The Graduate Diploma of Applied Cybernetics is a 1 year full-time (or equivalent part-time) degree that provides students with:

- Advanced skills in managing cyber-physical systems from critical thinking and questioning, to an understanding of how the technology relates to the regulatory environment. 

- A solid understanding of the machine and human components of a cyber-physical system, including their historical context. 

- The intellectual framework for the management of complex, integrated systems within social context. 

- The opportunity to undertake research of professional relevance.

Learning Outcomes

1. Select, adapt, apply, and communicate advanced methods and applied cybernetics techniques for analysing cyber-physical systems;
2. Apply knowledge and analysis of cyber-physical systems to decision making about policy, business, community organisations and service delivery;
3. Examine current issues in cyber-physical systems using leading-edge research and design practices; and
4. Demonstrate solid cognitive, technical, and communication skills to work independently and collaboratively to collect, process, interpret and communicate the outcomes of challenges and opportunities associated with cyber-physical systems.