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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