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Overview
- Start your journey toward a career that blends innovation, sustainability, and real-world impact with UniSQ – the only provider of agricultural engineering degrees in both Australia and New Zealand.
- Learn to apply engineering solutions to complex agricultural challenges through highly practical, industry-aligned course work with an emphasis on modern and sustainable engineering concepts.
- Benefit from project-based learning with industry connection – UniSQ’s Toowoomba location, based at the epicentre of the Darling Downs’ agriculture and farming industries, delivers genuine industry knowledge and a premium education through our link to the world-class research Centre for Agricultural Engineering.
- Explore plant and animal production systems, water supply and water distribution analysis, surveying, field design, and assessing engineering assets or processes to inform maintenance and advancement decisions.
- Study courses that connect engineering problems with the UN’s sustainable development goals to ensure your engineering practices have positive influences on society and the environment.
Career outcomes
With agricultural professionals in high demand, you’ll be well-positioned to pursue roles as a professional engineer, agricultural scientist, or sales and support consultant across a range of fields.
Other potential career paths include:
- government department roles
- positions in areas such as water supply, agriculture, forestry, soil conservation and environment protection agencies
- positions in agribusiness, sustainability and technology-driven farming
- positions in private engineering firms and research agencies.
Professional accreditation
As a graduate of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), you will be eligible to apply for graduate membership with Engineers Australia as a Graduate Professional Engineer. After gaining experience working in your field in industry, you can apply for Stage 1 Professional Engineer (MIEAust), and after this for chartered status as a Professional Engineer (CPEng); and with extensive career experience Executive Engineer (ExecEng) accreditation. You will also have the opportunity to work overseas, with your accreditation recognised in the countries that are signatories to the Washington Accord.
Contacts all over the globe
I’m interested in agricultural applications of environmental engineering. I went on exchange to Germany to study their sustainability measures. I now have contacts all over the globe, including leading researchers at the front of climate change action.
Kyra - Agricultural Engineering
What you'll study
Explore the courses you'll study as part of this major.
Refer to the UniSQ Handbook for detailed recommended enrolment patterns and course availability.
Relevant degrees for this major
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
Be at the forefront of innovation – engage in real-world problem solving, study industry-aligned courses that connect engineering problems with the United Nations’s sustainable development goals, and earn an embedded associate degree after two years of study. Build the skills to make an impact through project-based learning courses, practical experience and an exciting final-year research project.
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