Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

On completion of this program, graduates should be able to:

1. Apply specialised and advanced theoretical knowledge that underpins the relevant engineering discipline to enable critical reflection on professional practice.
2. Synthesise the social purposes of engineering and evaluate the performance and sustainability of engineered products and systems, including the costs and benefits to the community.
3. 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.
4. Critically examine and autonomously evaluate evidence when justifying actions for technical, economic, environmental, ethical, and cross-cultural issues, including those relevant to indigenous peoples.
5. Apply project management skills and competencies in team leadership, communication, and technical research to enable the delivery of engineering projects within given project constraints.
6. 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.
7. Engage in further learning through research, scholarship, and critical reflection, including defence 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.

Recommended study pattern

Year 1

ENG5001 Professional Skills in Engineering

ELE4605 Fields and Waves

ELE4807 Power Systems Analysis

ELE4606 Communication Systems

ENG5105 Advanced Numerical Modelling

MEC4406 Robotics and Machine Vision or ELE4307 Real Time Systems or ELE4708 Electricity Supply Systems and Operation

ENG6207 Innovation Management and New Product Development

ELE5605 Electro-Magnetic Modelling

Year 2

EBE5003 Research Training

ELE5001 Industrial Communications Protocol

STA6200 Statistics for Quantitative Researchers or ELE4607 Advanced Digital Communications or ELE4109 Measurement Science and Instrument Engineering

EBE6411 Masters Research Project Part 1

ELE6005 Electronic Systems Integration

ENG6205 Project Management Practice or ENG6208 Advanced Engineering Project Management

EBE6412 Masters Research Project Part 2

EBE6002 Advanced System Design and Innovation

Award requirements

Exit points

Open Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.

Indicative total fee $17,896

The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.

Fees may vary depending on:

• the subjects you choose
• credit from previous work experience
• your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.

To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.

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