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Department of Mechanical 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 Mechanical Engineering operates across the Clayton and Caulfield campuses where it offers both undergraduate (first and second level only at Caulfield) and postgraduate courses. There is an academic staff of 29 and a student load of 640 EFTSU, of which approximately 31 is postgraduate. Undergraduate studies are also available in mechanical engineering on the Gippsland campus, with teaching done by the Gippsland School of Engineering. Research interests of the department include : engineering dynamics, kinematics and mechanisms, robotics, manufacturing management and technology, composite structures, bonded structures, repair technology and aging structures, vibration analysis and control, acoustics and noise control, environmental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, scalar flow, mixing in swirling flows, energy conversion, boiling heat transfer, technology policy, control and systems, and machine condition monitoring. The research centres of the department are Fluid-dynamics Laboratory for Aeronautical and Industrial Research (FLAIR) – conducts research into bluff body flows, free surface flows, jets, tethered bodies, and swirling flows, to underpin applied research and consulting in aerospace and automotive engineering, manufacturing and mineral processing. Turbulence Research Laboratory (LTRA&C) – investigates direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows, dynamics and structure of separated flows, particle image velocimetry (PIV) and holographic PIV, experimental techniques in fluid mechanics, turbulent flow topology, separated boundary layers, flow stability, high Reynolds number swirling flows. Subsea Engineering Research Group (SERG) – research into mechanical aspects of subsea engineering with special emphasis on design of subsea completion equipment, applications of mechatronics principles to subsea equipment, selection of materials for subsea completions, modelling and simulation of control systems for underwater wells. BHP Institute of Railway Technology – undertakes applied railway research for heavy haul, mass transit, general passenger and freight operations. Current research includes vehicle/track dynamics, wheel/rail interaction, wheel/rail lubrication, rail/sleeper/track design, track and vehicle instrumentation, component testing, railway bridges, noise generation and propagation, technical and economic modelling. 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 Mechanical Engineering is predominantly located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus, and in the Caulfield Library. Material in the area of mechanical 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 Mechanical 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 collectionNumber of print serial titles received : The Department subscribes to over 100 titles, of which approximately two-thirds are held in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus, and the rest in the Caulfield Library. The Monash University Library subscribes to Australian Standards Online, which provides electronic access to all Australian Standards provided by the Standards Association of Australia. As well, the Hargrave-Andrew Library and the Caulfield Library have a recent print set of the American Society for Testing and Materials standards. 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 journal collections
Online Reference Books
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 for the department cover in general areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in 531-532, mechanics, 621, mechanical engineering and 629, other branches of engineering. The major areas of collecting for the Department of Mechanical Engineering are as follows
The collection has strengths in aeronautics, fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, mechanical design, noise and vibration, and robotics. Extra emphasis in collecting is presently being given to the areas of composite structures, mechatronics, and ocean engineering. 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) Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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