Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) - Course List

Information valid for students commencing 2019

Master of Engineering Science 24 units

Electrical Engineering

For the GradCertEngSc (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5527), students must complete 8 units comprising

  1. 0 to 6 units from Part A; and
  2. 2 to 8 units from the combination of Part B and Part C and Part D.

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5528), students must complete 16 units comprising :
  1. 0 to 4 units from Part B; and
  2. 2 units from Part C; and
  3. 4 to 10 units from Part D; and
  4. 4 to 8 units from Part E.

For the MEngSc (24 units) (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5529), students must complete 24 units comprising :
  1. 0 to 12 units from the combination of Part A and Part B with a maximum of 6 units from Part A; and
  2. 2 units from Part C; and
  3. 4 to 18 units from Part D; and
  4. 4 to 8 units from Part E.

Students may enrol in other courses approved by the Executive Dean.

Part A

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7308 2 Operating Systems Architecture
COMS7201 2 Computer Networks I
CSSE7301 2 Embedded Systems Design & Interfacing
ELEC7101 2 Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields & Waves
ELEC7302 2 Electrical Energy Conversion & Utilisation
ELEC7312 2 Signals, Systems & Control
ELEC7401 2 Electronic Circuits

Part B

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7104 2 Microwave Engineering
COMS7200 2 Computer Networks II
COMS7400 2 Photonics
COMS7410 2 Communication Systems
CSSE7410 2 Digital System Design
CSSE7411 2 Advanced Embedded Systems
ELEC7303 2 Power Systems Analysis
ELEC7311 2 Power System Protection
ELEC7402 2 Advanced Electronic & Power Electronics Design
ELEC7403 2 Medical & Industrial Instrumentation
ELEC7420 2 Modern Asset Management and Condition Monitoring in Power System
ELEC7462 2 Digital Signal Processing
ELEC7463 2 Image Processing and Computer Vision
ELEC7606 2 Medical Imaging
ENGG7020 2 Systems Safety Engineering
METR7200 2 Control Engineering 1
METR7202 2 Robotics and Automation

Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7302 2 Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering

Part D

Biomedical Engineering

Course Code Units Course Title
ELEC7901 2 Advanced Medical Device Engineering
ELEC7902 2 Biomedical Signal Processing

Microwave Telecommunications

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7305 2 Advanced Microwave Engineering
COMS7307 2 Advanced Photonics [1]
COMS7308 2 Antenna Design [2]
COMS7309 2 Computational Techniques in Electromagnetics [2]

Power Systems

Course Code Units Course Title
ELEC7051 2 Transformer Technology Design and Operation [2]
ELEC7309 2 Power System Planning and Reliability
ELEC7310 2 Electricity Market Operation and Security
ELEC7313 2 Renewable Energy Integration: Technologies to Technical Challenges [1]

Control

Course Code Units Course Title
METR7203 2 Control Engineering 2 [1]

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7000 2 Advanced Topics in Communications I
COMS7310 2 Radar and Electronic Warfare Fundamentals
COMS7311 2 Microwave Remote Sensing
CSSE7500 2 Modelling and Simulation
CSSE7510 2 Reconfigurable Embedded Systems - Concepts and Practice
CSSE7520 2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Avionics
CSSE7530 2 VLSI Circuits and Systems
ELEC7300 2 Advanced Topics in Power
ELEC7903 2 Biomedical Engineering in Sports Medicine
ENGG7300 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering I
ENGG7301 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering II

Part E

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7803 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]
ENGG7804 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7802 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [4]
ENGG7806 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [4]
ENGG7807 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]
ENGG7808 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]

Fire Safety Engineering

Students must complete for the MEngSc (Fire and Safety Engineering) (Plan code: FIRSAX5529), 24 units comprising:

  1. 16 units from Part A; and
  2. balance from Part B or other course approved by the Executive Dean

Students will be required to provide their own PPE (safety glasses and steel cap boots)

Part A - Compulsory

Full Year

One of the following

Course Code Units Course Title
FIRE7511 4 Research Thesis [3]
FIRE7512 4 Research Thesis [3]

Semester 1

Course Code Units Course Title
FIRE7600 2 Introduction to Fire Safety Engineering
FIRE7610 2 Fire Engineering Design:Solutions for Implicit Safety
FIRE7640 2 Fire Dynamics Laboratory
FIRE7660 2 Structural Fire Engineering

