Queensland University of Technology
Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical with Management)
- Delivery: Face to Face
- Study Level: Postgraduate
- Duration: 24 months
- Course Type: Master's
Ideal for practising engineers who want advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or want to move into an engineering management role.
Course overview
The Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical with Management) enhances the knowledge, practice and professional employability skills of engineers in specific discipline areas at an advanced level. Explore an integrated mix of specialist discipline complexity and evidence-based practice with future-focused professional skills development in a connected learning environment.
The electrical with management major offers an engineering management qualification to practising engineers, specialising in electrical engineering. It combines a formal qualification in management with advanced electrical engineering skills and knowledge.
This course is suitable for practising engineers who want to change engineering disciplines and attain postgraduate qualifications.
Key facts
July, 2026
What you will study
To graduate with a Master of Professional Engineering (Electrical with Management), you are required to complete 192 credit points (16 units). Each unit is valued at 12 credit points.
- Advanced Design and Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Practice in Engineering
- Project Management Principles
- Research Methods for Engineers
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Project 1
- Project 2
AND
- Select nine (9) units from the Discipline Option Units.
Entry Requirements
1.5-year program
You must have a completed four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor's degree in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
Two-year program
You must have completed one of the following:
- Three-year full-time (or equivalent) engineering or engineering technology in an electrical engineering discipline with a minimum of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
- Four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor's degree in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale).
Recognition of Prior Learning
1.5 year entry
If you have completed a four-year full-time (or equivalent) bachelor's degree in the electrical engineering discipline with a minimum GPA of 4.00 (on QUT’s 7-point scale), you will be granted 48 credit points (one semester) of general advanced standing upon offer.
No further advanced standing will be granted for degree or honours degree studies.
Other advanced standing
Besides the above, advanced standing will be only be considered for relevant:
- Postgraduate (graduate certificate, graduate diploma, masters and doctorate) studies; and/or
- Work experience gained after completing your engineering degree (or higher) qualification.
Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
You will graduate with advanced, cutting-edge knowledge and skills in a chosen engineering field or engineering management role. You will:
- Be able to lead and contribute to complex projects and respond rapidly and effectively to current and emerging local and global challenges.
- Have research capacity for evidence-based practice and imagine and realise change using management strategies, advanced design, collaborative decision-making and innovation in ethical and sustainable ways appropriate to your role.
- Be strategic in the use of digital technologies.
- Be an effective collaborator and communicator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts with knowledge of and respect for diverse cultural perspectives.
- Be able to apply integrated computer-based approaches to monitor and manage internal and external resources in an organisation and implement a range of strategies and practices to support organisational objectives such as competitive advantages, innovation, sharing lessons learned, integration and continuous improvement.
- Be able to become a specialist engineering manager within your chosen professional field, in particular, a leader and manager of engineering processes.
- Be capable of undertaking management-level roles in operations management, quality control management, logistics, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and other specialised engineering fields.
Career Outcomes
Possible careers:
- Electrical Engineer
- Engineer
- Engineering Technologist
- Engineering Manager
Fees and FEE-HELP
Indicative 2026 fee: $36,800 per year full-time for 96 credit points (domestic full-fee paying place)
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. QUT reviews fees annually. They may be subject to increases.
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students.