Engineering intensives

Intensives include practical activities, laboratory investigations and project work for assessment tasks. You’ll be using Deakin’s state-of-the-art facilities and may visit industry sites and engage with industry guest speakers.

You will complete on-campus activities linked to assessment requirements. These activities are also a requirement to fulfil course accreditation requirements, as specified and administered by Engineers Australia.

Benefits of intensives

You'll have the opportunity to network and socialise with other online students, as well as on-campus students and academics. Intensives are highly rated by our students and are regularly regarded as one of the highlights of their learning experience at Deakin.

Engineering intensives are held at Deakin’s $55 million engineering precinct at the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus. These state-of-the-art facilities and lab spaces include some of the most advanced and future-focused technologies and systems in Australia, including:

Each trimester, intensives are scheduled over a four-week period. You will be required on campus for two to four days over one week, depending on which units you're enrolled in. Generally, intensive activities for units are scheduled for:

• first-year units in week 8
• second-year units in week 7
• third-year units in week 6.

How many days am I required to attend?

The number of days you're required to attend depends on the units you’re enrolled in and whether you study full or part time. Most, but not all, units have intensive activities. Typically, if you are studying online full time, you'll attend around four days of intensive activities in your first year, four to six days in your second and third years, and two days in your fourth year.

You can check whether a unit has intensive activities by checking the unit details in the Handbook. Refer to the unit details table and the section labelled ‘Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities – online unit enrolment’.

The table below shows the current units with campus-based intensives.

The schedule of the intensive activities for each trimester will be published in your student account in the engineering course hub before the beginning of each trimester. You'll also be advised of the set dates of required on-campus attendance, details of the activities and their requirements via unit sites when the trimester starts. Be sure to check the course hub and the unit sites for accurate and up-to-date information.

The closest accommodation options are in Waurn Ponds. However, you can choose to stay in the Geelong CBD and catch the free Deakin intercampus bus, which runs all day between the Geelong Waterfront Campus and the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus. There are also local buses from the Geelong CBD that require you to pay with a Myki card. Visit the PTV website for more information.