Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this morning's
career advisor briefing. Thank you for all joining
us during this very busy time for those
who I haven't met, my name is Kate Tangas. I'm the manager
of the domestic student recruitment team here at RMIT team
RMIT limit. And I had the
pleasure of working alongside the excellent recruitment team
that you.
Before we start, I'd like to acknowledge the people of
the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the Eastern
Culin Nations on who's unceded land we
conduct the business of the university I on behalf of RMIT, respectfully acknowledged their ancestors and elders past and present
And I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians and
the ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we all meet today.
OK, so I'm not gonna speak too
long at the start because we have a big agenda
coming up so as
you would know and we would have seen in the invite, we have lots of
exciting changes to our STEM programs
this year. So we have a lot of brilliant speakers here
to tell us all about those changes.
and new things that have been added so
A little bit of housekeeping, we've got our
chat is now open and all of our team are
in the behind the scenes to answer any questions
that you might have throughout the presentations and we'll
try and fit in a couple of those questions to be asked
to our excellent speakers and if we
haven't got to them in that during the presentation
we'll answer them straight after in the chat as well
So before yeah
So let's get started. I'm gonna introduce our
first speaker, Professor Angela Carbone
Angela is associate deputy Vice
Chancellor for learning and teaching and quality for
our STEM college here at RMIT. So I'm going to welcome Angela
Thank you so much, Kate, and hello everybody
It's great to see you through cyber land and
to have us here joining us for this career
advisers event. Our next slide please
Here at our IT so next slide please
will keep moving to the next slide. So here at RMIT
we know that stem is absolutely instrumental
in ensuring a healthy, sustainable and
connected future and that's the future we all want to live in
We're so committed, we actually have an entire college
devoted to stem and we've got brilliant areas
in engineering, in science, in
computing and also in health. And it's in this
college, this is where we want our STEM students to discover
their interest
To pursue their passions and to graduate with
the skills to navigate a really complex and fast
changing world
So we've made a number of changes to our program, so
next slide please and I wanna talk through just some of the drivers
that were the impetus for us to make the changes
to our programs. So the first one is around
making sure that our students are ready for work
for the 21st century. There's been so much changes
to the way we work, especially in the last two years
and we know that our employers
tell us they want our students to have the deep discipline knowledge
Which you will obtain through our programs, but
they also want our students to be to have
knowledge across disciplines and develop those
enterprise skills. So that's really important
to us. And so we've designed our programs so that
you can develop that deep discipline knowledge, get experience
across a number of disciplines, but also develop
those enterprise professional skills which employers
are really calling out for. And we've seen that a lot in
any
employment that you apply any job you apply for
you will see that in coming through those ads, the
other driver for change was around development
designing our courses so that you can continue
to engage in our programs no matter what
point you are in your career if you're deciding
to do a vocational education program first you
can then transition into our programs. If you go out to
industry and you work for a while and you wanna come back and do some of
our programs
We'll have multiple entry points and exit points and
pathways for you to continue your studies beyond just
a degree. You can move into postgraduate studies as
well, and we wanna try and make that as seamless and as easy
for you as possible. And the third driver is
around designing our program so
their future ready. We've seen over the last two years.
a huge disruption to the way we work and a huge
disruption to education, the pandemic
Caused a lot of students and academics, not
not being able to come on campus, so we've designed our
program. So if we do have another disruption, you can continue
with your education. The best possible program
and courses that we can give you so you can continue as
if the disruption didn't happen. And that's how
I so over to the next slide.
I wanted to talk about a couple
about features of our revised programs
There's 3 main features the first ones around flexibility
The next one's around developing those practical industry
experiences, and the third one is around preparing our
students for a tech rich world. So just focusing
on the first one just for a moment and you'll hear more about this once
all the presenters talk about their particular programs
But basically, our programs have been designed so that
students, when they come and enrol in a degree, they don't have to decide
straight away what they what they want to major in or what they want to
be. They come in and they do what we call a
common first year
Block. So if you're thinking about
science and you're not sure if you want to be a chemist or an environmental
scientist or a geoscientist, you do a
first year common block and then after you've done that first year
you can then decide the direction you want to head in
So creating that flexibility, you then have choices
to dive deep into a particular discipline. But
you also can do other disciplines. So we have crossed what we call in cross
disciplinary minors. I'll say a little bit more about that in a moment
We have designed our programs to embed as
much practical experience as possible, right
rom first year all the way until you finish
your degree
Many of our programs have designed have been designed
with a boot camp experience. If they get that hands on practical
experience and you're work in a studio with
other, with other students on projects
and we have these embedded industry
partnered experiences and the third feature which
is on the next slide is around preparing our students
for a tech rich world. And we've done a number
of things to help our students become step savvy
in that technical space
First of all, we're looking at having one course
in every semester available online. We have a lot
of courses, a lot of our courses are being delivered in hybrid
There's some areas we have to come in come on campus
because of specialized equipment or there might be working
on a special project. We have to be face to face. But
we also want to provide students with a
course that they can do fully online. We have a lot of stuff face
to face. We've designed some
signature courses which we're calling future technology skills
platform courses
These are core to all of our degrees and we'll say something
about them in the next slide in a moment and what we've
also done is for our courses
that have labs, each course that has
a lab, we're trying to give students an opportunity to work with
a did have a digital lab experience and we've had
some fantastic results using some pretty sophisticated
software and allowing students to
operate in that 3D World online
So if we go to the next slide, I'll just talk a little bit about our signature
or what we're calling our platform courses to really hone
in on some of those future technology skills that you are going
to need. In fact, every student's going to need this and
this is a real signature for our college we
know how important AI is. We're seeing driverless
cars out there. We're seeing more and more of appliances
being driven by artificial intelligence
So that foundations of AI is absolutely instrumental
Whether you're moving into Health Science, computing, engineering
absolutely instrumental the first year with we offered
this and piloted. We had almost 1000 students enrolled
with fantastic feedback. The way these courses have
been designed are cutting edge. No other universities designing
courses like these ones and very special
in the way that they've been designed and put together multiple
perspectives from industry. Fantastic case
studies. They've been designed in a modular fashion, authentic assessments
Are really something special and unique to the STEM college
at RMIT. The next platform courses around STEM
for sustainable development in every aspect of our life
We're thinking about how we can be more sustainable
The environment is our most precious resource
and the way that we look after it, look after it, not just about
the way we manage waste but everything else apart
from managing waste, including managing waste is really
really important.
So you're there's a whole course devoted
to that. The future of work, it's changing so much
And we need to think about this innovative ecosystem
as things change as an opportunity to become
creative and inventive. And this is the course that will help
you develop those skills. And then finally
we're seeing so much more of a connection
between the physical, the biological and the cyber
world. So we have designed a course to
look at how to use technology to build a better
and a digital world. Moving to the next line
Just to give you a general outline of our program structure
so our three year programs in the 1st
the year you'll do your first year, your Common Core courses
which you'll hear a little bit about your future technology skills
platform courses. You may do some in the first year some
e in the second and third year students will choose a
major. They could do two majors, but they will choose a major in the
area that they really want to develop that deep discipline knowledge and
then they'll choose a minor and that's and
that's a cross disciplinary minor
And they finished their final year with a capstone project
moving on to the next slide. Just to give you a sense of the
blocks that we are working in, so the
components of a program first year 4
the four courses to make up the first year block
We do eight courses
96 credit points for a major
4. courses or 48 credit points for a minor and then
your capstone project. So every program is
made-up of these types of blocks
Next slide please
And So what you'll hear about in?
