Category: Engineering Science

Hey guys, First and foremost, let me apologise for my hiatus; the heat has well and truly been ON this semester and I regrettably neglected this blogging role for several weeks. Fret not though, instead you should prepare for three high quality engsci posts to come at you thick and fast over the next few…Continue Reading The S in Engineering stands for Socialising

Hey, remember this handy Venn diagram? View post on imgur.com Cool, right? Now, it’s almost time to learn a bit more about one of those fancy terms on the diagram! But first, a light preamble… A few weeks ago, in an ENGSCI 263 lecture, we were introduced to the term ‘expert knowledge’. In the context…Continue Reading Expert knowledge (((on computational engineering)))

As any honest person will tell you, the first few weeks of second year engineering are an uphill battle. Your workload is bigger and scarier than ever before, you’re reminded of all the relevant content from first year that fell out of your head over summer and, if you’re lucky, you might be experiencing what…Continue Reading Here’s a collection of stuff that semester 1 threw at me!

Going into Engineering at UoA, I had no preconceived ideas about what kind of engineering I might want to specialise in. I vowed to make no solid decision until I had experienced all my first-year papers. Over the summer of 2018/19 I was lucky enough to land an internship (100% recommend looking for internships at…Continue Reading Choosing a specialisation, EngSci and other mysteries of the universe.

Hey, my name is Michael and I’m honoured to be the Part II Engineering Science blogger for 2019! I was born in Auckland, raised in Dunedin (hence the moustache) and returned to the motherland to study after a gap year of deciding what to do post-high-school. When my head’s not in the books*, I play…Continue Reading Michael under the Microscope 👀🔬

We’re back team! Themes for this semester: groups, proofs, Excel and…. IC4! Semester 2 has been EngSci as its most raw form expressed through the likes of ENGSCI 255, ENGSCI 263 and a special feature from the compsci department: COMPSCI 225 (elective). The last paper is one I know everyone is looking forward to; ENGGEN…Continue Reading Semester 2 Wrap

Welcome back to another post of “why did I choose EngSci.” Now, this isn’t a second-semester review because I want to make the next one really detailed. Although, this does give me a chance to write a little about what we, as EngSci’s, do outside of the lecture theatre, leech and 70 (the EngSci building)….Continue Reading A Day in the Life of.

Engineering Science so far has been like riding a roller-coaster with no seatbelt, blind. Confused? Let’s review and use a scene from “The Office” as an analogy to further explore the idea. Here, Andy’s boss, Deangelo (me) is attempting to sell Andy (EngSci) as a paper salesman to a client, Boris (you, in this case,…Continue Reading Here to Play Russian Roulette?