This dual program sets you up for a career where you'll use your engineering know-how as a leader in a business or entrepreneurial setting. By completing the dual program you'll gain an extra qualification and open up pathways to use your engineering prowess in a broad range of business applications. In the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), you’ll develop technical skills through a core specialisation, which will form the basis of your career. Depending on your choice of specialisation, the engineering skills you'll develop will allow you to work in a range of fields, from infrastructure and hospitals to energy and software. Under the world-class business program, you'll complete a range of courses that cover concepts relevant across the business world. You'll study topics including innovation and entrepreneurship, economics, marketing, business information systems, strategy and management. During your studies you'll hear from guest lecturers from industry, examine real-life case studies and undertake projects, placements and internships with leading businesses.
The Leadership and Management Science major develops the competencies critical for leading dynamic workplaces of the future. The major prepares students for the challenges of the future by managing and leading through rapid change and disruption, globalisation, diversity, connectivity, continuous development, and sustainability and corporate social responsibility challenges. Courses emphasise key competencies in leadership and management demanded by employers, such as analytic thinking, thinking independently, evidence based decision making, planning and communicating effectively, identifying and solving problems, collaborating in dynamic teams, leading with competence, and working effectively across cultures and functions. This major is well suited (and indeed designed) for dual-degree or dual-major students, particularly those in the technical, professional, and scientific disciplines. It prepares students to meet employer demands for the skills critical to graduate level leadership and managerial positions and for students who aspire to higher leadership and managerial roles in their future careers. The course also enhances the employability skills for graduates aspiring to transition their technical knowledge to leadership and managerial roles in the future.
