Board of Studies in Engineering

In 1910, a Board of Studies in Engineering was established within the Faculty of Science to report the Faculty. [By Laws XXI.3 Calendar 1910, p.58 approved by Governor in Council on 31 March 1910]It was the Faculty's responsibility to meet for the purpose of considering and reporting to the Senate upon such subjects as had relation to the studies, lectures, examinations and degrees in Science, and such other subjects as may have been referred to it by the Senate; included in the Boards of Studies that were constituted to report to the Faculty in each department of study was the Board of Studies in Engineering. "The Board of Studies in Engineering shall consist of the Professors of Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Geology and Chemistry, the Independent Lecturers in Engineering subjects, the Assistant-Lecturers and Demonstrators in Engineering Design and Assaying. Its chairman shall be the Professor of Engineering but in his absence the members then present shall elect a chairman from amongst them. The Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and the Dean of the Faculty of Science shall be ex officio members of these Board of Studies". [By-Laws XXI, 3]On 3 November 1919 the Professorial Board adopted a report of the committee it had appointed to consider the Professorial Board's recommendations on the academic structure of the University. This included the recommendation of the creation of six new faculties including Engineering. The recommendations were approved by Senate at its meeting in February 1920. The function of the ten faculties of the University were spelt out in  By Laws Chap IX:    Each Faculty shall, under the Senate— (1) Have the general direction and supervision of the teaching in the subjects pertaining to the Faculty ; (2) be responsible, with the assistance of such examiners as the Senate may on the report of the Faculty, from time to time appoint, for the conduct of the annual examinations in those subjects ; and (3) consider and report upon all matters relating to the studies, lectures, examinations and degrees of the Faculty, or referred to it by the Senate. With the creation of the new faculty the Board of Studies in Engineering in the Faculty of Science ceased to exist.The minutes for meetings of the Board of Studies in Engineering and the early minutes of the Faculty of Engineering are contained in the same minute book. And have been serialised as the Minutes of the Faculty of Engineering.See also Australia's First: A History of the University of Sydney , Vol 1, on the development of Engineering at the University