Graduate School of Management
Master of Business Administration/Master of Electronic Engineering – Melbourne (Bundoora) (SZBAEE)
The School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and the Graduate School of Management have come together to offer this innovative two year double Masters degree.
For graduates in Electronic Engineering this course affords the opportunity to develop specialist skills and knowledge and enhance them with management knowledge that can be applied to business decisions. The School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences delivers the Master of Electronic Engineering while the Graduate School of Management delivers the internationally recognised MBA.
Admission requirements
Students must have completed a four-year engineering degree, with a credit average or better, in electronics, communication, telecommunication or computer engineering, that includes the fundamentals of C Programming, analogue and digital electronic design and computer / microprocessor architecture, or a degree determined to be equivalent by La Trobe University.
Course structure
Students study the Electronic Engineering Masters in the first year and then the MBA in the second year, or the MBA in the first year followed by the Electronic Engineering Masters in the second year.
The two degrees will only be awarded on completion of the entire program. Granting of cross credits means that it is not possible to take out one of the degrees at the end of the first year without completing further units in that degree.
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
In the MBA year, students must complete a total of 180 credit points comprising seven core units and five elective units from the lists below.
Students can take either three units per term for four terms or four units per term for three terms.
All units are worth 15 credit points.
Core units
| Teaching period | Unit title | Unit code | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
International Business Environment | BUA4IBE | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Financial Management and Accounting | BUA4FMA | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Organisational Behaviour | BUA4OB | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Strategic Human Resource Management | BUA4SHR | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Marketing | BUA4MKG | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Management Fundamentals | BUA4MGT | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Issues in Strategic Management | BUA4ISM | 15 |
Elective units
| Teaching period | Unit name | Unit code | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Applied Business Economics | BUA5ABE | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Business Analysis and Modelling | BUA5BAM | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Money and Banking | BUA5MAB | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 4 |
Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility | BUA5GCS | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 | Advanced Management Finance (Prerequisite: BUA5MFN Management Finance) |
BUA5AMF | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Business Improvement Methodologies (Prerequisite: BUA4ISM Issues in Strategic Mgt) |
BUA5BIM | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Corporate Strategy (Prerequisite: BUA4ISM Issues in Strategic Mgt) |
BUA5CST | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Leadership Challenge (Prerequisites: BUA4MGT Management Fundamentals and BUA4OB Organisational Behaviour) |
BUA5LDC | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 | Advanced Management Information Systems (Prerequisite: BUA5MIS Management Info Syst) | BUA5AMI | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 or 3 |
Advanced and International Marketing (Prerequisite: BUA4MKG marketing) |
BUA5AMK | 15 |
| TE-TERM-3 | International and Comparative Human Resource Management (Prerequisite: BUA4SHR Strategic Human Resource Management) | BUA5IHR | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Services Marketing (Prerequisite: BUA4MKG Marketing) |
BUA5SMA | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 | Funding Technology Start-ups | BUA5FTS | 15 |
| TE-TERM-3 | International Finance | BUA5IFI | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Management Information Systems | BUA5MIS | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Risk Management | BUA5RMA | 15 |
| TE-TERM-3 | Strategic Management of Intellectual Property | BUA5SMP | 15 |
| TE-TERM-1 | International Employment Relations | BUA5IER | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Entrepreneurial Business Planning (Prerequisite: BUA4ISM Issues in Strategic Management) |
BUA5EBP | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Management Finance (Prerequisite: BUA4FMA Financial Mgt Acctg) |
BUA5MFN | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 | Developing People and High Performance (Prerequisite: BUA4SHR Strategic Human Res Mgt) |
BUA5DPP | 15 |
| TE-TERM-2 or 4 |
Services Marketing (Prerequisite: BUA4MKG Marketing) |
BUA5SMA | 15 |
Note: The list of units is subject to change. Not all core units and electives are offered each term. Students will need to refer to the Graduate School of Management's website at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/gsm/current_students.html for unit availability.
Master of Electronic Engineering (MEE)
For the MEE year, students must complete the following unit:
| Teaching period | Unit title | Unit code | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2 |
Engineering Practice | ELE5PRA | 15 |
Plus select one of the following:
| Teaching period | Unit title | Unit code | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-2 | Electronic Engineering Design | ELE5EDE | 30 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Network Design Exercise | ELE5NDE | 30 |
Plus units to the value of 45 credit points from the list of Level 3 and Level 4 units below. The maximum number of Level 1, 2 or 3 units that can be included is one. All units are worth 15 credit points unless otherwise stated.
Level 3 units
Most units have prerequisites.
| Teaching period | Unit name | Unit code | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 | Communications Systems | ELE3CMN | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Control Systems | ELE3CON | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Embedded Processors | ELE3EMB | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Digital Communication Systems | ELE3DCS | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Digital Signal Processing | ELE3SIP | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Electronic Design Automation-Tools and Technique | ELE3DDE | 15 |
Level 4 units
Some units may not be available every year and some may have prerequisites.
| Teaching period | Unit name | Unit code | Credit points |
|---|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 | Advanced Signal Processing | ELE4ASP | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Advanced Topics in Telecommunications A1 | ELE5TTA | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Broadband Digital Communications | ELE5BDC | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Digital System Design | ELE5DSD | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Integrated Circuit Design | ELE5ICD | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Personal Mobile Communications | ELE5PMC | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Radio Frequency Design | ELE4RFD | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Semiconductor Materials and Devices | ELE5SDP | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Telecommunications Systems Engineering | ELE5TSE | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 or 2 | Telecommunication Design Exercise | ELE5TDE | 30 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Advanced Instrumentation Electronics | ELE4AAE | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Advanced Topics in Telecommunications B1 | ELE5TTB | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Antennas and Propagation | ELE4ANS | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Communications Networks | ELE4NET | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Digital Control Theory | ELE4DCT | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | EDA Tools and Design Methodology* | ELE5TDM* | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Emerging Topics in IC Design | ELE5ETD | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Image Processing and Coding | ELE4IPC | 15 |
| TE-SEM-1 | Optical Networks | ELE5OPN | 15 |
| TE-SEM-2 | Test and Verification | ELE5TAV | 15 |
Note: The list of units is subject to change.
Key:
1 : Enrolment subject to approval from the course coordinator.
* : Not offered in 2009.