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Overview
- Advance your career in mechanical engineering – build the skills to thrive in this in-demand industry.
- Learn the fundamental skills of design, innovation and systems improvement, and gain experience working with UniSQ’s Heat Engines and High Speed Gas Dynamics laboratories.
- Join a community of learners who’ve applied their knowledge to real-world challenges - previous students have produced projects in the fields of the redesign of an FSAE race car, the use of the vibration signature in structural health monitoring, Microalgae as alternative fuel for Compression Ignition Engines and modification of agricultural equipment and obstacle detecting robotics.
Career outcomes
As a graduate, you will be equipped to work as a professional engineer with some of Australia’s biggest corporations in the automotive, aeronautical, industrial, domestic, or transportation industries, in modern mechanical technology, systems or specialist sales.
Once graduated, tasks within your career may focus on specific elements of larger systems; applying established codes, practices and procedures to manufacture, install, commission and service small- and large-scale projects involving machines and mechanical systems, such as bulk handling and air-conditioning.
Potential roles include:
- mechanical engineer
- mechanical designer
- mechanical design engineer
- manufacturing engineer
- maintenance engineer
- project engineer
- design engineer
- CAD engineer
- government department roles
- positions in private engineering firms
Additional career paths include roles in maintenance, machine and mechanical design, air-conditioning and elevator systems, resource extraction, waste processing, or computer aided design and manufacturing.
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.
When you become an experienced MIEAust, you can apply for RPEQ or other Australian State legislated registration schemes, or as a chartered professional engineer be similarly accredited (RPEQ etc.) and apply for Australian National Engineering Registration.
Explore all areas
I read that you would get to explore all areas of the engineering field in your first year to allow you to take charge of your own career, so I knew it was the right choice for me. This year has given me a great taste of everything that’s out there – we’ve been investigating all of the basic engineering principles along with the skills of design and systems improvement.
Max - Mechanical 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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