the next couple of slides is more details across
these disciplines that make that use the components
that I've just spoken about. So I really hope that
you enjoy the next couple of presentations
across the disciplines that you can see on the screen
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for that overview
That was excellent. Our next speaker
is going to tell us all about the engineering programs, so
I'd like to welcome Professor Margaret Jollands
She is the Dean of learning and teaching
engineering and technology here at RMIT, please
welcome Margaret. Thank you so much, Kate
and hello, everybody. Yes, I'm Margaret Jollands
It's great to be here and talk about engineering
So next slide please
It's, as Angela has already introduced
where we're very excited about the new aspects
of the engineering programs and like the other programs
in STEM, we have this new common structure which brings
so much advantages to students
And unique to engineering, we have a flexible
first year. I'll talk a bit more about that
Also very important with this change of
to the new structure, we've changed our maths prerequisite
and so that's going to open our programs for
entry to a wider range of students because now
all programs will only require further maths previously
required maths methods
We have business double degree so
a major change rather than have a business
degree with only one major sorry a double
degree with only one major now students within the double
degrees with business can choose any of the majors
from business. So that's going to be great for students as well and
as Angela talked about, we all the programs have
the future technology skills platform courses in them
which are most amazing courses
So just to give you an overview of the 10
bachelor engineering programs and they're
none of them have title changes the major
amendments are the first year block the minors and
the prerequisite changed to any maths
A couple of the smaller ones have been closed and next
slide please
And so here is a list of our double degree programs and
also they haven't had a title change except previously
a degree was called Bachelor of Business, for example the
With advanced manufacturing it was international
business. Now it's open to any business major, so the title
is just changed to Bachelor of Business
So they have the first year block, they have minors, they
have, the prerequisite is changed as well and
the business double degree is more open so
we also took the opportunity to close a few of the smaller
double degrees. So now we're left with a set of 10
So that's listed for completeness there. Thank you. Next slide
So what are the 10? So the 10 fields of engineering it's
a very extensive field of coverage of engineering
We have all the major
fields of manufacturing aerospace,
civil, electrical and mechanical as
well as some of the more specialist fields biomedical
engineering and chemical engineering.
electronic computer systems. And so this is just an overview
it's a very wide range of engineering which we think offers a
very good range, of course is to attract
students. Next slide please.
So back to the key features. The structure of the bachelor
of Engineering Honours is the name of
our specific the flexible
first year, so it has
One common year
and then which is common with the specialist
degrees and then students transfer in their second year
to the single degree of their choice. So,
I think this is a unique feature in RMIT. There's no competition,
for the second year. Students can choose whatever degree they want and
they'll be able to get into that as long as they've passed
the minimum number of courses in first year, of course
What else is new? So, as I said, the prerequisites have been open
So it’s English and any maths
And the way that works if students come in with
maths methods, they go straight into A1 maths class. Anybody,
who's done a lower level of maths, they'll do a makeup Maths
so everybody will exit from first year at the same level
of maths. The duration of the
One Year program is one year, all the other single degrees
are four years and the double degrees are five years
There's many pathways as well from diplomas
and associate degrees. The location depends
on the program and will be in the city or,
it will be a combination of city and the Bundoora campus
Next slide please
So why engineering and RMIT? Of course we're very
proud of engineering at RMIT. and RMIT,
is among the world's top 100 universities in
civil and electronic engineering
and in the top 150 for several of the others
So given I think there's 22,000 universities you know
being top 100 in some of these disciplines we
have a range of
A range of pathways, so that's very important for students who might not
Quite; who want to have a very hands on experience by going
to our TAFE, our in our TAFE pathways
or who
don't quite make the ATAR and so they can do TAFE and then come
into the single degrees- into the bachelor degree later
the flexible first year I talked about, its unique structure.
Students get a taste of up to three subjects in
their second semester before having to choose which
of the specialist degrees.
They go into in second year
And it's globally recognised with many accreditation
bodies that we're signed up to. Next. Slide please
Other things is very exciting. Very industry connected, Angela
mentioned very hands on. We have many work placements
in industry, industry projects in many
of our project courses and accredited by Engineers Australia.
next slide please.
Hands on opportunities. Definitely in engineering from
first year all the way through to 4th or 5th year
and those are team based great for developing soft skills.
Creativity and problem solving, and many of the
laboratories and hands on opportunities are industry
projects as well. Next slide please
Global opportunities across RMIT in all the disciplines
but especially engineers really love to go on the RIIERP
program. The international industry Experience research program
predominantly in Europe. Fantastic opportunities
for six months or one year work and
we have humanitarian engineering, study tools and many others and
the exchange program of course. Next slide please
Clubs and societies. That's real feature of engineering almost every
discipline has a society and there's some general societies as well
It's a very important part of being
being in the School of Engineering
next slide please.
Guaranteed pathways
It's something new and interesting. You could students can start
in their advanced in
an advanced degree, advanced diploma
and come into Bachelor of Engineering as
As the second part. So it's a guaranteed pathway and
I think that might be my last slide
That's it. Thank you so much. Any questions in the chat? Very
happy to answer questions there
Thanks, Margaret that
was excellent. Do you have one question? You mentioned the RIIERP project
and I was just hoping you'd give me an example of what students
would do in that project
So they work. Students work, for example
in Boeing, in Europe, in Germany has
two or three placements a year. I think it is and so
the students go and work as engineers, so they work
for an engineer as a for a qualified engineer and they'll
be doing engineering work in the plant in the Boeing
fabrication plant in Germany
Really, as a regular Boeing employee, so it's very exciting
to live overseas, very exciting to work in Boeing
One of the Blue chip, one of the blue chip companies
in Europe and getting real experience, which is so
valuable when they're looking for their first job
as a graduate
Yeah, certainly, certainly very exciting, we've
just had a couple of questions just about the maths
prerequisite and you covered it in your presentation
really well. Would you mind going over?
The way in which we will get those students if they do come
in with a more of if they don't have math methods
and how we'll get them up to scratch
Sure,
Yeah. We thought a lot about this. You can imagine so
students with math methods, they go in their first semester
in the first year block that Angela mentioned that they were going
to a course of called engineering maths. So,
that's designed for students who've done maths methods, anybody
who hasn't done maths methods, they go into an introduction
to engineering maths
Which covers the gap between the syllabus for further
mass, which is typically what students have done further
maths and maths methods. It's tailored
to that they do that course in first semester
and then in second semester they move on and complete
the engineering maths and so that
extra course that they do is taken from later on in their program
that because they've done an extra maths course they do
one less course of a of an optional course
So in the end they get to exactly the same place and graduate in four years
We've analysed the data. How are they doing those students? How?
are those students doing in second year? Super
So very happy and will continue to monitor that to make sure that makeup
maths is doing enough to help those students get
along in their degree. So yeah, we're very excited about it
Thank you so much. That's all of the questions I've got for you, so
appreciate you giving us your time this morning. I
will now introduce our next speaker. We have Elizabeth
Burgees, who is the associate Dean of student experience
learning and teaching for our health and science cluster here at
RMIT. So we're welcome, Elizabeth now
Hi everyone, I'd just talk you through some
of the exciting programs that we have in health and
could I get the next slide please?
Observed the main changes for next
year will be in the psychology program, so we'll have some
new common first year courses and it's really exciting
to have these courses within the School of Health and Biomedical Science
because what these courses will allow is for students to come
in to complete the courses and if they choose to go into a different
program, they can so a different degree they have
that opportunity. So really increases the opportunity
to change if they want to. We've got a new structure
in our psychology program
We've got a we've got majors and minors, the major will
focus on the core subjects and the minor will actually
allow the students to specialise, and we have our fabulous
future technology skill platform courses and as well
next slide please
So, when we have a look at the psychology program, the main changes
are a title change. So now that sort of psychology we
talked about the fact that we've got the common first year courses and
of course we've also got a
the new future, the new minors
I should say now all the other programs we'll have changes
but not for next year. So stay tuned for that, can we?
have the next slide please?
So why do health that at RMIT? Well, there's a number of reasons
First and foremost, we are actually we
have a reputation for excellence in research and
that really informs our undergraduate teaching as
well. We're one of the few tertiary providers
who actually allow you to do Chinese
medicine and our expertise
in Chinese medicine actually supports one of the
World Health organisations programs
And we have a whole heap of cutting edge facilities. And I'll talk a little bit more
about that too in our presentation
Next slide please
So we have all just been through a COVID-19 pandemic
and what a fabulous jobs our nurses have done. So if you
Want to be a nurse and or your students want to be a nurse and
they can make a difference to people's lives on a daily
basis, they can work across a variety of different communities and
know that registered nurses now are in very high demand
obviously with the pandemic and the ongoing effects on
our health system. Why do nursing at RMIT?
