Online Graduate Certificate in Engineering Project Management

This course will prepare you as practising engineer to project manage the development of solutions in the workplace. You will be introduced to engineering project management theory, considering issues and challenges throughout a project life cycle. You will consider the project responsibilities of engineering managers and organisations, from the definition phase of a project to its conclusion. The emphasis is interdisciplinary and relevant to all fields of engineering practice.

This course covers the preparation of engineering contracts to deliver and procure engineering outcomes. Students will develop a knowledge of market analysis, tenders and work breakdown structure. Engineers in every field will have to work with engineering contracts in their career thus the content of this course will be directly applicable to everyone.

In this course, students will explore the principles and develop the distinct technical skills of engineering project management that are needed to undertake and successfully implement a project.

This course is designed to enable you to develop and demonstrate advanced teamwork, design and analysis skills. A topical and challenging project will be selected from a larger pool of proposals by each of the teams of multi-disciplinary engineers. The course will simulate an engineering working environment with teams reporting progress at regular intervals to the course coordinator, who will assume the role of project manager.

This course explores the concept of risk, how it is assessed and managed with a particular emphasis on how to mitigate risks in a project management setting.

This course provides students with the insights, knowledge and skills necessary for providing professional engineering input into resource and quality management programs in an business environment. It covers project governance, quality control and assurance and organisational planning. The best practices for resource management and staff acquisition will be explored.

This course has been designed to help you develop creative and critical thinking skills through the lens of sustainable transport systems. It will focus on developing your skills at the graduate level, specifically having you take a sustainable focus and explore evolving technologies that are poised to radically change our transport systems.

In this course you will develop knowledge and experience in environmental engineering through application to a specific project around an environmental challenge. You will work in small groups to plan and develop designs relevant to the project. Designs will typically involve analysis, calculations and preparation of engineering drawings plus communication of the approach.

This course will enhance your skills in structural analysis and design, emphasising their application to real-world structural engineering scenarios. It will introduce you to advanced levels of structural analysis, using specialised software, and will provide you with in-depth theoretical and technical knowledge in the field of structural design. Upon completion, you will possess the expertise to engage in complex structural engineering tasks. Whenever applicable, the course content will be aligned with the requirements outlined in Australian Standards.

Digital communications are essential to the functioning of modern society. Examples include cellphones, broadcasting, and satellite communications. In this course you will expand on your knowledge and understanding of Communication Engineering, by developing specialised techniques and the design of components in communication systems. You will explore the standards governing communication protocol and hardware, analyse performance of communication systems, and specify general telecommunication systems.

This course provides knowledge and understanding of electrical power distribution with topics covering – distribution system planning and automation, load characterisation and modelling of distribution networks, application of distribution transformers, design of sub-transmission lines and distribution sub-station, and the distribution system and distributed generation. You will be introduced to the development of an optimal distribution system with respect to construction cost, capitalisation, performance reliability, and operating efficiency.

This course introduces you to digital and embedded systems and enhances your investigative, design and problem-solving skills. Both hardware and software components are considered in finding solutions to problems. You will learn about advanced digital logic design, real-time programming concepts using C and POSIX, logic devices, and the architecture of microcontrollers and their applications in embedded systems. You will gain practical experience of interfacing embedded microcontrollers with physical sensors and develop skills in designing embedded systems to meet various design requirements.

This course has been designed to enhance your knowledge of advanced control system design. You will analyse automated, digital, and predictive control systems, and use control system software for real-time implementation. You will distinguish principles of control systems and apply them to engineering processes. Theoretical knowledge is complemented with projects simulating real-world scenarios, demonstrated through software like Matlab or Octave.

Heat transfer studies the mechanisms of conduction, convection, radiation and their applications through an engineering perspective. Proficient engineers require a good fundamental understanding of heat transfer. In this course, you will learn and apply fundamental concepts of heat transfer for a variety of engineering systems and processes.

Computer aided engineering (CAE) is now a common step in the design of engineering structures. This course builds on the knowledge and skills gained in Mechanics of Materials and Engineering Dynamics. You will gain knowledge of the operation and limitations of CAE systems and develop the skills required to design such structures and systems. The material presented includes a brief discussion on the architecture of CAE systems, numerical methods and finite element methods. Considerable emphasis is placed on the appropriate use of the finite element method in the design process.