Students also visit the Faculty's Student Resource Centre, where tutors are available throughout the day to give students individual help with problems they have encountered. Student projects typically involve design of products which include a component such as a microprocessor or larger computer. Completion of the programming and design elements is followed by production and testing of a prototype. Graduates are employed by those businesses that design, manufacture, manage or maintain computer based equipment. In addition to their hardware expertise, graduates possess strong programming skills and also gain employment within the many organisations requiring purpose built software to be produced.
Graduates work with electronic and photonic devices, circuits and systems.
In the electronic, computer and telecommunications industries, work could include research and development, design, planning, system operation and management activities. Graduates are employed by organisations such as Telstra, Optus, Australian Optical Fibre Research and Federal Government departments such as Communications and Defence. Employers also include small businesses operating in the fields of electronics and communications engineering, computing hardware and software.