Program Overview

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.

Major : Environmental and Sustainable Systems Engineering
Examine vital frameworks, principles and tools to develop practical skills and apply these in real life case studies.

You’ll apply specialised engineering knowledge and skills with an emphasis on the integration of energy, water and resource recovery systems into Smart Cities and sustainable communities.

3 reasons to study Environmental and Sustainable Systems Engineering at Murdoch

• Gain practical experience with industry through Work Integrated Learning, site visits and industry focussed projects.
• Complete your Masters degree in 1.5 years by studying in intensive mode.
• Five-star rating for student support, graduate salary, and learner engagement for postgraduate engineering and technology.

What you’ll learn

• The circular economy and innovation
• Hydrology and Water Cycle Management
• Design of water treatment unit operations
• Integrated waste management for resource recovery
• Land use planning and green infrastructure
• Industrial ecology (symbiosis)
• Hydrogen systems