As a potential engineering student, you know the value of taking your skills and changing the world. Now you can go even further.

Unique to Swinburne, the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Applied Innovation enables you to expand how you can use your engineering degree to bring meaningful change to the world. It also broadens your employment prospects by opening pathways to roles beyond traditional engineering.

The Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) challenges you to make connections between engineering and information technology, social mobility, changing work patterns, sustainable design practices and a shifting global environment.

Combined with the Bachelor of Applied Innovation, you’ll be immersed in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment supported by specialist academic teams. Working on activities inspired by your passions and interests, you’ll learn to develop transformative solutions to the complex challenges of today and the emerging opportunities of the future. You’ll gain the practical and technical skills to think clearly and strategically about how to employ innovative ideas to build a better future.

To maximise experiential learning, you’ll also get real-world work experience in the form of placements, internships and industry-based projects. At the end of it all, you’ll emerge job-ready with a comprehensive portfolio.

Apart from the many career pathways an Honours degree in engineering offers, you’ll be qualified to pursue employment in or outside your industry as an innovation specialist or consultant, transformation lead, innovation analyst, strategic designer, and more.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this Course students will be able to :

• Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of the chosen major in engineering in diverse contexts and applications using critical thinking and judgment
• Apply knowledge of research principles and methods to plan and execute a piece of research with some independence, as preparation for research higher degrees
• Apply problem solving, design and decision-making methodologies to identify and provide innovative solutions to complex problems with intellectual independence
• Apply abstraction, mathematics and engineering fundamentals to the analysis, design and operation of a model, using appropriate engineering methods and tools
• Communicate proficiently in professional practice to a variety of audiences, function as an effective member or leader of a diverse team, and use the basic tools and practices of project management within project work
• Demonstrate professionalism, integrity, ethical conduct, professional accountability and an awareness of professional engineering practice in a global and sustainable context
• Reflect on and take responsibility for their own learning and self-management processes, and manage their own time and processes effectively by regularly reviewing of personal performance as a means of managing continuing professional development and lifelong learning
• Apply a series of thinking systems, creativity toolkits and innovation frameworks to design contextually-relevant solutions addressing local and global challenges in and outside their discipline
• Identify and articulate opportunities to innovate and create impact informed by user-centred research and/or data
• Adapt their discipline skillsets in new situations in response to complex and changing contexts, including interdisciplinary environments
• Facilitate and contribute to innovation teams that seek solutions to complex challenges, using inclusive collaboration practices to leverage different skills and perspectives
• Navigate commercial, human and technical requirements aided by prototyping and testing to deliver solutions that create value
• Communicate the value of experimentation, ideas and innovation with confidence in developing solutions to investors, potential partners, employers or other stakeholders
• Develop futures-focused innovations that integrate responsible social, technological and environmental factors