Well, we have clinical placements in every single year
And it's across a range of diverse clinical settings. So metropolitan
as well as rural areas. And we have these fabulous
clinical labs which give you an opportunity
to actually practice your nursing skills. We've got great subjects and mental
health and indigenous and we've really got really
good professional development to support you for that graduate employment
Next slide please
In terms of psychology, we know that psychology is a really broad
field with a many, many areas of specialisation. So you could do counselling
or sports psychology, educational psychology, etcetera. But
here at RMIT you can pursue a career as a clinical psychologist
So basically, you'll get to diagnose and treat mental health problems
and we do that by using
evidence based research and critical thinking exercises as well
as real world cases, and you'll get an industry
informed learning material because all our courses
are accredited
And you get an opportunity to do a whole heap of placement. So this
could be in hospitals or clinics or health facilities or justice
organisations. Next slide please
I'm going to talk a little bit about medical radiation. So this is a
rapidly advancing health care discipline and essentially what?
you're doing here is that you're diagnosing or treating injury or
disease and you're doing it by applying ionizing or
nonionizing radiation. There are three specific streams
that you can enrol in. So there's medical imaging, which is probably
the one you're most familiar with in terms of X rays, MRIs,
or ultrasounds. And so they will actually diagnose
and take care of patients using this expertise. There's
nuclear medicine. So this is where we use very small amounts of radioactive material
And that can be used to diagnose and treat diseases. So,
things like cardiac stress tests to look
at heart function or bone scans, that sort of
thing is what they would commonly be involved in and.
lastly, we have radiation therapy. Now of course, we have very
very high cancer rates here in Australia and radiation
therapy is really one of the main treatment options for people diagnosed
with cancer and people who specialize in this will actually get to design treatment plans
and be able to treat the patients accordingly
And our medical radiation graduates are qualified to
go to the UK, Ireland, Canada and India. So for
those who have been frustrated by the lack of travel opportunities
because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is great and
they're going to be placed at a variety of things. So the Royal Children's Hospital
Peter MacCallum, Saint Vincent's Hospital and private pathology
labs, we've really give our students a great experience
If you want to be an osteopath, we know that osteopaths
are trained in diagnosis and management of the musculoskeletal
pain disorders, and you get the opportunity to treat
patients using manual techniques. So things like soft tissue
or mallet manipulation, muscle relaxation
techniques, why do it at RMIT? Well, you
begin your work integrated learning in your very first
Yeah. So, you have that opportunity to observe clinically
in our RMIT health clinic, which is an absolute feature
out here
And in the final two years, under the supervision of
qualified osteopaths, you also get to diagnose
and treat a variety of muscular skeletal disorders. And our students? Really
love that opportunity, and we do that over a period of 38
weeks per year
Next slide, please
If you are coming to start study chiropractic
chiropractic involves the
prevention and treatment of health problems related to the
nervous muscular skeletal system. But we're trying to do it without drugs
or surgery and you'll begin your work integrated
learning almost straight away and you culminate
this in your 4th year when you start to perform your patient care duties
under the supervision of a registered practitioner. Again we
have the RMIT Health clinic at University Hill in
Bundoora.
And this is where your 4th or 5th students get
to treat patients to diagnose their
conditions under the supervision of registered chiropractors
Next slide, please I’ll talk a little bit about Chinese
medicine. So Chinese medicine is obviously these of a
range of substances that come from different sources, so
natural sources, things like roots, flower seeds and leaves
And we're looking at the treatment of these disorders using these
substances or via the manual techniques. So things like
acupuncture or copying. And so this would
be instead of drugs and surgery obviously and
here in RMIT we emphasise the integration of Chinese medicine
and Western medicine. I think that's really important to have
The link and we actually emphasise working together with
other members of the health community to provide these particular
skills. You have the opportunity to
train in China to broaden your clinical experience
and the graduates will be able to practice this
at internationally as well
Can we please have the next slide
Now I just wanted to talk a little bit about RMIT
health clinic, if we could go back,
RMIT Health Clinic is a fabulous opportunity.
It's a really, really great opportunity
for students to undertake supervised training
and they will get an opportunity to actually look in a proper clinic.
simulated environment. Next slide please
We have our fabulous simulation labs which
are absolutely great and
in our simulation labs you'll actually get the opportunity
for the students to treat patients etcetera we
seem to be moving around a bit with the slides but. That's OK, I'll
Talk, there we go there. That's simulation labs you can
see that they can actually look at patients, treat
patients in the form of these mannequins. We have great record
keeping services as well. Next slide please
We just wanted to call out the fact that we've got
online delivery, but there'll be lots of face to face opportunities next
slide please
We have fabulous research facilities which are really state
of the art and we have an international reputation in research
Next slide please.
And the thing to remember is all our courses are
accredited, which means that industry helps design it
industry has great input into it and really we create
job ready graduates. Next slide please.
And as Margaret has mentioned before, our clubs and societies
really great opportunity for the students to actually meet
and have a really great university experience, I think
that the end of my slides
Thanks
I'll be happy to take any questions
Thank you. Now I just had one question for you and
I know you're sticking with us to the for the next session, so
just around that psychology change just making
just a question in regards to being able
to go on to honours and masters with this new program
Yeah, you could definitely go on to honours and masters with the new program
It's this program is designed so
you get a little bit more depth. And so yeah, absolutely you can
Excellent, thank you. Alright, well without
taking too much of Question Time, we're gonna move on
so that you're able to tell us all about biomedical sciences
Ok. Let's start with the biomedical science program
So these set of programs have had major
changes as well. So the first thing you'll notice is those common first
year courses. So this will give us the opportunity for students
who want to come in and they want to move into another health course
or another biomedical science program. They can do. So you've
got a major structure, which is a set of core courses, but
then you've got minors where they can actually specialise and then of
course, we've got our future technology programs as well
Next Slide please
So when you look at our biomedical science program, you can see that
the first thing that you'll notice is that we've got biomedical
science, clinical and translational science and
we've got the changes of that common first year subjects we've got
the new minors as well as the title change when you.
look at our Bachelor of Laboratory Medicine, you'll notice now that comes
with an honours degree in it as well. So, you've got your title
change. So it's bachelor lab Med with honours and
then which then means this embedded honours increases
the opportunity of these graduates to be able to go
To do a PhD and the next thing
is the Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology, Bachelor.
biomedical Science that's now been changed to Bachelor of Science.
and Bachelor of Biomedical Science. You'll notice the title
change as well as the program structure changes within
based on this separate degrees. And then finally we've got the
Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science, which has your common first
year subjects that we talked about and our whole heap of brand new minors
Next slide please
So why would you study biomedical science at RMIT
the five degrees that we're focusing on is biomedical science
pharmacy, biotech, lab Med, as well as pharmaceutical
sciences. There have or they all these degrees have
a great focus on the science aspect and
that we have a reputation for excellence in research really
underpins a lot of these degrees and so
the students get an opportunity or exposure to all the research side
of things
RMIT’s Bachelor of Biomedical Science Lab Med, which will be the Bachelor of Laboratory
Medicine, is the only Victorian degree which is accredited
by our Australian Institute of Medical Scientists and it
has these fabulous majors that you can
see there. So hematology, anatomical path, medical
micro, clinical biochem, transfusion and transfer
plantation sites. And it also offers an opportunity for you to study abroad
Next slide please
If you enroll in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science, you
can understanding of the function of the normal human body and
what happens in disease. So we go into how to prevent
it, how to treat it, et cetera. And you'll also get a really
good understanding of the process of research and research can be something
that the school leavers may not be familiar with
but the fact that you've got evidence based studies
that will then go forward and support, why we
treat the diseases the way that we are and they'll get an understanding
of that, and this degree is a really great
Preparation for entry into research so you can do your honours and your
PhD or graduate programs in the health
Science degree. So things like medicine, physio, dentistry and
can all be done through this our graduates work
in a number of diverse settings including hospitals, research institutions
pharmaceutical companies, and they work in a number of really
emerging exciting fields, things like stem cells, cancer
and genetic engineering
next slide, if you're gonna do
a, graduate in the bachelor
of Laboratory Medicine, which now remember comes with honours
So great opportunity for you to actually go
into doing a PhD
what you will do is you'll be qualified to practice
as a medical laboratory scientist in the diagnostic
pathology industry. So in this industry, you'll be able to diagnose
diseases and provide information about treatment and prevention
So that's sort of things you'd be doing is analysing samples. So body
Fluids and body tissue, et cetera. It's got a
really great emphasis on hands on
laboratory and practical work experience and
you get a real world experience with a full semester
of industry placements
It's a really internationally recognised degree as well
could we go to the next slide please
Our next one is the Bachelor of Pharmacy with honours, obviously
with pharmacy you’re doing
the science of preparing and dispensing medicine, and you're gonna be the
one if you're a student who takes us to advise members of
the public and other health professions, which medicines to take? How much?
to take, how they interact with each other and the potential side effects in
terms of career options, you can work in both community and hospital
Pharmacies, in the Pharmaceutical industry or you
can actually work into health policy or admin roles
Now, why do it at RMIT? Because clinical placement
is a really, really key focus of this degree throughout it
And we've got a really great teaching labs that
are equipped with the latest pharmacy facilities. So you can actually
develop the skills of a pharmacy practitioner
and so you've got a purpose built pharmacy
And you've got practical work experience as well that we provide for
our students in the hospital community and specialist work integrated
environments. And you'll be taught these cutting edge skills by staff with research.
and industry experience as well
Could we have the next slide, please? So we've got the bachelor pharmaceutical
science, so a lot of people ask what's the difference
between pharmacy and pharmaceutical science is. Pharmacy is actually
that process of dispensing medication, it's the person that you will see when
you go forward getting a drug prescription. Pharmaceutical
scientists actually are involved in the discovery and development
and formulation of these particular medications. So the kind
of careers that you're looking at there is for research and development
So you could be involved in clinical trials or drug discovery
you could be involved in manufacturing, where you're making sure that the
product that's actually made is properly quality controlled
Or you could be involved in the administrative side, so marketing
sales etcetera. The thing to notice our Pharmaceutical industry
is Australia leading technology exporter and it forms
a multi-million dollar industry
That's actually going into it. The thing that our
people adding the pharmaceutical science areas are most
proud of is this placement that you do and a lot of our students
actually graduate and work in that particular industry
later on
Next slide please
OK, we're not going to move to the next slide that's
alright. I'll just talk through the last couple of slides
in my presentation. Beautiful
Here we're just showing you.
our simulation labs and essentially
really great facility opportunity to work with these
mannequins that actually talk back to like patients
You get an opportunity to administer things and see their reaction
etcetera. Next slide please
And that's just our fabulous health clinic, which I've already
spoken to you about
Next slide please
And this is just explaining again that we've got our online
delivery capabilities, but a lot of the things that we'll be doing will be
face to face and I'm sure that the people who've gone through COVID pandemic
will be happy to hear that
Next slide please.
We've got great research facilities that I've spoken about and I think
we're up to and remember, this is an industry
connected courses or these are informed by industry we've got
industry players who actually come in and teach into this and
our final slide
Is just talking about the fabulous clubs and societies which make sure that
university is a great experience. Thank you.
Excellent. Thank you very much. I do have
one question from the chat here asking about
If you. Just tell us the difference between biomedical and
lab science?
Absolutely. So the people who take up Bachelor of Biomedical Science, they tend to be the
ones interested in research and all the ones that are actually wanna go off and do a
postgrad degree, something like medicine, something like
physio, etc. The ones that take up laboratory
medicine tend to be the ones that want the accredited degree to
actually work in a lab.
So that's sort of the major difference between the two, yeah.
That's all the questions I have for you, but just before
we move on, I would also just say that this weekend you
are able to come and check out all of the facilities
at our open day at our Bundoora campus
where all of our Health Sciences and our biomedical sciences
are. So, yeah, just thought I'd get a plug in there for it
as well
Thanks Kate. Much appreciated
OK. So we're gonna move on to our next presenter.
I'm gonna introduce Professor Mark Osborne who
is our Associate Dean experience for science
here at RMIT. Welcome, mark
Morning
Kate. Thanks very much for the opportunity to talk today about our
science degrees at RMIT, before I do
So I'd just like to acknowledge the peoples of the boi wurrung nations.
from the lands joining the meeting today
So I'm going to be taking you on a quick tour of the
Significant changes and transformations we've been making in our science
degrees on this slide and what I'm covering
is the fact that we are in our new science degrees are going to
be having a common first semester and I'll talk more about this
shortly and all of our science programs
have got majors and minors now within these within
our programs and in particular our new bachelor of science
has got their choice of for students of 10 majors and 14
minors
Students will be able to take these in combination either
as a major and two minors or as a double major
And as we've been having from Liz, we also have future technologies
platform skills courses within our programs
One key change from previous some offerings is that
our Dean Scholars program is not going to be offered for 2023
I'll talk about other changes between the
old offerings and our new programs at the end of
this presentation
So our new degrees for RMIT we're offering
that suite of three year and four year and five year degrees
on this slide I'm covering the three year program
I'm gonna be talking about our Bachelor of Science program in particular
which offers these majors and minors across Biological Sciences
biotechnology, chemistry and physics and many other areas as
well. And then in addition we have four named
degrees or specialist degrees across food technology
and nutrition, environmental science, space science
and a Bachelor of Applied Mathematics
and statistics, next slide please
Our four year programs of two types we have honours degrees
where students are working in surveying or
geospatial, and we'll be having significant industry experience
in those courses as indeed they'll have it lots of opportunity for industry partner
learning and industry experience across all of our programs we
also offer a four year double degree in partnership with the
biomedical Sciences team, which is a program
on biotechnology and a bachelor of food technology in partnership
with business. And then we have some five year
But the greatest in partnership with engineering on environmental science
and also applied chemistry with counterparts
in engineering. Next slide, please
So I just wanted to pull out a few of the key features for our new
Bachelor of Science degrees. I think that the first, the most important
one from the student perspective is that we give students lots of choice
Students get the opportunity to choose their own degree pathway by
choosing from the range of majors and minors and that enables
them to specialise and study their passions in science
Also, key to these new degrees is that we
have industry partnered learning and industry activities
within them, including work, integrated learning opportunities
And that's because we've co-designed and actively
sought input from industry into the design of our programs
And we're also focusing very hard on the looking to provide
our graduates with a work ready opportunity. So, they've
got a full career ready skill set to take place
take out into the workplace both those technical skills
which we've and practical skills which are RMIT’s long prided
ourselves and offering to our students, but also strengthening those
digital and communication and teamwork skills to set our students
up for success
Next slide please
So the overall structure of our bachelor science degree
which the one, the degree which had the greatest change, is that the students
will be taking four core courses, science reimagined core
courses in the first semester. They'll also be taking two
future technology skills courses, and then they'll be choosing
take either 2 majors or one major and 2
four course minors and students also have an opportunity
to be doing a 24 credit point science project which includes
industry partner projects in areas relating to their major
Next slide please
For a first year of our students, we've recognised that students are coming in
with quite radically different backgrounds, so we want to make sure that they
all have the key skills to set them up for success, both in their degrees
but also their future careers. So we've designed a suite of courses
which work interactively called science reimagined, which
really giving students an introduction to the key concepts
and skills across these areas, both in the physical sciences
chemistry and physics, and geospatial. The world of life sciences
Biosciences, and food and environment, and then strengthening
Student skills and communicating in science fields and
providing mathematical skills for our students
so that they're really set up for success on their future
program. Next slide please
I'm not going to go through this in great detail, but I really want to highlight
the exceptional choice which we're offering to our students, both in terms
of majors, which students can take and this suite of minors
either to explore some of these
topics that a more introductory level or alternatively
to specialise and build on the subjects
which they've been covering in their majors. So it allows students
to both have breadth and depth unless we're talking to
industry. Again, this is something which industry really values you they're looking for
Students who are able to go out into the workplace and also be able to explore
topics outside of their specialisms. Next slide please.
