And with that, the 2025 academic year has come to a close 🥲. We have truly locked in, crashed out, and discovered all of the joys that mechatronics engineering has to offer. And now it is time to say goodbye. Well, at least not for the next 3-ish minutes because I’ve still got some yap…Continue Reading “Don’t Dream It’s Over”: The Goodbye Blog
If only our engineering faculty spent their budget on a Harry Potter sorting hat, then one of the biggest decisions of our life could be completely up to fate! But alas… we must make this scary and overwhelming decision with such limited perspective, all by ourselves. ✨CHOOSING YOUR SPECIALISATION!✨ Today I shall share some out-of-the-box…Continue Reading Specialisation Inspiration (obscure jobs for each spec)
They say time flies when you’re having fun. Now I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but the mystery quote-sayers are right. With only two weeks left before the academic year comes to a close (with the exception of a few weeks of exams 😱), time has truly flown. Like a bird. Or a plane. Or…Continue Reading My flabbers? Gasted. My gobs? Smacked. A PII Tron retrospective.
I AM SOOOO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS. Y’all are about to get paid, have people think you’re really cool and active, and have a super hot LinkedIn. You’re welcome. Hey engineers 👋🍂 When asking for engineering and university advice, it is too common to be met with “Join clubs”, “Volunteer”, or “Start a personal project”….Continue Reading “I volunteer as Tribute”: A complete guide to Clubs, Opportunities, and the Meaning of Life
“A mechatronics engineer is the jack of all trades and master of none.” – a lot of people As someone who knows jack about trades and has mastered nothing, that phrase might very well be true. Welcome back to the blog, dawgs 👋🌲 I’m still Arren, my licked-batteries-count is still four, and you’re seemingly still…Continue Reading Tron Explained: Who is Jack and what is he trading??
Hey y’all 👋🌊 I’m Arren and I’m super excited to welcome you to the Mechatronics Blog for 2025! Picking your spec can be a suuuuper intimidating task, so I’m here to lighten your load and pull back the curtain on the elusive world of mechatronics. Over the next semester, I’ll be talking about different courses,…Continue Reading Love, Death & Robots: A Semester of Mechatronics
LAST BLOG POST !!!!?!?!?!?!??! Tragic stuff. Heartbroken. Jk, I know you’ll survive without the beautiful literature and pure poetry of my blog posts. I should be revising for exams, but the motivation in me is zero. Anywho, here is a cool blog post instead. I think I’ve exhausted all my wisdom + experience on the…Continue Reading Review of Part II in Photos!!
I sense a huge concern of specialising in mechatronics is that it’ll be difficult to find a job. Maybe you’ve heard something along the lines of this: Why would a company hire a mechatronics graduate for a mechanical role if they could just hire a mechanical engineer? Huge misconception. I know a few older mechatronic…Continue Reading Mechatronics will NOT make you unemployable.
Hello hello! Are we excited for the summer? I sure am. I have reached that point in sem 2 where I have already exhaused all my energy throughout the year and motivation in me is zero. Can’t say I’ve been operating at peak productivity, but we are all human – think of us like an…Continue Reading Specialisation choice submissions have just opened! Still on the fence for mechatronics?
Sabrina specialised in Mechatronics at the University of Auckland and graduated in 2022. She is now a Product Development Engineer at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare where she gets to develop life-saving medical devices! What is your role and what do you do? As a Product Development Engineer at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (FPH), my day-to-day…Continue Reading Q+A with Sabrina at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare!