UNSW Faculty of Engineering


The Faculty of Engineering is a constituent body of the University of New South Wales, Australia. UNSW was formed on 1 July 1949, and the Faculty was established on 8 May 1950 with the inaugural meeting of the Faculty taking place on 7 June 1950. It was one of the first three University faculties which were established by Council, and was initially formed of four departments including Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mining Engineering, headed by Dean Professor Harold Brown.
Today, it is the largest engineering faculty in Australia, offering the widest range of engineering programmes.
WWW Official Site

Organisations

The Faculty comprises eight schools:
The UNSW School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering was a school of this faculty.

Women in Engineering

Eleonora Kopalinsky, the first woman to graduate in engineering at UNSW, graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 1966. Other early female engineering graduates were:
  • Lee Eng SIM. She came from Malaysia to Australia to do her leaving certificate at Sydney Girls' High, then enrolled as a full time electrical engineering student the next year.
  • Zanir Zakir. She came from Sumatra in 1963 under the Columbo Plan. She graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering.

Rankings and achievements

  • Ranked Number 1 Engineering faculty in Australia - ARWU, 2016; NTU Ranking, 2016
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Civil Engineering - ARWU, 2016; QS Rankings, 2017
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Electrical and Electronic Engineering - ARWU, 2016
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Mechanical Engineering - ARWU, 2016; NTU Ranking, 2016
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Energy Science & Engineering - ARWU, 2016
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Chemical Engineering - NTU Ranking, 2016
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Computer Science - THES, 2021, ARWU, 2016
  • Ranked Number 1 in Australia for Materials Science and Engineering - ARWU, 2016
  • The UNSW Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering currently holds the world record for single-crystalline silicon solar cell efficiency. It also holds the world record for multi-layer solar cell efficiency. It is one of the leading solar cell research centres in the world with ongoing active research in the area of wafer-based solar cell technologies, thin film cell technologies and advanced third-generation cell concepts.
  • 23% of "Australia's Top 100 Most Influential Engineers" as listed by Engineers Australia graduated from UNSW, the highest percentage for any university.
  • In the top 5 universities in Australia for the proportion of graduates who were employed full-time four months after completing their course - Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching Results

MyUniversity Results

MyUniversity is an Australian Government website providing information about Australian universities. As data is collected from different sources, percentages may collate to over 100%. Information is provided university wide, and on select disciplines. Results for all Engineering disciplines are listed below.
  • Aerospace Engineering Students
  • *97.7% of students have a positive outcome:
  • **89.9% full-time job rate
  • **7.8% of students go onto further full-time study
  • *7.8% Attrition Rate
  • Computing and Information Systems
  • *100% of students have a positive outcome:
  • **93.5% full-time job rate
  • **7.8% of students go onto further full-time study
  • *8.6% Attrition Rate
  • Civil Engineering Students
  • *100% of students have a positive outcome:
  • **94.9% full-time job rate
  • **9.1% of students go onto further full-time study
  • *5.2% Attrition Rate
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering students
  • *100% of students have a positive outcome:
  • **92.4% full-time job rate
  • **10.6% of students go onto further full-time study
  • *5.0% Attrition Rate
  • Mechanical Engineering student
  • *100% of students have a positive outcome:
  • **90.1% full-time job rate
  • **13.1% of students go onto further full-time study
  • *6.7% Attrition Rate

Projects

Students of the faculty are involved in a number of high-profile projects:

Notable alumni