The School offers an up-to-date program targeting photonics engineering in line with the changing industry needs and market requirements. It offers students a complete coverage of photonics as an enabling technology for areas such as telecom, sensing, data storage and optical displays. The Degree programs are accredited by the Institution of Engineers Australia as meeting the requirements for admission to graduate membership. The undergraduate curricula are being continuously and progressively revised to provide flexible training to suit the future needs of students. The program stresses the importance of design as an integral part of the engineer's capabilities and emphasises the multi-disciplinary requirements of this exciting profession.

The broad objective of the Faculty of Engineering's undergraduate programs is to develop well-educated graduates, that is, graduates with the strong technical knowledge and the basic skills and attributes required to practise as professional engineers. The desired skills are those that enable graduates to be independent investigators; self-motivated; critical thinkers; problem solvers; life-long learners; good communicators; team players; effective managers; as well as economically, environmentally and socially aware.