Program Overview

Draw on your love for critical thinking and become an innovative problem solver for a brighter tomorrow with UC’s highly respected Bachelor of Engineering (Honours). Over four years, you’ll gain knowledge, skills and experience and specialise in Intelligent Robotics or Network Engineering.

• Intelligent Robotics – Build your expertise in the exciting world of robotics and smart machines. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the control and dynamics of machines, industrial robotics, algorithms, smart engineering and more.
• Network Engineering – gain in-depth knowledge and skills in designing, developing and operating software-based networked systems, including mobile and wireless data communications networks, network security applications and services relating to cloud computing, big data and multimedia networks.

Study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) at UC and you will:

• Gain the knowledge and skills that are highly desirable within a future-proof industry
• Work with the latest computer-aided software
• Learn how to design systems from the ground up
• Become proficient in engineering research, design and management
• Participate in numerous Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities and share your own ideas during site visits and fieldwork
• Learn professional ideologies such as professional ethics, expectations and teamwork
• Choose to specialise in either Intelligent Robotics or Network Engineering
• Be able to participate in the Engineers without Borders Challenge
• Gain unrivalled access to industry and government stakeholders and build extensive professional networks
• Earn a globally recognised and in-demand qualification

Work Integrated Learning (WIL)

WIL is an integral component of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) course, offering students the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience and build professional relationships through real work, or work-like placements.

Students will also be invited to participate in the Engineers without Borders Challenge, a humanitarian-focused activity offered to engineering students across Australia. 

To ensure our students have access to the right people and places, UC works hard to foster close industry connections and regularly engages with industry partners who possess both the skills and experience to provide specialised knowledge and training opportunities.

All course content is reviewed annually by our Course Advisory Group, which comprises a panel of highly qualified and respected industry experts..

Core Major: Engineering

This program core major provides students with the essential knowledge and skills in the field of Engineering. Students will be equipped with a solid foundation in the Engineering profession, including professional ethics, professional expectations, teamwork skills, communication skills, societal issues, legal issues, and privacy issues, among others.
Students will also be able to demonstrate the synthesis of knowledge and skills acquired throughout their coursework study to formulate and implement engineering solutions by taking into consideration professional practice, code of ethics, and professional standards of the industry under the context of social and economic constraints, legal and ethical issues, risk and benefit balance, technology availability and stakeholder management. In honours year, students should complete a year-long project, and choose advanced units offered as open electives in the specialist areas of Network Engineering, or Intelligent Robotics.
Students undertaking the BEng (Hons) degree at the University of Canberra will have access to fully-equipped laboratories and the latest computer-aided software that is used in modern engineering. Students will be encouraged to get involved in industry projects and on a number of other learning opportunities, so they can get the most out of their university education.