The Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated) is a four-year research degree which incorporates a traditional three-year PhD thesis with one year of coursework subjects, combining generic research training and discipline-specific content into a single degree. The coursework, which is undertaken in the first year of the degree, comprises research training skills and individual coursework subjects. Research skills are tailored for each faculty, but typically include: research methodology; literature review, critical analysis, or laboratory projects; and advanced topics or a minor research project. The individual subjects are normally chosen from options within the Masters by Coursework degrees within the relevant faculty, thereby allowing students to obtain deeper content knowledge in a specific discipline area. International students intending to become university researchers and teachers in their home country will benefit from exposure to Australian teaching methods through these subjects. Course Learning Outcomes Students graduating from the Doctor of Philosophy will be able to: Demonstrate expert, specialised cognitive technical and research skills in a discipline area to independently and systematically generate original knowledge and understanding to make a substantial scholarly contribution to a discipline; Critically reflect on, synthesise and evaluate a substantial and complex body of knowledge at the frontier of a discipline area; Communicate research findings, explaining and critiquing theoretical propositions, methodologies, results and conclusions to peers and to the community; Apply detailed knowledge of research, research integrity, ethics and the rights and safety of others, to plan and execute original research with intellectual independence and with full autonomy, authoritative judgement, adaptability and responsibility for personal outputs. Research Areas Areas of research available to candidates undertaking the PhD(I) with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences are listed under each of the Faculty’s disciplines along with a list of research projects in each discipline: Mathematics and Applied Statistics Physics Computer Science and Information Technology Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering.