UTS course code: C11048
Testamur title: Graduate Certificate in Engineering
Abbreviation: GradCertE
Course fee: $250 per cp (local); $9,000 per semester (international)
Total credit points: 24

Course aims
Admission requirements
Attendance
Course duration
Course structure
Articulation and progression

Course aims

The objective of this course is to provide practising professional engineers or technologists with an opportunity to extend their engineering knowledge beyond the subject areas covered in their first qualification, and/or to update their knowledge and skills in line with recent advances in engineering, technology and business practice; and to provide graduates in cognate disciplines with the opportunity to undertake formal study in appropriate areas of engineering.

The course may also be of value to immigrant engineers, already professionally qualified in their countries of origin, who are seeking orientation to Australian conditions and practice.

Admission requirements

An applicant for admission to candidature for a Graduate Certificate in the Faculty of Engineering should:

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. for those applicants without formal qualifications, produce such other evidence of general and professional qualifications sufficient to show that the applicant possesses the educational preparation and capacity to pursue graduate studies.

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

The Graduate Certificate may be taken on a one-semester, full-time, or a two-semester, part-time basis.

Course structure

The Graduate Certificate requires completion of subjects totalling 24 credit points. Students design their own program to suit individual needs. Program details are determined prior to enrolment, in consultation with, and with the approval of, an academic adviser designated by the Director, Postgraduate Coursework Programs.

The program of study for each candidate shall have regard to the purpose and coherence of subject selection. Within this framework, the Faculty Board in Engineering, on advice from the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Office, 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 major is recognised on the candidate's academic record. A major is granted if three subjects (18 credit points) are completed within a particular Postgraduate Program major.

At least 60 per cent of the content of any individual program shall consist of subjects offered by the Faculty of Engineering.

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. They may not in any event total more than 60 per cent of the content of any individual program, as determined by the credit points awarded on completion of each subject.

Subject selection should be clearly related to a professional theme involving either an expansion of knowledge beyond the areas covered in the student's first degree, or an advance in skills resulting from developments in engineering and associated technologies and management practices.

Articulation and progression

Work undertaken in the Graduate Certificate course may be credited towards a Master's degree provided the requirements of the Master's degree are met in full.

Completion of the requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Engineering does not guarantee admission to Master's candidature. Eligibility for consideration may be subject to the attainment of a certain level of performance – typically, a weighted average mark in completed subjects of at least 60 per cent over 18 credit points.