Master of Professional Engineering (Environmental and Sustainable Resources Engineering)
PostgraduateUSQ-PEE-MAS2025
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Advanced environmental engineering topics and practical experience
Bolster your engineering degree with real-world problem solving. You’ll delve into water resources, modelling, technology, and more. Get practical with hands-on lab work plus industry experience. Pave the way for exciting roles as a professional engineer.
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 24 months
- Total subjects
- 16
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Professional Engineering (Environmental and Sustainable Resources Engineering)
About this degree
On completion of this program, graduates should be able to:
- Apply specialised and advanced theoretical knowledge that underpins the relevant engineering discipline to enable critical reflection on professional practice.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Gain an understanding of public health engineering, environmental problem solving, soil science and the treatment of solid and liquid waste. Throughout the degree there is an emphasis on practical experience and preparing you thoroughly for the engineering profession. 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 the cleaning of contaminated industrial land or waste treatment and recycling, your project will provide insight to the profession of an Environmental Engineer.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
ENG5001 Professional Skills in Engineering
ENV4204 Environmental Technology
ENG6208 Advanced Engineering Project Management or ENG6205 Project Management Practice
ENG5105 Advanced Numerical Modelling
ENV5104 Advanced Hydraulic Systems
ENV4203 Public Health Engineering
ENV4205 Water and Wastewater Treatment
ENG6207 Innovation Management and New Product Development or ENG6104 Asset Management in an Engineering Environment
Year 2
EBE5003 Research Training
EBE6002 Advanced System Design and Innovation
CLI6204 Global Environmental Systems or AGR4305 Agricultural Soil Mechanics or MEC5100 Computational Fluid Dynamics or REN6101 Environment, Society and Sustainability
EBE6411 Masters Research Project Part 1
ENV4107 Water Resources Engineering
ENV4106 Irrigation Science
EBE6412 Masters Research Project Part 2
ENV6103 Advanced Environmental ModellingAward 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).Open Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative first year fee
$8,948
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.
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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.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Study method requirements
- Residential School requirements to complete practical components of some courses
Career opportunities
Professional recognition
The Master of Professional Engineering (Environmental and Sustainable Resources Engineering) has been accorded full accreditation at the level of Professional Engineer by Engineers Australia and graduates are eligible for Graduate membership at the Professional Level.Career outlook
- Engineering Managers:
- Over $120K
- Environmental Consultants:
- $93K to $120K
- Environmental Engineers:
- Data unavailable