Career Opportunities

Our graduates in electrical and electronic engineering work in all areas of industry, including but not limited to: mining and power distribution, infrastructure, computing, medical technology, defence, communication systems, e-commerce and advanced manufacturing.

They enjoy lucrative national and international job prospects, as well as challenging, creative and rewarding long-term careers involving imagination, innovation and teamwork.

Graduates have secured roles with leading technology companies worldwide – including

• Google,
• Apple,
• Boeing,
• Tesla,
• SAAB,
• Microsoft,
• Meta

– and with companies across the defence, energy and electronics sectors. 

Our graduate mechanical engineers apply their skills to make motor vehicles, aircraft systems, engines, pumps, gas turbines, industrial plants, air-conditioning and refrigeration systems, manufacturing processes, building services or even space stations.

Among our alumni are: CEOs, inventors of ground-breaking technology, engineers in some of Australia’s biggest energy projects, designers of Australia’s future submarines, and an astronaut – Andy Thomas, AO.

Our outstanding graduates have gone on to work in an equally wide range of industries and organisations. These include:

• the European Space Agency; 
• NASA;
• the Australian Institute of Sport; 
• Boeing; 
• BAE Systems; 
• Santos and 
• AGL.  

Our biomedical engineering graduates work in medical device companies, the healthcare sector and the biotechnology industry.

They work in biomedical engineering departments or research laboratories within hospitals, research institutes and universities.

Others use their robust scientific knowledge in the medical diagnostics, human augmentation and health tech industries. Some work to design rehabilitation technologies or enjoy fulfilling careers within the defence and space sector.

Our graduates have go on to work companies including:

• Siemens,
• Medtronic,
• Philips,
• GE Healthcare,
• Cochlear.