BEng(CS) (6963 BEng Common Admissions)

Regulations for Bachelor of Engineering

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE (For intake of 2009)

To complete the curriculum, candidates must pass the following courses:

  1. 84 credit-units of core courses [see table for list of courses];
  2. 18 credit-units of complementary studies courses [see table for list of courses];
  3. 78 credit-units of elective courses, including at least 30 credit-units in computer science, but excluding Research Internship;
  4. Workshop training (3 credit-units); and
  5. Industrial training (3 credit-units).

In addition, candidates must satisfy any other requirements as stipulated by the University and Faculty of Engineering.

With reference to the Minor Option listed at the beginning of the PROGRAMME STRUCTURES AND SYLLABUSES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (BEng) , candidates pursuing the BEng(CompSc) degree may complete 36 credit-units of courses to satisfy the requirements for Minor Programmes offered by the following Faculties: Arts, Business and Economics, Science and Social Sciences.

Candidates may also opt for a Second Major in one of the following three programmes offered by the Faculty of Science:

Each programme requires 72 credit-units of specified courses (details can be found in the Syllabuses for the Degree of Bachelor of Science).

Courses taken for a Minor or Second Major may be used to satisfy the requirements of Complementary Studies and Elective Courses.

 

  Year 1 Year 2/3

Core

(84 credit-units)

(sub-total: 48 credit-units)

(sub-total: 36 credit-units)

Complementary Studies

(18 credit-units)
  • ELEC2803 Engineering and society
  • ELEC2802 Engineering organization and management / ELEC2804 Engineering economics and finance / CSIS0311 Legal aspects of computing(Note 3)
  • one 3 credit-unit course in Humanities and social sciences studies
  • one 3 credit-unit course in Culture and value studies or an area of studies outside this degree curriculum; and
  • 6 credit-units of other courses offered outside this degree curriculum

Elective Courses

(78 credit-units)
  • At least 30 credit-units in computer science
  • Recommended elective, one introductory statistics chosen from STAT1301 Probability and statistics, STAT1306 Introductory statistics, or STAT0301 Elementary statistical methods.(Note 4)

Training

(6 credit-units)

 Not applicable
Note 1 Candidates who have completed ENGG1003 Mathematics I, instead of ENGG1004 Mathematics IA, are deemed to have completed Mathematics IA.
Note 2

One course to be chosen from the following list of General Engineering Courses:

ENGG1006

Engineering for sustainable development

ENGG1008

Electric circuits and digital logic

ENGG1009

Industrial management and logistics

ENGG1010

Foundations of engineering mechanics

ENGG1011

Introduction to biomedical engineering

Refer to the PROGRAMME STRUCTURES AND SYLLABUSES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (BEng) for details.
Note 3 When used to fulfill the Complementary Studies requirement, “Legal aspects of computing” (6 credit-units) cannot be double-counted as an elective.
Note 4 STAT0301 is offered for candidates without HKAL Pure Mathematics, while STAT1301 and STAT1306 are for candidates who have passed HKAL Pure Mathematics. Course descriptions and prerequisite requirements are available in the syllabuses for the degree of Bachelor of Science.

CSIS1xxx courses are level 1 courses, and CSIS0xxx courses are of level 2.

The degree classification shall be based on the best 180 credit-units from:

  1. All core courses including the final year project (84 credit-units);
  2. All compulsory complementary studies courses (18 credit-units); and
  3. The best 78 credit-units of remaining courses, including at least 30 credit-units in computer science, but excluding Workshop Training, Industrial Training and Research Internship.

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