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Overview
- Embark on a career with long-lasting impact. Civil engineers address global challenges, such as sustainability and resilience, and contribute to society by designing and creating essential infrastructure like buildings, bridges, and transportation.
- Learn how to connect engineering problems with the United Nation’s sustainable development goals and explore areas of infrastructure design, planning, development, construction and maintenance on your way towards becoming a Graduate Professional Engineer.
- Apply your knowledge through practical work experience and an exciting final year research project that will give you hands-on industry experience.
- Join a community of learners who’ve applied their knowledge to real-world challenges - previous students have produced projects in the fields of material testing and properties of earth friendly concrete, the analysis of high-speed rural traffic incidents and the effects of improved vehicle technology on road design.
- Diversify your skillset and combine your specialist courses with a range of electives to suit your career goals or gain a competitive edge by studying a double degree.
Career outcomes
With engineering infrastructure all around us, civil engineering expertise is increasingly in demand across a variety of industries.
As a graduate, you'll be qualified to work as a professional civil engineer in the design, development, construction, and management of projects in areas such as structures, transportation, water supply and treatment, and general infrastructure. Other potential career paths include:
- roles in government departments
- positions within private engineering firms
- work related to the construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, transport systems, buildings, water schemes, and industrial or manufacturing facilities.
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.
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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