Master of Engineering (ME) - Course List
Information valid for students commencing 2017
Master of Engineering - Course List
Chemical Engineering
- Students must complete 32 units comprising:-
- 18 units from Part A (Compulsory Courses); and
- at most 6 units from Part B (Advanced BE (Hons) Electives); and
- at least 4 units from Part C (ME Electives); and
- at most 6 units from Part D (Non-engineering ME Electives).
Part A - Compulsory
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| CHEE4001 | 4 | Process Engineering Design Project |
| CHEE4002 | 2 | Impact and Risk in the Process Industries |
| ENGG7901 | 2 | Professional Engineering and the Business Environment: Global Practice |
| ENGG7902 | 2 | Engineering Innovation and Leadership |
| [ ENGG7281 | 8 | Engineering Project 8A [1] |
| [ or | ||
| [ ENGG7282 | 8 | Engineering Project 8A [2] |
Part B - Advanced BE (Hons) Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| CHEE4012 | 2 | Industrial Wastewater & Solid Waste Management |
| CHEE4020 | 2 | Biomolecular Engineering |
| CHEE4022 | 2 | Principles of Adsorption |
| CHEE4034 | 2 | Cell & Tissue Engineering |
| CHEE4301 | 2 | Nanomaterials & Their Characterisation |
| CHEE4302 | 2 | Electrochemistry & Corrosion |
| CHEE4305 | 2 | Biomaterials: Materials in Medicine |
| ENGY4000 | 2 | Energy Systems |
| MECH4304 | 2 | Net Shape Manufacturing |
| MINE4203 | 2 | Flotation |
| MINE4204 | 2 | Aqueous Solution Processing & Electrometallurgy |
Part C - ME Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| CHEE7111 | 2 | Advanced Process and System Modelling |
| CHEE7112 | 2 | Integrated Safety Design and Management |
| CHEE7113 | 2 | Whole of Process Optimisation and Control |
| CHEE7501 | 2 | Advanced Water Technology and Management |
| CHEE7502 | 2 | Sustainable Bioresource Engineering |
| ENGG7302 | 2 | Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering |
| ENGG7600 | 2 | Advanced Engineering Practice |
| ENGG7601 | 2 | Experimental Design |
| ENGG7602 | 2 | Advanced Engineering Laboratory Techniques |
| MATE7001 | 2 | Environmental Performance of Materials |
| MATE7013 | 2 | Advanced Manufacturing |
Part D - Non-Engineering ME Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| ECON7540 | 2 | Economics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship |
| IBUS7302 | 2 | Operating International Business |
| IBUS7306 | 2 | Globalisation & the World Economy |
| IBUS7312 | 2 | Doing Business in Asia |
| IBUS7314 | 2 | Management Consulting in Asian Business |
| IBUS7316 | 2 | International Supply Chains |
| IBUS7322 | 2 | International Service Operations Management |
| MKTG7501 | 2 | Fundamentals of Marketing |
| MKTG7502 | 2 | Strategic Branding |
| MKTG7510 | 2 | Market & Consumer Research |
| MKTG7512 | 2 | Strategic Marketing Management |
| MKTG7513 | 2 | Social Marketing |
| MKTG7708 | 2 | Strategic Marketing |
| MGTS7303 | 2 | Principles of Strategic Management |
| MGTS7308 | 2 | Social Enterprises and Not for Profits |
| MGTS7309 | 2 | Decision Making & Reporting for Sustainability |
| MGTS7310 | 2 | Business Negotiation |
| MGTS7329 | 2 | Cross Cultural Management |
| MGTS7604 | 2 | International Human Resource Management |
| MGTS7605 | 2 | Performance Leadership |
| MGTS7607 | 2 | Ethical Issues in Management |
| MGTS7611 | 2 | Employee and Organisational Development |
| MGTS7612 | 2 | The Fundamentals of Designing and Staffing Organisations |
| MGTS7615 | 2 | Public Sector Accountability |
| MGTS7616 | 2 | Designing Public Policy |
| MGTS7619 | 2 | Leadership: Theory & Practice |
| ORGC7610 | 2 | Communication and Organisation |
| TIMS7301 | 2 | Principles of Entrepreneurship |
| TIMS7317 | 2 | Corporate Sustainability |
| TIMS7318 | 2 | Technology & Innovation Strategy |
| TIMS7320 | 2 | New Product & Services Development |
| TIMS7323 | 2 | Bio-Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
| TIMS7325 | 2 | Commercialisation in Practice |
| TIMS7326 | 2 | Management of Intellectual Property |
| TIMS7328 | 2 | Strategies for Business Sustainability and Innovation |
| TIMS7329 | 2 | Social Entrepreneurship in Practice |
| TIMS7331 | 2 | Entrepreneurship Incubator |
Civil and Fire Safety Engineering
- Students must complete 32 units comprising:-
- 24 units from Part A (Compulsory Courses); and
- 6 units from Part B (Advanced BE (Hons) Electives); and
- 2 units from Part C (ME electives).
