Master of Professional Engineering (Structural Engineering)
Advance your engineering career with a focus on structural engineering. Gain hands-on experience and complete a research project to apply your knowledge to real-world problems.
About the Course
This degree is ideal to advance your engineering career if you hold a 3-year engineering degree but have no work experience. Gain an understanding of the mechanics and technology of fibre composites, advanced applications of structural design and analysis, as well as the stability analysis of soil and concrete. In addition to the hands-on laboratory sessions and 60 days industry experience, you will complete a research project and dissertation applying all your formal knowledge to a real world problem. Whether this is permanent affordable housing for developing countries or performance testing of concrete, your project will provide insight to the profession of a Structural Engineer.
Course Entry Requirements
Completion of an Australian university 3 or 4-year bachelor degree in engineering in the relevant specialisation, or equivalent; or Completion of an Australian university 4-year bachelor degree in engineering in a non-related specialisation, or equivalent. To be eligible for advanced standing entry - Completion of an Australian university 4-year embedded honours degree in engineering in the same or closely related cognate specialisation (major). There are inherent requirements that must be met in order to successfully complete this degree. Inherent requirements are fundamental skills, capabilities and knowledge that students must be able to demonstrate in order to achieve the essential learning outcomes of the degree, while maintaining the academic integrity of the degree. Please read and understand the inherent requirements specific to the Master of Professional Engineering before applying. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
Course Structure
Recommended study pattern
Year 1 ENG5001 Professional Skills in Engineering CIV4505 Structural Analysis CIV4506 Concrete Structures ENG5105 Advanced Numerical Modelling CIV4508 Structural Design II ENG6208 Advanced Engineering Project Management or ENG6205 Project Management Practice CIV6801 Advanced Structural Design ENG6207 or ENG6104 Year 2 EBE5003 Research Training ENG6104 Asset Management in an Engineering Environment MEC4302 Computational Mechanics in Design or STA6200 Statistics for Quantitative Researchers CIV6802 Advanced Prestressed Concrete EBE6411 Masters Research Project Part 1 CIV5403 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering or GIS2407 Web Based Geographic Information Systems EBE6412 Masters Research Project Part 2 EBE6002 Advanced System Design and Innovation
Award requirements
Completion of 16 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.
Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Professional Engineering (after successful completion of 4 approved courses). Graduate Diploma of Professional Engineering (after successful completion of 8 approved courses).
On completion of this program, graduates should be able to:
- Apply specialized and advanced theoretical knowledge that underpins the relevant engineering discipline to enable critical reflection on professional practice.
- Synthesize the social purposes of engineering and evaluate the performance and sustainability of engineered products and systems, including the costs and benefits to the community.
- Apply cognitive, technical, and creative skills to generate and evaluate concepts and complex ideas across a range of engineering problems reflecting issues of sustainable practice in diverse social, environmental, and technical contexts.
- Critically examine and autonomously evaluate evidence when justifying actions for technical, economic, environmental, ethical, and cross-cultural issues, including those relevant to indigenous peoples.
- Apply project management skills and competencies in team leadership, communication, and technical research to enable the delivery of engineering projects within given project constraints.
- Communicate effectively in English, using a range of high-level oral, written, and technology-based approaches, to justify theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions, and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Engage in further learning through research, scholarship, and critical reflection, including defense of professional and ethical decision-making, and apply a high level of personal autonomy and accountability to manage engagement with professional practice that is integrated and captured in their postgraduate program ePortfolio.
