Within Malaysia’s growing field of environmental engineering, you’ll focus on areas like water treatment, solid waste management (including industrial and hazardous waste), and domestic and industrial wastewater treatment.
As an environmental engineer, you’ll play a key role in protecting and managing natural resources, including air, water, and land. Your expertise will be in demand for environmental impact assessments, air pollution prevention, and environmental monitoring and management systems. You’ll also work on projects involving environmental consultation, soil erosion prevention, noise monitoring and control, recycling system development, and oil spill recovery efforts.
The major has a common first year with all other engineering disciplines which builds a range of basic science skills and knowledge, with particular emphasis on physics, chemistry and mathematics.
Why Environmental Engineering?
- Our degree will equip you with an integrated knowledge of multiple engineering fields such as Chemical and Civil & Construction engineering to provide you with an innovative and creative engineering experience.
- Curtin’s Bachelor of Environmental Engineering course is a good balance of theoretical background and practical experience throughout the four years of study.
- You will experience great employment prospects as the demand for environmental engineers is growing rapidly in both the domestic and international market.
Entry requirements
Minimum English language entry requirements
| Qualification | Score |
| International English Language Testing System (IELTS) | Overall 6.0 (no individual band below 6.0) |
| Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) | 79 (band minimum W-21, L-13, R-13, S-18) |
| SPM 1119 English | C |
| GCE ‘A’ Level | E |
| GCE ‘O’ Level | C |
Cut-off scores
| Qualification | Score |
| GCE-A Level/STPM (best of 3 subjects) | 8 |
| UEC (best of 5 selected subjects) | 22 |
| HKDSE | 19 |
| IB | 28 |
| Ontario Gr | 70 |
| ATAR (WACE/SACE/HSC/VCE/AUSMAT/SAM/MUFY) | 80 |
| WAUFP (CPS) | 59 |
| India/Pakistan | 76% |
| Sri Lanka | 9 |
Cut-off scores key:
GCE : General Certificate of Education
STPM : Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia
IB : International Baccalaureate
ATAR : Australian Tertiary Admission Rank – applicable to all Australian matriculation
HKDSE : Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education
India : Includes All India Senior School Certificate awarded by The Central Board of Secondary School Education (CBSE), Indian School Certificate (ISC) awarded by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), Higher School Certificate (HSC) awarded by one of the State Secondary School Boards. Certificates awarded by the CBSE and the CISCE are generally considered to represent a higher level of achievement than state certificates.
Sri Lanka : GCE ‘A’ level issued by the Department of Examinations
Score Conversion for Advanced level/GCE/GCSE:
Grades awarded from 2010 onwards: A*=6, A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1
Grades awarded up to 2009: A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, E=1
AS Levels equal half of that of an Advanced Level, e.g. 3 points for an A*, 2.5 points for an A (prior to 2010)
Subject Grades Conversion for STPM : A=5, A- =4, B+ =4, B=3, B- =2, C+ = 2, C=1
The following UEC subjects are included in the aggregate of best five subject:
• Mathematics • Advance Mathematics I • Advance Mathematics II • Biology • Chemistry • Physics • Business Studies • Bookkeeping and Accounts • Accounting
• Economics • History • Geography • Computing and Information Technology
Note: scores for individual prerequisites may be taken into consideration for assessment purposes.
Course Prerequisites
Mathematics (including calculus) physics or chemistry
Professional recognition
Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA)
• Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM)
• Engineers Australia (EA)
• Washington Accord
Credit for previous study
Diploma applications will be treated on case to case basis.
Career opportunities
• Environmental Engineer
• Environmental Quality Control Engineer
• Health & Safety Engineer
• Environmental Enforcement Officer
• Risk Assessment Engineer/ Executive
• Consultant Engineer/Executive
• Site/Resident Engineer
• Public Health Engineer
• Site Remediation Engineer
• Landfill Engineer, Water Supply / Resources Engineer
• Pollution Control Engineer
• Sustainable Development Executive
• Environmental Technical Contractor
• Sales Engineer/ Executive
• Environmental Entrepreneur
Course structure
| Year 1 |
|---|
| Bachelor of Engineering Pre-Major
View Engineering First Year course structure |
| Year 2 Semester 1 |
| Fluid Mechanics |
| Water Resource Management and Treatment Principles |
| Energy Management and Climate Change |
| Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology |
| Year 2 Semester 2 |
| Wastewater Treatment Principles and Design |
| Environmental Monitoring and Analysis |
| Solid and Hazardous Waste Management |
| Principles of Geomechanics |
| Year 3 Semester 1 |
| Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies |
| Green Engineering Principles and Applications |
| Environmental Impact Assessment |
| Specialisation |
| Year 3 Semester 2 |
| Engineering Management and Professional Practice |
| Aerial Emissions and Abatement |
| Hydraulics and Hydrology |
| Specialisation |
| Year 4 Semester 1 |
| Environmental Engineering Design and Principles |
| Life Cycle Assessment and Circular Economy |
| Environmental Engineering Research Project 1 |
| Specialisation |
| Year 4 Semester 2 |
| Exposure to Professional Engineering Practice |
| Environmental Integrated Design Project |
| Environmental Engineering Research Project 2 |
Specialisation
| Sustainable Environment | |
| Unit name | Study period |
|---|---|
| Biodiversity Conservation | Year 3 Semester 1 |
| Sustainable Urban Management and Planning | Year 3 Semester 2 |
| Carbon Management | Year 4 Semester 1 |
| Environmental, Social and Governance | Year 4 Semester 2 |
| Simulation and Data Management | |
| Unit name | Study period |
| Mass and Energy Balances | Year 3 Semester 1 |
| Process Simulation and Data Analytics | Year 3 Semester 2 |
| Process Synthesis and Design | Year 4 Semester 1 |
| Advanced Process Integration OR Advanced Modelling and Control | Year 4 Semester 2 |
| Process Engineering | |
| Unit name | Study period |
| Mass and Energy Balances | Year 3 Semester 1 |
| Process Simulation and Data Analytics | Year 3 Semester 2 |
| Fluid and Particle Processes | Year 4 Semester 1 |
| Process Safety and Risk Management | Year 4 Semester 2 |
| Engineering Design for Manufacturing | |
| Unit name | Study period |
| Computer Aided Drawing and Engineering Modelling | Year 3 Semester 1 |
| Manufacturing Processes | Year 3 Semester 2 |
| Competitive Manufacturing Processes | Year 4 Semester 1 |
| Design for Manufacturing | Year 4 Semester 2 |