Part A - Compulsory
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| ENGG7901 | 2 | Professional Engineering and the Business Environment: Global Practice |
| ENGG7902 | 2 | Engineering Innovation and Leadership |
| FIRE3700 | 2 | Introduction to Fire Safety Engineering |
| FIRE4610 | 2 | Fire Engineering Design: Solutions for Implicit Safety |
| [ FIRE7500 | 8 | Research Thesis [1] |
| [ or | ||
| [ FIRE7501 | 8 | Research Thesis [2] |
| FIRE7620 | 2 | Fire Dynamics |
| FIRE7640 | 2 | Fire Dynamics Laboratory |
| FIRE7660 | 2 | Structural Fire Engineering |
| FIRE7680 | 2 | Fire Engineering Design: Explicit Quantification of Safety |
Part B - Advanced BE (Hons) Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| CIVL4180 | 2 | Sustainable Built Environment |
| CIVL4230 | 2 | Advanced Soil Mechanics |
| CIVL4270 | 2 | Geotechnical Investigation & Testing |
| CIVL4332 | 2 | Advanced Structural Analysis |
| CIVL4333 | 2 | Advanced Concrete Design |
| CIVL4334 | 2 | Design of Timber Structures |
| CIVL4340 | 2 | Wind Engineering |
Civil and Structural Engineering
- Students must complete 32 units comprising:-
- 28 units from Part A (Compulsory Courses); and
- 4 units from Part B (Advanced BE (Hons) Electives).
Part A - Compulsory
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| CIVL4332 | 2 | Advanced Structural Analysis |
| CIVL4333 | 2 | Advanced Concrete Design |
| CIVL4334 | 2 | Design of Timber Structures |
| CIVL7315 | 2 | Advanced Concrete Structures and Concrete Technology |
| CIVL7350 | 2 | Design of Composite Structures |
| CIVL7360 | 2 | Computational Methods for Design Optimization and Advanced Analysis |
| [ CIVL7500 | 8 | Research Thesis |
| [ or | ||
| [ CIVL7501 | 8 | Research Thesis |
| ENGG7901 | 2 | Professional Engineering and the Business Environment: Global Practice |
| ENGG7902 | 2 | Engineering Innovation and Leadership |
| FIRE3700 | 2 | Introduction to Fire Safety Engineering |
| FIRE7660 | 2 | Structural Fire Engineering |
Electrical Engineering
- Students must complete 32 units comprising:-
- 14 units from Part A (Compulsory Courses); and
- at least 6 units from Part B (Advanced BE (Hons) Electives); and
- at least 6 units from Part C (ME Electives); and
- the balance from Parts D (Other ME Electives) and/or E (Other BE (Hons Electives).
Part A - Compulsory
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| ENGG7302 | 2 | Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering |
| [ ENGG7807 | 8 | Engineering Postgraduate Project D [1] |
| [ or | ||
| [ ENGG7808 | 8 | Engineering Postgraduate Project D [2] |
| ENGG7901 | 2 | Professional Engineering and the Business Environment: Global Practice |
| ENGG7902 | 2 | Engineering Innovation and Leadership |
Part B - Advanced BE (Hons) Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| COMS4103 | 2 | Photonics |
| COMS4104 | 2 | Microwave Engineering |
| COMS4105 | 2 | Communication Systems |
| CSSE4010 | 2 | Digital System Design |
| ELEC4300 | 2 | Power Systems Analysis |
| ELEC4400 | 2 | Advanced Electronic & Power Electronics Design |
| ELEC4620 | 2 | Digital Signal Processing |
| ELEC4630 | 2 | Image Processing and Computer Vision |
| METR4201 | 2 | Control Engineering 1 |
| METR4202 | 2 | Robotics & Automation |
Part C - ME Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| COMS7305 | 2 | Advanced Microwave Engineering |
| COMS7307 | 2 | Advanced Photonics |
| COMS7309 | 2 | Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics [3] |
| ELEC7051 | 2 | Transformer Technology Design and Operation [4] |
| ELEC7309 | 2 | Power System Planning and Reliability |
| ELEC7310 | 2 | Electricity Market Operation and Security |
| ELEC7313 | 2 | Renewable Energy Integration: Technologies to Technical Challenges [3] |
| ELEC7901 | 2 | Advanced Medical Device Engineering |
| ELEC7902 | 2 | Biomedical Signal Processing |
| METR7203 | 2 | Control Engineering 2 |
Courses offered on an occasional basis
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| COMS7000 | 2 | Advanced Topics in Communications I |
| COMS7308 | 2 | Antenna Design |
| COMS7310 | 2 | Radar and Electronic Warfare Fundamentals |
| COMS7311 | 2 | Microwave Remote Sensing |
| CSSE7080 | 2 | Advanced Topics in Computer Systems A |
| CSSE7081 | 2 | Advanced Topics in Computer Systems B |
| ELEC7300 | 2 | Advanced Topics in Power |
| ENGG7300 | 2 | Advanced Topics in Engineering I |
| ENGG7301 | 2 | Advanced Topics in Engineering II |
Part D - Other ME Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| ENGG7811 | 2 | Research Methods |
Courses offered on an occasional basis
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| ENGG7810 | 2 | Thesis Preparation |
Part E - Other BE (Hons) Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| COMP4702 | 2 | Machine Learning |
| COMS3200 | 2 | Computer Networks I |
| COMS4200 | 2 | Computer Networks II |
| CSSE4011 | 2 | Advanced Embedded Systems |
| ELEC4302 | 2 | Power System Protection |
| ELEC4320 | 2 | Modern Asset Management and Condition Monitoring in Power System |
| ELEC4403 | 2 | Medical & Industrial Instrumentation |
| ELEC4601 | 2 | Medical Imaging |
| ENGG4000 | 2 | Introduction to Systems Engineering |
| ENGG4800 | 2 | Project Management |
Mechanical Engineering
- Students must complete 32 units comprising:-
- 28 units from Part A (Compulsory Courses); and
- 2 units from Part B (Advanced BE (Hons) Electives); and
- 2 units from Part C (ME Electives).
