UniSQ Handbook

The University of Southern Queensland accepts a range of qualifications to determine eligibility for admission. These include, but are not limited to, Australian senior secondary qualifications (such as the QCE or HSC), overseas senior secondary qualifications (such as GCE-A Levels), prior tertiary studies, prior TAFE/VET studies, work experience, and completed enabling programs.

For further information on the pathways that are available to you, please refer to:
Domestic Applicants
International Applicants

Program structure
The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) is a 32-unit program consisting of Project Based Learning courses, underpinning Micro-learning Courses and Personal and Professional Development Courses. Students undertake 10 units of core engineering courses, a 14 unit major of study, and 8 units of electives which the student can select. Students may choose to study a second major of eight units, one or two minors of four units, and/or choose other units of study as their electives.

One-unit courses involve approximately 150 hours of student work per unit.
Half-unit courses involve approximately 75 hours of student work per unit.
Quarter-unit courses involve approximately 40 hours of student work per unit.

Minor Studies
A minor study is a coherent group of four units of courses that provides students with an additional breadth of study in their program. Before students commence a minor of study the must ensure any pre-requisite courses are completed or exempted, and enrolment requirements are satisfied courses in the minor.

When students select a minor, courses will only count towards that minor if they have not already counted towards selected major. Not all minors are available on-campus at all campuses.

Practical experience
To be eligible to graduate from the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), students must obtain an aggregate of at least 60 days of suitable work experience during their program. This experience may be in an engineering office, laboratory, work site, or factory where the student would be working principally with professional engineers to gain insight into professional practice. 

Work experience may be based on a student’s existing employment or an arranged work placement. The student is responsible for securing the work placement as required. The student must meet all costs associated with the acquisition of work experience to satisfy this requirement.

Credit or exemption for ENP4108 Professional Engineering Portfolio will not normally be considered.

Attendance Requirements
Students are required to complete specific practical and professional development activities as part of their program of study. Some practical and professional activities must be undertaken on-campus or synchronously online as a component of the course.

External/Online students may be required to attend a mandatory on-campus residential school or a mandatory synchronous online residential school or a mandatory synchronous online workshop to complete required practical or professional activities in some courses. External students must ensure they are able to attend the mandatory activities prior to enrolling in the associated academic course.

On campus students may be required to complete practical or professional activities in some academic courses either as scheduled on campus classes or as a mandatory residential school.

Personal protective equipment is mandatory in many engineering, construction and spatial science laboratories. Students should confirm the requirements before attending residential schools for Practice courses.

The attendance requirement of residential schools within this degree is indicated below. To find out more about residential schools, visit the Residential School Schedule to view specific dates for your degree, or visit the Policy and Procedure Library.

Mandatory attendance activities are associated with the following courses for each major: 

• ENP1101 Student Engineer Induction (Mandatory On-campus Residential School)
• ENP1111 Sustainable and Humanitarian Engineering Project (Mandatory Hybrid Workshops: On-campus or Synchronous Online) 
• ENP1112 Student Engineer Project (Engineering Workplaces) (Mandatory On-campus Residential School)
• *XXX2311 Engineering Affiliate Subsystem Design Project (Mandatory Hybrid Workshops: On-campus or Synchronous Online)
• *XXX2312 Engineering Affiliate Operations and Maintenance Project (Mandatory On-campus Residential School)
• ENP2313 Engineering Associate Capstone Project (Mandatory Hybrid Residential School: On-campus or Synchronous Online)
• *XXX3314 Sustainable Systems Engineering Project (Mandatory Hybrid Workshops: On-campus or Synchronous Online)
• *XXX3315 Professional Engineer Innovation Project (Mandatory On-campus Residential School)
• ENP3103 Research Methodology (Mandatory Hybrid Residential School: On-campus or Synchronous Online)
• ENP4313 Professional Engineering Team Capstone Project (Mandatory Hybrid Workshops: On-campus or Synchronous Online)
• ENP4111 Professional Engineering Research Project (Mandatory On-campus Residential School)
  (*Note: XXX - discipline codes for each engineering major ACG, CLV, CSE, EEE, ESR, ICA, MCH, MTR, PWR)

The Recommended Enrolment Patterns will help you decide which courses to study and when. They take into account course pre-requisites, co-requisites and timetabling requirements.

You may choose to study fewer units than the full time pattern, or more units than the part-time pattern, but if doing so you should use these as a guide to best structure your studies, ensuring all requisites are met.