UTS course code: C04090
Testamur title: Master of Engineering
Abbreviation: ME
Course fee: $250 per cp (local); $9,000 per semester (international)
Total credit points: 60

Overview
Admission requirements
Attendance
Course duration
Course structure
Course program
Assessment
Supervision

Overview

The course provides opportunity at Master's level for professionally qualified engineers, including recent graduates, to extend in depth and breadth the knowledge and skills gained from their undergraduate studies.

Each program must be designed to enhance technological knowledge pertaining to one or more fields of engineering. The completion of subjects and project work at advanced level is central to this requirement.

The course offers program flexibility combined with opportunities for articulation from a sub-Master's (i.e. Graduate Certificate) to a Master's level award.

Admission requirements

An applicant for admission to candidature for the Master of Engineering degree shall either:

1. be a graduate in Engineering of UTS, or
2. hold a degree or equivalent from another higher education institution deemed to be equivalent to the Bachelor of Engineering degree at UTS, or
3. hold a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Engineering at a level of performance deemed by the Faculty Board in Engineering to be satisfactory evidence of an ability to undertake Master's candidature (typically 60 per cent average).

Applicants should have two years of relevant work experience, or one year of structured industrial experience equivalent to that required for the Bachelor of Engineering degree at UTS.

Applications for admission by internal transfer of candidature from a Graduate Certificate may be considered following completion of subjects totalling at least 18 credit points at a level of performance deemed by the Faculty Board in Engineering to be satisfactory evidence of an ability to undertake Master's candidature (typically 60 per cent average).

Attendance

Attendance may be on a full-time or part-time basis. Classes are usually held in the evenings, in block and/or distance mode.

Course duration

Programs may be completed on a full-time basis in three academic semesters, or in 12 calendar months by studying during the summer months (December to February). Completion on a part-time basis requires two to three years.

Course structure

A candidate for the degree shall complete coursework subjects and a major individual project, totalling 60 credit points.

The program of study for each candidate shall have regard to the purpose and coherence of subject selection and the integration of course and project work. Within this framework, the Faculty Board in Engineering may from time to time introduce program majors that require students to complete a number of prescribed subjects with or without opportunity for electives. In these cases, the area of program concentration is recognised on the candidate's academic record. A major is granted if four subjects (24 credit points) are completed within a particular Postgraduate Program major as described in this handbook, together with an approved Graduate Project in the major of 18–30 credit points.

Subjects selected are drawn from those offered by the Faculty of Engineering of UTS, other faculties of UTS, other faculties of engineering (including The University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Sydney), and other institutions approved by the Academic Board. Not less than 60 per cent of total credit points must be completed through subjects offered, and/or a Graduate Project supervised, by the Faculty of Engineering of UTS. The Graduate Project must be supervised by a principal supervisor who is a member or adjunct member of academic staff of the Faculty of Engineering of UTS.

Subjects are generally from among those designated as postgraduate. Undergraduate subjects may be included only where they were not included in the course leading to a candidate's primary qualification and where they can be shown to represent material relevant to career development. Undergraduate subjects may not in any event total more than 12 credit points.

Credit

Subjects taken through any faculty of UTS shall be credited towards the degree at the credit point values established for them by the University.

The credit-point weighting for the Graduate Project lies within the range of 18–30 credit points.

Credit to be granted for subjects taken through providers other than UTS is determined by the Faculty Board in Engineering.

This provision is additional to the University's normal advanced standing provisions.

Course program

The Faculty offers program majors in specialised fields relating to its research activities. These may change from time to time in number or available areas of study.

Programs are available in fields relating to each of the Faculty's main discipline areas and its associated teaching Centres (Centre for Local Government and the National Centre for Groundwater Management); and in other inter- or intra-faculty fields through the Faculty of Engineering. Advice on available program majors in any year may be obtained initially on inquiry to the Faculty of Engineering, through the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Office.

Subject availability

Subjects offered by the Faculty of Engineering available to Master of Engineering candidates, and examples of program majors, appear in this handbook. Attention should be paid to the prerequisite requirements of particular subjects. Subjects offered by other faculties of UTS are published in the respective faculty handbooks. Inquiries with respect to these, and to subjects offered by other institutions, may be directed in the first instance to the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Office in the Faculty of Engineering.

Program selection

Each candidate's program of study shall be determined in consultation with an academic adviser and shall require the approval of the Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs, or other person designated by the Faculty Board in Engineering. Approval shall include arrangements for the supervision of project work.

Each individual program must comprise a coherent selection of subjects and project work of demonstrable relevance to the aims of the course set out above.

The Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs – or a candidate's academic adviser – will consult with other faculties to identify subjects offered by them that may be relevant to an individual program. Approval to take subjects offered by other universities, within the limits established above, is normally granted in circumstances where an equivalent subject is not available through UTS.

Prior to undertaking the Graduate Project, each candidate is required to submit a comprehensive project definition as a basis from which the objectives and scope of the work is agreed, together with the credit-point value to be given to the project.

Assessment

The award of the degree is ungraded.

In existing UTS subjects, assessment procedures are as already established or as modified by the appropriate authority from time to time.

Emphasis is placed, where appropriate, on self-directed experiential learning and criterion-referenced assessment in the development and review of the Faculty's postgraduate subjects.

Supervision

Responsibility for supervision of the Graduate Project for the degree rests with the Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs.

The Graduate Project must be supervised by a principal supervisor who is a member or adjunct member of staff of the Faculty of Engineering of UTS. Industry-based projects are strongly encouraged, particularly for part-time candidates with employer sponsorship, and require formal co-supervisory arrangements.

Candidates and supervisors of project work are expected to follow principles and practices consistent with the University's Code of Practice for Master's Research Students and Supervisors, and described in the Postgraduate Project Guide Notes available from the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Office.