Part A - Compulsory
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| AERO4300 | 2 | Aerospace Composites |
| [ ENGG7281 | 8 | Engineering Project 8A |
| [ or | ||
| [ ENGG7282 | 8 | Engineering Project 8A |
| ENGG7600 | 2 | Advanced Engineering Practice |
| ENGG7601 | 2 | Experimental Design |
| ENGG7901 | 2 | Professional Engineering and the Business Environment: Global Practice |
| ENGG7902 | 2 | Engineering Innovation and Leadership |
| ENGY4000 | 2 | Energy Systems |
| MECH3100 | 2 | Mechanical Systems Design |
| MECH3600 | 2 | Engineering Management & Communication |
| METR4201 | 2 | Control Engineering 1 |
| METR7203 | 2 | Control Engineering 2 |
Software Engineering
- Students must complete 32 units comprising:-
- 12 units from Part A (Compulsory Courses); and
- at least 8 units from Part B (Advanced BE (Hons) Electives); and
- at least 4 units from Part C (ME Electives); and
- at most 8 units from Part D (Other ME electives); and
- at most 8 units from Part E (Other BE (Hons) Electives).
Part A - Compulsory
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| [ ENGG7807 | 8 | Engineering Postgraduate Project D [1] |
| [ or | ||
| [ ENGG7808 | 8 | Engineering Postgraduate Project D [2] |
| ENGG7901 | 2 | Professional Engineering and the Business Environment: Global Practice |
| ENGG7902 | 2 | Engineering Innovation and Leadership |
Part B - Advanced BE (Hons) Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| COMP4403 | 2 | Compilers and Interpreters |
| COMP4500 | 2 | Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures |
| COMP4702 | 2 | Machine Learning |
| COMS4200 | 2 | Computer Networks II |
| COMS4507 | 2 | Advanced Computer and Network Security |
| CSSE3100 | 2 | Reasoning About Programs |
| CSSE4004 | 2 | Distributed Computing |
| CSSE4010 | 2 | Digital System Design |
| DECO4500 | 2 | Advanced Human-Computer Interaction |
Part C - ME Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| CSSE7610 | 2 | Concurrency: Theory and Practice |
| CSSE7630 | 2 | Principles of Program Analysis |
| CSSE7640 | 2 | Formal Modelling and Verification |
| INFS7410 | 2 | Information Retrieval and Web Search [3] |
Part D - Other ME Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| ENGG7302 | 2 | Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering |
| ENGG7811 | 2 | Research Methods |
Part D
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 |
| ENGG7810 | 2 | Thesis Preparation |
Part E - Other BE (Hons) Electives
| Course Code | Units | Course Title |
| COMP3301 | 2 | Operating Systems Architecture |
| COMP3702 | 2 | Artificial Intelligence |
| COMS3000 | 2 | Information Security |
| COMS3200 | 2 | Computer Networks I |
| COSC3000 | 2 | Visualization, Computer Graphics & Data Analysis |
| COSC3500 | 2 | High-Performance Computing |
| CSSE3002 | 2 | The Software Process |
| CSSE3010 | 2 | Embedded Systems Design & Interfacing |
| CSSE4011 | 2 | Advanced Embedded Systems |
| DECO3500 | 2 | Social & Mobile Computing |
| ENGG4000 | 2 | Introduction to Systems Engineering |
| ENGG4020 | 2 | Systems Safety Engineering |
| ENGG4800 | 2 | Project Management |
| INFS3200 | 2 | Advanced Database Systems |
| INFS3202 | 2 | Web Information Systems |
| INFS3204 | 2 | Service-Oriented Architectures |
| INFS4203 | 2 | Data Mining |
| INFS4205 | 2 | Advanced Techniques for High Dimensional Data |
End notes
- [1] Code for student in year courses commencing in sem 1. Students must re-enrol in the same code in sem 2.
- [2] Code for student in year courses commencing in sem 2. Students must re-enrol in the same code in sem 1 the following year.
- [3] Course is offered in even-numbered years only.
- [4] Course is offered in odd-numbered years only.
