Industry work placement

A major component of the Bachelor of Bioscience (Freshwater Ecology) is the compulsory placement of third year students in the workforce where they can experience actual management issues or relevant resource management research activities and contribute to the function of the host organisation.

The placement is for a minimum of 160 hours and includes two days a week (Thursday and Friday) for ten weeks during the second semester. The placement provides very practical experience for the students and enables them to work in the natural resource management field as part of their degree.

Students have commented on how important these placements are for future employment with some remaining with the host organisation.

Subject information.

Student experiences

Other examples of industrial workplacements include:

Wodonga City Council

  • Septic Tank Management for Baranduda area
  • Control of European Wasps
  • Greenhouse Action Plan

Albury City Council

  • GIS mapping of riparian and aquatic vegetation at Wonga Wetlands
  • Urban Stormwater Management within the Bungambrawatha Creek Catchment

Rural City of Wangaratta

  • Management of roadside vegetation
  • GIS mapping of sugar glider habitat

Masterfoods

  • Class A water Utilisation
  • Preparation of annual environmental reporting
  • Sludge dewatering and Trade Waste water nutrient removal

Department of Sustainability and Environment

  • Preparation of Interpretation Material for Threatened Fauna and Flora
  • GIS mapping of endangered species
  • Creel Survey of Hume Reservoir
  • Wodonga Arboreal Habitat Corridor Project

Department of Primary Industries

  • Research on new strain of root nodule bacteria (Rhizobium) for lupins
  • Investigation of red mites in vineyards

Parks Victoria

  • Restoration of the Bethanga smelter site

Parklands Albury-Wodonga

  • Mapping of fauna and vegetation in wetlands
  • Pre- freeway construction inventory of wetland quality

North East Catchment Management Authority

  • WATERWATCH :Data entry for NE and assessment of data, co-ordination of workshops, school liaison with WATERWATCH co-ordinators; Preparation of macroinvertebrate identification resources for volunteer monitoring groups
  • Management Plan of Meadows Creek based on In Stream Condition
  • Management Plan of Black Range Creek

EGL Water Operations Pty Ltd

  • Effluent treatment technologies to produce Class A water at West Wodonga Purification Plant

NevRwaste

  • Kerbside waste management inventory
  • Building and Demolition audit of environmental impact of current practices
  • Reducing, reusing and recycling with North Eastern Victorian Primary Students

Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre

  • Role of fungi in breakdown of leaves in streams
  • Life cycles and feeding of aquatic insects in the Ovens River