I think you've heard already about their stem future technology skills
courses, but our students are able to explore this
A minimum of two of these courses on their
on their programs. So for example, to exploring topics in
sustainable development and AI, next slide please
I'm on it. It's all the always pride itself on providing students
the opportunity to get, generate, generate, genuine, experiential
earning opportunities to build those key practical and field
based skills. And those skills are continuing
to be developed and embedded throughout of our throughout
our programs irrespective of which program we're doing and many
of those opportunities are again conducted in partnership with industry
where we're having students either working in our tremendous for example
of tremendous food technology pilot plant
Facility where we have industry coming in and working with us
on development of products
or out in the field or as you see they're surveying or
indeed within our technical labs where students
get the opportunity to also undertake research projects during
their program.
Next slide please
Within our delivery of our program, we've recognized the significant
change which has been made by COVID and the fact that students like
the flexibility of undertaking digital learning and
learning at times and places which suit them so
we built this on the basis of our canvas online learning system
so that students have access to the recorded learning materials
that they can choose to access when they want to we're using
LABSTER virtual laboratory simulations
to provide students with opportunities to do
Digital Labs, which will complement our face to face
lab and field activities and we'll also of course building
skills for our students so that they're comfortable in using online communication
tools. For example, in MS Teams, Microsoft Teams.
for tutors and discussions, of course, which they'll then take out into our workplace
over on the right hand side, I'm just showing examples of some of our slides
as stress also. So in the next slide.
the significant involvement with industry
in our courses, a minimum of two of our courses within
each major and one course in each of our minor has got direct
industry input into it. This gives just gives an example from 1
of our future technologies skills courses where
we have industry coming into our
class by providing industry challenges which are
students are then working in teams on so that they
are addressing the challenges of industry and they get to engage
with industry during those classes
And then provide a presentation which provides their solution
to the challenge which has been set, and then get feedback again
from industry. That's just one example of the many examples
of industry embedded learning which we have within
our courses. And again I've highlighted the
fact that many of our student projects will and have
industry engaged partnership within them next
slide please
The next four slides I'm not gonna go through these in a lot of detail
but I really just want to highlight that this information is available in relation to
the changes which have been made in our programs, so
our Bachelor of Science, the key changes that we've got a completely
new program structure. We have new majors in our program, we
have that common first semester you've been, you've been hearing about
our, 2023 are Dean, Scholar and our
double degree in science and business and management will not
be running. And then for our double degree in
applied chemistry and chemical engineering, we have a common.
first semester and additional changes as well our
Next slide please
Our Bachelor of Environmental Science again has been through the same sort of transformation
as our other science degrees, and we got new minors
available within this and a common first semester
Next slide please
And one forward again please
On our food technology
and nutrition programs, they have had again the
same sort of comprehensive changes which you've had across our degree programs
with the common first semester, new combinations of majors
and minors and strengthening of that industry partnered learning and
work integrated learning
Something that I had just flipped past on the previous slide
was that our Dean Scholar program will not
be will not have an intake for 2023, if I could.
Final slide please for my presentation.
And the next one again please
I thank you for the opportunity to introduce our School of science degrees and I'm very happy to take
any questions you may have on them. Thank you.
Hi mark. I've got a just one question around.
students trying to decide what kind of science to
go into afterwards
What would your advice?
be to someone who loves science but just not sure how to what to
specialise in?
So that's really the beauty of our new.
bachelor science program. And the students can enrol on that without
having at the start of their program without having to say, I want
to do physics, or I'm going to do biotechnology. So they can come
in those science reimagine courses. They've got the opportunity to
explore different aspects of science, to identify what’s speaking
to them and
What they're becoming passionate about, we have that flexibility
for students to start majors, but
actually after four courses to actually finish just with a
with what we call a generalist mind of at that stage and then carry
on in other in other program. So we really is a truly flexible, flexible
offering for our science students, for those students who are not yet sure
about what they want to do and want to actually discover more join
their program and see what really captures their imagination and
their passion because it's so important for our students to
be following their passions
Just that's going to get them excited about this study and set them
up for success in the future careers
Thank you. I have another question around the types
of careers that a student might go into from
into once if they're studying food science
So our food science students are going into a variety of different
career or activities
Some of those students are going into food formulation. So they're
involved in actually the development and design of new foods
Some of those are going into food safety and quality assurance
where they're where they're working to ensure that the food which is which
we are
Consuming on our plates, it's safe and nutritious
We have we have students who are going out and doing work in and
the sensory fields determining whether their food is actually
going to have really, really strong sensory qualities in
terms of taste and texture, for example
Excellent. Thank you very much. Thank you
for giving us your time this morning
Thank you very much, Kate
Up next we have two presenters coming up
next. We have the associate professor
Chrystal Zang. And then we also have our associate professor
Sorry, senior instructor flight training and aviation
Paul Wyborn. I will introduce Crystal first
Hello, Kate. Hello, everyone.
Good morning It's really nice meeting you here to share with you about.
the aviation program in RMIT
Next one
And so this is an update and I think
that you have learned from our previous
presenters that we talked about the program
curriculum architecture that
has taken place across the STEM College in RMIT
that all the battery degrees will have
the new majors and minors and that also include aviation
program.
And also we'll have full common and future technology platform
courses that are also available for the aviation programs
Thank you. Next one.
And so if someone says that RMIT
is not providing a bachelor degree for pilot training
I think that information is not correct so
I'm very proud to share with you that RMIT is
one of the top universities around the world
actually to provide the bachelor degree for pilot
training so this slide really shares with you
that we have three programs in aviation
So we have the title
for the old
program title but we also have
after the program architecture we have the new program
title, so we have the Bachelor of Applied Science
which has not been changed that is for aviation
And also we have bachelor of aviation which
Is pilot training so that is also three year program
We also have a double degree program that is bachelor
of applied science aviation and bachelor of business
So this double degree program only applicable
to the
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Applied
Science, which is aviation non flying scheme students
on the bachelor of business students
So that is a four year program understudy take place
in the city campus and so all these three programs
all these three bachelor degree programs and they
have a majors and minors and also we
have associate degree program which I would let
Paul to talk about afternoon
Thank you. Next one
So for the three bachelor degree programs
we have the aviation bachelor degree
program. So we have a different type of majors and
minors for the majors. They are very aviation
focused because our program is very
industry focused the way really train the students to
have a very, very good understanding about the operation
And the management of
Sorry I can't see the slide. I think there is a change of
this slide
And there is.
So our program is very industry focused so we have majors on
aviation operation and management and also we
have minors that are available for the students which
for you have choices from the aviation
management, from the safety or from supply chain from
Business for the Bachelor of Aviation for
the pilot training the major is again of course
is for pilot training, which really means the students will be eligible
To apply to become a pilot at the end of their
study, subject to the further training, but they
also can choose major from the aviation degree
and also from the business and supply chain the double
degree program allows the students to take the major
in aviation and also the minor from other
offerings across the university. Next slide
The areas of study given that our program is very specialised
in aviation industry, so our cost is really
specialised in the knowledge and the skills that the students
will learn about the airline airport strategies
and their business models. For example, while we have a legacy
carriers like Qantas and Virgin, while we have
a local carriers like JetStar we also talk
about the airline, airport operations and management
and the regulatory environment because we know that aviation industry
Is an industry which is subject to the international
regulatory regulation and also domestic
regulation, so it is heavily regulated so
we will talk about all the regulatory environment talk about
international regime and the domestic regulations
and how that will shape the operation and the strategy
of the airline and airport. The other area of study
is safety and security and human factors because when we
talk about the airline operation, we care more
about the safety and the security we share with the students
About the human effect is how you know how
human performance as a captain, other pilots
they would affect the safety performance of the overall
airlines. We also talk about the air traffic management
that is the Air Service Australia that is
providing the services to all the airlines and
the airport and we also provide the
students with the data analysis skills and the
skills and the knowledge provided by the
Four platform courses
available across the STEM
college for those pilots who are enrolled
in the pilot training scheme
they will get the license that
recognised and issued by the closet that is Civil Aviation
Authority of Australia. for the double degree student
At They will also have the opportunity to learn the courses
about the business, but the marketing supply chains and
management, etcetera, etcetera
So you might ask why? Because there are the next slides
Please, there are only a couple of universities that
provide the aviation program. So why you think that?
aviation in RMIT is the one that?
you want to suggest your students to enrol?
