Studying at The University of Western Australia is more than just gaining an education – it is a total experience which gives UWA graduates a head start in their professional and social lives.

When you join UWA you are part of one of Australia’s best universities. The UWA experience starts with a commitment to quality at international standards of excellence. This is reflected in the high standard of our students, staff and graduates.

UWA's Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics offers exciting and challenging opportunities and a secure future to women and men ready to take on the challenges of the millennium.

The strong links between UWA and the engineering profession throughout Australia mean that UWA Engineering graduates enjoy excellent career prospects. Employment is found in a variety of sectors including the mining, oil and gas sector, manufacturing, construction, power generation, consulting, environmental management and research.

UWA graduates more readily obtain employment as engineers than do graduates from similar courses at other Western Australian Universities. UWA is internationally recognized as an industry leader in engineering and as a result our graduates are in high demand.

Our practical courses include:
- a component where students work in industry for credit toward their course
- input into the design of our courses from industry leaders
- opportunities to work on a range of exciting and creative industry-based projects
- guest lecturers from global organisation speaking about recent innovations.

The School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering The School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering offers exciting opportunities in: - Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Computer Engineering - Process Instrumentation and Control Engineering Combined courses are also available, with courses including: - Arts - Computer Science - Science - Laws - Commerce - Music - Economics

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Western Australia offers a number of courses leading to a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The course duration is 4 years and covers the following major fields: Communication Engineering, Control Engineering, Power Systems Engineering and Electronic Engineering.

Communication Engineering deals with the transfer of information of diverse kinds by the modulation, transmission and subsequent demodulation or reception of electrical, electromagnetic or optical signals.

Power Systems Engineering is a very large field of professional engineering practice in Australia and throughout the world. Every modern economy depends increasingly on electricity supply.

Control Engineering deals with automatic means by which the performance of a process or plant is controlled or regulated from measurements of its own response. Feedback control of this kind, and its fundamental concepts, has very wide applications and implications. Control engineers need wide knowledge and the ability to work with specialists in other fields. This branch of engineers involves the marriage of electrical and mechanical systems.

Computer Engineering
The field of Computer Engineering encompasses a wide variety of areas including:

- Computer Systems - hardware, software embedded, design, management
- Networks and Communications - local, global, wireless, concurrency, Internet
- Intelligent Information Systems - robotics, automation, manufacturing, vision, neural networks
- Signal Processing - adaptive systems, real-time, fuzzy logic
- Automotive Systems - motor management, brake systems, drive information, navigation.

The Bachelor of Engineering (Computer) covers:

- Computer Engineering: focuses in the areas of the design and development of hardware and software systems.
- Communication and Network Engineering: concentrates on different service needs, and developing and applying hardware and software to meet them.
- Software Engineering: focuses on the design and development of software.
- Intelligent Systems: concentrates on the development of expert systems or neural network components or devices.

Process Instrumentation and Control Engineering
To meet the demands of society, modern manufacturing of process plants are equipped with systems and devices which are needed to measure and regulate variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, humidity, liquid level, velocity and density. If these and other factors are not closely controlled the product being manufactured or processed can be completely ruined.

The Process Instrumentation and Control Engineering field encompasses all kinds of essential human activity and enterprise including:

- Power generation
- Semiconductor and Chemical manufacturing - production, control, design
- Mining industry
- Petroleum refining
- Pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, aluminium, food and waste water processing.