Future Students

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The course duration is four years and covers the following major fields:  

• Communication Engineering
• Control Engineering
• Power Systems Engineering
• Electronic Engineering

Communication Engineering deals with the transfer of information of diverse kinds by the modulation, transmission and subsequent demodulation or reception of electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals. These signals may be digital or analogue and may be transmitted over cable, radio or optical fibre media. National and international communication networks; television and telecommunication; cable, microwave, satellite and optical communication are among the topics included.

Control Engineering deals with automatic means by which the performance of a process or plant is controlled or regulated from measurements of its own response. Feedback control of this kind, and its fundamental concepts, has very wide applications and implications. Control engineers need wide knowledge and the ability to work with specialists in other fields. This branch of engineers involves the marriage of electrical and mechanical systems.

Power Systems Engineering is a very large field of professional engineering practice in Australia and throughout the world. Every modern economy depends increasingly on electricity supply. Expansion of electricity supply throughout most of the Asian countries is now on a massive scale. The major field of expertise in this department is in all aspects of power generation, transmission, distribution and supply and especially computer-aided design and control of large integrated power network systems.

Level 1
All engineering students follow a common course in Level 1, allowing flexibility to select any engineering stream at the end of the level. The subjects include mathematics, engineering fundamentals and physics, plus electives from a variety of engineering streams.

Upper levels
The broad-based engineering education continues in Level 2 and professional specialisation takes place in the third and final levels.

During the Bachelor of Engineering, you will also complete at least 12 weeks full time (or equivalent part time) of professional work experience.

Career opportunities

Electronic Engineering equips graduates for careers in industries engaged in the development and application of electronic devices, circuits and systems. These include: - design and development of computer hardware - electronic circuit design and manufacture - very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit design and application - computer aided design (CAD) - application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design and manufacture - semiconductor devices and integrated circuit (IC) manufacture.