Overview
Overview
Curtin’s Bachelor of Engineering offers you an immersive, industry-connected university experience. Our aim is for you to graduate with the expertise to devise engineering solutions to societal and industry challenges, to improve the quality of life for communities all around the world.
Your studies will begin with the Engineering Foundation Year (EFY). Designed in consultation with industry, the EFY gives you the fundamental concepts and skills required by all areas of engineering. Importantly, the EFY allows you to explore Curtin’s range of engineering majors before choosing your preferred major.
These are the engineering majors that you can choose from:
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil and Construction Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Energy Engineering
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronic Engineering
- Metallurgical Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Software Systems Engineering
Engineering Foundation Year
The EFY will give you a comprehensive grounding in theory, and you’ll gain strong practical skills in our dedicated first-year engineering studio.
It includes:
- interactive lectures
- small group tutorials and workshops
- hands-on physical and computer laboratories
- team-based design and simulation projects
- portfolio development, with an emphasis on reflection and self-evaluation
- participation by industry representatives, exposing you more exposure to professional practice.
You’ll also develop professional career skills such as cultural awareness and an understanding of major societal challenges (climate change and energy transition, for example) that engineers have an increasing role in addressing.
Overall, the EFY and its support services will help you progress smoothly into your chosen discipline and graduate as an industry-ready engineer.
First-year studio
The first-year studio and project rooms reflect the modern working environment, so that you become familiar with the layout of a professional industry setting. The studio is also a hub to develop social and academic networks. It comprises:
- an open-plan office
- computing, electrical and mechanics laboratories
- project meeting rooms.
Years 2–4
Following your EFY, you’ll study units relevant to your chosen major. You can also choose to undertake research or study specialisations beyond your major, giving you the flexibility to broaden or deepen your expertise.
In your fourth year, you’ll complete an honours-level research project. This experience will not only give you an in-depth understanding of your minor thesis or project topic, it will also demonstrate to employers your ability to plan and complete a complex body of work within deadlines.
Professional practice
To graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), you must complete 480 hours of engagement with professional engineering practice. This can comprise a combination of real-world experiences – such as paid and voluntary work placements, working on university-based industry projects, attending extra-curricular technical lectures and workshops, and industry site visits in Australia or overseas.
What you'll learn
- develop and apply fundamental theoretical and technical knowledge to identify and provide solutions to complex problems in an engineering discipline.
- demonstrate development of advanced knowledge and understanding in an engineering discipline.
- apply knowledge using realistic, practical and analytical approaches to problem-solving, design and research
- communicate effectively with a variety of audiences through the development of appropriate plans and reports
- identify and use suitable technologies to plan and execute project work and/or a piece of research and scholarship with some intellectual independence
- demonstrate self-discipline, self-management skills, personal responsibility and the ability to set learning and achievement goals
- work effectively in teams with global, international and environmentally responsible perspectives
- recognise the impact of cultural diversity in the implementation engineering works of projects
- demonstrate leadership, professional behaviour and ethical practice in the context of engineering projects
