This course enhances the knowledge, practice and professional employability skills of engineers in specific discipline areas at an advanced level. Explore an integrated mix of specialist discipline complexity and evidence-based practice with future-focused professional skills development in a connected learning environment.

Three-quarters of new engineering graduates looking for full-time work find it within four months and have the highest rate of professional or managerial employment of all STEM graduates (Norton, 2016).

You can choose from two majors as part of this main study area:

• Mechanical engineering provides advanced theoretical understanding and knowledge of current professional engineering practices in mechanical engineering. It focuses on the technical discipline area, sustainable and ethical considerations, and evidence-based practices.
• Mechanical and management offers an engineering management qualification to practising engineers, specialising in mechanical engineering. It combines a formal qualification in management with advanced mechanical engineering skills and knowledge.

This course is suitable for practising engineers who want to change engineering disciplines and attain postgraduate qualifications.

As a graduate of the this course, you will be an Engineers Australia-accredited professional engineer with advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or engineering management role. You will:

• be able to lead and contribute to complex projects and respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges
• have research capacity for evidence-based practice, to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation in ethical and sustainable ways as appropriate to your role
• be strategic in the use of digital technologies
• be an effective collaborator and communicator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts with knowledge of and respect for diverse cultural perspectives.
• be able to apply integrated computer-based approaches to monitor and manage internal and external resources in an organisation and implement a range of strategies and practices to support organisational objectives such as competitive advantages, innovation, sharing lessons learned, integration and continuous improvement
• be able to become a specialist engineering manager within your chosen professional field, in particular, a leader and manager of engineering processes
• be capable of undertaking management level roles in operations management, quality control management, logistics, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and other specialised engineering fields.

Professional recognition

Our Master of Professional Engineering is provisionally accredited by Engineers Australia. Professional accreditation allows you to work as a professional engineer in countries that are signatories of the Washington Accord.

Possible careers

• Engineer
• Engineering Technologist
• Engineering manager
• Mechanical Engineer