Give your career
a Nuclear edge

Gain a solid grounding in fission and fusion reactor design, with a focus on Type III fission reactors. Explore core neutronics concepts, including neutron/matter interactions, radioactive decay and neutron multiplication, and study neutron diffusion and moderation across different reactor geometries. 

Analyse and design each stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, from mining and enrichment to fuel fabrication, burn-up, storage and reprocessing. Compare military and civilian fuel cycles, understand how fuel cycle facilities operate, and examine the materials they use and produce, including high-level waste management.

Build a strong foundation in reactor neutronics, covering neutron/matter interactions, radioactive decay, neutron multiplication, and diffusion and moderation across reactor geometries. Explore energy production and conversion, power systems design, safety engineering, probabilistic risk assessment and risk-informed design for advanced power-plant systems. 

Explore the role of nuclear power in modern navies, tracing the shift from diesel to nuclear propulsion. Apply reactor design concepts, compare naval and civilian reactors, and examine engineering, safety and sustainability considerations, including current technologies like jet pump propulsion, all-electric systems and propulsion simulation.

Discover how nuclear fuels and materials behave under intense radiation. Explore fission, neutron interactions and resulting material transformations, including crystallography, microstructure defects and diffusion theory. Learn how radiation affects material properties - causing void swelling and embrittlement - and how to interpret simulation charts.

Understand the human and institutional factors behind successful Industry 4.0 adoption. Explore innovation, change management, trust in technology, and how Industry 4.0 strengthens supply chain competitiveness - with a focus on how people, not just technology, drive organisational innovation.

Build practical skills in cyber-physical systems, robotics and automation for manufacturing. Explore collaborative robots (cobots), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), automated goods receiving and storage, and industrial automation across assembly lines - including warehousing, inspection, classification and delivery.

Prepare your organisation for the future of manufacturing. Explore production engineering foundations, sustainability and resource efficiency, lean thinking and critical application, process optimisation, reliability and maintainability, and cross-disciplinary links across engineering, operations research, logistics and management science.

Understand nuclear criticality safety and the reactor physics and assessment methods used to manage fissile-material hazards across the nuclear industry.

Explore traditional and contemporary leadership theories and apply these frameworks to lead a highly digitised workforce.

Examine the causes, progression and management of nuclear and radiological accidents, and the emergency arrangements used to protect workers, the public and the environment, across civil and defence scenarios.

Build a foundational understanding of atomic and nuclear structure, radioactivity, nuclear reactions and reactor fundamentals, and explore how nuclear technology applies across energy, medicine, industry and defence.

Explore nuclear safety principles including defence-in-depth, hazard identification and risk assessment, and how safety culture and operational controls work together to prevent and mitigate nuclear accidents.

Examine the end-to-end lifecycle of nuclear-powered submarine construction, from manufacture and reactor integration through to testing and commissioning.

Apply engineering project and organisational management concepts, with emphasis on analysing large, complex and interdisciplinary projects.

Examine how ionising radiation interacts with nuclear materials, causing atomic-scale defects such as swelling, creep and embrittlement, and their implications for material selection and performance.

Examine the principles and practice of radiological protection, including radiation types, biological effects, and how exposure is measured and controlled.

Examine how ionising radiation interacts with nuclear materials, causing atomic-scale defects such as swelling, creep and embrittlement, and their implications for material selection and performance.

Examine the regulatory frameworks, codes and standards governing nuclear activities in Australia and internationally, and the roles of key regulatory bodies across civil, defence and industrial sectors.