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QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

  • 17% international / 83% domestic

Master of Professional Engineering (Mechanical)

  • Masters (Coursework)

If you're passionate about mechanical engineering, this course lets you explore complex industry problems, boost your post-professional knowledge and future-proof your engineering career.

Key details

Degree Type
Masters (Coursework)
Duration
2 years full-time, 4 years part-time
Course Code
096754G
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul

About this course

Highlights
  • Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
  • Lead and contribute to complex projects.
  • Respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
  • Use evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation.
  • Choose from two majors within this study area:
    • Mechanical
    • Mechanical and Management.
Highlights
  • Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
  • Lead and contribute to complex projects.
  • Respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
  • Use evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation.
  • Choose from two majors within this study area:
    • Mechanical
    • Mechanical and Management.

Entry requirements

Mechanical major entry requirements 1.5-year program

You must have a recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in the mechanical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT's 7-point scale).

2-year program

You must have:

  • A recognised three-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree of engineering or engineering technology in the mechanical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT's 7-point scale); or
  • A recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in any other engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT's 7-point scale).
Mechanical and management major entry requirements 1.5-year program

You must have a recognised four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree in the mechanical engineering discipline with a minimum 4.00 (on QUT's 7-point scale)).

2-year program

You must have a recognised three-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor degree of engineering or engineering technology in the mechanical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT's 7-point scale).

Opening of applications for 2024

Applications for the 2024 February and July intakes will open 1 September 2023.

Mechanical and mechanical and management streams - 1.5-year program

You'll need:

  • a completed recognised four-year full-time equivalent bachelor degree in the mechanical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT's 7 point scale).
Mechanical stream - 2-year program

You'll need a completed recognised full-time equivalent of either:

  • a three-year bachelor degree in mechanical engineering or engineering technology (in mechanical engineering) with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT's 7 point scale)
  • a four-year bachelor degree in any engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.0 or higher (on QUT's 7 point scale).
Mechanical and management stream - 2-year program

You'll need:

  • a completed recognised three- or four-year full-time bachelor degree in mechanical engineering or engineering technology (in mechanical engineering) with a minimum GPA of 4.0 (on QUT's 7 point scale).

Study locations

Gardens Point

What you will learn

This two-year course provides a developmental path for professional engineers to master skills in selected engineering disciplines and the interaction of those disciplines. Enhance your skills in dealing with more complex engineering problems and interactions between engineering technical domains and the broader context in which they exist.

You'll develop post-professional knowledge and skills in a range of engineering disciplines and build the abilities to become a leader in your chosen engineering field. The program offers both theoretical understanding and practical applications of advanced professional engineering practices with a focus on themed technical discipline areas and sustainable ethical and managerial abilities.

This course has provisional accreditation with Engineers Australia. Professional accreditation allows graduates to work as a professional engineer in countries that are signatories of the Washington Accord.

Career pathways

Careers and outcomes

As a graduate of the this course you will be an Engineers Australia-accredited professional engineer with advanced cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or engineering management role. You will:

  • be able to lead and contribute to complex projects and respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges
  • have research capacity for evidence-based practice to imagine and realise change using management strategies advanced design collaborative decision-making and innovation in ethical and sustainable ways as appropriate to your role
  • be strategic in the use of digital technologies
  • be an effective collaborator and communicator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts with knowledge of and respect for diverse cultural perspectives.
  • be able to apply integrated computer-based approaches to monitor and manage internal and external resources in an organisation and implement a range of strategies and practices to support organisational objectives such as competitive advantages innovation sharing lessons learned integration and continuous improvement
  • be able to become a specialist engineering manager within your chosen professional field in particular a leader and manager of engineering processes
  • be capable of undertaking management level roles in operations management quality control management logistics enterprise resource planning supply chain management and other specialised engineering fields.
Professional recognition

Our Master of Professional Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) and Master of Professional Engineering (Mechanical and Management) are provisionally accredited by Engineers Australia. Professional accreditation allows you to work as a professional engineer in countries that are signatories of the Washington Accord.

Possible careers
  • Engineer
  • Engineering technologist
  • Engineering manager
  • Mechanical engineer

Course structure

To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering you must complete 192 credit points of course units consisting of:

  • 84 credit points of core units including:
    • advanced research skills and research-based project units
    • two professional practice units
    • an advanced discipline unit
    • an engineering design unit
  • 108 credit points of discipline units from your specialisation to be selected from a list of options.

Option units provide added depth and breadth in your chosen discipline area. You should select different unit if you have completed a similar or equivalent unit in your previous studies.

You are also required to undertake 60 days of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your Work Integrated Learning.

To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering you must complete 192 credit points of course units consisting of:

  • 84 credit points of core units including:
    • advanced research skills and research-based project units
    • two professional practice units
    • an advanced discipline unit
    • an engineering design unit
  • 108 credit points of discipline units from your specialisation to be selected from a list of options.

Option units provide added depth and breadth in your chosen discipline area. You should select different unit if you have completed a similar or equivalent unit in your previous studies.

You are also required to undertake 60 days of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your Work Integrated Learning.

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