Engineering help! (1 Viewer)

[cineti970128]

which university is better for engineering degree - University of Melbourne or UNSW?

based on aspects of- salary, social life, cost of living, internation opportunity, faculty standards, etc

(i know that UoM offers better accreditations after the master course: Eurace, Engineer Australia and Washington Accord)

So i am thinking that uom is better than unsw

your opinions?

also can anyone give me insights on what electrical engineers actually do in their job (a lot of paper work or a lot of design)? Also if you get into management position what is expected salary and working hour?

Also if i have to choose between mech and elec which one has better future prospect?

If you want to get HD average and do many work experience, do you have study all day and have no social life?

 

[laddidas]

focus on medicine if you think you will get that atar

 

[brent012]

All Engineering degrees currently offered by Australian universities (but NOT "Engineering Science") are accredited by Engineers Australia. The only exception are new majors which the university might introduce the year they are up for a general review. The Washington Accord is simply an agreement between a lot of different Engineering accreditation boards, if your degree is recognised by Engineers Australia then it will be recognised in any of the signatory countries. It is most definitely not unique to UoM. I'm not sure about EUR-ACE, but there are a few European signatory countries to the Washington Accord.

Additionally masters with engineering is not a very good idea, especially straight out of university. That would be preparing you for research. Most engineers who do post grad do something like a MBA to help them move into the management side. I don't study Electrical Engineering (my major, software, is far removed from other majors) so I don't really have anything to add about what is involved in jobs or pay/hours. But of all the established engineering majors (i.e. no mining or petroleum) Electrical Engineers command the greatest graduate salaries. There will always be a need for electrical infrastructure (you'd want to do a power stream for that) and what not so i'd say it's fairly safe for future prosepcts.

From what my friends have told me Electrical Engineering is extremely difficult, I don't think a HD average is very realistic but it would be difficult. The engineering faculty at the university I go to don't do scaling so maybe it's different at UNSW.

If you currently live in NSW I don't think there is any reason to move so you can study at UoM, UNSW is fairly renowned for engineering. This forum also tends to have a UNSW bias (especially when comparing to interstate universities) so I can gaurantee you that almost all the replies following will say UNSW.

focus on medicine if you think you will get that atar

If he doesn't want to do Medicine then that is a stupid idea.

 

[cineti970128]

focus on medicine if you think you will get that atar

I was thinking about doing medicine, but i want to have some flexibility in my life, i don't want to work 70hours a week
medicine is a good career but engineering suits me more i think

 

[cineti970128]

Cheers brent

 

[cineti970128]

If you work as an electrical engineering for long time and become like lets say designe or principle engineer what task would i be doing?
Do you do a lot of difficult maths as an electrical engineer after uni?