Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) - Course List

Information valid for students commencing 2018

Master of Engineering Science (16 units)

Civil Engineering

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Civil Engineering, Plan code: CIVENX5528), a student must complete:

  1. 16 units from Parts A and B comprising; and
    2. o at least 8 units from Part A; and
    o at least 4 units from Part B.

For the Graduate Certificate EngSc (Civil Engineering), a student must complete:

  1. 8 units from Part A;
    2. Students may enrol in other courses only if approved by the Executive Dean.

Students will be required to provide their own PPE (steel cap boots).

Part A

Semester 1

Course Code Units Course Title
CIVL7135 2 Advanced Environmental Monitoring Techniques for Civil Engineers [1]
CIVL7155 2 Physical and numerical modelling of environmental fluid mechanics [2]
CIVL7215 2 Ground Improvement & Remediation Technologies [1]
CIVL7225 2 Dam and Embankment Engineering [2]
CIVL7350 2 Design of Composite Structures
CIVL7415 2 Spatial and Quantitative Methods for Transport Data Analytics [2]
CIVL7425 2 Advanced Transport Models for Strategic Transport Planning [1]
FIRE7660 2 Structural Fire Engineering

Semester 2

Course Code Units Course Title
CIVL7170 2 Advanced Sustainable Built Environment
CIVL7235 2 Underground Structures, Support Design and Construction [2]
CIVL7315 2 Advanced Concrete Structures and Concrete Technology
CIVL7360 2 Computational Design and Structural Geometry
CIVL7435 2 Traffic Simulation: Methods and Applications [1]
CIVL7505 2 Research Methods for Civil Engineers
FIRE7620 2 Fire Dynamics

Part B - Compulsory Research

ONE of the following:

Course Code Units Course Title
CIVL7500 8 Research Thesis [3]
CIVL7501 8 Research Thesis [3]
CIVL7511 4 Research Project [3]
CIVL7512 4 Research Project [3]

Electrical Engineering

A student is required to obtain - For the GCEngSc (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5527), 8 units comprising

  1. up to 6 units from Part A; and
  2. the balance from Part B and Part C and Part D.

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5528) 16 units comprising
  1. up to 4 units from Part B; and
  2. 2 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part D; and
  4. at least 4 units from Part E.

For the MEngSc (24 units) (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5529), 24 units comprising -
  1. up to 12 units from Part A and Part B with a maximum of 6 units from Part A; and
  2. 2 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part D; and
  4. at least 4 units from Part E.

Students may enrol in other courses approved by the Executive Dean.

Part A

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7308 2 Operating Systems Architecture
COMS7201 2 Computer Networks I
CSSE7301 2 Embedded Systems Design & Interfacing
ELEC7101 2 Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields & Waves
ELEC7302 2 Electrical Energy Conversion & Utilisation
ELEC7312 2 Signals, Systems & Control
ELEC7401 2 Electronic Circuits

Part B

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7104 2 Microwave Engineering
COMS7200 2 Computer Networks II
COMS7400 2 Photonics
COMS7410 2 Communication Systems
CSSE7410 2 Digital System Design
CSSE7411 2 Advanced Embedded Systems
ELEC7303 2 Power Systems Analysis
ELEC7311 2 Power System Protection
ELEC7402 2 Advanced Electronic & Power Electronics Design
ELEC7403 2 Medical & Industrial Instrumentation
ELEC7420 2 Modern Asset Management and Condition Monitoring in Power System
ELEC7462 2 Digital Signal Processing
ELEC7463 2 Image Processing and Computer Vision
ELEC7606 2 Medical Imaging
ENGG7020 2 Systems Safety Engineering
METR7200 2 Control Engineering 1
METR7202 2 Robotics and Automation

Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7302 2 Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering

Part D

Field: Biomedical Engineering

Course Code Units Course Title
ELEC7901 2 Advanced Medical Device Engineering
ELEC7902 2 Biomedical Signal Processing

Field: Microwave Telecommunications

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7305 2 Advanced Microwave Engineering
COMS7307 2 Advanced Photonics [2]
COMS7308 2 Antenna Design [1]
COMS7309 2 Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics [1]

Field: Power Systems

Course Code Units Course Title
ELEC7051 2 Transformer Technology Design and Operation [1]
ELEC7309 2 Power System Planning and Reliability
ELEC7310 2 Electricity Market Operation and Security
ELEC7313 2 Renewable Energy Integration: Technologies to Technical Challenges [2]

Field: Control

Course Code Units Course Title
METR7203 2 Control Engineering 2 [2]

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7000 2 Advanced Topics in Communications I
COMS7310 2 Radar and Electronic Warfare Fundamentals
COMS7311 2 Microwave Remote Sensing
CSSE7500 2 Modelling and Simulation
CSSE7510 2 Reconfigurable Embedded Systems - Concepts and Practice
CSSE7520 2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Avionics
CSSE7530 2 VLSI Circuits and Systems
ELEC7300 2 Advanced Topics in Power
ELEC7903 2 Biomedical Engineering in Sports Medicine
ENGG7300 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering I
ENGG7301 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering II

Part E

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7803 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]
ENGG7804 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7802 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [4]
ENGG7806 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [4]
ENGG7807 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]
ENGG7808 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]

Software Engineering

A student is required to obtain - For the GCEngSc (Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5527), 8 units comprising -

  1. up to 6 units from Part A;
  2. the balance from Part B and Part C and Part D.