So I'm very proud to share with you at this
slides and information about our program so
first that we really have the subject experts
I have provided here the images
of some of our team members
That you can see that we not only have the academic
qualification, but also we have extensive industry experience
We know what we are talking about the second is the we adopt the student
Centred learning and the teaching approaches so after
This curriculum architecture we have overhauled our program and again like
My colleague had said you know we inform our develop our program with the information
With the support from the industry partners with have the airlines, airports
And other consultancy firms joining us to support us in the delivery of the curriculum in the development
And also they help us to develop master
class theories, etcetera, etcetera, we also have
the industry, the work integrated learning which really
means we develop the client with series of events, for example the aviation aerospace Master
class series we also invite regularly the industry speakers to join us to our program
to deliver the courses for example, we might have speakers from the Airbus
from Boeing across the world in aviation sector to join as the shared experience, but also
The latest skills and development in
the industry
We also provide internship to our students in airlines and airport
For example, just will provide internship
programs for our students
And so we also have unrivalled student
support facilities and services and
so we developed very recently
and we launched the peer monitoring and industry
mentoring programs for our students, which really means
you will start from day one, you join our
program, you will have industry professionals who will
be your mentor throughout your study in
aviation that we also have the virtual aviation
Lab, the simulators that you will have opportunity to
visit and put your hands on to
do the experiment in terms of the
students experience and as like any other programs
across the university this time college that we
adopt various type of technologies and we do
the blended learning so students have a great experience
of joining us for this program
next slide so we have the
very extensively industry connections with
the Qantas link for the pilot training we have a joint
program with ATSB
And also we have other industry partners to support us
next one so I know the students
perhaps are very, very concerned about their career
outcome after enrolling into this program given that
we are very specialised, very industry focus
So I'm very proud to share with you that the majority of our
students will have a job in aviation industry
So they work for JetStar for example they work
as a scheduling assistant analyst, they underline
how the airline schedule their
Flights and provide the optimisation of
the aircraft optimisation they work for
Melbourne Airport, Lufthansa
Qantas and Virgin and also work for flight
Safety Foundation so this is just a list of those
organizations that our students are very proud to
work for after graduation and again
because we are three year programs but the next
slides but we do have a pathway
which I would let
Paul to talk about so that is the associate
degree and I will let Paul to discuss
with you thank you
OK. Thank you very much. Well, my name is Paul Wyborn and
the senior flights instructor and flight examiner at RMIT
Flight training at Point Cook really
excited to be here to be representing the associate degree
and thanks Crystal for your
chat about the bachelor. So as Crystal said and
we have a two year associate degree program and
that covers three CASA licenses and one
rating I'll talk about that in the next slide
This course has been next slide. Thanks
so this course has been designed by industry
for industry and that allows our graduates
at to be work life ready and
once they go into industry, our students
will usually be flying within two weeks from
the start of semester and you can
see there that there are two locations where flight
training is conducted. Both point Cook and
Bendigo campus and I'll talk about
That in a few in a couple of minutes. Next slide. Thanks
I'll talk about the course structure now, which is
a two year program. As I've previously mentioned
cut into four semesters so you can see the
three licenses in each of the semesters so semester
one, the students will end up
holding a recreational pilot license semester 2
A private pilot license, semester 3 a commercial pilot
license, and then one of the ratings and semester four either
a command instrument rating or a flight instructor rating. That's
semester four really then prepares our students for industry and hopefully a job and
in the current climate, with the uptick in
the airline industry
We are looking at returning to
pre COVID numbers very shortly
At least Qantas have forecasted that will
happen over the next two years, which is pretty exciting news
So now is a great time to get involved in the associate Degree
The semester for just to go
back to that, there was that there is a fork in the road and those
are they are options so
either the instrument rating or the flight instructor rating you don't get
a choice of both It's either one or the other
And we provide integrated theory with flying
There are some city classes, but most of the
classes will be conducted at either one
of the two locations, and we're really lucky
to be one of only two universities in Australia that
owns its own fleet and since the start of 2022
We re-fleeted so, every aircraft on the
flight line now is a brand spanking new aircraft
which is pretty exciting for us and our students, so
they get to fly
Brand new aircraft with the latest and
avionics technology
All right, so there's our two locations point Cook and Bendigo
Airport and Point Cook operates out of the oldest
ref base in the country
It's about 100 years old and we are the
only civil operator on the base, which gives us a unique
airspace environment to operate
which is pretty free of any other
Operators and less congested but
also it allows us easy access to
more congested and challenging airspace where students can
conduct more complex tasks
Our other flight training and base is in Bendigo airport
about 90 minute train ride from Melbourne 4
km from the Bendigo CBD and Bendigo
does boast slightly better where the conditions
about I think we've worked out about 280 flying
days every year and
again access to a variety of different types of airspace
both challenging and non-controlled airspace
With Bendigo and they built
new 1500 meter long strip or runway a couple of years ago and Qantas started
operating flights to and from Sydney so
obviously that gives our Bendigo students some fairly good access
to Sydney and of course international locations
And that's next slide, please
Iso I just want to touch on our open days and
another little plug here for our open days, which flight training
our conducting on Sunday the 21st of August
here at point Cook in Melbourne
Sorry, in Bendigo in 21st of August Melbourne
is the 28th of August registrations
are required via the QR code in order to
gain access, and that's a great opportunity
for students to come up and get close
with the aircraft.
Talk to instructors and of course talk to current students as well to
be able to better understand their experience about what it's
like to be a flight training student. All right
That's all for me. Thank you very much for listening and
next slide. Thanks, I'll
stay online and open to one or two questions if there are any out there
I do have one question from the chat just in regards to
the aviation industry, we've
obviously had some troubling difficult times
over the last couple of years, so I thought
I'll ask you both just your thoughts
on where the future of careers
and the industry is going moving forward
So I'll start with you Crystal
And thank you very much I think that's a very, very good question
It's a kind of a concern. Perhaps every parent or every student
would like to have and ask after spending
a few years in the university and whether you will
have a job in the industry which you really dreamed of
And I'm very proud and
Personally and on behalf of, I would like to say that you definitely have a bright
future in aviation industry, but we do know the aviation industry
is a kind of a cyclical industry the way
Always the wave of the economy sometimes you have the best time
of the economy sometimes you might have a flat growth
of the industry but aviation is aviation industry
that carries people from one place to another
That’s just if we describe that kind of
plain language, which really means the airline's job
is to take a passenger from A to point B.
So that kind of air travel demand has
been surging, even though despite
of COVID
With and, we call that as a revenge travel demand
The passengers demand are suppressed in the past
two years, but now it's really coming back so fast
I think the evidence for that is really the past few
months where you see the long queues at the Sydney airport
Melbourne Airport, etcetera, etcetera. So in the long term
both Boeing and Airbus has forecasted
the Asia Pacific is the fast growth region
for air travel and the pilot shortage, the
aviation professional shortage is over already
We do see the bright future for the aviation
industry and the job prospect and the other
thing I just want to add before I hand over to Paul is
aviation industry is very standardized industry which
really means that the license you get will give
you the access to any jobs globally
especially pilot license. I'll hand over to Paul
to elaborate
Thank you. I'm crystal so just echoing.
what Crystal and said it is a highly
Volatile industry as
it were, and we saw that pre COVID we were riding
on a wave of pilot shortage and of course as we found out
through COVID that can all come crashing down
overnight. What we're what we're seeing now
is a return to pre COVID
numbers in terms of international passenger numbers
and Boeing's forecast is in the region of roughly.
