maintenance and Reliability Engineering are delivered by the Gippsland School of Applied Sciences and Engineering which was formed in 2003 by the amalgamation of the Gippsland School of Engineering with the Gippsland School of Applied Science. Amended 6.06.06 The Department of Civil Engineering operates across the Clayton and Caulfield campuses and offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Undergraduate studies are also available in civil engineering on the Gippsland campus, with teaching done by the Gippsland School of Engineering. There are five main discipline areas: Geomechanics, Integration, Structures, Transport, and Water and Environmental Engineering. There is an academic staff of 24 and a student load of 370 EFTSU, of which approximately 61 is postgraduate. Research interests of the department include : Structural engineering – effects of variable repeated loads on structures, crashworthiness of structures, design criteria, structural steel connections, buckling of concrete panels and high-strength concrete, and timber structural members and systems. Geomechanics – slope stability analysis, foundation performance, behaviour of rock joints and rock masses for mining applications, low-strain and high-strain dynamic pile testing Water resources/environmental engineering – specialised hydrologic and hydraulic engineering fields, as well as integrated water environment research involving water engineering, aquatic ecology, stream restoration and water quality improvements. Transport and traffic engineering – transport and location choice modelling, transport management, intelligent transport systems, public transport use and operation, traffic management, road safety, traffic flow, parking, urban and non-urban freight and transport systems modelling Timber engineering – timber connections for industrial portal frames, structural stability theory, finite element applications, life extension studies for timber pallets, nail-plated structures, quality systems, concrete formwork design. The research centres associated with the department are: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology - The CRC for Catchment Hydrology aims to deliver the capability to manage catchments in a totally new way. The central goal is to produce a decision support system able to predict the movement of water, particulates, and solutes from land to rivers, linking the impact of climate variability, vegetation, soil, and water management together in an integrated package. Monash Timber Engineering Centre - Research covers a variety of timber engineering and timber product developments including design properties of timber products, all aspects of timber engineering, durability evaluations for timber products, wood drying and concrete formwork design. The Centre is located at the Caulfield campus and provides a particular focus for research within the department on this campus. Institute of Transport Studies (ITS) - This is a node of the Australian Key Centre in Transport Management and undertakes research in four areas, transport technology, travel behaviour, road safety and transport and traffic engineering. The Institute is located on the Clayton campus and provides a focus for research. Monash Structures Group - Research streams include: Life time integrity of structures, advanced thin-walled structures, road safety & crashworthiness systems, timber structures Integration Group at Monash - The Integration Group is the newest discipline group within the Department of Civil Engineering. The group concentrates on those skills which are common to all of civil engineering: Problem solving, Computing - Excel, Visual Basic, AutoCAD, etc., Communications - written, oral, interpersonal, graphical, etc., Design, Management - Project, Business, etc., Information retrieval and Mathematics Geomechanics Group at Monash University - The Geomechanics Group within the Department of Civil Engineering concentrates on aspects of foundations, soil mechanics and all the various attributes of soils and rocks as they relate to Civil Engineering: More information about:
2. General policy statementThe Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection. The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources. All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students. However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas. 3. The library's collectiona. LocationMaterial purchased for the Department of Civil Engineering is located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus and some material is in the Caulfield Library. Material in the area of civil engineering purchased for the Gippsland School of Engineering is located on the Gippsland campus. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired. c. Classification usedMaterial acquired for the Department of Civil Engineering is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification. d. Formats collectedWhile no format is excluded, in practice the greater part of the collection is monographs and serials, both printed and electronic. A large number of monographic series are also collected. e. Size of the collectionEstimated number of monograph volumes purchased per annum : over 200 Number of print serial titles received : Approximately 150 titles are received, of which over 100 are held in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus. A recent print set of ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards is held in the Hargrave-Andrew Library, Caulfield Library and the Gippsland Library. f. Significant electronic resourcesThe Library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, fulltext resources, including suites of electronic journals, and CD-ROM databases that are only accessible within a particular Branch library. As a result, an increasing proportion of the budget for library material for the Faculty of Engineering is spent on these resources. These include Databases :
Fulltext databases / electronic journal suites :
The Monash University Library subscribes to Australian Standards Online, which gives electronic access to all Australian Standards provided by the Standards Association of Australia, and IEEE Standards (via IEEE Xplore) Subject gateways :
Around 80% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Engineering is spent on serials, databases and electronic resources, and 20% on printed monographs. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the department cover in general areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in 624-627, engineering branches and the 690s, building. The major areas of collecting for the Department of Civil Engineering are as follows
The Hargrave Library has an extensive collection in the areas of construction engineering, fluid mechanics and hydraulic engineering. Other areas that are well served include geomechanics, hydrology, surveying, transport engineering, building and building materials. The areas of industrial engineering and engineering management, and timber and timber research are particular strengths of the Caulfield campus. 4. Other significant Monash collections or resourcesSESTICON: As a member of SESTICON (South Eastern Scientific and Technical Information Consortium), Hargrave-Andrew cooperates with the member libraries covering this subject to consolidate and maximise holdings, thus providing the most effective access to information resources. Selected serial titles in areas of shared research interest are also circulated among the SESTICON libraries. (More information about SESTICON available lib.monash.edu.au/hal/sesticon.html) Hargrave Map Collection : A valuable adjunct to the collections in civil engineering is the map collection in the Hargrave-Andrew Library. The focus of this collection is on Australian geological material, topographic material and thematic material in the form of maps, atlases, gazetteers and reports. Some material is also collected from other parts of the world. (Hargrave map collections site available www.lib.monash.edu.au/hal/maps/index.html) Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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