Professor Graham Davies.

Welcome to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales. We are a large but tight-knit faculty, despite the extraordinary range of disciplines that we cover. I think it’s fair to say that those who study here find it a welcoming experience. This website is designed to open your eyes to the boundless possibilities research and study in engineering brings.

UNSW’s Faculty of Engineering was recently ranked the best in Australia. The Melbourne Institute asked more than 500 scholars here and overseas to identify the best universities worldwide in their discipline. The answers, added to measures such as the number of publications, quality of staff and student satisfaction, make it clear that this Faculty offers you the best engineering education you could wish for.

Student satisfaction comes from many areas — the range of disciplines available, the choice of double-degree programs, excellent links with industry which bring the opportunity for hands-on experience in the workplace, the wide range of student-led projects such as the solar car racing team and the microsatellite group, means that there is truly something for everyone.

Design is a critical aspect of most engineering practice. Our design course for first-year students is, I hope, the first step in a quiet revolution in the education of future engineers. We cannot send our graduates out merely with a store of knowledge and understanding — they also need other skills to be able to employ those assets to solve real-world problems.

Engineering Design and Innovation was first introduced in 2006 and is intended to show undergraduates that engineering design is the application of knowledge to a problem. Students tackle problems in teams, learning along the way the formal process behind the creative decision-making that is design.

The Faculty of Engineering at UNSW is the largest in Australia and offers the widest range of engineering and IT programs. Whether you choose to design the latest iPod or work on supersonic aircraft or write programs that out-Google Google, you will learn problem-solving skills which are in turn applicable to every field of endeavour. Later in your career, these skills will also support you as head of a department or a company. Education in engineering is education for life.

The Faculty has an outstanding track record in research with a high level of success in securing national competitive grants and other publicly funded grants. The Faculty also attracts significant funding from industry and from the Federal Government Cooperative Research Centre program. The exceptional researchers in the Faculty include our academic staff, our professional and technical support staff and our higher degree research students. The Faculty has the highest number of engineering research student enrolments in Australia. These students are supported via a range of research stipends including Faculty supported scholarships, a Women in Engineering Research Scholarship to encourage more females to enter research in the field of engineering and the provision of teaching assistantships for selected students. The comprehensive and well-equipped research facilities available within the Faculty combined with the new UNSW Central Analytical Facility, allow engineering researchers ease of access to state-of-the-art research tools.