A quarter of the
Overall, global demand for new pilots in the
next 20 years is in the Asia Pacific region, which includes
Australia. So that's really great news for
pilots. the US are already have
already put a call out to Australian pilots because there's
a shortage over there, so it's
really great to see that the industry
is recovering. And as I mentioned earlier, the Qantas
have forecast that recovery back
to pre COVID
Numbers is forecast to care over the next two
years and
obviously being a two year associate degree program
you'll be ready for industry at about
the time that recovery is back at its fullest
So hopefully that answers the question
Absolutely. Thank you both. I do have another
question for Crystal, if a student
has done the associate degree in our flight
training, are they able to pathway into?
the aviation degrees and?
the answer is definitely yes, actually, because we have arrangement
with Paul while Flight school is actually add essential
degree is part of the arrangement. So it's a kind of a guarantee
the pathway to enter the bachelor degree program
I constantly received the request
from the students who finished the associate degree and
they want to continue pathway to
our bachelor’s degree program. So that is just a time
difference which the students will continue to finish
those outstanding courses that are required to
be awarded the bachelors degree program. So, it's a guaranteed
pathway to enter our bachelor’s degree program, yes
Excellent. And one more just about the amount of
flight training available for students whilst
they're studying the degree
I'll answer part of and I'll pass it over to Paul.
So for the bachelor degree for the flight training students
so the current arrangement is that because
that program has two components, one component
is what we call the academic courses which are delivered
in the city campus. The other component is the
Flight theory and the flying practicum
which is delivered by Paul's point cook
and Bendigo campuses.
So when the students
enrol into the program in year one and year two majority
of the time will be spent on city campus to do the
academic courses and the rest of
the time will be spent at point Cook and the Bendigo for
the flight training and the theory courses
So the other component
So by around the year 2 when they
come to year 2
We have this blanket arrangement for
the student to transition to the Bendigo or the
point cook campuses to start that pilot training
or pass it over to Paul to explain that further
Thanks, crystal. And yeah, that's a great question, Kate.
So the flight training component for the bachelor and for the associate.
degree is a 150 hour integrated course which means theory and flying are conducted
concurrently 150 hours?
Will get you a commercial pilot license and that's where the bachelor
bachelor degree pilot stream ends for the associate degree
As I mentioned earlier there's a fork in the road where you go on to do one of those two ratings
So you come out of an associate
degree with about roughly 200 odd hours
and the bachelor pilot stream is roughly a
150 hours. So we've got it's
fairly, it's a lot of flight training involved
I also to add, as Paul just mentioned because
we have acquired the largest new fleet
for our flight school, so
that really means we have the facility, we have the capability
to schedule the flight for the students enrolled in the program
And actually RMIT is the
only university in Australia that owns our
own flight training school. Most of the universities they
partner with an external flight training
organisation, which really requires a lot of coordination
things that might happen but for
us is this kind of a seamless coordination seamless
working together, which is part of the RMIT
the whole university's entity, to work together for the pilot
training students
Thank you both so much for giving us your time this
morning and I will now introduce
our next speaker, Doctor Santha
Sumanasekara, our associate Dean for student
experience here, to talk about information technology
Thank you very much, Kate, your next
slide please
Next
Welcome everybody. So we are really excited
to discuss about the
changes we made to our programs in the
area of computing technologies and
one of the biggest the additions
is now we have four year professional degrees
So that's something that we are going to
say open for new in tech in 2023
I'll discuss a little bit more about that and
Another quite interesting
feature in our new set of programs is
that we are going to offer a common first semester across all of
our programs at the moment we have 4
programs in computer science, software
engineering, data science and information technology, and
in the first semester, all of these students will
share a common set of courses and
this common set of courses is using an innovative
approach
We called the boot camp to studio it is the
1st in Australia, very innovative model
in the first year teaching.
I'll operate in the
next few slides and you might have already
heard about the future technologies platform courses
that the other STEM college has introduced and
well like any other programs that you have already
heard about the computing programs also
include this new STEM foundation across
Three or four years and another
is exciting and very interesting feature that
in fact really make a big difference to the other student
experience is the majors and minors
These majors and minors are chosen in a way that by
looking at the future horizon for the
other students and three to five years what the kind
of the jobs would be available and then this
majors and also the minors will the
build skill set
That specifically targeted for these careers
that do, they were looking at the end of three or four
years of their program.
Next slide please
In summary, we as some
mentioned, we had four programs, these programs
will stay as they are except for the changes
to the content of these programs, but there
are No title changes or no changes to the duration
or anything for this standard programs
And these four programs are computer science
is currently three year program and the software
engineering currently four years. IT
and data science also three year programs and
we do offer one double degree with the engineering
and computer network engineering combined with the bachelor of
computer science then again there are no changes except
that the prerequisite change to the engineering
component I think Margaret have already explained that one
The new additions are the professional
years. All three programs that I mentioned
now have a different version that the student
can extend their normal three year program into another 4
year program by adding a professional year. So that's
exciting feature and the student has now flexibility
to the Bachelor of Computer Science as a standard three year program
or four year program with that additional
internship, yeah or the professional year
Next slide please
Right as school
career advisers and as a
kind of like a someone interfacing with the society
and the whole I just wanted to highlight kind
of like the bust, one of the meats
That we have heard many, many times in the open days
and many other in conversations with the wider community
And there was a misconception that the
IT industry in Australia is dead and there are no jobs in the IT sector
And there's no point doing an IT degree. No Australia
That's a myth
Maybe there was some kind of like a little
kind of like the grounding on the areas
like the call centres, but it call centres
is not really the IT and what as
a university, what we targeted is the quite
deep and now diverse skill
set and there are enough that the career opportunities
I'm not just making up that these are the real numbers and
taken from the careers
Data like the burning glass
That's a repository of data, and there are between
say, 2020 and 2025. There was about a four
annual growth in the IT sector just
don't forget the Australian population growth is about one point
1.2% long run. So this is about 3
times the faster the end of the Australian population
growth and at the moment we have about half
a million people out of 24 million
employed in the IT sector
So and also there are new job opportunities if you look at the
careers websites like seek and other the career
one and there's a typical the places that
IT jobs side advertised and they found about 90,000 new
heads. So there it is the sector is in fact
not dead. It is in fact growing faster than number
the many other sectors. So therefore please
if someone say mentioned when you have been conversations
that the IT sector is dead it is not so
I think you have a really good role
And yeah, in a really good position to say explain it
with the with the real kind
of like a statistics and data that you can substantiate and
yeah, next slide please so
knowing that we have a growth market, so
we kind of like a revamped our program to address the
future of wherever career as I mentioned
we have our kind of like the
new approach to the learning
and teaching
And we start with the common first year block or common
first semester block. I would say with this we
start with the boot camp and then the students
move from the boot camp to the studio
where we apply the what they have learned in the
bootcamp into a real life situation
I'll explain with that in the next slide and
then of course, we have the common platform courses
we share with the rest of the STEM college and
then the students go into their core
courses and the core courses are different from program to program
And then the interesting part is that they can
pick a major and
If they're not interested in taking a major, they can
replace that major with the two minors
Next slide, please. And there's
2 minors, 1 must be in our main discipline
in the computing, and the other second minor can be either
computing minor or they can broaden their knowledge
They can explore some other business skills or
the some other cross disciplinary skills, like a bioinformatics
are the data science or analytics or logistics
and that kind of
The other, the bachelor, quite related to the IT
but not necessarily it. And that way the students
can choose their path whether they want to dig deeper into
the IT or they can broaden little bit more into the more
career specific the minors
and of course as mentioned then there's the other
the extension. So they can take an internship
as then additional optional the fourth tier
and that way then they have the four different choices
they can go with the major
Or they can go with the two minors and with these two options
they can decide to take the internship or not to take
the internship so that way then they have four different choices
for them to kind of like a customise their
program and then guide their path and if they go with
