Professional Engineer or not,it's really up to u..
Before others "claim" u to be professional,are u "professional" enough?

wat is i dun have money ????? go for scholarship?

then assess what your options are with your current budget and apply for all scholarships you can. In this situation you might want to consider other unis as well. I can't really give advice on this as I'm not familiar with the scholarships offered by the various unis.

Curtin (22K) is worth considering, compared with Monash/Nottingham (37K). Cost of living is also cheaper in Miri.

A final year project? you mean you only had to do ONE?

I had to do one final year project for BEng (Design)
Another two final year projects for MEng (One design and one research)

My MEng year nearly killed me =P

By doing MEng, you have a more direct route of working towards becoming a professional engineer, which you may or may not care at all.

Further studies of MEng could come in a large varieties, mostly depending on which country you are heading. Generally, you can start your PhD if you are following the UK route, and maybe some of the European universities will accept you, too. Some of them require only as little as 3-years of tertiary studies before starting a PhD course. Some ask for 4, some ask for more.
US and Canada are the one who ask for more, and it is usually 6-years before a PhD course. 4 years of undergraduate studies, 2 years of graduate studies, and finally your PhD.
That being said, even if you have completed an MEng, essentially you are just going to be able to enroll for another Master's courses in North America as you can't fulfill the PhD requirement.


Well, generally, at least one semester of a 4-year Aus BEng are spent to study what A-Level was doing, and it might take up to a year for that to happen.
Ever wonder why 'common first year' doesn't exist in UK (they do, but it's really rare.)? Because their first year is already specialised, whose Aus BEng starts to specialise only on their 2nd year.
Put it in this way, Aus 2nd-4th year is UK BEng 1st-3rd year.

In that way, whatever we do in the extra 4th year is absolutely EXTRA to the Aus BEng. That's why it's MEng to us, but still BEng to you.
Aus BEng is however, comparable to a UK MEng, in the sense of fulfilling the requirement of working towards in becoming professional engineers, only.

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Added on January 23, 2011, 6:14 pmIt's not that the home country not recognising it. If they do, the BEng courses would cease to exist, isn't it?
It's just because of Washington Accords, that they are forced not to accredit their BEng courses. In that way, they came up with an integrated undergraduate Masters which take 4-years to complete and be able to satisfy the Washing Accords. I am sure a lot of UK institutions are still proud of their compact and effective 3-years courses as they are still running it and it seems that the Malaysia market does like it as there are still those 3-years option out there, which are cheap, quick and still reputable.

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Jan 23 2011, 06:14 PM

Well I had one design and one research in my final year. And yeah that nearly killed me off as well, went for a record 70+ hours without sleep at one time when deadlines were up.

I said one final year project because for other disciplines like mechanical and electrical they usually only do one large final year project whereas for chemical I had to do both research and design. At least thats how the courses are structured in my uni.

But many people say that the progression of the curtin university (engineering )is slow and not good in malaysia campus, some students said that many sarawak people even come to nottingham for furthering their engineering course , and rather not opt to further their studies in curtin university.

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Added on February 10, 2011, 10:07 pmUk or Australia has good reputation in chemical engineering?Some tell me that Uk is better, but i think australia is more easy to work after graduation ,so it is easy for me to become an engineering in australia than in uk

This post has been edited by kent yu: Feb 10 2011, 10:07 PM

What do you mean by the progression is slow?

People coming to Peninsular Malaysia to study happens a lot since teenagers tend to want to explore around. Nottingham is of course seen as better than Curtin in general anyway.

Ya maybe you are right, my friend's brother take civil engineering in curitn university now, but he is not very satisfy with their quality of teaching

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Added on February 12, 2011, 12:16 amUk or Australia has good reputation in chemical engineering?Some tell me that Uk is better, but i think australia is more easy to work after graduation ,so it is easy for me to become an engineering in australia than in uk

This post has been edited by kent yu: Feb 12 2011, 12:16 AM

From what I heard is that curtin has got a good reputation in chemical engineering. But I would like to know how true is this? So I would like some feedbacks from the students in the course and also how are the lecturers there. Are they dedicated to teach the younger generations.

Is it possible for us to do a credit transfer to Monash or Nottingham from curtin in the final year or third year?

Thank you!