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Master of Professional Engineering (Agricultural Engineering)
PostgraduateUSQ-AGE-MAS2025
Advanced agricultural engineering theory and industry experience
From irrigation to soil, you’ll explore emerging technologies and advanced systems in agriculture. Includes hands-on lab sessions, industry experience, and a research project dealing with real-world issues. Secure a career as a professional engineer.
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 2 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 16
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Professional Engineering (Agricultural Engineering)
About this degree
On completion of this program, graduates should be able to:
- Apply specialised and advanced theoretical knowledge that underpins the relevant engineering discipline to enable critical reflection on professional practice.
- Synthesise 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 defence 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.
- UniSQ is the only provider of Agricultural Engineering degrees in both Australia and New Zealand, and has links to the world class research centre – Centre for Agricultural Engineering. With an emphasis on practical experience and industry relevant courses, you will be thoroughly prepared for the engineering profession. In addition to the hands-on laboratory sessions and 60 days industry experience, you will complete a research project and dissertation applying all your formal knowledge to a real world problem. Whether this is sustainable agricultural production, the environmental impact of intensive agriculture or water allocation, your project will provide insight to the profession of an Agricultural Engineer.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
ENG5001 Professional Skills in Engineering
AGR4305 Agricultural Soil Mechanics
ENG6208 Advanced Engineering Project Management or ENG6205 Project Management Practice
ENV4106 Irrigation Science
ENV4107 Water Resources Engineering
ENV5104 Advanced Hydraulic Systems
ENG6207 Innovation Management and New Product Development or ENG6104 Asset Management in an Engineering Environment
ENG5105 Advanced Numerical Modelling
Year 2
EBE5003 Research Training
EBE6002 Advanced System Design and Innovation
ENV4204 Environmental Technology or STA6200 Statistics for Quantitative Researchers or MEC4108 Thermofluids 3
EBE6411 Masters Research Project Part 1
EBE6412 Masters Research Project Part 2
AGR6002 Emerging Technologies in Agriculture
ENV4203 Public Health Engineering or MEC4406 Robotics and Machine Vision
AGR6305 Applications of Advanced Technology in Agriculture
Award 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).Open Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative first year fee
$8,948
Indicative total fee $17,896
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
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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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
Professional recognition
The Master of Professional Engineering (Agricultural Engineering) has been accorded full accreditation at the level of Professional Engineer by Engineers Australia and graduates are eligible for Graduate membership at the Professional Level.Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Agricultural Engineers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
Engineering Managers | Over $120K | Up 41.9% |
^ There is no data available