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  • Location:
    Joondalup
  • Study Mode:
    Full-time
    Part-time
  • Delivery Mode:
    On-campus
  • Duration:
    3 years full-time or equivalent part-time
  • Faculty:
    Computing, Health and Science
  • School:
    Engineering
  • Code:
    K99
  • CRICOS:
    070518A
  • Indicative ATAR (TER):
    70

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Bachelor of Aviation

This course structure contains information about the units which comprise the course as well as the credit points required to successfully complete it.

This course comprises a total of 360 credit points from 24 units, this includes 22 core aviation units (330 credit points) and 2 electives (30 credit points).



Year One - Semester 1
UnitDescription Points
SCA1125Fundamentals of Flight 15
SCA1113Aircraft Propulsion 1 15
SCA1116Aviation Legislation and Regulatory Frameworks 15
MAT1137Introductory Applied Mathematics*15
 


*Students who have passed WACE Mathematics: 3C/3D or Mathematics: Specialist 3C/3D (or equivalent) should enrol in MAT1236: Calculus 1 instead of MAT1137: Introductory Applied Mathematics.

Year One - Semester 2
UnitDescription Points
SCA1229Aviation Meteorology 15
SCA1114Light Aircraft Performance 15
SCA1115Air Navigation 15
SCA1117Human Factors in Aviation 15
 


Year Two - Semester 1
UnitDescription Points
ENS1162Electrical Engineering 1A 15
ENS2108Mechanical Science 15
SCP1111Physics of Motion^15
Elective 1
 


^Students who have not passed WACE Physics 3A/3B (or equivalent) are required to successfully complete the bridging unit SCP1132 Introduction to Physics before enrolling in SCP1111 Physics of Motion.

Year Two - Semester 2
UnitDescription Points
SCA2422Instrument Flight 15
SCA2212Advanced Aerodynamics 15
SCA2224Aircraft Systems 15
ENS1115Materials and Manufacturing 1 15
 


Year Three - Semester 1
UnitDescription Points
SCA3321Professional Aeronautical Attitudes and Techniques 15
SCA3322Aircraft Propulsion 2 15
SCA3412Heavy Aircraft Performance 15
ENM2104Instrumentation and Measurement 15
 


Year Three - Semester 2
UnitDescription Points
SCA3200Crew Resource Management 15
SCA3612Advanced Flight Planning 15
ENS4543Engineering Management 15
Elective 2
 


Elective Units
The two elective units should be selected from the following list, at least one of the electives must be at second year level or higher.

UnitDescription Points
MAT1236Calculus 1 15
ENM1102Engineering Drawing and Computer Aided Design 15
ENS1101Engineering Mechanics 15
ENS1253Electrical Engineering 1B 15
ENS1154Introduction to Engineering 15
ENS2170Principles of Industrial Maintenance 15
ENS2159Engineering Innovation and Ethics 15
ENS2113Engineering Dynamics^15
ENS3220Electrical Machines and Transformers*15
SCY2106Aviation Security 15
 


^ Has ENS1101 as a prerequisite * Has ENS1253 as a prerequisite
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