Coursework programs

Master of Electronic Engineering – Melbourne (Bundoora) (SMEE)

This course provides a means for graduates to upgrade their skills and specialise in rapidly developing high technology areas of electronics. The Department supports study in undergraduate electronic engineering degrees in several different specialist fields. In the Masters by Coursework, these specialisations are continued with specialty teaching offered in the areas of biomedical engineering, communication engineering, electronic systems engineering, microelectronics design, and optical engineering.

Graduates can work in a wide range of industries, including:

communications
microelectronics
automotive
electronic equipment design and manufacturing
medical equipment
defence organisations and hospitals.

Admission requirements

Applicants should have a four year engineering degree or an Honours degree in science in an appropriate field or equivalent. Candidates who do not strictly meet the above requirements may be considered for admission following the successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Electronic Engineering.

Course structure

The Master of Electronic Engineering course is a two semester (one year) full-time program requiring the successful completion of 120 credit points.

Core subjects (either 30, 45, or 60 credit-point design/project plus the 15 credit-point subject ELE5PRA)


Teaching period	Subject name	Subject code	Credit points
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Engineering Practice	ELE5PRA	15

Each student must select a design/project from the following:

a) A 30-credit point single-semester engineering design exercise


Teaching period	Subject name	Subject code	Credit points
TE-SEM-2	Electronic Engineering Design	ELE5EDE**	30
or
TE-SEM-1	Network Design Exercise	ELE5NDE**	30
or
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Biomedical Design Exercise	ELE5BDE**	30

(b) A 45-credit point two-semester electronic engineering project (students enrol in both subjects)


Teaching period	Subject name	Subject code	Credit points
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Electronic Engineering Project A¹	ELE5ERA	15
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Electronic Engineering Project B¹	ELE5ERB	30


Teaching period	Subject name	Subject code	Credit points
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Electronic Engineering Major Project A¹	ELE5MPA	30
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Electronic Engineering Major Project B¹	ELE5MPB	30

Key **Under special circumstances a student may enrol in more than one design exercise or project, subject to the approval of the course coordinator.

Elective subjects

The remaining subjects are chosen from the following, according to the student’s interest, to add up to a total of 120 credit points for the entire program. The subjects offered may vary from year to year, depending on demand and staff availability.


Teaching period	Subject name	Subject code	Credit points
TE-SEM-1	Advanced Studies in Telecommunication A¹	ELE5ASA	15
TE-SEM-2	Advanced Studies in Telecommunication B¹	ELE5ASB	15
TE-SEM-1	Advanced Topics A^1*	ELE4ATA	15
TE-SEM-2	Advanced Topics B^1*	ELE4ATB	15
TE-SEM-1	Advanced Topics in Telecommunications A¹	ELE5TTA	15
TE-SEM-2	Advanced Topics in Telecommunications B¹	ELE5TTB	15
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Directed Study¹	ELE4DIR	15
TE-SEM-2	Biomedical Engineering¹	ELE3BIO	15
TE-SEM-1	Communications Systems	ELE3CMN	15
TE-SEM-1	Control Systems	ELE3CON	15
TE-SEM-1	Embedded Processors	ELE3EMB	15
TE-SEM-1	Instrumentation Electronics and Sensors	ELE3IES	15
TE-SEM-2	Advanced Instrumentation Electronics	ELE4AAE	15
TE-SEM-1	Advanced Signal Processing	ELE4ASP	15
TE-SEM-1	Biomedical Engineering B¹	ELE4BME	15
TE-SEM-1	Radio Frequency Design	ELE4RFD	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	Optical Networks	ELE5OPN	15
TE-SEM-1	Personal Mobile Communications	ELE5PMC	15
TE-SEM-1	Semiconductor Materials and Devices	ELE5SDP	15
TE-SEM-1	Secure Communications^*	ELE5SEC^*	15
TE-SEM-1	Telecommunications Systems Engineering	ELE5TSE	15
TE-SEM-2	Design for Mass Production	ELE5DES	15
TE-SEM-2	Digital Communication Systems	ELE3DCS	15
TE-SEM-2	Electronic Design Automation-Tools and Technique	ELE3DDE	15
TE-SEM-2	Digital Signal Processing	ELE3SIP	15
TE-SEM-2	Antennas and Propagation	ELE4ANS	15
TE-SEM-2	Clinical Engineering¹	ELE4CLN	15
TE-SEM-2	Digital Control Theory	ELE4DCT	15
TE-SEM-2	Communications Networks	ELE4NET	15
TE-SEM-2	Emerging Topics in IC Design	ELE5ETD	15
TE-SEM-2	EDA Tools and Design Methodology^*	ELE5TDM^*	15
TE-SEM-2	Image Processing and Coding	ELE4IPC	15

Subjects offered by other departments

Subject to the approval of the course coordinator, students may take a maximum of two subjects (30 credit points) offered by other departments, provided that they are of an appropriate level and are considered relevant to the course. For example, the subjects offered by the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering applicable to this program include:


Teaching period	Subject name	Subject code	Credit points
TE-SEM-1	C Programming for Engineers and Scientists	CSE1CES	15
TE-SEM-1 or TE-SEM-2	Network Engineering Fundamentals	CSE2NEF	15
TE-SEM-2	Pervasive Network Design*	CSE4PND	15
TE-SEM-2	Networks Systems and Web Security	CSE3NSW	15
TE-SEM-1	Communication Protocol Engineering*	CSE4CPE	15
TE-SEM-2	Mobile and Pervasive Computing	CSE4MPC	15