Undergraduate Courses
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Telecommunications Engineering Major

To satisfy the requirements for a major study in Telecommunications 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

ECTE363

Communication Systems

Autumn

6

ECTE344

Control Theory

Autumn

6

ECTE399

Professional Experience

Autumn/Spring

0

ECTE364

Data Communications

Spring

6

ISIT201

Information and Communication Security

Spring

6

AND

1 General Schedule Subject *

Spring

6

Year 4

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

Subjects

Session

Credit Points

ECTE451

Engineering Project 1

Autumn/Spring

6

ECTE458

Engineering Project 2

Autumn/Spring

12

ECTE469

Queuing Theory and Optimisation

Spring

6

AND

 

2 Telecommunications Engineering Major Subjects

Autumn/Spring

12

AND

1 Elective Subject

Autumn/Spring

6

AND

1 General Schedule Subject*

Autumn/Spring

6

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

ECTE451

Engineering Project 1

Autumn/Spring

6

ECTE469

Queuing Theory and Optimisation

Spring

6

AND

2 Telecommunications Engineering Major Subjects

Autumn/Spring

12

AND

3 Elective Subjects

Autumn/Spring

18

AND

1 General Schedule Subjects*

Autumn/Spring

6

Telecommunications Engineering Major Subjects

Students must enrol in the following subjects (18 credit points) to satisfy the requirements of this major:

ECTE401

Multimedia Signal Processing

Autumn

6

ECTE482

Network Engineering

Autumn

6

ECTE465

Wireless Communication Systems

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 their nominee.

Elective Subjects

Subjects appearing on the Elective Subject 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 requirement.

Additional Information:

Unless class numbers warrant, not all 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