Graduate Outcomes
A UQ engineering graduate is career ready for today’s industry and positioned to meet the challenges of the future.
They are an adaptable problem solver with experience using their expertise to synthesize engineering solutions. They are proficient with modern digital tools and design thinking and are ready to address complex engineering challenges.
They have developed the skills in communication, teamwork, and risk management to enable them to immediately contribute to engineering projects.
A UQ engineer is a lifelong learner with critical thinking and research skills.
These skills, combined with their social awareness and knowledge of sustainability and the business environment, will enable them to remain at the cutting edge of engineering in a changing world.
View the graduate outcomes for our engineering programs.
- Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) / Master of Engineering
- Master of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Discipline Expertise
Engineers create solutions that impact society. The combination of engineering thinking, discipline expertise, and professional skills deliver this impact. The processes and skills required to develop in-depth expertise are valuable in and of themselves as engineers must learn and develop throughout their career. In addition, an engineer’s discipline expertise often requires mastery of specific software.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
A0 Develop discipline relevant scientific, mathematical, and/or technical skills.
A1 Apply discipline relevant scientific and mathematical skills, with engineering principles, methods, and standards to solve engineering problems.
A2 Design solutions to complex engineering problems using specialist discipline expertise and consideration of contextual factors.
A3 Apply discipline specific software for modelling, simulation, analysis, and evaluation.
B. Think like an Engineer
Engineers create solutions and also identify the problems and opportunities that need solutions. These are complex activities that involve a range of component skills and attributes: collaboration, information gathering, creative and critical thinking, systems thinking, analysis, and decision making. Engineers also often have to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
B1 Use creative and critical thinking, systems thinking, analysis, business skills and decision making in engineering tasks.
B2 Design, test, evaluate, and iterate solutions.
B3 Integrate expertise from other disciplines to deliver engineering solutions.
C. Career Ready
An engineering graduate must be ready to transition from university to a professional environment. Teamwork, collaboration, project management and lifelong learning are skills required for all career paths.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
C1 Reflect on their competence and performance and identify areas for professional development.
C2 Apply the fundamentals and tools of project management.
C3 Work effectively in, and manage, diverse teams.
D. Communication
Engineers must be able to communicate effectively. Engineering is better with great communication. Conversely, poor communication will undermine whatever an engineer is trying to achieve. Communication happens in two directions and spans from personal to formal, a single person to large audiences, and oral to written.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
D1 Communicate effectively in a range of contexts and formats both inside and outside engineering.
D2 Produce technical documentation, professional reports and artefacts relevant to the discipline.
E. Sustainability, Risk and Ethics
Engineers positively impact the world: both locally and globally. Sustainability and risk must be at the forefront of their thinking. To do this, they must account for how their solutions impact their organisation, people, society, and the environment. Underpinning how engineers view sustainability and risk are their personal ethics and professional codes of conduct.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
E1 Integrate the multiple dimensions of sustainability into engineering decision making.
E2 Integrate the multiple dimensions of risk management into engineering decision making.
E3 Identify professional responsibilities and ethics in decision making.
F. Information and Data
Information and data are the lifeblood of engineering. Engineers must be able to find, collect, collate, process, evaluate, and critique data in all its forms. A programming mindset helps engineers manage this process.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
F1 Use literature, codes and standards, and database resources to efficiently and critically source information and data.
F2 Use appropriate software to manipulate, visualise, analyse, and evaluate information and data.
F3 Use at least one transferrable programming language to develop models and work with data.
G. Application of Practice and Research
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) graduate is trained to be able to:
G1 Identify problems appropriate for practice or research and to pose questions.
G2 Apply skills and knowledge to practice and research.
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) / Master of Engineering
- Discipline Expertise
Engineers create solutions that impact society. The combination of engineering thinking, discipline expertise, and professional skills deliver this impact. The processes and skills required to develop in-depth expertise are valuable in and of themselves as engineers must learn and develop throughout their career. In addition, an engineer’s discipline expertise often requires mastery of specific software.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
A0 Develop discipline relevant scientific, mathematical, and/or technical skills.
A1 Integrate discipline relevant scientific and mathematical skills, with engineering principles, methods, and standards to solve engineering problems.
A2 Design solutions to complex engineering problems by integrating specialist discipline expertise and consideration of contextual factors.
A3 Apply discipline specific software for modelling, simulation, analysis, and evaluation.
B. Think like an Engineer
Engineers create solutions and also identify the problems and opportunities that need solutions. These are complex activities that involve a range of component skills and attributes: collaboration, information gathering, creative and critical thinking, systems thinking, analysis, and decision making. Engineers also often have to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
B1 Use and reflect on the justification for, and implications of, creative and critical thinking, systems thinking, analysis, business skills and decision making in engineering tasks.
B2 Design, test, evaluate, and iterate solutions.
B3 Integrate expertise from other disciplines to deliver engineering solutions.
C. Career Ready
An engineering graduate must be ready to transition from university to a professional environment. Teamwork, collaboration, project management and lifelong learning are skills required for all career paths.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
C1 Practice at the forefront of the discipline built on capacity for independent research and critical reflection and a commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
C2 Apply the fundamentals and tools of project management.
