Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/ Bachelor of Applied Innovation
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/ Bachelor of Applied Innovation
As a potential engineering student, you know the value of taking your skills and changing the world. Now you can go even further. Unique to Swinburne, the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Applied Innovation enables you to expand how you can use your engineering degree to bring meaningful change to…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
As a potential engineering student, you know the value of taking your skills and changing the world. Now you can go even further.
Unique to Swinburne, the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Applied Innovation enables you to expand how you can use your engineering degree to bring meaningful change to the world. It also broadens your employment prospects by opening pathways to roles beyond traditional engineering.
The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) challenges you to make connections between engineering and information technology, social mobility, changing work patterns, sustainable design practices and a shifting global environment.
Combined with the Bachelor of Applied Innovation, you’ll be immersed in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment supported by specialist academic teams. Working on activities inspired by your passions and interests, you’ll learn to develop transformative solutions to the complex challenges of today and the emerging opportunities of the future. You’ll gain the practical and technical skills to think clearly and strategically about how to employ innovative ideas to build a better future.
To maximise experiential learning, you’ll also get real-world work experience in the form of placements, internships and industry-based projects. At the end of it all, you’ll emerge job-ready with a comprehensive portfolio.
Apart from the many career pathways an Honours degree in engineering offers, you’ll be qualified to pursue employment in or outside your industry as an innovation specialist or consultant, transformation lead, innovation analyst, strategic designer, and more.
Career opportunities
The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) course incorporates developments in information technology, society’s changing work patterns, sustainable design practices and the need to meet engineering “world best practice” in engineering. Applied Innovation career outcomes will vary depending on discipline focus and individual majors and complement discipline employability skills through innovation capabilities. Professional innovation roles graduates will have skills and attribute for include Innovation Consultant, Innovation Lead, Innovation Analyst, Strategic Designer, Creative Producer, Start-up Founder, Human-Centred Researcher, Self-employed Entrepreneur, Product Manager, Transformation Lead, Innovation Strategist and Innovation Manager.
REQUIREMENTS
Successful completion of one of:
Successful completion of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or its equivalent, such as an interstate or international Year 12 qualification.
Completion or partial completion of an approved tertiary qualification (including Diplomas, Advanced Diplomas, Associate Degrees and Degrees).
English language requirements
Satisfactory completion of one of the following:
- Swinburne’s English for Academic Purposes (EAP 5 Advanced level) with overall 65%, all skills 65%
- minimum IELTS overall band of 6.0 (Academic Module) with no individual band below 6.0
- TOEFL iBT (internet-based) – 64 (no less than 13 in reading, 12 in listening, 18 in speaking, 21 in writing)
- Pearson (PTE) minimum score of 50 (no communicative skills less than 50)
- C1 Advanced: 169, no band less than 169
- any other equivalent assessment of English language proficiency.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne- that is among the top 3% of universities in the world. The University focuses on science, technology and innovation and offers courses well recognised by professional organisations. The Good Universities Guide 2016 awarded the University five stars for both graduate satisfaction and generic skills and four stars for teaching quality. It also features in the top 200 ranked universities in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings; and enjoys close ties with industry- providing students with invaluable workplace experience.