School Operational Plan 2019 - 2021
| Strategic Goals | Key Objectives | Measures | Targets | Accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Excellent | 1. Improve Quality of Education and Student Outcomes | Increase the number of commencing students | 5% p.a | DHOS-E, HODs, Academics involved in marketing |
| Students’ academic outcomes, as measured by progression, retention and average marks, are comparable to Faculty’s measures. | On par or better than the Faculty | DHOS-E, HODs, Course Coordinators | ||
| Make improvements based on comments raised in recent accreditation exercises | All programs | DHOS-E, EM, HODs, Course Coordinators | ||
| Achieve SETARA Tier 6 | Inline with University | DHOS-E, EM, HODs | ||
| Make improvements in units based on OBE/SETU comments | Increase in SETU and OBE achievements | DHOS-E, HODs, Academics | ||
| Achieve success in external design competitions | 1 international, 1 national competition award per discipline | AHOS-SE, Academics involved in competitions | ||
| 2. Increase Educational Innovation, Development and Research | Increase the percentage of units offered at Monash Malaysia meet University-wide SETU standards | ≥85% units in each discipline and School with SETU overall satisfaction score ≥ 3.8 | DHOS-E, HODs, Course Coordinators, Academics | |
| Implement initiatives in content/delivery/learning activities/assessments and evaluate the impact on student learning | 20% units in each discipline | DHOS-E, HODs, Course Coordinators, Academics | ||
| Identify high impact strategic partnerships with key organisations to enrich academic and research programs and campus positioning in the region. | 1 connection per discipline | HODs | ||
3. Expand the Masters Coursework Portfolio Develop and deliver coursework Masters programs that meet the needs of region. | Develop new Master programs | 2 new courses - Oil & Fat and Industry Eng | DHOS-E, HODs | |
| Ensure sufficient enrolment in existing Masters programs | As per load target in the finalised student load plan | MAE Coordinator | ||
4. Excellence in Research Increase number of active external grants Increase number of large grants(>RM500k) (e.g. TRGS, LRGS, flagship programs, TechnoFund, CREST, Horizon, NF) Increase number of industry, private and international funding Increase quantity ,quality and high impact publications Increase the proportion of quality publications with external co-authors Increase quality and quantity of graduate research students Improve campus MyRA | Core performance indicators CPI'123+ | Overall composite CPI'123 > 75%
CPI'3 GRS students >70% | DHOS-R, Academics DHOS-R, HODs, Academics DHOS-R, HODs, Academics, AHOS-GR,DHOS-R, HODs, Academics | |
| i) Number of external grant applications ii) Grants awarded amount iii) % staff holding an external grant | >80% T&R staff submitted grant application >RM32k/staff >80% | DHOS-R, HODs, RM, Academics | ||
| Number of submission for large grant application (>RM500K) | ≥ 1 grant application per discipline | DHOS-R, HODs, RM, Academics | ||
| Number of successful awarded grants | ≥ 1 successful industry/international grant application per discipline | DHOS-R, HODs, Academics, RM, EEM | ||
| Number of high quality and high impact publications and citations | ≥ 2 ISI Q1-papers per staff ≥ 4 papers published in journals IF above 10 Increase number of citations by 20% p.a | DHOS-R, HODs, , Academic | ||
| i) International co-authors ii) Co-authorship (MyRA) or publication published with industry iii) Co-publications with external stakeholder- with non-Monash Unversity staff. (publication are based on indexed in WOS/SCOPUS/ERA) | Increase by 10% p.a. | DHOS-R, HODs, , Academics | ||
| Number of postgraduate students enrolled, externally support, on-time completion and research output | Maintain full capacity 130 GRS >50% on-time completion <5 withdrawals >50 ISI journal papers contributed by students >30% of GRS funded externally ( Ext grants/ industry support) > 10% increase in high quality (H1 or first class) admission Increase commencing enrolment by 15% p.a. or per load target Timely submission of thesis by 10 p.a. | AHOS-GR, DHOS-R, RM, , Academic | ||
| Improve campus MyRA scores by 5 points p.a. | increase 5 points p.a. | DHOS-R, AHOS-GR, HODs, RM | ||
5. Strategic Research Infrastructure Obtain accreditation for the campus research facilities and laboratories to meet industry needs for testing and service quality | Lab accreditation | At least 1 infrastructure platform obtains international accreditation in 2019-2021 | Infrastructure Directors, DHOS-R, RM, LM | |
6. Talent Enhancement High calibre research active staff in key research focused areas | Research and Teaching staff (EFT) meet research performance standards approved by campus |
Increase external research funding performance standards by 5% p.a. Increase publications performance standards by 5% p.a. Graduate Research supervision performance standards by 5% p.a. | DHOS-R, AHOS-GR, HODs, Academics | |
| Implement the Monash University Malaysia Talent Management Strategy 2018-2020 | To fill up available vacancies in Level D/E | HOS, HODs | ||
7. Marketing and Recruitment for Coursework Masters Develop and strategise plan to target the right markets | Offer bursaries to qualified MAE students/applicants | Develop equity based bursary | MAE Coordinator, Campus Scholarship Committee Representative | |
8. Robust Quality Management Systems Develop and deliver excellence services to key stakeholders. | Ensure academic staff complete administrative tasks on time (non-conformance, NCR) | NCR target> 80% | DHOSs, HODs, SSM, Academics | |
