Master of Professional Engineering (Civil and Construction)

Master skills in selected engineering disciplines and the interaction of those disciplines with this two-year course for professional engineers. Enhance your skills in dealing with more complex engineering problems and interactions between engineering technical domains and the broader context in which they exist.

Gain the post-professional knowledge and skills to equip you with the abilities to become a leader in your chosen engineering field. The program offers both theoretical understanding and practical applications of advanced professional engineering practices, with a focus on sustainable, ethical and managerial abilities.

This course is provisionally accredited with Engineers Australia. Professional accreditation allows graduates to work as a professional engineer in countries that are signatories of the Washington Accord.

Work Integrated Learning

During this course you are required to complete 60 days (equivalent to 450 hours) of approved work experience.

Careers and outcomes

You will graduate with advanced cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or engineering management role. You will:

• be able to lead and contribute to complex projects and respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges
• have research capacity for evidence-based practice, to imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation in ethical and sustainable ways as appropriate to your role
• be strategic in the use of digital technologies
• be an effective collaborator and communicator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts with knowledge of and respect for diverse cultural perspectives
• be able to apply integrated computer-based approaches to monitor and manage internal and external resources in an organisation and implement a range of strategies and practices to support organisational objectives such as competitive advantages, innovation, sharing lessons learned, integration and continuous improvement
• be able to become a specialist engineering manager within your chosen professional field, in particular, a leader and manager of engineering processes
• be capable of undertaking management level roles in operations management, quality control management, logistics, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and other specialised engineering fields.

Civil engineers can be employed by many different industries as either ongoing engineers in an organisation, or as consultants in engineering firms. These firms work alongside organisations from a wide array of industries like transportation, mining, and construction. These clients are typically spread out from metropolitan to regional areas. At times, your office will be based at the client's site for the duration of the project, where you'll be working with interdisciplinary teams.

Professional recognition

This course has provisional accreditation with Engineers Australia. Accredited courses are recognised internationally in the engineering profession, giving QUT graduates more career opportunities overseas.