Master of Professional Engineering (Civil and Construction)

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.

The civil and construction major is provisionally accredited with Engineers Australia.

Why choose this course?

Enhance your professional engineering knowledge, practice and professional employability skills at an advanced level. Explore an integrated mix of complex topics tailored to your specialist discipline and develop future-focused professional skills in a connected learning environment.

The civil and construction major provides advanced studies in design, building and maintenance of civil infrastructures, while expanding the knowledge gained in undergraduate degrees. Explore the sustainability of buildings, roads and utility networks in the context of future challenges to get prepared for a changing world.

Careers and outcomes

You will graduate 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.