Short summary:

• Faculty wants something like a common first year: the actuality looks like two groups: (1) CE, CS, EE, Tele, and (2) the other Engineering Schools (Mech, Civil, Surveying, Petroleum, Mining, Chemical, ...), with SE and BI as outliers somewhere close to CE/CS/EE.
• The advantage of this from the School point of view is that it facilitates transfers between our programs;
• UNSW Asia planning is involved;
• The dean wants a design course in every year of every program;
• The dean wants to eliminate wasted teaching effort by having every School take the same common course in Computing, in Mechanics, etc.
• The dean wants all courses to be 6 UoC. Except GenEd, which is out of our control.
• The Academic Board wants 12 UoC of free electives in every program.
• The "proposals" link above takes you to the current state of our attempts on this - i.e. draft program revision proposals for each of BI, CS, CE, and SE.