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Welcome to Faculty of Information Technology

Orientation week, S1 2008

Guojun LuAssociate Dean (Education)Faculty of Information Technology

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Presentation Outline

• An overview of Monash• An overview of Faculty of Information

Technology

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Monash University: Prestige, Innovation, Excellence

• One of Australia’s most prestigious universities

• Established in 1958, we are now the largest university in Australia with over 46,000 students and 7000 international students

• Ten faculties: Art & Design, Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Information Technology

• A member of the Group of Eight, Australia’s leading universities

• The recent rankings of universities in the Times Higher Education Supplement in the UK placed Monash among the top 50 universities in the world - an outstanding achievement for such a young university.

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A research intensive, international and multi-campus university• Carries out world class research

and has a strong international reputation in research and scholarship

• Our academics publish some 5000 research works annually

• Staff and Students come from over 130 countries.

• Six campuses in Australia: Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland, Parkville, Peninsula

• Two campuses: Malaysia and South Africa

• A centre in Prato, Italy

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Monash University

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Faculty of Information Technology

• Established in 1990, the first faculty dedicated to IT in Australia

• According to The Times Higher Education Supplement world rankings (released Nov 2006), Monash University is ranked 28th in the World in Technology

• Six schools at: Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland, Malaysia and South African

• Offering a wide range of courses and units/subjects

• Degrees at Bachelor, Masters (course work), Masters (research) and PhD levels.

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Faculty of Information Technology

• We Are a Large, Diverse, Long-Established Faculty

– Broad and wide range of units/courses• We Are a Multi-campus Faculty

– More choices and multi-location team work experience

• We are an International Faculty– Study abroad, international cooperation and friendship

• We are a Research-Intensive Faculty– Cutting-edge curriculum and research informed

teaching

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Faculty of Information Technology

Five research centres: • Centre for Decision Support and

Enterprise Systems Research• Centre for Distributed Systems

and Software Engineering• Centre for Organisational and

Social Informatics • Centre for Research in

Intelligent Systems • Centre for Multimedia

Computing, Communications and Applications

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Best Wishes

&

Enjoy Your Time at Monash