C3 Work effectively in, and manage, diverse teams.
D. Communication
Engineers must be able to communicate effectively. Engineering is better with great communication. Conversely, poor communication will undermine whatever an engineer is trying to achieve. Communication happens in two directions and spans from personal to formal, a single person to large audiences, and oral to written.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
D1 Communicate effectively in a range of contexts and formats both inside and outside engineering.
D2 Produce technical documentation, professional reports and artefacts relevant to the discipline.
D3 Clearly communicate the results of practice or research in an appropriate format.
E. Sustainability, Risk and Ethics
Engineers positively impact the world: both locally and globally. Sustainability and risk must be at the forefront of their thinking. To do this, they must account for how their solutions impact their organisation, people, society, and the environment. Underpinning how engineers view sustainability and risk are their personal ethics and professional codes of conduct.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
E1 Integrate the multiple dimensions of sustainability into engineering decision making.
E2 Integrate the multiple dimensions of risk management into engineering decision making.
E3 Identify professional responsibilities and ethics in decision making.
F. Information and Data
Information and data are the lifeblood of engineering. Engineers must be able to find, collect, collate, process, evaluate, and critique data in all its forms. A programming mindset helps engineers manage this process.
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
F1 Use literature, codes and standards, and database resources to efficiently and critically source information and data.
F2 Use appropriate software to manipulate, visualise, analyse, and evaluate information and data.
F3 Use at least one transferrable programming language to develop models and work with data.
G. Application of Practice and Research
A UQ Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
G1 Identify problems appropriate for practice or research and to pose questions.
G2 Apply skills and knowledge to practice and research.
G3 Undertake supervised inquiry in a systematic, critical and evidence-based manner.
Master of Engineering
- Discipline Expertise
Engineers create solutions that impact society. The combination of engineering thinking, discipline expertise, and professional skills deliver this impact. The processes and skills required to develop in-depth expertise are valuable in and of themselves as engineers must learn and develop throughout their career. In addition, an engineer’s discipline expertise often requires mastery of specific software.
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
A0 Develop discipline relevant scientific, mathematical, and/or technical skills.
A1 Integrate discipline relevant scientific and mathematical skills, with engineering principles, methods, and standards to solve engineering problems.
A2 Design solutions to complex engineering problems by integrating specialist discipline expertise and consideration of contextual factors.
A3 Apply discipline specific software for modelling, simulation, analysis, and evaluation.
B. Think like an Engineer
Engineers create solutions and also identify the problems and opportunities that need solutions. These are complex activities that involve a range of component skills and attributes: collaboration, information gathering, creative and critical thinking, systems thinking, analysis, and decision making. Engineers also often have to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity.
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
B1 Use and reflect on the justification for, and implications of, creative and critical thinking, systems thinking, analysis, business skills and decision making in engineering tasks.
B2 Design, test, evaluate, and iterate solutions.
B3 Integrate expertise from other disciplines to deliver engineering solutions.
C. Career Ready
An engineering graduate must be ready to transition from university to a professional environment. Teamwork, collaboration, project management and lifelong learning are skills required for all career paths.
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
C1 Practice at the forefront of the discipline built on capacity for independent research and critical reflection and a commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
C2 Apply the fundamentals and tools of project management.
C3 Work effectively in, and manage, diverse teams.
D. Communication
Engineers must be able to communicate effectively. Engineering is better with great communication. Conversely, poor communication will undermine whatever an engineer is trying to achieve. Communication happens in two directions and spans from personal to formal, a single person to large audiences, and oral to written.
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
D1 Communicate effectively in a range of contexts and formats both inside and outside engineering.
D2 Produce technical documentation, professional reports and artefacts relevant to the discipline.
D3 Clearly communicate the results of practice or research in an appropriate format.
E. Sustainability, Risk and Ethics
Engineers positively impact the world: both locally and globally. Sustainability and risk must be at the forefront of their thinking. To do this, they must account for how their solutions impact their organisation, people, society, and the environment. Underpinning how engineers view sustainability and risk are their personal ethics and professional codes of conduct.
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
E1 Integrate the multiple dimensions of sustainability into engineering decision making.
E2 Integrate the multiple dimensions of risk management into engineering decision making.
E3 Identify professional responsibilities and ethics in decision making.
F. Information and Data
Information and data are the lifeblood of engineering. Engineers must be able to find, collect, collate, process, evaluate, and critique data in all its forms. A programming mindset helps engineers manage this process.
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
F1 Use literature, codes and standards, and database resources to efficiently and critically source information and data.
F2 Use appropriate software to manipulate, visualise, analyse, and evaluate information and data.
F3 Use at least one transferrable programming language to develop models and work with data.
G. Application of Practice and Research
A UQ Master of Engineering graduate is trained to be able to:
G1 Identify problems appropriate for practice or research and to pose questions.
G2 Apply skills and knowledge to practice and research.
G3 Undertake supervised inquiry in a systematic, critical and evidence-based manner.