Electronic Engineering (Master)
This course information is for local students only
Year
2012
Award
Master of Electronic Engineering
Length
1 year full-time or 3 years part-time
Campuses
Melbourne
Course description
This course enables students to upgrade their skills and specialise in rapidly-developing high-technology areas. Students can choose components that best suit their chosen specialisation, as listed below.
Biomedical Engineering: biomedical instrumentation and signal processing, hospital safety, computerised medical imaging, artificial organs and life support systems, and many other aspects of technology as applied to medicine.
Electronic Systems Engineering: distributed control systems, embedded systems, fuzzy systems, neural nets, signal processing, image processing, advanced computer architecture and hardware, and parallel computing and instrumentation.
Optical Engineering: photonic networks and devices, optical fibre communication systems, and advanced optoelectronic devices and circuits.
Communications Engineering: signal processing for voice and data, networking, multimedia, integrated broadband systems (ISDN, ATM), mobile and personal communications, data superhighways, communications theory, communication systems simulation, digital receiver design, and advanced radar systems.
Course structure
Students study current experimental practice in electronics and advanced subjects in their chosen specialisation, and complete an engineering design project.
Subject details
Overseas study opportunities
Overseas study opportunities are available.
Please see
www.latrobe.edu.au/international/exchange
for more information
Application
Apply directly to the University up to two weeks prior to the commencement of the course. Visit our <a href="www.latrobe.edu.au/postgrad/apply";
Fee type
Fees (Fee-Help available)
Annual (or Total) Tuition Fee (AUD)
Indicative (2012): $20,580 per 120 credit points.
Scholarships
A variety of scholarships and prizes are available for postgraduate students at La Trobe. Visit the postgraduate scholarships webpage for details http://www.latrobe.edu.au/scholarships/postgraduatesPrerequisites
Four-year Bachelor degree in engineering or Honours degree in science in an appropriate field. Candidates without these qualifications are also considered, but may be required to undertake a one-year Postgraduate Diploma in electronics. Applicants must submit two academic references.
Semester starts
Semester 1 and 2 (March and July)
Career opportunities
Graduates are employed in advanced technology positions at the cutting edge of electronic engineering applications, including research and development. Past graduates of this program have careers in the communications, microelectronics, hospitals and medical equipment, and automotive industries, as well as in defence organisations, electronic equipment design and manufacturing, and quality control.
Professional recognition
The compulsory subjects in this course satisfy the requirements for membership of the College of Biomedical Engineering of Engineers Australia.