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Undergraduate Honours

Completion of an Honours degree improves employment opportunities and sets graduates apart from the rest. It also opens up the opportunity for students to pursue a higher degree by research such as a PhD and also obtain an attractive scholarship package.

Computer Science Honours

Honours in Computer Science consists of an additional year of study on top of an existing undergraduate degree in Science or Information Technology. Honours is a rigorous program of study, half of which is spent on advanced course work, with the other half dedicated to an individual research project. Honours is challenging, but the rewards are great. The course work will take students understanding of selected areas of computing to a new level, while also exposing them to other areas not covered in the pass degree. The project, for which students receive individual supervision from an experienced researcher, will allow them to demonstrate their advanced academic capability.

Please see http://cs.anu.edu.au/honours for further information.

Bachelor of Software Engineering with Honours

In the Bachelor of Software Engineering all students completing the degree programs are eligible to be considered for honours. Honours grades are awarded by the Faculty in recognition of excellent or outstanding performance in the degree program. The fourth year of study includes advanced coursework and a major project. Students have a choice of topics that can range from the strongly practical to a more research-oriented approach that is also a preparation for further university research. Projects in software engineering also involve working for a real client.

The Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honours

Honours grades in the BE degree are awarded by the Faculty on the basis of a recommendation from the Head of Engineering and may be awarded with first class honours; second class honours, division A; or second class honours, division B.

The awarding of honours in engineering is based on meritorious performance over the entire four-year program. The assessment of meritorious performance includes the calculation of an average percentage mark (APM), together with the consideration of the overall academic progress of the student and the Individual Project result. To determine the global APM, the first year average mark is weighted by a factor 0.1, and the combined average of years 2, 3 and 4 by a factor 0.9.

The first year average mark is the average of the marks awarded in the following courses: ENGN1211Discovering Engineering, ENGN1221 Electromechanical Technologies, ENGN1215 Introduction to Materials, MATH1013 Mathematics & Applications 1 (or MATH1115), MATH1014 Mathematics & Applications 2 (or MATH1116), PHYS1101Advanced Physics I, COMP1100 Introduction to Programming &Algorithms and COMP1110 Foundations of Software Engineering. The last two courses may be replaced with COMP1120 From Programming to Software Engineering.

The average mark for the remainder years is the average mark awarded in all the additional engineering courses (that is, having an ENGNxxxx code number) completed by the student, excluding ENGN4200 Individual Project, which is considered separately.

In order to be considered for the award of a degree offered by the Department of Engineering, students must formally enrol in ENGN4100 Engineering Honours, at the commencement beginning of their intended final semester.

Other Universities

Students from other universities who have completed part or all of a course recognised by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology are welcome to apply to complete their honours program with the Faculty.