Explore Engineering Skills: Fitting and machining; Welding and fabrication. Read the actual course outline before choosing.
Confirm your cohort: Engineering Skills 2024 v1.3. Unit options and their order depend on school delivery.
What will I learn?
Unit option A: Fitting and machining
Published unit options — ask which your school teachesUnit option B: Welding and fabrication
Published unit options — ask which your school teachesUnit option C: Sheet metal working
Published unit options — ask which your school teachesUnit option D: Production in the structural engineering industry
Published unit options — ask which your school teachesUnit option E: Production in the transport engineering industry
Published unit options — ask which your school teachesUnit option F: Production in the manufacturing engineering industry
Published unit options — ask which your school teachesHow will I be assessed?
School arrangements: The published tasks below cover unit options. Your school selects a programme; this list is not the number of tasks every student completes.
Published course / existing guide: Practical demonstration — Fitting and machining
Published course / existing guide: Project — Fitting and machining
Published course / existing guide: Practical demonstration — Welding and fabrication
Published course / existing guide: Project — Welding and fabrication
Published course / existing guide: Practical demonstration — Sheet metal working
Published course / existing guide: Project — Sheet metal working
Published course / existing guide: Practical demonstration — Structural engineering
Published course / existing guide: Project — Structural engineering
Published course / existing guide: Practical demonstration — Transport engineering
Published course / existing guide: Project — Transport engineering
Published course / existing guide: Practical demonstration — Manufacturing engineering
Published course / existing guide: Project — Manufacturing engineering
Progression and companion subjects
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Will I find it hard?
Difficulty depends on your experience, interests, teaching and assessment. These are our reflection prompts, not an official difficulty rating.
- Do you enjoy designing, testing and improving a solution over several attempts?
- Look at the tools and techniques in the course outline. Ask your school which equipment and projects it uses.
Does it scale up or down?
Table 6 of QTAC’s 2025 report publishes separate raw and scaled subject medians for General subjects with at least 50 students. No exact course match is attached to this profile. Check the official report; do not infer a direction.
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Sources, versions and verification dates
Profile source metadata last checked: 2026-11-13. A source check is not an endorsement by the authority or confirmation that a future course version is unchanged.
- Engineering Skills: QCAA course and implementation — QCAA; 2026-11-13. "Engineering Skills Applied senior syllabus 2024" [level=3] For implementation with students who will complete their study of the course in 2025 or beyond.
- Engineering Skills 2024 v1.3: published learning/assessment labels — QCAA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF edition matches the edition advertised on the live course page. Factual contents labels; school delivery, task dates and results are separate. © State of Queensland (QCAA), CC BY 4.0; see the document copyright notice.