Engineering & Technology
Our Engineering & Technology disciplines offer engineering and aviation courses structured heavily around practical learning in state-of-the-art facilities at the Joondalup Campus.
All our courses have particular emphasis on real-world problem solving together with a rigorous coverage of theoretical foundations and extensive practical and team based project work.
Teaching and research activities in our Engineering & Technology disciplines have strong links with a number of international partners.
Engineering & Technology student awarded prestigious Duane Sterling Scholarship
Electron Science Research Institute student, Sanjeev Hiremath, has been awarded the Duane Sterling ambassadorial scholarship from The Rotary Foundation.
Sanjeev, whose studies were sponsored by the Rotary Club of Joondalup, will spend one year studying at the University of Central Missouri to further his research in nanotechnology structures for foetal heart sounds monitoring.
The technology is designed to enable expectant mothers to be monitored at home.
"Being able to monitor expectant mothers without the need to visit a specialist is a big advantage," says Sanjeev.
After studying in Missouri, Sanjeev hopes to return to Australia to develop the technology into a commercial product.
Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-Hert) award winner
Engineering & Technology academic, Professor Nara Srinivasan, was awarded a B-Hert award for the Best International Collaboration Development in recognition of his work on specialised security training courses with partner Emirates Airlines and Emirates Group Security (Transguard).
B-Hert is a program of prestigious awards initiated to recognise outstanding achievements in collaboration between business and higher education in the fields of Research and Development and Education and Training.
WA Inventor of the Year Awards
Microphotonics Professor Kamal Alameh won the early stage category of the WA Inventor of the Year Awards for his High-Speed Inter-Chip Optical Interconnect.
Professor Alameh's invention uses micro-lenses in a novel way to substantially increase the speed and performance of home and office computers, which facilitates significantly higher rates of data transfer and lower cost and reduced energy consumption.
Excellent career prospects
There is currently a large global shortage of skilled engineers. This means that engineering graduates are highly sought after for positions worldwide. The employment opportunities are diverse and abundant in a wide range of areas such as product design and development, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, chemical, transport, public utilities, telecommunications, defence, aerospace and specialist consulting.