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Overview
- Level up your career and prepare to work as an electrical engineering technologist - taking responsibility for engineering projects, services and facilities.
- Gain the skills to ensure sustainable solutions and practices are applied to optimise the design, delivery, and operation of complete systems across electronics, telecommunications, power generation, and renewable technologies.
- Get hands-on experience with a range of technologies including electrical and electronic equipment, measurement equipment, PLCs, microprocessors, power electronics and rotating machines, controllers and the Internet of Things - to prepare you for a broad range of field applications.
- Develop a thorough understanding of electrical theory, digital and analogue technologies, electrical plant and its control, electronic measurement principles and workshop practices, as well as engineering project management - enabling you to ensure a technological product and its operation are soundly based in theory.
Career outcomes
As a graduate, potential roles include:
- electrical or electronic engineering technologist
- senior technical offer
- senior engineering officer.
Additional career paths include:
- government department roles
- positions in private engineering firms
- positions within industries including rail, mining, manufacturing, waste and mineral processing
- work on major infrastructure projects including telecommunications, electricity generation or renewable technologies.
With your graduate expertise, you’ll be qualified for a range of roles with major employers in transport, mining and power, including companies like Energy Queensland, Origin or Powerlink, as well as other infrastructure providers and operators.
Professional accreditation
As a graduate of the Bachelor of Engineering Technology, you will eligible to apply for membership with Engineers Australia as an Engineering Technologist. After gaining experience from working in the field, you can apply for chartered status as an Engineering Technologist.
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 Technology
Learn to design, construct and manage projects while mastering the latest industry tools. Benefit from project-based courses that provide practical experience and industry connections to support your career development. You’ll learn how to connect engineering problems with the United Nation’s sustainable development goals to help solve global challenges. Plus, you can begin working in industry while studying - after completing two years of your degree you will be a qualified engineering associate.
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