Alright, so as I said, we'll be talking about what
exactly is Electrical and Electronic Engineering, some of
the careers that you can expect to go into if you decide to
study. So the courses that we offer here, so we've got
electrical engineering, electronic, Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, and some of the subjects selection and
pathways that you can expect. Alright, so you can see here is
kind of just a roadmap of all the engineering courses that we
offer. The main ones that we'll be talking about today are
highlighted in red. Also, something cool that you might
want to know is that you can double degree most of these
courses with things like the Bachelor of Business, Bachelor
of Arts, creative intelligence, languages and cultures, medical
science and science. The ones that have Asterix are already
double majors, so you can't add things onto them. Alright, so
I've got another poll. Who knows the difference between
Electrical and Electronic Engineering? Right? It's pretty
even 50%. No, 42%? Yes. So I guess that's what we want to
shed light on today. And we'll start off with that. So what
exactly is electrical engineering, some kind of easy
way to explain I would say is electrical is kind of the big
stuff. So things that use or generate electricity, complex
large scale power systems, power distribution, recovery, storage,
household appliances, and renewable energy systems.
Whereas Electronic Engineering is more the design building
assembly and testing of hardware found in suds and smart devices,
for example, your phones, sensors, cameras, it has a
strong interaction with software and artificial intelligence. It
underpins the advances in many engineering disciplines and
disciplines in general. You can focus on the miniaturisation of
electronic components and also the Internet of Things and how
it's quite a big industry, I guess our field of work and it
is demanding for miniaturisation. So why might
you choose electrical engineering, simply like the
future is electric. And it's evolving industries. It's
continuously working to improve and innovate. You can have a
globally recognised degree with global career opportunities.
You'll be at the forefront of future technologies such as
renewable energy and electric vehicles, which is a really
exciting spaces to be in. You can gain or develop your
analytical mindset. With the ability to develop and innovate
new solutions. You can be part of exciting major infrastructure
projects such as trains, solar farms, pumped hydro, for
example. And also, if you might be interested, we have the
Australian power Institute, which is a group that represents
major Australian power companies and they can provide bursaries
for first year students and I think as well as that
internships with the bursaries. On the other hand, why might you
choose Electronic Engineering, so Electronics is driving major
advances in efficient use of resources, advanced healthcare
diagnostics, space technologies, smarter transport and control,
better environment modelling, monitoring, sorry, and I guess
what you can get from that big range of fields. When you go
into electronic engineering, you can kind of expect to maybe find
a passion on your way there and you might be able to find your
work in that passion through electronics. It underpins it's
underpinned by nanotechnologies, quantum hardware, wireless
communications and advanced software. And employees of
electronic graduates are located across the globe. But if you
can't really choose between the two, make why not both. So it is
increasingly used in sustainable energy generation and
distribution. So it kind of mixes that small electronics
with larger systems like renewable energy and
distribution, energy monitoring, using IoT fabricating new
sentences for use in power energy of control systems,
designing micro electronics, for control of power systems, and
you can expect to either work in you can choose to work in either
stream, I guess you choose both. So that's kind of gives you that
flexibility.
So, career opportunities, once you finish your degree, of
course, a lot of us are hoping to get the job. And what you
might expect is working with electric cars, aircraft, train
product development, perhaps defence agencies, And military
hardware manufacturers, energy companies, including sustainable
energy providers or generators, biomedical and health
engineering companies, electronic component
manufacturers for consumer products such as mobile devices,
household appliances and smart technology. But you can also go
into research and development. If we look kind of at a closer
breakdown of the different jobs, you can see with electrical as a
large portion that will go into building services, mining, oil
and gas, kind of power, automation, and things like
that. And then for electronic, you can expect to go into
electronic systems defence electronics design, for example,
also quite a bit of biomedical. So there's a large range and you
can kind of pick and choose your industry I guess. So if you
decide to stay UTS, this is kind of the course structure that you
will be going through. So you can see between your first and
fourth year, you haven't read engineering cause. So what that
really means is the subjects like maths modelling, so you can
be introduced or reintroduced to complex numbers, a bit of
physics, maths, your electrical cause, which will get you in the
lab, you'll be from your first semester, you'll be doing
introduction to logical engineering, which is kind of
working with circuits getting hands on. And then towards the
third and fourth year, you can start to choose your own
subjects, so different strains. And then in your fifth year, you
can be doing your Capstone, which is kind of the final
project. Once you've learnt all the things in the first four
years, you kind of write a report. And, you know, whatever,
you really choose to have your Capstone, and you also have some
electives. So and then you can also see in stage four, and
stage eight, you have locked out for Diploma of professional
engineering practice, which I'll talk about later. But
essentially, it's six months each for two internships. And
then either side of that you kind of have reflection subjects
and work integrated learning subjects. So you kind of think
about what you're doing while you're out in the field, or
industry, I guess. Electric is a little bit different. But you
know, you still have your engineering cause as well as the
electronic cause. So some of those will be pretty similar to
those in electrical. So introduction to electrical
engineering, electronics and circuits, really learning the
fundamentals that will help you build your knowledge before you
decide your electronic options, which are studio subjects, and
I'll talk about those later as well. But very similar layout,
have your electives and your internship blocks. And then, if
you decide to do both, the only real difference is that your
electives get taken out of the course. So you can you would
have had four electives, but instead you kind of pick up on
either the electrical or electronic so that you get to do
both.
Right.
So as I mentioned before, your electrical choices are studio
subjects. So one of the things that UTS does really well is
project based subjects, so you can really get hands on and
understand theory better by having major projects. So the
studio subjects come in four different threads this control,
which is right, embedded systems, renewable energy and
power systems. So you can kind of see a little bit more about
what these streams really mean if you want if you can go into
the UTS website and kind of look at what you might be interested
in. And then as I mentioned, we also have the Diploma of
professional engineering practice, which is something
that UTS also has uniquely so essentially complete two month
to six month internships. One is always your second year, and
then the other one in your fourth year, which gives you a
really great opportunity to get real industry experience before
you graduate. For me, it was a really good experience to kind
of see what I might be interested in when I graduate.
You know, you get all this theoretical knowledge. But you
never really understand what that might mean in industry
until you try it. So it's a really good opportunity for you
to get in there into the industry quickly and learn more
about what you like. You develop soft skills while though which
is something really valued by employees and it helps you build
networks with organisations in industry. Some of you also
mentioned in the poll that you were unsure of what you would
want to choose, we have flexible engineering at UTS. And it's the
only engineering degree in Australia without a specified
major. And what that really means is you kind of have three
choices. With flexible engineering, you can create your
own combination of fields or strains that you'd like. Or you
can choose a sub major in an emerging area, such as renewable
energy systems, advanced manufacturing many more. Or if
you're unsure, kind of in your first year, you might want to
choose flexible first year, and then once you've completed that
you can decide, so really gives you an opportunity to taste
before you buy, try before you buy, I guess. In this slide,
we've got some of the student projects. So these are two
studio subjects. And on the left, in one of our pal labs,
you have some students building, what is an elevator. So they've
just got a modar rigged up, and they've built this little shaft,
they're kind of testing the elevator. And then on the right,
it's the renewable energy system studio. And they are kind of
understanding the characteristics of solar panels,
what happens if you can't cover some cells? So there's a lot of
experiments and projects in your future. So I'll pass it on to
Hayden kids who is our student speaker, and will share his
experience with UTS.
Awesome, thanks, Rosa. So my name is Hayden Keyes, I'm in my
fourth year of electrical engineering. So my time at UTS
has been characterised by a lot of practical learning. We've
mentioned before about the studios where there's lots of
hands on work. And it really is that. So instead of just having
written assignments, where you're writing reports, etc,
you're actually designing systems to be implemented, which
design reward problems. So I've had the opportunity to work on a
few different studio subjects, one of them actually being an
electronics subject, where I got to design my own PCB. And I've
designed the product essentially which which, which could be
marketed. In these studios, you're gonna have lots of great
tutors to help you out with these sorts of things as well.
So you in some ways, you will be working with some really great
technology, but you're going to be with some great industry
professionals who are now students as well. So a big part
of your degree, UTS in engineering is the internships.
So I've done one of my six month internships, and that's a full
time position that you take. And so I got the opportunity to do
software development for Siemens. And throughout the
internship, I was actually given a lot of opportunities to work
on my technical skills. But the thing is, UTS also helps you a
lot with getting this internship maintaining it. And they help
you out through their career hub with writing resumes, learning
how to apply learning to ace interviews, which are really big
job interviews. So that's, that's another big part of my
experience has been interning because that professional
experiences has helped me to has helped me to gain confidence
that when I leave uni, I'll have a good idea about what I'll be
doing and what skills on the Am I so we had a question come up
before about whether internships help with getting careers, or
jobs. And that's it's definitely true, I think just about
everyone I've spoken to sort of in my friends group or towards
my end of the degree, once they've finished their second
internship, about 90% of the time, they're being offered
positions, graduate positions afterwards, as well. So it's a
fantastic way to get your foot in the door. For when you finish
your degree as well. I've also had the opportunity to found and
become president of the electrical society as well. So
I'm very thankful to the faculty who have been really helpful
with giving me the resources to be able to do that. And I think
it's a great example of how the union is really working towards
propping you up for industry and for and for learning the skills
just outside of engineering, all those soft skills as well, such
as leadership and communication, which are really important.
Yeah,
let's go for some other things. So HSC subject selection. So
thankfully, UTS does not have any prerequisites, we do
recommend maths and advanced English, and physics for all
engineering courses. However, we do have short courses, which
I'll talk to you about in a second adjustment points. So
points are added to our students for ATAR. To give us election
rank, adjustment points at UTS are capped at 13. The adjustment
points can be given for a number of factors, including completing
the UTS engineering and it questionnaire which is how I got
into UTS, good results in relevant HSC subjects, your
agenda and of course, special circumstances such as COVID, and
more. Alright, so the union application process now this
slide might be a bit overwhelming, but I'll break it
down for you the early offers. So these early offers are from
Jan through August. We do offer conditional offers offers at the
moment, but stay tuned for that. scholarship applications also
open between Jan and August. So right now, you can go check out
the UTS courses on new act as they're already posted. Of
course, as some of you use half snow, September to November is
your HSC. But after that you will be actually offered several
different rounds from your work. And that is when you can change
your preferences if you decide to change your mind, or if you
don't get in the first time. Of course, these slides will be
available to you after student support. So as I mentioned, we
do recommend mass extension and physics. In case you don't study
those right now in year 11 and 12. We do offer bridging courses
in Maths, Physics and Chemistry. I personally did the physics
course. And it's a short course you do right before you start
University. And it's only a few weeks but it really does help
you. And then of course we have a piece that says study success
success, which is you pass and that's where you go and meet
mentors or others who are already past the subject and
they help you out with certain areas if you're struggling.
Alright, so these are where you can connect with us digitally
@uts.feit it of course on Face ook. You can email us with a
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