Undergraduate Courses
  • Students are to follow the requirements of the Handbook for the year they commenced the course.

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Computer Engineering Major

To satisfy the requirements for a major study in Computer Engineering a student shall satisfactorily complete the Bachelor of Engineering core subjects, as listed in the Course Program plus those subjects as detailed in the following program.

Year 3

Students should enrol in the following subjects in their third year of enrolment:

Subjects

Session

Credit Points

ECTE333

Microcontroller Architecture and Applications

Annual

6

ECTE350

Engineering Design and Management 3

Annual

6

ECTE301

Digital Signal Processing

Autumn

6

ECTE344

Control Theory

Autumn

6

ECTE363

Communication Systems

Autumn

6

ECTE399

Professional Experience

Autumn/Spring

0

CSCI213

Java Programming and Applications

Spring

6

ECTE364

Data Communications

Spring

6

AND

1 General Schedule Subject*

Spring

6

Year 4

Students must enrol in the following subject in their fourth year of enrolment:

Subjects

Session

Credit Points

ECTE432

Computer Architecture

Spring

6

AND

To be considered for the award of Honours students must also enrol in the following subjects in their fourth year of enrolment:

ECTE451

Engineering Project 1

Autumn/Spring

6

ECTE458

Engineering Project 2

Autumn/Spring

12

AND

 

2 Computer Engineering Major Subjects

Autumn/Spring

12

AND

1 Elective Subject

Autumn/Spring

6

AND

1 General Schedule Subject*

Autumn/Spring

6

OR

To be considered for the award of a pass degree (no honours) students must also enrol in the following subjects in their fourth year of enrolment:

ECTE451

Engineering Project 1

Autumn/Spring

6

AND

2 Computer Engineering Major Subjects

Autumn/Spring

12

AND

3 Elective Subjects

Autumn/Spring

18

AND

1 General Schedule Subject*

Autumn/Spring

6

Computer Engineering Major Subjects

ECTE401

Multimedia Signal Processing

Autumn

6

ECTE431

Real-Time Computing

Autumn

6

ECTE433

Embedded Systems

Autumn

6

CSCI318

Software Engineering Practices and Principles

Spring

6

ECTE471

Robotics and Flexible Automation

Spring

6

*General Schedule subjects are selected from the General Schedule. They may be 100/200/300/400-level (excluding ECTE181, ECTE182, ECTE282 and ECTE283) and are subject to the approval of the Head of School or nominee.

Elective Subjects

Subjects appearing on the Elective Subjects list will only count as either a Major Subject or an Elective Subject.

Students will not be approved to have one subject count toward both their Major and Elective requirements.

Additional Information:

Unless class numbers warrant, not all Computer Engineering Major Subjects or Elective Subjects will be offered in any one year.

Other Information

Further information is available at http://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/ or email: informatics_enquiries@uow.edu.au