New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering Major)

Summary

Do you dream of designing electric generators, internal combustion engines or steam and gas turbines?

Our two-year, high value course of study will enable you to conceive, design and build power-using machines, such as refrigeration and air-conditioning systems, elevators and escalators and more.

The course acts as a foundational year for advanced mechanical engineering and is designed to upskill you for advanced studies, leading to career opportunities such as becoming a mechanical engineer, mechanical design engineer, mechanical field engineer, piping engineer or a mechanical project engineer.

Learn how to:

• Design machines.
• Use lathes, shaping machines, milling machines, welders and more.
• Use cutting-edge 3D modelling software including SolidWorks and Autocade.
• Produce drawings to industry standards.
• Work collaboratively with construction workers, clients, and other industry professionals.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering will be able to gain employment as engineering technicians in workplaces that have a technical/engineering basis relevant to their specialist engineering strand like mechanical engineering.

For the mechanical engineering strand, roles include the design, manufacture and maintenance of tools, engines, machines and systems.

On achievement of this qualification, graduates should:

• Be work ready and able to be employed in a relevant engineering environment to work towards the achievement of the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering Practice (NZDEP) and to meet the minimum standard of competence to practise competently to the standard expected of a reasonable Engineering Technician

• It is expected that graduates will attain the educational underpinnings and work ready attributes defined in the IPENZ Graduate Profile for Engineering Technicians. The graduate profile defined by IPENZ is benchmarked internationally to the exemplar graduate attributes for graduates of technician education programmes recognised under the Dublin Accord

Satisfactory Completion

For students to be considered to have satisfactorily completed this programme, and to be eligible for award of the qualification “New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical)”, they must have shown competence in all of the scheduled units, to a minimum of 240 credits in the specified strand, and upon application to NZQA.

Qualification Pathways

Graduates of the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (NZDE) will be able to study towards a technologist degree such as a Bachelor of Engineering Technology