What do food processing, plastics manufacturing, metal machining and mechanical design have in common? They’re all career options for skilled engineering technologists.
The Mechanical Engineering major prepares you for careers as an engineering technologist in mechanical engineering, and production or manufacturing engineering. You develop the skills to maintain, develop and design different aspects of modern mechanical technology.
Minimum entry requirements
Selection criteria
Interview may be required
Preferred school subjects
Digital Technologies, English, Technology
Year 1
You explore engineering mechanics, statics and dynamics and further your understanding of mathematics. You also develop an understanding of design processes along with practical workshop, drawing, CAD and computer skills. You become familiar with engineering materials, thermos-fluids and energy and electrical fundamentals.
Year 2
You advance your knowledge of mechanics, design, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and mathematics. You also become familiar with manufacturing technology and engineering management.
Year 3
This year you study one compulsory management paper and complete a full-year industry project. You also choose five elective papers from a selection of key mechanical engineering topics to advance your skills in a specific area (eg mechanics or thermodynamics etc) or give yourself a broad range of mechanical engineering skills.
Workplace experience
All students complete an industry-based project this year. This is your chance to apply what you’ve learnt in a research or industry environment.
You also need to complete a minimum of 600 hours of planned supervised work experience to graduate. This work experience exposes you to real engineering practices and management systems and helps you build engineering networks.