Bachelor of Engineering Honours/Bachelor of Laws

This double degree combines a full engineering degree with a full law degree program that satisfies the academic requirements for the admission of law graduates as legal practitioners in Western Australia.

The result of this challenging educational initiative is an internationally recognised double degree that will create opportunities in the global marketplace. It provides students with lifelong transferable skills, equipping them for employment in a wide range of professions, and for further study in a variety of disciplines.

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of law and the underpinning natural and physical sciences and in depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering and law disciplines.
• Think critically, and apply established methods and research skills to the solution of complex engineering and legal problems.
• Apply systematic planning, synthesis and design processes to conduct and manage engineering or legal projects, with some intellectual independence.
• Demonstrate conceptual understanding of the mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics and computer and information sciences which underpin engineering and law disciplines and fluently apply engineering skills, techniques, tools and resources, as well as the skills associated with legal research and scholarship.
• Demonstrate clear and coherent oral and written communication in professional and lay domains.
• Demonstrate a global outlook and knowledge of contextual factors impacting engineering and law disciplines, including respect for cultural diversity and indigenous cultural competence.
• Demonstrate effective team membership and team leadershipto implement engineering or legal projects according to relevant standards of ethical conduct, sustainable practice and professional accountability.
• Demonstrate responsibility for own learning, professional judgement and an understanding of the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary practice in both engineering and law.