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‘QUT offers great teaching and connection to industry. I believe that theoretical knowledge as well as practical competence will be vital for any future employment. My advice to prospective students in Australia or overseas would be to just do it - your time at QUT will be amazing and you will leave with the skills and confidence to succeed.’
Learn from industry experts
‘QUT offers great teaching and connection to industry. I believe that theoretical knowledge as well as practical competence will be vital for any future employment. My advice to prospective students in Australia or overseas would be to just do it - your time at QUT will be amazing and you will leave with the skills and confidence to succeed.’
Highlights
- Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
- Lead and contribute to complex projects.
- Respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
- Use evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation.
- Choose from two majors within this study area.
- The following course majors are provisionally accredited by Engineers Australia:
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical and Management.
Highlights
- Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
- Lead and contribute to complex projects.
- Respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
- Use evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation.
- Choose from two majors within this study area.
- The following course majors are provisionally accredited by Engineers Australia:
- Electrical Engineering
- Electrical and Management.
Why choose this course?
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:
- Electrical engineering provides advanced theoretical understanding and knowledge of current professional engineering practices in electrical engineering. It focuses on the technical discipline area, sustainable and ethical considerations, and evidence-based practices.
- Electrical and management offers an engineering management qualification to practising engineers, specialising in electrical engineering. It combines a formal qualification in management with advanced electrical engineering skills and knowledge.
This course is suitable for practising engineers who want to change engineering disciplines and attain postgraduate qualifications.
Real-world learning
Through your studies, you will learn how to:
- apply advanced and specialist knowledge, concepts and practices in engineering design, analysis management and sustainability
- critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering problems to achieve, research informed solutions
- apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering project
- communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non-specialist audiences
- organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently, and collaboratively demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering decision making and professional accountability.
You will be engaged with the demands, complexities, tools and contemporary practices of authentic engineering environments. You will develop and shape contemporary authentic professional skills for immediate application in workplace contexts.
You will undertake your studies through a range of learning practices, including industry-led case studies, project-based learning. Your capstone learning experience is a workplace-based or authentic two-semester project staged via a series of developmental assessments. This is supported through preparation for a simulated international engineering conference (peer-reviewed poster presentation and paper).
Explore this course
This two-year course provides a developmental path for professional engineers to master skills in selected engineering disciplines and the interaction of those disciplines. Enhance your skills in dealing with more complex engineering problems and interactions between engineering technical domains and the broader context in which they exist.
This course provides post-professional knowledge and skills in a range of engineering disciplines. It will equip you with the abilities to become a leader in your chosen engineering field. The program offers both theoretical understanding, and practical applications of advanced professional engineering practices, with a focus on themed technical discipline areas and sustainable, ethical and managerial abilities.
This course has provisional accreditation with Engineers Australia. Professional accreditation allows graduates to work as a professional engineer in countries that are signatories of the Washington Accord.
Flexible delivery
Start online. Come when you can.
You can commence this course online in 2021 if you are unable to enter Australia due to travel restrictions, however you may not be able to enrol with a full-time study load as some units may not be available. In addition, you may choose to commence your studies by undertaking eligible Minor units. (Engineering units with hands-on practicals are only offered on campus). You will need to complete the course on campus, once travel to Brisbane is possible.
Careers and outcomes
As a graduate of 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 (Electrical Engineering) and Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical and Management) are 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
- Electrical Engineer
- Engineer
- Engineering Technologist
- Engineering manager
To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering you must complete 192 credit points of course units consisting of:
- 84 credit points of core units, including:
- advanced research skills and research-based project units
- two professional practice units
- an advanced discipline unit
- an engineering design unit
- 108 credit points of discipline units from your specialisation, to be selected from a list of options.
Option units provide added depth and breadth in your chosen discipline area. You should select different unit if you have completed a similar or equivalent unit in your previous studies.
You are also required to undertake 60 days of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your Work Integrated Learning.
To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering you must complete 192 credit points of course units consisting of:
- 84 credit points of core units, including:
- advanced research skills and research-based project units
- two professional practice units
- an advanced discipline unit
- an engineering design unit
- 108 credit points of discipline units from your specialisation, to be selected from a list of options.
Option units provide added depth and breadth in your chosen discipline area. You should select different unit if you have completed a similar or equivalent unit in your previous studies.
You are also required to undertake 60 days of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your Work Integrated Learning.
- Course code
- EN55
- CRICOS code
- 096754G
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- Gardens Point
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- Gardens Point
- 1.5 - 2 years full-time
- 3 - 4 years part-time
- 2 years full-time
- February and July
- February and July
Electrical major - 1.5-year program
A recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Electrical major - 2-year program
- A recognised three-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree of engineering or engineering technology in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale); or
- A recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in any other engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 or higher (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Electrical and management major - 1.5-year program
A recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Electrical and management stream - 2-year program
A recognised three-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree of engineering or engineering technology in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Minimum academic requirements
Electrical, and electrical and management stream - 1.5-year program
You'll need:
- a completed, recognised four-year full-time equivalent bachelor degree in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Electrical stream - 2-year program
You'll need a completed, recognised full-time equivalent of either:
- a three-year bachelor degree in electrical engineering or engineering technology (in electrical engineering) with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale)
- a four-year bachelor degree in any engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Electrical and management stream - 2-year program
You'll need:
- a completed, recognised three- or four-year full-time equivalent bachelor degree in electrical engineering or engineering technology (in electrical engineering) with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT’s 7 point scale).
Minimum English language requirements
Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.
Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, United States of America and Wales.
If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Pearson PTE (Academic)
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
58 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
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Cambridge English Score
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement. You must provide your Candidate ID and Candidate Secret Number, these are printed on your Cambridge English Confirmation of Entry. |
176 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 169 |
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IELTS Academic
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
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TOEFL iBT
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
79 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 18 |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Haven't completed an English language test? We can help!
If you have not completed an English language test, you can sit the IELTS test at our IELTS test centre
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2022 fees
2022: $33,200 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2022 fees
2022: $38,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2021 fees
2021: $31,000 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2021 fees
2021: $38,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
Find out more about postgraduate course fees
FEE-HELP: loans to help you pay your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a FEE-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.