• Understand physics and materials at a deeper level
• Apply relevant scientific principles in a materials context and develop an intuitive knowledge of materials
• Use your maths ability as a language for physics and applications of materials
• Operate scientific instruments commonly used in physics and materials
• Retrieve and present information about physics in a scientific manner, including communicating effectively with a variety of audiences.

Diverse employment opportunities exist in a range of areas such as optics and photonics, telecommunications, micro-electronics, nano-electronics, instrumentation development, acoustics and geophysics.

Potential occupations include:

• fibre optics designer
• electronic device developer
• focused ion-beam scientist
• electronics technologist/electronics engineer
• process validation group scientist.

Potential employers include:

• Defence Science and Technology Group
• ANSTO
• CSIRO
• Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
• BAE Systems.