C04090v4 Master of Engineering

Overview

This course provides an 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.

Career options

Master's-level courses enhance the ability of engineers to gain and hold jobs.

Articulation

This course offers opportunities for articulation from a sub-Master's (e.g. Graduate Certificate) to a Master's-level award.

Additional admission requirements

Applicants must:

• be a graduate in Engineering of UTS
• hold a degree or equivalent from another higher education institution deemed equivalent to the Bachelor of Engineering degree at UTS, or
• 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 also have two years' 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).

Additional recognition of prior learning

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is considered in accordance with the University policy on RPL (which can be viewed online). The maximum amount of RPL granted is: 24 credit points if articulating from a Graduate Certificate course; 18 credit points for UTS BE graduates; and 12 credit points for all other students (without exception).

Course duration and attendance

The course may be completed on a full-time basis in one-and-a-half years. Completion on a part-time basis requires two to three years.

Classes are usually held in the evenings or in block and/or distance mode.

Course structure

Candidates complete coursework subjects and a major individual project, totalling 60 credit points of study. The project component is typically undertaken following completion of the coursework.

Some Postgraduate program majors may require students to complete a number of prescribed subjects with or without opportunity for electives. Subjects are selected from those offered by the UTS Faculty of Engineering, other UTS faculties, 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 UTS Faculty of Engineering.

The Graduate Project must be supervised by a principal supervisor who is a member or adjunct member of academic staff of the UTS Faculty of Engineering.

Course completion requirements

Course program

The tables below give details of each major. For each major there are four tables. The first lists compulsory subjects and the full list of allowable option choices for the major. The next three tables give a recommended program for three different types of students: those undertaking the course full time and commencing in Autumn semester, those undertaking the course full time and commencing in Spring semester and those undertaking the course part time and commencing in Autumn semester. Where an elective is specified, any subject in the range 49000 to 49999 is acceptable. Recommended programs take account of the semesters in which subjects are offered and the way the timetable is designed to avoid clashes. Some subjects are offered in weekly mode, others in block mode and others in distance mode or a combination of modes.

Other information

Further information is available from the Engineering Outreach Office on: