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!
Alrighty, yesyes you’ve heard enough of the whole “mechatronics is a combo of electrical, mechanical and software” spiel, what does a mechatronics engineer actually do?? Tbh, I still don’t know. Hence, let’s ask fellow mechatronics graduates about their journey! The following posts will cover Q+A discussions with three awesome engineers in three different fields who…Continue Reading Introducing the Q+A with Mechatronics Engineers Series: What does a future in mechatronics actually look like?
I won’t go through a mechatronics course breakdown because there are enough insightful posts on it from past years. If you wanna know more about our courses through a student perspective, check out James’ (2023 blogger!) posts: https://student-editorials.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2023/08/12/first-sem-in-tron/ (SEM 1) https://student-editorials.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2023/09/23/mechatronics-part-ii-sem-two/ (SEM 2) Instead, today I present: Phyllis’ wise advice on flourishing as an engineering…Continue Reading Advice on surviving part 2 mechatronics (and part I !!!)
Kia ora! Hope you are slayin live laugh lovin as usual. Welcome welcome, I’m Phyllis and I am incredibly self aware but that also means I am incredibly wise and can channel my master oogway energy to you all!!! Woohooooooooo LETS GET STRAIGHT INTO IT. Why did I choose Mechatronics 🥰😍 OPPORTUNITIES ARE ENDLESS As…Continue Reading To Mechatronics, or not to Mechatronics
Hi everyone, and welcome to the second-to-last instalment of my blogs. As I was procrastinating and also pondering on what to write about next, it occurred to me that a lot of you may not even know what Mechatronics Engineering really is. So, here’s a more in-depth intro into the world of Mechatronics and where…Continue Reading Why Mechatronics?
Whoever said that internship hunting was a full time job in itself, was not wrong. As the summer sun begins to seep through the blooming trees of spring, and as the academic year finally comes to a close, there’s only one thing on many aspiring engineers’ minds: Did I get the job? Finding an internship…Continue Reading The Internal Struggle of Internship Hunting
Welcome back everyone, and I hope you are all finding ways to stay motivated and healthy during this lockdown! Because personally, I’m starting to look more and more like my cat-friend Jerry over there. As the end of semester two fast approaches, I thought I’d give you all a rundown of the four papers I…Continue Reading Siri, set timer for 3 weeks!
We’re in lockdown. Again. Back to 3am bedtimes and 12pm wake-ups. Back to having an endless amount of time, to do… absolutely nothing. Speaking of doing nothing, to procrastinate for my test in 2 days I thought I’d finally get to writing the next highly-anticipated instalment of my blogs. As promised, here’s a run-down of…Continue Reading Have a Break, Have a Kit-Kat: A Reflection on Semester 1
Hey lovely readers! This will be my last blog post of the year and also my last chance to convince you to specialise in MECHATRONICS engineering. I want to say a huge THANKS for reading my previous blog posts and for somehow not getting bored of me. 😊 I hope I have done a good…Continue Reading End of Part II MECHATRONICS – Final Blog Post from Vanessa
Still deciding which specialisation to pick? MECHATRONICS is obviously the answer! If my previous blog posts still haven’t been able to convince you to choose MECHATRONICS, maybe this one will. 😉 I had a fantastic time looking at the part four MECHATRONICS (and mechanical) projects down at Newmarket campus a few days ago. There were…Continue Reading Exploring Newmarket Campus – Looking at Fourth Year Mechatronics Projects