Overview

• UniSQ’s Graduate Diploma of Professional Engineering (Power Engineering) is ideal if you have a three year engineering degree and you want to extend your knowledge and practical experience in power engineering.
• You don’t even need work experience to commence your postgraduate studies in this degree.
• Through this eight unit degree, you will do a combination of advanced study and practice of power systems, including power generation, distribution and transmission.

Further study

When you complete your Graduate Diploma of Professional Engineering you could take the credit from your studies and go on to complete the Master of Professional Engineering where you will have the opportunity to do a research project and dissertation to apply your formal knowledge to a real world issue.

Professional accreditation

The Graduate Diploma of Professional Engineering is not accredited by any professional bodies other than the University of Southern Queensland. It does however provide a pathway to the Master of Professional Engineering which is provisionally accredited with Engineers Australia for membership as a graduate Professional Engineer.

Career outcomes

• Power engineers are at the forefront of alternative power sources such as solar and wind energy. As a power engineering graduate, you will increase your employability in power supply and distribution, power generation, mining, rail and transport, and consultancy.