Semester 2

Course Code Units Course Title
FIRE7620 2 Fire Dynamics
FIRE7680 2 Fire Engineering Design: Explicit Quantification of Safety

Part B - MEngSc Electives

Semester 1

Course Code Units Course Title
CIVL7131 2 Urban Hydrology
CIVL7135 2 Advanced Environmental Monitoring Techniques for Civil Engineers [2]
CIVL7155 2 Environmental Fluid Mechanics - Modelling Applications [1]
CIVL7215 2 Ground Improvement & Remediation Technologies [2]
CIVL7225 2 Dam and Embankment Engineering [1]
CIVL7350 2 Design of Composite Structures
CIVL7415 2 Spatial and Quantitative Methods for Transport Data Analytics [1]
CIVL7425 2 Strategic Transport Modelling [2]
ENGG7600 2 Advanced Engineering Practice
ENGG7602 2 Advanced Engineering Laboratory Techniques
PLAN7901 2 Principles of Project Management

Semester 2

Course Code Units Course Title
CIVL7170 2 Pollution Control in Cities
CIVL7235 2 Underground Structures [1]
CIVL7315 2 Advanced Concrete Structures and Concrete Technology
CIVL7360 2 Computational Design and Digital Workflows
CIVL7435 2 Traffic Simulation: Methods and Applications [2]
ENGG7601 2 Experimental Design
PLAN7902 2 Applications of Project Management

Software Engineering

For the GradCertEngSc (Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5527), students must complete 8 units comprising :

  1. 0 to 6 units from Part A;
  2. 0 to 8 units from Part B and Part C and Part D.

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5528), students must complete16 units comprising :
  1. 0 to 6 units from Part B; and
  2. 4 to 6 units from Part C; and
  3. 4 to 8 units from Part E; and
  4. 0 to 8 units from Part D.

For the MEngSc (24 units)(Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5529), students must complete 24 units comprising :
  1. 0 to 14 units from Part A and Part B with a maximum of 6 units from Part A; and
  2. 4 to 6 units from Part C; and
  3. 4 to 8 units from Part E; and
  4. 0 to 16 units from Part D.

Students may enrol in other courses approved by the Executive Dean.

Part A

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7308 2 Operating Systems Architecture
COMP7505 2 Algorithms & Data Structures
COMP7702 2 Artificial Intelligence
COMS7003 2 Information Security
COMS7201 2 Computer Networks I
CSSE7001 2 The Software Process
CSSE7301 2 Embedded Systems Design & Interfacing
INFS7202 2 Web Information Systems
INFS7208 2 Cloud Computing
INFS7907 2 Advanced Database Systems

Part B

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7402 2 Compilers and Interpreters
COMP7500 2 Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures
COMP7703 2 Machine Learning
COMS7200 2 Computer Networks II
COMS7507 2 Advanced Computer and Network Security
CSSE7014 2 Distributed Computing
CSSE7411 2 Advanced Embedded Systems
DECO7450 2 Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
ENGG7800 2 Engineering Project Management
INFS7203 2 Data Mining
INFS7205 2 Advanced Techniques for High Dimensional Data

Part C

Course Code Units Course Title
CSSE7100 2 Reasoning about Programs
CSSE7610 2 Concurrency: Theory and Practice
INFS7410 2 Information Retrieval and Web Search

Part D

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7020 2 Systems Safety Engineering
ENGG7302 2 Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
COMP7000 2 Special Topics in Computer Science 7A
COMP7001 2 Special Topics in Computer Science 7B
CSSE7090 2 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering A
CSSE7091 2 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering B
DECO7000 2 Special Topics in Design Computing 7A
DECO7001 2 Special Topics in Design Computing 7B
ENGG7300 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering I
ENGG7301 2 Advanced Topics in Engineering II

Part E

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7803 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]
ENGG7804 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [3]

Courses offered on an occasional basis.

Course Code Units Course Title
ENGG7802 4 Engineering Postgraduate Project B [4]
ENGG7806 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [4]
ENGG7807 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]
ENGG7808 8 Engineering Postgraduate Project D [3]

End notes

  • [1] Course is offered in even-numbered years only.
  • [2] Course is offered in odd-numbered years only.
  • [3] This course is offered over more than one semester. Enrol in the same course code in each semester.
  • [4] Code for students completing the course in one semester.