What do food processing, plastics manufacturing, metal machining and mechanical design have in common? They’re all career options for skilled mechanical engineering technologists.
Mechanical engineers use physics and materials science to design, analyse, manufacture and maintain mechanical systems; constantly innovating to enhance performance, efficiency and safety in anything from home appliances to transportation.
The Mechanical Engineering major in the Bachelor of Engineering Technology prepares you for careers as an engineering technologist in mechanical engineering, and production or manufacturing engineering.
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This is part of the Bachelor of Engineering Technology.
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As a mechanical engineering student, you’ll develop the skills to maintain, develop and design different aspects of modern mechanical technology.
You also need to complete a minimum of 600 hours of planned supervised work placement to graduate. This experience exposes you to common engineering industry practices and helps you gain knowledge of engineering procedures, engineering responsibilities, and health and safety practices.
To prepare you for your engineering career, there’s a strong focus on sustainability and the skills to work in multi-disciplinary teams. Most of your first-year courses are shared with the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), making it easy for you to switch between our engineering degrees.
If you’re already studying at AUT and have any questions about the courses you should enrol in, email engineer@aut.ac.nz
*Cross-credits between different engineering majors and degrees are assessed on a case-by-case basis, and you may not be able to gain cross-credits for all your first-year courses.
Choose three from the following in Year 3. At least one of these courses should be at level 7.
If you started your studies in the Bachelor of Engineering Technology before 2024, the courses you need to complete are a little different. Find out what courses you need to take to complete your qualification if you started in 2023 or earlier.
All students need to complete an industry-based project in their third year, which is completed over two semesters. This supervised project helps you develop new skills which include theoretical/practical design and production techniques. Students work as individuals or as part of a team on projects related to their major. During the project, you critically reflect on the relationship between your academic studies and engineering workplace practice, test theories and identify gaps in your knowledge to enhance your understanding of practical engineering matters.
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