Engineering
Engineers can find themselves working in many different disciplines and environments, from overseeing maintenance operations to designing and building engineered solutions, the range of career options is vast, varied and challenging.
The Diploma of Engineering offers students an industry-connected experience, uniquely placed to provide solutions to the challenges faced by the global community. Curtin College will provide you with the skills and knowledge to enable you to commence the academic studies you will need for your career in engineering.
Leading to:
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
Available Majors include:
- Chemical Engineering (Chemical stream OR Oil and Gas stream)
- Civil and Construction Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronic Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Metallurgical Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
Careers include:
- Aircraft Engineer
- Automotive Engineer
- Building and Engineering Technician
- Chemical Engineer
- Civil Engineer
- Drilling Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Electrical Power Engineer
- Electronics Engineer
- Environmental Engineer
- Materials Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Mechatronics Engineer
- Metallurgical Engineer
- Minerals and Mineral Process Engineer
- Mining Engineer
- Petroleum Engineer
- Product Quality Controllers
- Production Engineer
- Quality Controller
- Renewable Energy Engineer
- Telecommunications Engineer
Your Engineering Pathway
If you have…
✓ Completed Year 12 with an ATAR (or the equivalent in your country).
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 2)
9 university-level units studied over 2-3 trimesters. Equivalent to Year 1 of the corresponding Curtin degree.
Direct Entry into Year 2 at Curtin University.
Bachelor of Engineering (Honours).
Or if you have…
✓ Completed Year 11 (or the equivalent in your country).
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 1)
8 pre-university level units are studied over 2 or 3 trimesters.
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 2)
Equivalent to year 1 of the corresponding Curtin Bachelor Degree.
Diploma of Engineering Units (Stage 1)
CRICOS Code 087941B
Students must complete the following seven core units and one elective unit:
Core Units
- Academic Communication Skills
- Academic Research & Writing
- Chemistry
- Essential Mathematics
- Technical Mathematics
- Physics
- Programming
Elective Units (Select one)
- Information Media Technologies
- Project Management
Diploma of Engineering Units (Stage 2)
CRICOS Code 087941B
Students must complete the following core units:
Core Units
- Fundamentals of Programming
- Fundamentals of Professional Engineering Practice
- Linear Algebra and Statistics for Engineers
- Electrical Systems
- Engineering Foundations: Principles, Design and Communication
- Calculus for Engineers
- Engineering Mechanics
- Resources, Processes and Materials Engineering
Engineering Diploma of Engineering (Stage 2 Units)
Stage 2 Units – 25 Credit Points Each (unless stated)
Academic Communication (12.5 credit points)
This unit is specifically designed to develop key communication skills. The aims of this unit are to develop students’ understanding of, and skills in: critical reading, including note-taking, summarising and evaluating arguments; team-building and team-work skills; academic writing skills including paraphrasing, quoting and referencing; report writing; delivering oral presentations; academic writing style.
Calculus for Engineers
This unit builds on students’ knowledge of functions and calculus, further extending to a range of techniques used in solving problems arising in engineering and related fields. Students will extend their differentiation techniques to optimisation problems and the approximation of functions. This unit will cover a range of integration techniques to optimisation problems and the approximation of functions. Students will apply integration techniques to find volume, length and surface area and will be introduces to the concept of complex numbers, together with their applications and use in solutions to polynomial equations. This unit is designed for those students who have passed WACE Mathematics Methods or equivalent.
Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes
Design horizons. Effective teams. Requirements specifications; identifying features. Systems design; creative thinking methods for innovative solutions. Conceptual design. Design specifications; setting priorities. Ethics and design. Operational design; reliability, sustainability, ergonomics. maintainability. Economics of design. Social and professional responsibilities. The concept of concurrent engineering. The future; computer-aided design. Report writing within engineering academic and professional contexts. Developing reflective learning and oral communication skills.
Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication
Structure of the engineering industry. How engineering works. Working as an engineer. Engineer’s responsibilities and duties. The engineer and the environment. Working in a team. Academic writing and ethical scholarship. Report writing within engineering academic and professional contexts. Developing reflective learning and oral communication skills. Compliance with procedures.
Engineering Mechanics
Newton’s Laws; Forces as vectors. equilibrium of concurrent and non-concurrent forces; Couples and distributed forces. Equilibrium of statistically equivalent systems; Free bodies and free- body diagrams; Analysis of simple frameworks, trusses; Internal actions within a beam using free-body diagrams; Variations in resisting forces along a beam; Relationship between load and response; Axial stress and strain, elasticity; Axial deformation; Shear stress and strain, shear modulus; Deformations in shear; Thermal effects and resulting stress and strain; Principles of compatibility; Concept of stiffness and properties of area and material that influence response; Superposition; Kinematic equations; Linear motion; Projectile motion. Curvilinear and relative motion; Plane kinetics, Newton’s second law in n-t coordinates; Linear momentum; Elastic and inelastic collisions. Work, forces and power; Potential and kinetic energy; Elastic energy; Energy conservation; Plane kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies; Rotation about a fixed axis. Hydrostatic pressure; Static fluid forces on simple structures; Analysis of fluid; Momentum flux of all fluid flows. Bernoulli’s equation.
Engineering Programming (12.5 credit points)
The need for and importance of writing computer programs, sequencing the solution of a problem of sub-activities/instructions. Designing an algorithm. Practical programming in ‘C’ (the vocabulary, the grammar and the structure)- input-output. storage and assignment, single-path programs, logic statements. loops and arrays. Scientific and engineering libraries of routines, compilation and debugging; validation.
Electrical Systems
Fundamentals of DC Circuits; Fundamentals of AC Circuits; Electro-mechanics and Energy Conversion; Electronics; Instrumentations and Control.
Linear Algebra & Statistics for Engineers
This unit will consider the problems arising from engineering-related fields. Students will learn the necessary skills to model and solve such problems through the introduction of mathematical techniques of linear algebra, data analysis and statistical inference. This unit will cover vectors, lines and planes and their extension into n-dimension space. The unit also covers matrices and their use for solving systems of linear equations through a study of a number of different types and solution methods. Students will be introduced to the world of statistics by looking at the concepts of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.
Resources, Processes & Materials Engineering
This unit introduces the whole-of-life cycle of resources and the underlying flow of materials, established and emerging, from their origins on to extraction, processing, selecting, applying and disposal. The unit approaches engineering decision making regarding resources as an ethical and technical systems-thinking process. A key ability that students should gain on completing this unit is to select potential materials for a given application, accounting for the suitability of their properties as well as their impact on society and the environment. Material and energy balances are introduced to quantify the resources consumed in the chemical, metallurgical, physical and biological processes associated with transforming resources and energy into end products. The origin and extraction, physical and chemical processing, sustainable use and disposal of resources are illustrated with case studies of different resources encountered across engineering disciplines, for example, metals and alloys, polymers, glasses, ceramics and composites. Foundational experiments spanning chemical processes, material properties and metallurgy support the syllabus.
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2021 Fees
Australian Students
Course | Per Unit | Total Fees ($AUD) |
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Diploma (Stage 1) | 1,950 | 15,600 |
Diploma (Stage 2) | 2,050 | 16,400 |
International Students
Course | Per Unit | Total Fees ($AUD) |
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Diploma (Stage 1) | 3,125 | 25,000 |
Diploma (Stage 2) | 4,450 | 35,600 |
Entry Requirements
Australian Students
Course | Entry Requirements |
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Diploma (Stage 1) | Year 11 with 50% |
Diploma (Stage 2) | Minimum ATAR 60 OR equivalent Foundation Year grades |
International Students
Diploma (Stage 1) | Diploma (Stage 2) | |
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General Certificate of Education (GCE) | GCE O-Level with 4 passes | Minimum of 4 points from 3 GCE A-Level |
International Baccalaureate (IB) | Completion of Year 1 Diploma with at least 18 points (minimum of 4 subjects) | Minimum of 22 points over 6 IB units in one sitting |
Global Assessment Certificate (GAC) | Enquire at Curtin College | Enquire at Curtin College |
For more information about entry requirements and pre-requisites for Australian and International applications:
We accept students from a variety of academic backgrounds, as well as students who have completed alternative training. We also accept students with work and/or life experience:
Entry Options Student & ATAR ProfilesIntakes
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 2)
February | June* | October
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 1)
February | June | October
* This excludes the majors ‘Chemical Engineering (Oil & Gas)’, ‘Metallurgical Engineering’ and ‘Civil & Construction Engineering’ which only have a February intake for the Diploma (Stage 2)
Duration
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 1)
2 or 3 Trimesters (8 – 12 months)
Diploma of Engineering (Stage 2)
2 or 3 Trimesters (12 months)
Note:
This is a full-time course at Curtin’s Bentley Campus
Next Intake February 2021 (Stage 1 & Stage 2)
Apply now for Diploma of Engineering and you could be on your way to year 2 of the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) at Curtin within 12 months.
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