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.

Admission requirements

Applicants must have an engineering degree from a recognised tertiary institution as well as two years' relevant work experience or be a graduate from the UTS Bachelor of Engineering Diploma in Engineering Practice program.

Recognition of prior learning

Course duration and attendance

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

Classes are usually held in the evenings or in block mode. Some subjects may be available in 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 UTS: 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 UTS: Engineering.

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 and Information Technology.

A major is granted if four subjects (24 credit points) are completed within a particular postgraduate program major, together with an approved Graduate Project (18–30 credit points) in the major.

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 except for 49277, 49278, 49279, 49454, 49458, 49459, 49460, 49461, 49462, 49463, 49464 and 49465. 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.

Articulation with UTS courses

This course offers opportunities for articulation from a sub-master's (e.g. graduate certificate) to a master's-level award.

Transfer between UTS courses

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 and Information Technology to be satisfactory evidence of an ability to undertake master's candidature (typically 60 per cent average).

Other information

Further information is available from the Engineering and Information Technology Outreach Office on: