Welcome to the presentation on the Engineering
and It entry pathways to the The University of Technology Sydney.
My name is Chris Wong. I'm the undergraduate program
coordinator for Engineering and It. So it's highly likely that
I'll be one of the first people you will meet when you join us
at UTS; and a good thing about UTS is that we are Australia's
number one Young University. But we're also the most highly
ranked university in Australia, for Computer Science and
Engineering. We are driven b innovation, we believe in pra
tice based learning. And we ike working with our part
ers, these partners are peopl like engineering firms,
it firms. And so we alwa s make sure that our courses are
totally relevant to the real wo ld and to industry, as well as
iving you a sound theoretical k owledge. We also are praying
ery, very important to help cr ate our leaders. So we don't jus
teach you the technical compo ents, we teach you all the
omponents, you need to be a we l rounded individual. And I thin
I'd mentioned the fact that we' e got excellent partnerships
ith large companies, but also small companies as well
So we're interested in a l scales, from the smallest
council to the largest mega mu tinational. And we're very,
very career relevant, we always aim to make sure the cu
rent software that you use our urrent industry leading softwa
e, and practices and equipme t, and tools. So when you start
your career, you'll find tha at UTS, we actually requir
you to undertake internshi s. And part of this is
e have over 1000 industry partn rs to help you get those int
rnships. We also have a lot o industry partners working wit
us on concepts called studios, where you actually learn ho
to develop and software r develop robot robots or mec
atronic tools with real partn rs. And these are often people f
om industry, who come in to ct as your mentors. And we also
have a lot of professional skil s workshops, we can catch
it all that you can learn thin s like code from Cisco, for exam
le, or make use of mathemat cal tools like MATLAB, for exam
le. And we have plenty of etworking opportunities to get y
u interested, and to get extra jobs and oppor
unities out there in the wor force. And because of that we ha
e career fairs, with a lot of in ustry partners as well, that's
t least twice a year. So we a m to set you up to have a car
er not just as an IT or engineer ng professional, but as an abil
ty to move to other industries b cause the world changes very f
st. So you really want to as the important question. How to
oin UTS? Yes. Now if you' e a school leaver, it does seem
fairly obvious, just do the HS or the IB or the equivalent
get an ATAR. And get your adjus ment points. We'll talk about th
se in a moment. You and you e d up with what we call a sele
tion rank. Alternatively, you m y also have non recent
school leaver backgrounds, you m y have left school a cou
le of years ago, you might be orking, you might be in anoth
r university, or you might have a TAFE diploma. We accept all of
that. And we also accept work experience as well to adjust yo
r selection rank. Now, what's selection rank? Well, selecti
n rank is how you get into un versity. most universities have
an ATAR plus adjustment p ints. So we advertise a select
on rank, for example, to go into the Bachelor of Science
in IT, which is our main degree s 84.5. Last year, or beginnin
of this year, autumn 2020. Tha will change. They always
hange plus or minus a point he e or there. But that's the minim
m course selection rank wi h engineering, a main eng
neering degree. It depends on wh ch major so it doesn't really
care what major you do. But n engineering you do. Traditio
ally civil has the highest and flexible engineering has the lo
est. So you can see that civil s ructural engineering is 87 and
flexible is 80. Now r member, this is not your ATAR
his is your ATAR plus adjustment factors, which I'll talk to you
bout to in a moment.
Okay, so for a school leaver, this is what you do. We don't
require you don't have any particular subjects for
engineering in it. We don't assume that you've done
engineering studies at school or software design. We don't even
assume that you've done math Advanced or Mat extension one or
extension two. So we do offer bridging courses for those of
you who haven't. Okay, when you join UTS will assess your
ability and offer you extra support if you need it. We also
have what we call a subject scheme. So because you're
engineering and It students, we looked at all the subjects at
your HSC. And we gave extra points depending on what band
you're in. For example, if you've got a band six, in math
extension two, you'll probably get three extra bonus points on
top of that. And this accumulates to a maximum number
of points worth having it, Krishna, which we'll talk about
a moment, and other forms of adjustments as well. We call
these admission schemes. So the subject schemes is fairly easy.
You basically do well band for band five, or band six in your
HSC. And it depends on the subjects. But you'll be
surprised what subjects for example, English, not just
mathematics and engineering studies, but English as well
gets bonuses, plus, a lot of vocational subjects you might
do, for example, the TAFE exam question, subjects in the HSC.
We will give bonuses for those two. This is our cap though and
five adjustment points. We have another scheme called the
engineering and it questionnaire.
Now this is slightly different. It's not like an exam. We're
interested in finding out about your interest in engineering and
it so focus the questions tightly on your why you want to
become an engineer, or why you want to go to it. Tell us
something about the experience you've had, have you done school
robotics, have you been programming on the side or
writing a website, put it down, and we can give you up to 123
extra bonus points on top. Okay, there's one caveat though your
selection rank really has to be at the 80 mark, this is not the
ATAR your selection rank at a time at, we give you the extra
points that get you into the major or degree that you want.
So we consider it really important that you do this
because reality is as long as you show an interest, we give
you points. Okay. So if you have a little problem where you don't
make the ATAR or selection rank into UTS, we have alternative
admission schemes that are possible for you. For example,
we have UT s college, this used to be called insearch, you
basically the first year of your course, the plumber of it leads
into the Bachelor of Science in it, or the Diploma of
engineering, which leads you into the Bachelor of
Engineering. And that's one year, it's a private college,
but a UTS owns it. And you do xactly the same subject as
irst year. Okay. Other methods, ou can go to other
niversities, where you can do AFE add external work
xperience, and that will give ou a new selection ring. So
et's go for some of those chemes very briefly. Okay, you
an do another degree. This eans it doesn't have to be a
TS degree, it could be one from nother university. But one
ear, you have to complete one ear first. And that gives you
n ATAR as well, which is sually high enough to get into
ny degree UTS, you can do a elevant TAFE diploma advanced
iploma. And we'll have a talk bout that later. And UTS
ollege admits that already. We ave other programmes called the
umbunna programme, which is for ndigenous students and want to
o which is really aimed at omen in engineering in it. And
e also accept other foundation rogrammes, please look at the
RL UTS. edu au forward slash e try pathways and these other p
ivate colleges, which gives p thways into universities. And w
accept them as well. And t ere's other pathways as well w
thin the university. So let's s y if you want to do the B
chelor of Business Bachelor of S ience in it, called the busy b
scuit that has a higher ATAR t an the Bachelor of Science in i
, you can simply enter the B chelor of Science in it and t
ansfer into the Bachelor of B siness Bachelor of Science in i
, or games usually has a quite a high ATAR as well. We r
commend to do the Bachelor of S ience in it and do a sub major i
computer graphics and a imation which has much of the s
me subjects and then apply to t ansfer in your second year. k
y thing is you can't transfer i the first year you have to t
ansfer in the second year.
Same thing with engineering. You may want to go into civil
engineering, but you don't have the data. It's at least five to
seven points higher in that Case choose the flexible engineering
which has a flexible first year and apply to transfer in the
second year. Alternatively, you can stay with the flexible
programme and just choose sub majors that fit out for example,
in civil, you can do environmental engineering,
structural, you can do construction engineering as part
of a flexible engineering degree. So you have other
alternatives that are possible. Other pathways you could try,
include TAFE. And this is a very important pathway because, as
you understand the COVID years being quite difficult for most
people. So, I'm going to talk get you to listen to a TAFE
representative Peter Shriner, who's the industry lead for
TAFE, New South Wales. Hello, Peter.
I, Chris, thank you. So I'm going to speak about the Diploma
of engineering a national accredited course competency
based, which is used for to work between trade levels and so and
technician levels, technologist levels that is, and technicians
broadly apply knowledge and skills and specific branches.
They demonstrate practical understanding of engineering
concepts really around the practical side of it. They solve
practical problems, and they work at paraprofessional levels.
Often this qualification is used as a stepping pathway into
degrees. But there is also successful levels of people
working in that industry at that level. In terms of a structure,
it's a one year full time qualification. It has a series
of core units, which are quite similar to the first year of a
degree in many parts. So there's some common units around
material science Computer Aided drafting, mathematics, physics,
and then also some automation technologies that we've also
included. Importantly, there is also a pathway that we're
offering with ETS, where students will undertake the
foundation mathematics unit, along with a prior recognition
of prior knowledge for the calc through the calculus scheme. And
so we're basically substituting one of the units that's in the
course the calculus unit, with the foundation mathematics unit,
and that gives students the opportunity to study under both
schemes under higher education and the vet programmes. The TAFE
New South Wales department of engineering, as I said, is a one
year course there's no entry requirements, but we do
recommend that there is some mathematics background in there
that you have that entry level, the delivery locations for this
pilot will be at whether or Park and Metro it maximum phase for
students, for eligible students is $5,750. There is also that's
for a second qualification. For a first qualification, it is
5120 and Judah Cova. There's a skilling for recovery programme.
We were eligible students pay zero fees. So for 2021 that will
mean eligibility for Smart and Skilled training, which is the
state funding body is between 717 and 24 years of age. It also
includes you 12 school leavers and employed or at risk of
unemployment. The core start date is first of February, and
enrollment can occur from here until first February. In terms
of study load, it's a 20 hour week, over 36 weeks.
Thank you, Peter. Um, one interesting thing that we should
offer the students doing the pleasure of engineering
technical, is you will get some credit recognition as well.
Generally, we give you the first six months or the degree off
after you do the Diploma of engineering technical. So, what
happens if you're not a recent school leaver, you could be a
mature age student, you could be working, or you could have
transferred from another university, or you did a type
deployment either recently or not So recently, and we're
perfectly happy to accept students from these programmes.
You do come under a slightly different pathway, though.
Because you're you've worked or you've had work experience, we
apply, we give you an opportunity to complete an
employment question, we get up to five adjustment points, and
having one two or three or more years of experience in relevant
fields. The interesting thing about the relevant fields, it
doesn't mean engineering what it it needs areas like in a
professional field, or you had managerial experience or
experience even in trades. So we do give additional adjustment
points for that as well. Now, I did mention that You can
transfer after your second year. But we have a lot of students
who transfer after completing a first degree, maybe in science,
for example. And we give credit regulation for that. So with the
university admissions, look at the dates are very important.
But we do give credit recognition, but it depends on
the actual units of studies or subjects that you've taken at
the other university. For engineering, it's got to be
within 10 years. So you could have done a degree three years
ago in science, for example, you did mathematics, and maybe some
physics, we would accept that into engineering, as well. So
you don't jump straight in the first year, it is a bit more
restricted, we restrict you to the last three years because it
is a very, very fast moving website. fast moving to subject,
I guess, if you want to look at what sort of recognition you
have in the system, click type the word utms credit recognition
tool to Google search for. And you'll see a tool where you can
enter which country you did your degree, or diploma, and what
amount of credit recognition you can obtain. Now, some important
dates you need to be aware of, not 19th of December, is
beginning of us, December round two. So this is the last date,
where you can change your preferences, you would have got
your eight hours. And that's a date where you can choose what
your preferences will be. And on the 23rd of December Christmas
present, you'll get your offers released. There's another two
rounds that we offer. January round one January round two, you
can see the dates there. And there's also later FEHB rounds
for TAFE students as well. So please make sure you don't
forget these dates, it's very important to get so you can get
into UTS.. So once you enter UT is good news is a lot of you may
have questions on where you have the mathematics background
sufficient to do your degree. Now, if you did the Diploma of
engineering technical, you would have done effectively what we
call the foundation mathematics programme, which is bit more
than the bridging courses, so you're not going to be behind
the other students. We also offer particular support for
students with poor language we got helps. We have a programme
called u pass where we have additional tutoring for students
in your subjects, typically the first year. So it's very useful
to have peer students helping you a group study to help you
pass the subjects. We have lots of societies like the technical
society and the Engineering Society. And we also have
various scholarships. So Google the word scholarship utms. We
used to have additional support for women in engineering and it.
Again, we have additional scholarships. But we also have a
very big network of staff and students and professionals and
people from outside UTS to help mentor Women in Engineering in
it, speakers programmes, we get you to help other school
presentations, for example, we have a mentoring programme as
well and lots of social events for that. So that's if you're a
woman.
Other ways you can contact us to find out more information is to
use Facebook or Instagram. You can see the tag there, or email
us FEIT@uts.edu.au or look a our website FEIT.uts.edu.au.
I hope that's enough infor ation. If not, send us an email
nd we'll try our best to get ou the answer. So please come
long to the info day. On the 8th and 19th of December. It
s coming up soon. Make sure yo register at infoday.uts.edu.a
, and I hope to see you I'l be around on the Friday for o
e on one consultations virtu lly Of course. And we have
campus tours on the Saturday 19t of December. So don't
orget these two days are really critical. The 18th is when yo
need to get that it and enginee ing questionnaire in an
get those preferences set. Nu ber one viewed Yes, of cour
e. So I look forward to seeing y u. Thank you very much.