Program Overview

Curtin's Bachelor of Engineering offers you an industry-connected university experience in which you will learn how to create solutions to societal challenges, to improve the quality of life for communities around the world.

Your studies will begin with the Engineering Foundation Year (EFY). Designed in extensive consultation with industry, the EFY will teach you the fundamental concepts and skills required by all areas of engineering. Importantly, the EFY allows you to explore Curtin's range of engineering majors before choosing your preferred major.

Major: Energy Engineering
This course is designed to meet the demand for roles in energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, fossil-fuel reduction, hydrogen systems, geo-energy options and environmental compliance.

The course is the first of its kind to offer the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to conceive, design, build and operate engineering processes relevant to a clean energy future.

Following your Engineering Foundation Year, you’ll choose four specialisation units to complete, in an area such as power systems engineering, low-carbon transition, subsurface energy engineering and energy conversion technologies.

In your final year, you’ll undertake an industry-guided capstone design project, integrating your knowledge to solve an industry problem in an energy engineering context. Ethical and sustainable decision-making and collaborative problem-solving will be key aspects of the project.

Emphasising environmental and social responsibility – and aligning with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and Australia’s net-zero carbon emissions target – this course also highlights sustainability principles and Indigenous perspectives in addressing global energy engineering challenges.

What you'll learn

• Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of fundamental science, mathematics, data analytics, information science, and computing underpinning the broad field of engineering, GC1
• Solve complex energy engineering problems of industrial and societal significance through the application of discipline-specific and integrated bodies of knowledge, design and sustainability principles, GC1
• Make decisions related to the design and implementation of solutions to engineering problems in a safe, ethical, and climate-responsible manner adhering to legal and professional standards and through respectful partnerships with local First Peoples and other diverse cultures as globally responsible citizens, GC4, GC5
• Apply systems thinking for innovative solutions to global energy engineering challenges, discern knowledge and undertake applied research in a discipline of energy engineering, GC2
• Select and use current and emerging technologies to develop and communicate effective and innovative engineering solutions to complex problems, GC3
• Demonstrate lifelong learning habits, teamwork and leadership abilities, project management skills, and the ability to identify opportunities for career-wide professional growth, necessary for advancing a career in engineering and beyond, GC6