Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Summary

Engineers design the future. They provide innovative solutions to meet the needs of our modern world. From buildings and bridges, to apps and smart devices, to pharmaceuticals and renewable energy, engineering feats are everywhere. The Bachelor of Engineering with Honours is a four-year professional degree. The degree is accredited by Engineering New Zealand, allowing our graduates to work as professionally qualified engineers all over the world.

Electrical and Electronic Engineers harness one of the core forces of the universe to enable a sustainable future of our world and effectively combat climate change. They create systems to provide efficient and clean energy solutions for homes and industry, the hardware parts that transfer information between computers, and also the smart miniature devices we now see around us.

Digital television, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, medical imaging, and space exploration have all been possible in large part because of electrical and electronic engineering innovation.

How do I plan my degree?

The Bachelor of Engineering with Honours requires a minimum of 480 points:

• 75 points of compulsory courses (plus two 0-point compulsory courses)
• 45 points of first-year engineering courses
• 360 points of engineering discipline courses.

The first year of the degree comprises nine courses (120 points), made up of six compulsory courses and three first-year courses, which vary depending on which Engineering discipline you want to specialise in. Find guidance online to structuring your first year to keep your options open if you are undecided on which discipline you wish to pursue.

The first year is followed by three years of study in one of the Engineering disciplines. Some disciplines also offer the opportunity to include a minor subject. Possible to the second year of the degree is limited and based on your performance in the first year.

All students must also complete 800 hours (approximately 100 days) of practical work placement.

Career opportunities

UC Electrical and Electronic Engineering graduates are well equipped to join the technological and information revolution, with a wide range of career options. Some these are an electronics design engineer, biomedical engineer, consulting engineer, entrepreneur, or an educator/researcher in industry, school, or university.

Now, and especially in the future, electrical and electronic engineers have the opportunity to develop innovative systems such as:

• new and sustainable ways of generating power from wind, hydro, and solar
• more precise and smarter medical devices, instruments, and scanners
• more efficient ways of using electric power and intelligent systems, such as autonomous cars or search-and-rescue robots
• new nano-scale devices and materials
• better ways of gathering information through sensor networks to help businesses make accurate decisions
• new ways of controlling the administration of medicines or the motion of rockets
• faster, cheaper, and more reliable ways of sending information through communication networks