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Department of Chemical 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 Chemical Engineering is based at the Clayton campus where it offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including (together with the Department of Civil Engineering) a four year Bachelor of Environmental Engineering. The Master of Engineering Science in Process Integration, an innovative, joint coursework and minor thesis degree is available in conjunction with the Department of Process Integration of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.K.). There is an academic staff of 18 and a student load of 192 EFTSU, of which approximately 63 is postgraduates. Research interests of the department are aimed at improving techniques and understanding the phenomena in the fields of fluid dynamics, kinetics, thermodynamics, control and reactor design for organic and inorganic processes and the material properties of pulp and paper. Of interest are processes in which natural resources are utilised, especially those in the metallurgical, pulp and paper, food, energy and biochemical areas. Current research involves the broad area of chemical reactor engineering, coal conversion processes, membrane technology, process economics, rheology, pulp and paper technology, separation process, biochemical engineering and food processing, and environmental protection engineering. The research centres and facilities involving the Department include: Australian Pulp and Paper Institute (APPI) – this is an educational and research centre sponsored by the Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Federation of Australia. The Australian Pulp and Paper Institute is a partner in the Cooperative Research Centre for Fibre & Paper, which seeks the rapid and effective characterisation of pulp wood quality and paper making potential of plantation hardwoods to facilitate the development of resources on which to build the internationally competitive position of the pulp and paper industry, and to create new commercial opportunities. 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 Chemical Engineering is located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus. The School of Chemistry (Faculty of Science) collects considerable material which overlaps with areas of interest to the Department of Chemical Engineering. This material is predominantly located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library, Clayton campus. Some older low use monographs are housed in high density storage in the Matheson Library, Clayton campus. b. LanguageGenerally only material in the English language is acquired. c. Classification usedMaterial acquired for the Department of Chemical 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 number of monographic series are also collected. e. Size of the collectionNumber of print serial titles received : Approximately 50 subscriptions are held in the Hargrave-Andrew on the Clayton campus. The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (25 vols, plus indexes) is available in both the Hargrave-Andrew and the Gippsland Library. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 5th, completely rev. ed. (36 volumes, plus 1 index) is held in the Hargrave-Andrew Library. (See also item f. Significant electronic resources.) The Monash University Library subscribes to Standards Online Premium, 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 new, or recent print set of the American Society for Testing and Materials standards. 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 works
Other
Subject gateways
About 80% of the library materials budget for the Faculty of Engineering is spent on serials, databases and electronic resources, and 20% on printed monographs. g. Coverage of the collectionThe library resources acquired for the department cover in general all areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in 660-669, chemical engineering The major areas of collecting for the Department of Chemical Engineering are as follows
There are strengths in chemical engineering and related operations, coal fuel, extractive metallurgy, fluidisation, heat and mass transfer, pulp and paper and rheology. Additional collecting emphasis is currently being given to the areas of powder technology and process integration. With the establishment of the Australian Pulp and Paper Institute (APPI) in 1988, the Hargrave-Andrew Library commenced building an in-depth research collection on pulp and paper technology. In addition, the Library has also developed minor collections in packaging and printing. It has done so in conjunction with the CSIRO Ian Wark Library to avoid unnecessary duplication and maximise our available information resources. Through SESTICON, APPI staff and students have access and borrowing rights to the Ian Wark Library. 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. Collections Table(T = teaching level, R = research level)
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