About the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications
Engineering of the Faculty of Informatics

The School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering of the Faculty of Informatics offers three majors within its degree programs, viz, Computer, Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering.

The program of study is common over a period of 2.5 years thus allowing the students to select the major of their choice at the end of this period. The power engineering course offerings begin in the second year with a common broad brushed course which is a top down view of the power system covering generation, transmission and distribution, load behaviour and impact of loads on the power system. Electrical Engineering majoring begins with a second power engineering course that is offered in the second session of third year which covers electrical machines, fundamentals of drives and power electronics. In addition to a number of other courses, majoring in power engineering is facilitated in the final year by three courses covering power electronics and drives, power system analysis and power distribution systems. A thesis project also has to be undertaken in the final year which normally falls within the area of major undertaken.

Faculty of Informatics and the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering hosts the Integral Energy Power Quality and Reliability Centre, the only Centre of its kind in Australia, that has received significant level of funding from Integral Energy to support power engineering activities. This funding currently supports two full time academic positions in addition to research and development activities.