Program Overview

Gain practical engineering experience, engage with industry and learn from experts to build a deep understanding of engineering technology with a focus on emerging trends in engineering, sustainability, and industrial needs

Understanding engineering principles will give you the ability to design, manufacture, install, commission, operate and maintain plants and equipment.

This degree gives you the flexibility to pursue a specialist area of engineering study, including electrical and renewable energy, environmental engineering, or industrial control and automation, depending on your interests and career goals.

Major: Industrial Control and Automation Engineering

You’ll focus on computer-based measurement and control and the computing technologies used to operate modern industrial and autonomous systems.

You’ll explore industrial control systems and their components and learn how to effectively design and plan smart power systems to increase reliability and stability of power supply. The major is industry-oriented to deliver the practical understanding and knowledge suitable for effective design, prototyping, and controlling the industrial control systems applied for various industry sectors, so you’ll be job-ready when you graduate.

3 reasons to study Industrial Control and Automation Engineering at Murdoch

• Five-star rating for student support, median graduate starting salary and learner engagement for engineering and technology.
• Make use of our $10.1 million Bayer Pilot Plant – a real world engineering plant with a dedicated control room, the only one of its kind in WA.
• Gain 300 hours of real work experience as part of your degree.

What you’ll learn

• Microcontroller hardware and computer-based engineering tools, commonly used in Engineering
• Analysis of direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) electrical circuits and systems and digital electronics
• Modelling & systems engineering
• Motion, energy and mass transfer in simple systems
• Complex dynamic systems and control
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Instrumentation Systems
• Fundamentals of embedded system design