Bachelor of Engineering Honours

As a Murdoch Engineering graduate, you could combine the skills you learn in maths, technology and science with creative thinking and problem solving to develop solutions for a better world.

The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) at Murdoch has been carefully developed with industry to provide you with the skills you will need in your future career.

As part of this, you’ll learn from industry experts and gain 450 hours of professional work experience.

When you graduate, you can become a graduate member of Engineers Australia.

You can become a Full Chartered Professional Engineer after a further three to five years of Engineering work experience.In this rapidly changing world, it is important to have a diverse skill set across several disciplines.

At Murdoch, you have the option of studying two majors at once to expand your expertise and broaden your career opportunities.

This is known as a double major and provides you with two strong qualifications, which can be completed within 4 years full-time study (or equivalent part time).A final Honours year is embedded in this degree, allowing you to apply everything you learn in your first three years of study on an individual research or industry-based project in an area of interest for you.

This will let you put what you learn into practice and further your research and applied knowledge skills.5 reasons to study Engineering at MurdochFive-star rating for overall experience, student support, teaching quality and median graduate starting salary for engineering and technology*.

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Good Universities Guide 2020 Make use of our $10.1 million Bayer Pilot Plant – a real world engineering plant with a dedicated control room, the only one of its kind in WA.

Gain a qualification with two specialisations within four years full-time study.

Combine your Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) with a Bachelor of Commerce or Entrepreneurship Innovation, which can be completed in five years full-time study.

Gain 450 hours of real work experience as part of your degree.

Join an Engineers Without Borders program, such as the Humanitarian Design Summit, where you can travel to a developing country to learn how you can use your engineering skills to create positive change within communities.

If you’re a domestic student, you can complete this course on a full-time or part-time basis.

This means you can study on your terms and add to your skill set while you’re still earning.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai, Singapore and Myanmar campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

• Extend your understanding of the principles and practice of your chosen field of Engineering – and put that learning into practice.
• Learn to design, commission and test complex engineering systems.
• Explore how to succeed while working on your own, leading others or working within a team.
• Formulate Engineering solutions within broad contextual constraints, including social justice and sustainability, as an integral part of the Engineering design process.
• Learn how to expresses and communicate knowledge and skills effectively and succinctly to a variety of audiences.