Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) - Course List

Information valid for students commencing 2020

Master of Engineering Science 24 units

Electrical Engineering

A student is required to obtain - For the GCEngSc (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5527), 8 units comprising

  1. 0 to 6 units from Part A with a maximum of 2 units at level 3; and
  2. 2 to 8 units from Parts B, C and/or D with a minimum of 2 units at level 7.

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5528) 16 units comprising
  1. 0 to 4 units from Part B; and
  2. 2 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part D; and
  4. at least 4 units from Part E.

For the MEngSc (24 units) (Electrical Engineering Plan code: ELECTX5529), 24 units comprising -
  1. 0 to 12 units from Part A and Part B with a maximum of 6 units from Part A; and
  2. 2 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part D; and
  4. at least 4 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
ELEC3004 2 Signals, Systems & Control
ELEC3100 2 Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields & Waves
ELEC3300 2 Electrical Energy Conversion & Utilisation
ELEC3400 2 Electronic Circuits

Part B

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS4103 2 Photonics
COMS4104 2 Microwave Engineering
COMS4105 2 Communication Systems
COMS7200 2 Computer Networks II
CSSE4010 2 Digital System Design
CSSE4011 2 Advanced Embedded Systems
ELEC4300 2 Power Systems Analysis
ELEC4302 2 Power System Protection
ELEC4320 2 Modern Asset Management and Condition Monitoring in Power System
ELEC4400 2 Advanced Electronic & Power Electronics Design
ELEC4620 2 Digital Signal Processing
ELEC4630 2 Image Processing and Computer Vision
ELEC6403 2 Biomedical Instrumentation
ELEC6601 2 Medical Imaging
ENGG7020 2 Systems Safety Engineering
METR7200 2 Control Engineering 1
METR4202 2 Robotics & 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]
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

Courses offered on an occasional basis

Course Code Units Course Title
COMS7000 2 Advanced Topics in Communications I
ELEC7300 2 Advanced Topics in Power
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. 8 units 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
[ CIVL7511 4 Research Project
[ or
[ CIVL7512 4 Research Project

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
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
CIVL7425 2 Strategic Transport Modelling
PLAN7901 2 Principles of Project Management

Semester 2

Course Code Units Course Title
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
PLAN7902 2 Applications of Project Management

Software Engineering

A student is required to obtain - For the GCEngSc (Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5527), 8 units comprising -

  1. 0 to 6 units from Part A;
  2. 2 to 8 units from a combination of Parts B, C and/or D.

For the MEngSc (16 units) (Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5528), 16 units comprising -
  1. 0 to 6 units from Part B with a maximum of 4 units at level 4; and
  2. at least 4 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part E; and
  4. the balance from Part D.

for the MEngSc (24 units)(Software Engineering Plan code: SOFTWX5529), 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. at least 4 units from Part C; and
  3. at least 4 units from Part E; and
  4. the balance 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 topics in Security
CSSE4004 2 Distributed Computing
CSSE4011 2 Advanced Embedded Systems
CSSE4630 2 Principles of Program Analysis
DECO6500 2 Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
ENGG4800 2 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 code in each semester.
  • [4] Code for students completing the course in one semester.