School Operational Plan 2018 - 2020
| 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 | ||
| Maintain EAC/EA/IChemE accreditation | All programs | DHOS-E, HODs, Course Coordinators | ||
| Achieve SETARA Tier 6 | Inline with University | DHOS-E, HODs | ||
| Maintain quality OBE/CQI system in place. | OBE system comparable to best local and public universities | DHOS-E, HODs | ||
| Achieve success in external design competitions | 1 international, 1 national competition award per discipline | AHOS-SE, DHOS-E | ||
| 2. Increase Educational Innovation, Development and Research | i) Increase the percentage of units offered at Monash Malaysia. ii) meet University-wide SETU standards. | 3% p.a. increase | ||
| Identify high impact strategic partnership with key organisations to enrich academic and research programs and campus positioning in the region. | 4 | |||
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% | DHOS-R | |
| 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 | ||
| Number of submission for large grant application (>RM500K) | ≥ 1 grant application per discipline | DHOS-R, HODs, RM | ||
| Number of successful awarded grants | ≥ 1 successful industry/international grant application per discipline | DHOS-R, HODs | ||
| Number of high quality and high impact publications and citations | > 2 ISI- papers per staff > 1.2 Q1-paper per staff ≥ 4 papers published in journals IF above 10 Increase number of citations by 20% p.a. | DHOS-R, HODs | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 by 2018 | Infrastructure Directors, DHOS-R, RM, LM | |
6. Talent Enhancement High calibre research active staff in key research focused areas | Research and Teaching staff (EFT) should 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, RM | |
| Identify and recruit Level D/E staff to provide leadership | To fill up available vacancies in Level D/E | HOS, HODs | ||
| 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 | Work with ERDA to promote Masters program to the relevant authorities (SEDA, BEM) for special recognition/ accreditation. | DHOS(E), SSM, MAE Coordinator | ||
| Offer bursaries to qualified MAE students/applicants | Extend 20% bursaries to IEM members/children | DHOS(E), SSM, MAE Coordinator | ||
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, Academic staff | |
9. Excellent Career Development Environment Develop and strategies 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 institution by at least 10% per annum in each direction. | 10% per annum | AHOS-SE, DHOS-E |
| 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 | ||
| 2. Diversity student enrolment sources | Increase the international student enrolment and further diversify the source country | 30% p.a | DHOS-E, HODs, Academics 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 | 10% p.a. | DHOS-R, HODs | |
| 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 |
| Establish industry partner programs with at least five top movers and shakers per discipline. | 5 companies per discipline | HODs, External Engagement Coordinator | ||
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 | |
| Maintain student-led club/societies with industry linkages | 1 club/society per discipline | AHOS-SE | ||
| Enhance learning through leadership program | Top 5% of students | AHOS-SE | ||
| Enhance learning through mentor-mentee program | 100% of students called for APC hearings | AHOS-SE | ||
| Enhance learning through Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) | 5 students per discipline | UROP Committee, AHOS-SE | ||
| Engage with community through Engineering Without Borders (EWB) student chapter | 2 projects | 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 | |
| Industry research income | Achieve at least 10 contracted research by industry/other parties | DHOS-R, HODs | ||
Inclusive | 1. Develop an Alumni Engagement Plan for Education Work with External Engagement to obtain philanthropic support for scholarship, 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 | 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, Academics 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 | |
| Implement and champion a campus diversity strategy. | 1 per discipline | HODs |