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- Design and maintain systems and machinery across a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, mining, refrigeration and air-conditioning, transport and mechanical handling.
- Benefit from our hands-on learning approach and develop the practical skills your future employers want in our advanced engineering labs, guided by our expert technical team.
- Work on exciting projects with leading companies and apply your technical expertise to help solve real-world challenges.
- Graduate with a highly regarded Honours qualification that’s recognised in Australia and overseas.
- Combine your studies with a second major or double degree and expand your employment opportunities.
Highlights
- Design and maintain systems and machinery across a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, mining, refrigeration and air-conditioning, transport and mechanical handling.
- Benefit from our hands-on learning approach and develop the practical skills your future employers want in our advanced engineering labs, guided by our expert technical team.
- Work on exciting projects with leading companies and apply your technical expertise to help solve real-world challenges.
- Graduate with a highly regarded Honours qualification that’s recognised in Australia and overseas.
- Combine your studies with a second major or double degree and expand your employment opportunities.
Why choose this course?
As a mechanical engineer, you’ll apply the latest technologies to design the machinery and mechanical systems of our future.
From electric cars and intelligent devices, to the large-scale machinery used in mining and manufacturing, you’ll apply your technical expertise to design smarter, more sustainable solutions.
Our mechanical engineering degree is strongly aligned with industry needs, which means you’ll graduate with the real-world knowledge and experience to step confidently into your future career.
With a hands-on learning approach, you’ll develop your skills in our advanced engineering labs, where you’ll work on real machinery (including our very own McLaren supercar engine!), guided by our expert technical team.
You’ll then apply when you learn through work placements with leading companies like Komatsu, and get involved in exciting projects where you’ll address real-world challenges.
You’ll graduate with a highly regarded Honours qualification that’s recognised in Australia and overseas.
Choose a second major or a double degree and pursue your interests while maximising your career opportunities.
Explore this course
Mechanical engineering turns energy into power and motion. Mechanical engineers design, create, improve and maintain systems and machinery that are used for private and commercial purposes. They keep pace with technology and act as an interface between technology and society, playing an essential role contributing to the sustainable and future development of industry.
Explore your options
Your engineering degree features common units in the first year that combine broad foundation principles with a wide range of major choices, giving you flexibility and options before you choose your career specialisation.
Work Integrated Learning
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is embedded in the curriculum and it is a core component for all engineering students. WIL allows you to graduate with a portfolio of professional skills that provides evidence of your professional competencies.
You are required to complete 60 days (equivalent to 450 hours) of approved work experience in the engineering environment as part of your work integrated learning.
Careers and outcomes
As a mechanical engineer, you’ll design, develop and maintain the mechanical systems and machines we use in our own homes and across diverse industries such as manufacturing, mining, refrigeration and air-conditioning, transport and mechanical handling.
Professional recognition
This course has professional accreditation from Engineers Australia (EA). EA is a signatory to the Washington Accord, which permits graduates to work in various countries across the world. This course is recognised internationally in the engineering profession, giving our graduates more career opportunities overseas.
Possible careers
- Mechanical engineer
- Mining engineer
- Project manager
Engineering (Honours)
Your QUT Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree consists of 32 units (384 credit points) arranged as follows:
(a) Core units (96 credit points) consisting of:
60 credit points of First Year units:
- Three core engineering units (36 credit points)
- An introductory unit in engineering mathematics (12 credit points), chosen from a list of two units depending on the student's mathematical preparedness
- Engineering Mathematics and Statistics (12 credit points)
And 36 credit points of Honours units:
- Research Methods (12 credit points)
- Project (24 credit points)
(b) A Major (216 credit points) consisting of:
- Eleven bachelor-level major units in the major (132 credit points)
- Five advanced Honours-level units in the major (60 credit points)
- Two Discipline Extension Units (24 credit points)
(c) Complementary Studies (48 credit points) consisting of:
- An Engineering Minor (a 4-unit sets of 48 credit points) from the options for your chosen Major
(d) Four QUT You units (24 credit points) of your choice.
Engineering (Honours)
Your QUT Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree consists of 32 units (384 credit points) arranged as follows:
(a) Core units (96 credit points) consisting of:
60 credit points of First Year units:
- Three core engineering units (36 credit points)
- An introductory unit in engineering mathematics (12 credit points), chosen from a list of two units depending on the student's mathematical preparedness
- Engineering Mathematics and Statistics (12 credit points)
And 36 credit points of Honours units:
- Research Methods (12 credit points)
- Project (24 credit points)
(b) A Major (216 credit points) consisting of:
- Eleven bachelor-level major units in the major (132 credit points)
- Five advanced Honours-level units in the major (60 credit points)
- Two Discipline Extension Units (24 credit points)
(c) Complementary Studies (48 credit points) consisting of:
- An Engineering Minor (a 4-unit sets of 48 credit points) from the options for your chosen Major
(d) Four QUT You units (24 credit points) of your choice.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: CSP $8,200 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: $45,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: CSP $8,100 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $42,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.
QUT Excellence Scholarship (Academic)
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding academic achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
Women in Engineering Scholarship
A scholarship for future female undergraduate students who want to study engineering.
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- Women
QUT Elite Sport Scholarship
QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding sporting achievement.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Sporting excellence
QUT Budding Entrepreneur Scholarship
A scholarship for innovative individuals who are engaged in their passion for entrepreneurial action.
- Scholarship eligibility
QUT Real World International Scholarship
A scholarship to cover tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.
- Scholarship eligibility
- Academic performance
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