Master of Engineering Practice

Extend your knowledge of engineering by specialising in one of three emerging areas of engineering that will prepare you for a career across a range of industries.

Develop your professional skills with over 300 hours of practical experience through an integrated professional practice unit while developing your professional portfolio.

You will learn from industry practitioners and can tailor your degree to graduate in a compressed timeframe. Develop your studies even further with the option of Engineering Design or Engineering Research minors that can progress into a research career.

3 reasons to study Masters of Engineering Practice at Murdoch

1. Advance your career with a qualification that specialises in an emerging area of engineering. 
2. Five-star rating for student support, graduate salary, and learner engagement for postgraduate engineering and technology.  *Source: Good Universities Guide 2022
3. Learn through innovative technologies including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, remote labs and online learning.

• How to evaluate and employ science and engineering knowledge and skills to solve complex engineering problems and broader aspects of engineering practice.
• How to systematically investigate, interpret, analyse and create innovative solutions to advanced engineering problems.
• Methods to identify and critically appraise current research developments, advanced technologies, emerging issues and interdisciplinary linkages impacting engineering, including sustainable engineering practice.
• How to identify, analyse and communicate the interactions between systems, practice and people for a sustainable engineering environment.
• Well-developed ethical and professional behaviours in the application of broad engineering knowledge.
• Effective strategies for advanced oral and written communication in professional and non-professional domains.
• How to be an effective team member and leader including how to recognise the value of alternative and diverse viewpoints.

For admission into one of our postgraduate degrees, you must provide evidence of the successful completion of a relevant degree from a recognised university, in addition to meeting Murdoch’s prescribed English Language requirements. At a minimum, to qualify for one of our postgraduate degrees, you must meet one of the following requirements.

Please note that entry requirements are dependent on the course you wish to study and as such, your specific course may have different entry requirements:

• A qualification equivalent to an AQF Associate Degree
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 in relevant discipline
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 with relevant work experience
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 with specific professional registration
• Postgraduate qualification of AQF Level 8 or above
• Submission of a Portfolio and/or substantial work experience