Hey!!! Welcome back:)) Drum roll, pleaseā¦..Itās PART 2 of how to choose your spec! Part 1 in this series was all about how I wish I chose my spec. Part 2 is how I actually chose itā¦ In the end, I reckon I still made the right choice, but I just did it with more stress…Continue Reading Part 2: How I ended up in Civil & Environmental
Not the first time that I had thoughts on chowing down on one of the many resistors we get to keep after every Electrical lab session. Certainly not the last! It’s been a few hectic couple more weeks since the last time I have blogged, but I honestly thought it was going to be a…Continue Reading 5) Why would an Electrical student eat a light bulb? (Or a Dramatic reading of the 2nd year courses for Electrical)
āTwas the few weeks before exams, and all through the engineering faculty, not a student was stirring – assignment insanity! I may not be a poet, but I will tell you this: The news that I will tell you will fill you with bliss! The next year is coming sooner than you fear, so listen…Continue Reading More Papers Please!
HEY!!! Hey! Welcome back š Let’s start off strong with another cat pic (I know you’ve been waiting) This one is going to be about tips I wish I knew when choosing my spec! However, as demonstrated by my spec decision-making journey (yes, it was long enough to call it a journey), advice and what…Continue Reading Part 1: What I wish I knew about choosing my spec
Welcome back everyone! In complete honesty, I do not have a solid plan for what this blog will be about… Because what else is there to say? Much of the past blogs before mine have gone into deep detail about surviving possibly the hardest course in Sem 2 (ELECTENG/COMPSYS 209: See here for a great…Continue Reading 4) “You might ask how it feels to stick a finger in an electrical outlet…”
Hi guys! I hope you all had an awesome break and are feeling refreshed and ready to get stuck in! Thatās what people always say anyway even though Iāve never felt rEfReShEd š July and August has been grind time for second years as we scramble to apply to as many internships as we can…Continue Reading Internships in Mechanical Engineering
Welcome to the fourth instalment of the 2024 CHEMMAT blog! I hope you are all doing well and had a somewhat restful break! Remembering my midsem break last year for semester 2, I was busy doing the CAD and MATLAB assignments; if you ended up in a similar boat this year, I hope you had…Continue Reading FAQ’s: All the things they wont tell you about CHEMMAT.
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!
Likhitha specialised in Mechatronics at the University of Auckland and graduated in 2020. She has worked at Fisher & Paykel Technologies and is now a Structural Analyst at Rocket Lab where she gets to see her work launched into space! What is your role and what do you do? Iām a structural analyst. I evaluate…Continue Reading Q+A with Likhitha at Rocket Lab!
Alrighty, yesyes youāve heard enough of the whole āmechatronics is a combo of electrical, mechanical and softwareā spiel, what does a mechatronics engineer actually do?? Tbh, I still donāt 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?