Master of Professional Engineering (Aerospace Engineering)
Postgraduate | USQ-ASE-MAS | 2024
Advanced engineering for rockets, spacecraft, and more
Specialise in aerospace and reach new heights in professional engineering. You’ll study advanced aerospace systems and hone your project management skills. Streams include mechanical and electrical. Unlock doors to the Australian space program.
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 2 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 16
- Price from
- $17,896
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Professional Engineering (Aerospace Engineering)
About this degree
On completion of this program, graduates should be able to:
- Apply specialized and advanced theoretical knowledge that underpins the relevant engineering discipline to enable critical reflection on professional practice.
- Synthesize the social purposes of engineering and evaluate the performance and sustainability of engineered products and systems, including the costs and benefits to the community.
- Apply cognitive, technical, and creative skills to generate and evaluate concepts and complex ideas across a range of engineering problems reflecting issues of sustainable practice in diverse social, environmental, and technical contexts.
- Critically examine and autonomously evaluate evidence when justifying actions for technical, economic, environmental, ethical, and cross-cultural issues, including those relevant to indigenous peoples.
- Apply project management skills and competencies in team leadership, communication, and technical research to enable the delivery of engineering projects within given project constraints.
- Communicate effectively in English, using a range of high-level oral, written, and technology-based approaches, to justify theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions, and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Engage in further learning through research, scholarship, and critical reflection, including defense of professional and ethical decision-making, and apply a high level of personal autonomy and accountability to manage engagement with professional practice that is integrated and captured in their postgraduate program ePortfolio.
- Become an aerospace engineer and be at the forefront of modern technology and mechanics developing rockets and spacecraft, aircraft or aerospace equipment. Help improve green and fuel-efficient technologies or examine airworthiness and flight handling in normal and emergency situations. UniSQ’s aerospace specialisation has two sub-disciplines – the Mechanical strand and the Electrical and Electronic strand – which both fall within the Engineers Australia national Engineering Register Areas of Practice. You can hone your expertise further in the Mechanical strand and specialise in Aerodynamics and Propulsion, or Aerospace Transport Structures.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
ENG5001 Professional Skills in Engineering
ENG6208 Advanced Engineering Project Management
MEC4108 Thermofluids 3
ENG5500 Advanced Aerospace Systems
MEC5109 Aerospace Propulsion Systems
ENG6205 Project Management Practice
ENG5105 Advanced Numerical Modelling
MEC5203 Fibre Reinforced Composites or STA6200 Statistics for Quantitative Researchers
Year 2
EBE5003 Research Training
MEC6109 Advanced Gas Dynamics
MEC5100 Computational Fluid Dynamics
EBE6411 Masters Research Project Part 1
EBE6412 Masters Research Project Part 2
EBE6002 Advanced System Design and Innovation
Two of:
MEC4406 Robotics and Machine Vision
MEC4104 Renewable Energy Technology
MEC4403 Advanced Dynamics
MEC6203 Advanced Materials TechnologyAward requirements
Completion of 16 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Professional Engineering (after successful completion of 4 approved courses). Graduate Diploma of Professional Engineering (after successful completion of 8 approved courses).As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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How to apply
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Entry requirements
- Completion of an Australian university 3 or 4-year bachelor degree in engineering in the relevant specialisation, or equivalent; or Completion of an Australian university 4-year bachelor degree in engineering in a non-related specialisation, or equivalent. To be eligible for advanced standing entry - Completion of an Australian university 4-year embedded honours degree in engineering in the same or closely related cognate specialisation (major). There are inherent requirements that must be met in order to successfully complete this degree. Inherent requirements are fundamental skills, capabilities and knowledge that students must be able to demonstrate in order to achieve the essential learning outcomes of the degree, while maintaining the academic integrity of the degree. Please read and understand the inherent requirements specific to the Master of Professional Engineering before applying. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Study method requirements
- Residential School requirements to complete practical components of some courses
Career opportunities
Graduates may find work as an aerospace engineer, aerospace technician, aerospace electro-magnetic compatibility engineer, data analyst, aircraft mechanic, inspection manager, technical sales engineer, mechanical or electrical engineer, or data engineer. Aerospace engineers may work in domains such as aerodynamics and performance, communication and electrical systems, component EMI compatibility, flight simulators and flight management systems, environmental effects, fuels and lubricants, hydraulic systems, radar and satellite systems, risk management, cabin environment and cockpit ergonomics, noise and acoustic effects, propulsion systems, vehicle launch and recovery in Australian industry and Defence.
Professional recognition
UniSQ is seeking provisional accreditation from Engineers Australia for the Aerospace Engineering specialisation. As this is a recognised field of practice within Engineers Australia, graduate membership is still available upon application on completion.Career outlook
- Aeronautical Engineers:
- Unknown average
- Aircraft Maintenance Engineers:
- Over $120K
- Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (Avionics):
- Unknown average
- Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (Mechanical):
- Unknown average
- Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (Structures):
- Unknown average
- Engineering Managers:
- Over $120K