Diploma in Engineering (14 months)

The Diploma of Engineering is designed to meet the needs of overseas students whose first language may not be English, who may fall short of direct entry requirements andor whose availability for first year study is out of phase with the University's normal entry date. The aims of the Diploma of Engineering are:To equip international students with the English language competence they need to study at UWA by the final trimester of the Diploma Program;To provide students with study skills and the intellectual development they need to be academically capable of studying engineering related subjects at UWA by the final trimester of the Diploma Program;To provide students with appropriate subject specific knowledge to prepare them for the second year of study in an appropriate engineering related discipline at UWA;To enable students to develop confidence in communicating complex academic matters with native speakers;To increase familiarity with Australian academic practices including the practical experience of university teaching methods.Students who pass the program will be awarded the Diploma of Engineering with 48 transferable credits guaranteeing a place into the second year of an appropriate undergraduate program for units studied. The program is designed to build on students' existing language, academic and numerical skills, offering a range of compulsory and elective units to ensure breadth of study and to provide pathways to majors in Software Engineering, Mining Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electrical and ElectronicEngineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Automation and Robotics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

Except as stated in 2 a student who enrols in an undergraduate degree course of the University for the first time irrespective of whether they have previously been enrolled in another course of the University must undertake the Academic Conduct Essentials module the ACE module and Indigenous Studies Essentials the ISE module in the teaching period in which they are first enrolled