Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)

The UTAS Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) is delivered by the School of Engineering at Sandy Bay (Hobart) and Newnham (Launceston). The Australian Maritime College (AMC) at Launceston delivers the Maritime, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering specialisations - unique in Australia. Year one is the common engineering foundation: Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Mathematics 1 and 2, Engineering Computing, Engineering Design and Innovation and Materials Science. From year two students specialise in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Power, Electronics and Communications, Mechatronics, Maritime, Naval Architecture, Ocean or Biomedical Engineering. Year three layers advanced technical units, design studios and professional engineering practice. Year four delivers an Honours thesis (research or industry-embedded), a capstone team design project meeting an Engineers Australia stage-1 competency brief and supervised industry experience hours. Expect 24 to 28 contact hours a week across lectures, laboratories, tutorials and design studios with heavy maths content and engineering software (MATLAB, AutoCAD, Revit, ANSYS, SolidWorks).

Engineers Australia accreditation requires 12 weeks (480 hours) minimum of supervised industry experience completed before graduation. UTAS placements run across Tasmanian infrastructure and energy employers (Hydro Tasmania, TasNetworks, Aurora Energy, TasWater), Tasmanian Department of State Growth, consulting firms (Aurecon, Arup, GHD, Pitt and Sherry, JMG Engineers), mining and resources operators (MMG Rosebery, Grange Resources, Cement Australia) and the Defence sector. AMC maritime students complete placements with shipyards, port authorities and Defence shipbuilders including ASC and Austal. A capstone team design project in fourth year tackles a real industry-supplied brief and is assessed against Engineers Australia Stage 1 competencies.

Honours classification is built into the degree (no extra year required). Graduates register with Engineers Australia and progress to Chartered status (CPEng) after typically three to five years of supervised practice. Common postgraduate routes include the UTAS Master of Engineering Management, Master of Engineering (Specialty), Master of Maritime Engineering (through AMC) and research masters or PhD through the College of Sciences and Engineering. UTAS's AMC is also Australia's flagship for naval architecture and offshore engineering postgraduate study. Many graduates also pathway into project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2) and an MBA after three to five years of industry experience.