the standard model, all the computer
science data science and it they can complete the program
in three years. And software engineering is slightly different
It has the built in internship, the software engineer
slightly different. In that way they
Don't have the three year version. It is inherently
four years, so that's the kind of like a program
structure that we follow
Next slide, please
The boot camp to studio model that I mentioned number of times
take a completely different pedagogical approach
to teach the first year traditionally
We Teach First year in the first semester we teach 4
slightly disintegrated courses
Sometimes we teach one course in programming one
course is of course in databases. One course in the usability
and the user centred design like that the student
find it especially when they start the university
programs with a lot of changes in their life having
these four disconnected courses, they find it
hard to identify why we want
to do this and why. What's the
Interconnection and how it is related to our
industry they are going into. So looking at all
of these, we introduce a new model
we call Bootcamp2Studio. We are very happy to say kind of like talk
about it, so
We identified that the basic programming skills
as the kind of like underlying skill for all
the different kind of like a sub disciplines and they
carry a paths they want to take. So therefore
we spend about six weeks in their first
year in the first semester just doing the
basic programming foundation in a boot camp model you
Know what the bootcamp model is that you have a very focused
and the deeper say study
in that area
And this is a very hands on we use the interactive textbooks
We don't use the traditional textbooks in the boot camp and
the students work on this textbook on their different programming
skills, building skills once they’ve
done that, and they are moved into a studio
this is a very hands on experimental. Sorry
Experiential learning platform where they
apply what they learn in the bootcamp into a real life
application. This year, for example, we have used the
The very rich data set from COVID and
also we use another one data set from the closing that
kept project so that the federal government has so we use
the real data and the students built application on
various aspects of this. So for the COVID they did
kind of like a predictions on the
patterns of the spread and a lot of the activities like
that really industrial strength applications by
the end of first year the students were able to and say
build 10 application that the
The junior programmer level that would expect in the Australian
industry and also the students will say
built lots of other the affiliated
skills like their team work problem solving
and the communicating with the clients and a lot of other
skills that the hardcore skills but the very
essential soft skills. They are all integrated into
the other studio so in that way then the students will
by the end of the first year will be very kind
of like have a rich
They will have a very rich skill set that even they
can start working as a junior program at the end of first year
but that's not what we expect we expect them
going to the rest of the program and
then even further enhance their skills in that
There is sort the chosen field
Next slide please
Considering the time, I'm not going to go into detail on
individual programs, bachelor of computer science is a
program that gives students a very good balance
between the theoretical and algorithmic foundations with
the cutting edge, hands on programming skills
and the students who do
this program normally and look for the careers in the software
as software developer or a full stack developer or
an IT security specialist, that kind of areas some
of them will go into the
More research focus careers as well they will
go further into the further studies in
masters level or the PhD level and that's
a program that targets for that software engineering
is mainly also built software systems in the large scale
So from the very early on the student
earned how to build large scale software systems working
with the diverse the groups
with the diverse set of clients to deal
with and the
It has the mandatory internship option and these
students will do the internship in their third year.
Data science is a subdiscipline in computer science, but it has grown
into their own and now we have a very quiet
the career options available as data scientists
data analysts, and with the
social media and other the
data sources. There are a lot of work that
the data scientists can find as a machine learning
Engineer or even a social media analyst
That's the kind of like a new career path that available to our
data science students. IT is a more
flexible option that we offer students in this and
they have a more kind of like a flexibility in the program
They can choose wider choice of majors and minors
They can customise whether they want to do more theoretical
or more algorithmic program or they want to do
more product hands on technical
skills. And this program also available in Vietnam
As well as we plan to offer it through RMIT Online
so that's our more flexible program
The majors and minors is our kind of like a flagship
So we have worked with our industry advisory
committee to identify what are the future jobs that
our students so likely to find in
three to five years horizon and this majors and
minors are designed with a lot of input from our industry
Advisor committee and every major and
major and minor.
There was a matrix of them
We have of a large
number of minors and they all aligned with the different programs
based on
The spectrum, whether they
go into the more theoretical aspect or into the more hands on approach
So we have identified whether these minors and majors
align with every major and minor is targeting
a specific career. So next slide please
Next one please
Yep. So these are the
subset of careers that Our students would likely to go
and you see that if they're looking for a career as a full stack
developer, we built that skills in the enterprise
systems major as well as we have a minor version
of that as well. And if you're looking for a career as
a cloud engineer, the cloud computing minor built
the skill base that required for that kind of
IoT is the one of the IoT is the
Internet of Things with the device programming
and that kind of things and the enterprise systems
development build the skill set that required for that kind of careers
With the social media and the other kind of like a web 320
and a lot of other developments, they'll
demand for the digital business analysts, that's
a kind of like a quite new, it's a kind of like a growing
area and we build a lot of skills in the advanced
computer science major that require for
That kind of skill and well, we are going
to share this with you and therefore no point going through all of
this. But the point is that the it covers
more likely careers and if a student
come to you and ask about what's the MIRexpert and
know what it is and then and if it's looking for an safe program
in RMIT and that will kind of like a map.
OK. So if you're interested in over
the mixed reality expert and doing the RMIT
computer science degree with the Advanced Computer Science Major or minor
Build that required skill set and if you have more into
software engineering or kind of like a build
software systems in the larger scale bachelor of
software engineering is one of the kind of like a preferred
path
So as mentioned, we do have
programs both three years and four years and
we software engineering is always four years and the other
programs you can customize whether you want to do it in a three years
or four years and all of our programs are available
in Melbourne and they also have a pathway
So if for whatever reason that if your students
cannot get into the bachelor's degree directly, RMIT
offers an associate degree in IT, which is the
the other pathway program and it has lower
ATAR, also the some other
differences. And once they complete associate
degree in IT, two years the students get
two years advanced standing into the bachelor of information technology
program which is our more flexible program
That way, then the students still will be able to graduate from the
bachelor of IT within three years from their completion
of the year 12, and then they can look further the career options
So sorry about I had to rush because we are running out of
time. And so if you wanted to have
more information, I'm happy to answer as many questions as
possible today. Also, there are a lot of information available
at RMIT website and our open days coming
in 10 days and please promote your
students to come to RMIT you open day, ask questions and we
Are all available for.
I’m available for any questions that students can bring
in, and we are trying to help as much as we can.
Thanks.
said that we'll get you to answer questions in the chat, yeah.
Thank you and thank you so much.
OK. So just a couple of updates.
As we move through we as.
we were just talking about, Santha was just talking.
we do have our open days coming up, so this
Sunday at our Bundoora campus for all our health and biomedical
sciences as well as education.
and things like food sciences are all
At our Bundoora campus. And then next Sunday
the 14th for our Brunswick and city campuses
We're so excited to welcome everyone back into campus
Open Day is one of my favourite days of the year
RMIT, so we're all looking forward to being back
on campus with students and getting back to some of our
normal activities
Just the, we've probably had
quite a number of changes to the team since the last
time we met Brendan, who is
working in the background of coordinated this session for us joined
us earlier this year. And I know many of you have already met him some
of you were recognise Alex, who has joined us from Swinburne.
He's been here for a couple of weeks now. So he's new
an old head now at RMIT and some of you will also welcome the very familiar
Recognize a very familiar face with Ursula
Safe has just joined us as well.
Ursula's our senior manager
and many of you would have recognized her
from her time at Deakin and Latrobe, so
we've welcomed Ursula into our team
as well. Thank you all for coming and
seeing us today. Thanks for sticking with us through
the session. I hope you found it as useful as I have we've had
some excellent speakers and you'll see how some of the
really exciting changes for our STEM
Programs coming up, we will be sending the full
recording out to everybody who has attended
but also to all crew advisers out early
next week. We'll also have a questionnaire about things
that you might want to see in the future. But thank you all
for attending and have a great day. Thank you.
