C04090v5 Master of Engineering

Overview

This course provides an opportunity at master's level for professionally qualified engineers 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.

Students may choose a program of study that deepens the body of knowledge acquired in their first degree as well as expands knowledge boundaries into policy and engineering management areas. The program of study is usually framed within a postgraduate program major and supervised by an experienced academic in that field. Students also have the option of not electing a major.

Career options

Students who have a basic engineering undergraduate degree are able to enhance their ability and knowledge through master's-level courses in their respective majors, enabling them to gain and hold employment in their respective engineering fields.

Credit recognition

Credit recognition is considered in accordance with the University's policy on credit recognition:

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 after completing one semester's worth of 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 postgraduate programs offered by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.

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 program

The tables below give details of each major: for each major there are three tables. The first lists the compulsory subjects and allowable option choices for the major. The next two tables show the subjects typically offered in Autumn and Spring semesters. Where an elective is specified, the subject is to be chosen from postgraduate subjects offered within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, as listed in the elective option. 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 graduate certificate or graduate diploma 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

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