Gain market-ready skills when you study electrical and electronics engineering, including renewables and alternative energy generation, and the role of energy production in climate change. You’ll get hands-on experience and theoretical knowledge to tackle energy production in a changing world with Deakin’s Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Honours).

Want to change the future of renewable energy and have a tangible impact on climate change?

Covering the broad areas of electrical and electronics engineering disciplines, this course gives you in-demand skills to pursue a range of careers. You’ll use industry standard tools in world-class facilities and learn from teachers who are active in the industry, so you always have the latest techniques and knowledge at your fingertips.

Study interest areas including:

• renewable power generation
• smart distribution and transmission
• urban, industrial and regional power usage
• energy production and efficiency in climate change
• design of novel electronics devices & control systems.

The design-based approach in this course means you’ll be able to apply the theory you learn to practical, research-based projects. You’ll graduate with the technical ability to create solutions, and the project management and communication skills to execute them successfully.

You’ll also build on your theoretical studies with a minimum of 60 days’ work experience, where you’ll apply what you’ve learned and benefit from the support of industry experts on the job.

Back on campus, access to our $55 million Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET) facility will help to show you how your ideas work in practice. Bring them to life in state-of-the-art labs including:

• 3D printers: one of the two largest 3D printing labs in the southern hemisphere
• design and realisation studios
• Deakin AusNet Services electrical engineering lab
• a digital manufacturing lab
• a materials science corrosion and polymer lab
• a network sensing control lab
• a mechatronics and electronics lab
• a high-voltage lab capable of reaching voltages up to 500kV
• concrete and structural testing facilities
• CNC machining centres.

In addition to traditional theory-based classes, 50 per cent of each trimester is dedicated to learning via team-based projects. You’ll tackle real-world industry problems and research, design, test and evaluate solutions, with the support of an academic.

Our project-oriented design-based learning (PODBL) in collaboration with industry, offers you the chance to apply scientific and engineering principles to solve situational challenges faced by businesses and communities. This real-world application gives you competitive insight into the social, cultural, global, ethical and environmental responsibilities of today’s engineer.

With an international skills shortage in engineering, Deakin’s Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Honours) graduates find themselves with value to contribute across a range of roles, including:

• power engineer
• electrical design engineer
• telecommunications engineer
• industrial engineer
• PLC programmer
• electronic test engineer
• research engineer
• design engineer
• special effects technician
• robotics engineers and technician
• solar cell technician
• clear car engineer
• automotive electrician
• multimedia systems specialist
• renewable energy consultant