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5528), 16 units comprising -
  1. up to 6 units from Part B; and
  2. at least 4 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part E; and
  4. the balance from Part D.

for the MEngSc (24 units)(Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5529), 24 units comprising -
  1. up to 14 units from Part A and Part B with a maximum of 6 units from Part A; and
  2. at least 4 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part E; and
  4. the balance from Part D.

Students may enrol in other courses approved by the Executive Dean.

Part A

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7308 2 Operating Systems Architecture
COMP7505 2 Algorithms & Data Structures
COMP7702 2 Artificial Intelligence
COMS7003 2 Information Security
COMS7201 2 Computer Networks I
CSSE7001 2 The Software Process
CSSE7301 2 Embedded Systems Design & Interfacing
INFS7202 2 Web Information Systems
INFS7208 2 Cloud Computing
INFS7907 2 Advanced Database Systems

Part B

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7402 2 Compilers and Interpreters
COMP7500 2 Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures
COMP7703 2 Machine Learning
COMS7200 2 Computer Networks II
COMS7507 2 Advanced Computer and Network Security
CSSE7014 2 Distributed Computing
CSSE7411 2 Advanced Embedded Systems
DECO7450 2 Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
ENGG7800 2 Engineering Project Management
INFS7203 2 Data Mining
INFS7205 2 Advanced Techniques for High Dimensional Data

Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
CSSE7100 2 Reasoning about Programs
CSSE7610 2 Concurrency: Theory and Practice
INFS7410 2 Information Retrieval and Web Search

Part D

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7020 2 Systems Safety Engineering
ENGG7302 2 Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7000 2 Special Topics in Computer Science 7A
COMP7001 2 Special Topics in Computer Science 7B
CSSE7090 2 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering A
CSSE7091 2 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering B
DECO7000 2 Special Topics in Design Computing 7A
DECO7001 2 Special Topics in Design Computing 7B
ENGG7300 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering I
ENGG7301 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering II

Part E

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7803 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]
ENGG7804 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]

Courses offered on an occasional basis.

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7802 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [4]
ENGG7806 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [4]
ENGG7807 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]
ENGG7808 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]

Undeclared

A student is required to obtain -
for the MEngSc (16units) (Undeclared Plan code UNDECX5528), 16 units comprising:

  1. 6 units from Part A;
  2. 4 units or 8 units from one group within Part B; and
  3. balance from Part C.

Part A

(Core)

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7600 2 Advanced Engineering Practice
ENGG7601 2 Experimental Design
MATE7001 2 Environmental Performance of Materials

Part B

Group: Chemical Engineering
Maximum 8 units from:

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7240 4 Engineering Project 4A [4]
ENGG7241 4 Engineering Project 4A [3]
ENGG7242 4 Engineering Project 4A [3]
ENGG7281 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]
ENGG7282 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]

Group: Materials Engineering
Maximum 8 units from:

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7240 4 Engineering Project 4A [4]
ENGG7241 4 Engineering Project 4A [3]
ENGG7242 4 Engineering Project 4A [3]
ENGG7281 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]
ENGG7282 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]

Group: Mechanical Engineering
Maximum 8 units from:

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7240 4 Engineering Project 4A [4]
ENGG7241 4 Engineering Project 4A [3]
ENGG7242 4 Engineering Project 4A [3]
ENGG7280 8 Engineering Project 8A [4]
ENGG7281 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]
ENGG7282 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]

Group: Mechatronic Engineering
Maximum 8 units from:

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7802 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [4]
ENGG7803 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]
ENGG7804 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]
ENGG7280 8 Engineering Project 8A [4]
ENGG7281 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]
ENGG7282 8 Engineering Project 8A [3]

Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7302 2 Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering
ENGG7602 2 Advanced Engineering Laboratory Techniques
MATE7013 2 Advanced Manufacturing
METR7203 2 Control Engineering 2
PLAN7901 2 Principles of Project Management
PLAN7902 2 Applications of Project Management

Courses offered on an occasional basis -

Course Code Units Course Title
CHEE7600 2 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
CIVL7603 2 Special Topics in Civil Engineering
MATE7605 2 Special Topics in Materials Engineering
MECH7900 2 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
METR7603 2 Special Topics in Mechatronic Engineering

End notes

  • [1] Course is offered in odd-numbered years only.
  • [2] Course is offered in even-numbered years only.
  • [3] This course is offered over more than one semester. Enrol in the same course code in each semester.
  • [4] Code for students completing the course in one semester.