9. Excellent Career Development Environment Develop and deliver excellence career development opportunities to academic and professional staff | Encourage active staff engagement through transparent policies and communication channels. | SMC meetings, School meetings, Disciplines meetings, committees, etc | HOSs, DHOSs, HODs, SSM | |
| Provide staff development opportunities for academic and professional staff. | OSP, conferences, attachment, workshop, training, etc | HOSs, DHOSs, HODs, SSM | ||
International | 1. Strengthen the Monash Student Mobility Program Increase Opportunities for Inbound and Outbound Student Mobility, including International Internships | Increase the inbound and outbound student exchange with other Monash campuses and partner institutions by at least 10% per annum in each direction. | 10% per annum | AHOS-SE, CM |
| Increase participation in Monash-Warwick Alliance in education, research and student engagement. | School to work collaboratively with ERDA on identifying opportunities for participation in Warwick alliance | HOS, DHOSs, AHOSs | ||
| 2. Diversity student enrolment sources | Increase the international student enrolment and further diversify the source country | 30% p.a | DHOS-E, HODs, Academcis involved in marketing | |
3. International Networks and Partnerships Increase international research income Fosten collaboration between Faculty of Engineering and School of Engineering | Increase international research income | 5% p.a. | DHOS-R, HODs, RM, EEM, Academics | |
| i) Faculty- School of Engineering travel grants ii) Joint PhD supervision scholarship scheme | Maintain and yearly review | DHOS-R, AHOS-GR, RM | ||
Enterprising | 1. Increase Involvement of Industry in Education programs Introduce a scheme to enrich student learning via strong government, industry and alumni engagement | Increase industry engagement and alumni in education related initiatives, including guest lectures, industry projects, seminars, joint supervision of theses/projects and mentorship programs. | 5% p.a | HODs, AHOS-SE, EEM |
| Establish industry partner programs with at least five top movers and shakers per discipline. | 5 companies per discipline | HODs, EEM | ||
2. Increase Opportunities for Leadership and Enterprising Skills Development Scale up existing leadership program to enable students to enhance their leadership and enterprising skills. | Increase number of staff with PEng/CEng status | At least 4 PEng per discipline | HODs | |
| Revamp clubs and society activities with industry support | Establish an umbrella society to coordinate activities | AHOS-SE | ||
| Enhance learning through leadership program | Top 5% of students | AHOS-SE, EILP Committee | ||
| Enhance learning through mentor-mentee program | All students from level 1 and 2 | AHOS-SE, Course Coordinators, CM | ||
| Enhance learning through Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) | 5 students per discipline | AHOS-SE, UROP Committee | ||
| Engage with community through Engineering Without Borders (EWB) student chapter | 2 projects | AHOS-SE | ||
| Establish a cross-campus mobility program | 40 participating students per year | AHOS-SE | ||
3. Innovation, Commercialisation Effort, Industry Collaborations Support and increase commercialisation effort Increase industry grants and contract research projects | General of IPs, commercialisation activities | 10% p.a. | DHOS-R, EEM, Academics | |
| Industry / private research income | Achieve at least 10 contracted research by industry/other parties | DHOS-R, HODs, EEM, Academics | ||
Inclusive | 1. Develop an Alumni Engagement Plan for Education Work with External Engagement to obtain philanthropic support for scholarships, mobility travel support, education research & infrastructure development and participation in education and students programs. | Ensure Alumni are included in the industry advisory panel | 1 alumni per discipline - maintain and yearly review | DHOS-E, HODs |
| Increase the number of alumni who are engaged with the School alumni network and increase the number of high profile alumni who are engaging with schools, platforms and campus. | 20% per annum | HODs | ||
2. Improve Gender Balance of Academic Staff and Students Encourage more female students and staff in the School | Increase the proportion of female teaching and research staff | 30% | HOS, HODs | |
| Increase the percentage of female students | 25% | DHOS-E, HODs, Academcis involved in marketing | ||
3. Connection and Belonging Advancing ECR research career Increase diversity | Mentorship and support for early career researcher (ECR) | Provide adequete resources and support for ECR | DHOS-R, RM | |
| Identify champions to contribute to campus diversity strategy. | 1 per discipline | HODs |
Abbreviation:
- HOS: HOS Head of School
- DHoS-E: Deputy Head of School (Education)
- DHoS-R: Deputy Head of School (Research)
- AHoS-GR: Associate Head of School (Graduate Research)
- AHoS-SE: Associate Head of School (Student Experience)
- HOD: Head of Discipline
- SSM: Senior School Manager
- EM: Education Manager
- RM: Research Manager
- LM: Lab Manager
- CM: Course Manager
- EEM: External Engagement Manager
- EAC: Engineering Accreditation Council Malaysia
- EA: Engineers Australia
- OBE: Outcome Based Education
- CQI: Continuous Quality Improvement
- UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
- EWB: Engineers Without Borders
- MAE: Master of Advanced Engineering