School of Engineering - University of Waikato

Which is better, Cars or Planes? Obviously, we are talking about the movies.

UWAC and WESMO will jointly be running the best movie night the Uni has ever seen! All the heads of each club will be present as well, so feel free to ask us about our projects and how to get involved!

We will be watching Cars and then Planes (Or the other way around idk 🤔 ) at the mighty Pā! We managed to work out a mean deal with WSU where it's $5 entry but you get fed dinner!

So come along for a fun night of group bonding before the end of the Trimester hits us like a giant boulder from space
Entry is $5 and will be at the door. Both cash and eftpos will be taken.

Entry starts from 5pm with the first movie starting at 6pm.
A MASSIVE shout out to WSU for making this possible!

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1539489620030028

Very excited to see what this year's competition brings!

Water Rocket Challenge is back for 2024 🌊

Start getting last weekend's nitro bottle ready, as we have a $100 grand prize for the bottle that makes it the furthest across the field!

Team sign up and more details here: https://forms.office.com/r/323xt6D9Vs
https://www.facebook.com/events/445241048560084

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Women in Engineering - a free event open to everyone happening THIS FRIDAY. 6-8.30PM on 19th July 2024

Registrations essential. (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTInw6vL70E959FS68wvRG4jZJ6hOpI89cVGAE-3tdjCrPwA/viewform)

Our Mata Tina workshop space opened last year and then our technical staff started moving all the equipment in. Our first ENGME280 (second year Mechanical Engineering) student cohort are in there now with the start of B Trimester.

So exciting for our students of University of Waikato Astronautics Club - UWAC for their upcoming competition in Australia. Count down is on!

Caused a massive buzz in the office this Friday afternoon when we learnt that one of our 4th year BE(Hons) students (Hamish) is off to the Games. Congratulations Hamish! Giving you (and the entire NZ Team) all our support and well wishes!

HECS Student Club Quiz Night!
This Friday in the WSU Basement (*note change of venue!*)

Our awesome clubs are bringing back the HECS Quiz for Round 2 after such a successful 2023 event!

This is going to be a MASSIVE quiz with involvement from a bunch of clubs across the HECS division.

We'll have free entry, plenty of prizes, cheap drinks, cheap food, good trivia, and plenty of good times.

Trimester A has been a slog - come let your hair down with us and have an awesome night on the Friday of Study Week.
Jointly hosted by 7 STEM clubs at Waikato Uni:
- University of Waikato Astronautics Club (UWAC)
- Computer Science Students' Society (CS³)
- Waikato Science Club (WSc)
- Waikato Women In STEM (WWISTEM)
- Mathematics and Co. Club (MC²)
- STEM Māori and Pacifika
- Young Engineers' Society (YES)

Register your team in advance here to help us with food estimates: https://forms.gle/WKff1aGPFGSa9z5T6

Or register on the night but you'll bring chaos to our planning. 🥺
PS: it's a general quiz - not just science, technology, engineering, and maths. 😉

Event Link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1642425043224646

Our WISE club is holding an end of Trimester lunch! Come for a study break and free lunch for the last week of teaching!

When: Wednesday 29th May, 1-2 pm
Where: LSL Upstairs - New side

Please RSVP using the following link for catering reasons:
https://forms.gle/zLaLsqj2GhTpeTnJA

The Thermodynamics class enjoyed a field trip to Contact Energy in Wairakei and Te Mihi last week Friday, 10 May. Luka Ellery, a Waikato grad who’s now an Intermediate Process Engineer at Contact, hosted the class with 40 in attendance, touring the facilities.

The excitement in the students was evident; they loved seeing the Rankine cycle put into practice with such meticulous attention to design detail!

Looks like it was a great night!

Want to know how to get your foot in the door in the NZ space industry? Rocket Lab will be coming onto campus to talk exactly about that!

It also counts as PD hours for those 4th-year students out there 👀

Want to know how to get your foot in the door in the NZ space industry? Rocket Lab will be coming onto campus to talk exactly about that!

It also counts as PD hours for those 4th-year students out there 👀

More details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/488916216795472

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY! This is our 4th Year graduating class from 2010 - there are some familiar faces in there. Would love to know where some of our graduates are now...

Another exciting event being organised by one of our student clubs University of Waikato Astronautics Club - UWAC!

Always thought you were good enough to build a ██████ out of █████ and ███████?

Come test that theory in our mystery improvised engineering challenge at Union At The Don where you and your team can compete for $150!

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/456370906761796

Understanding Accreditation!
This is something we get asked about a lot, so thought we'd do a post highlighting the fact that all of our degrees are accredited by Engineering New Zealand (ENZ). Six of them are fully accredited, and two are provisionally accredited.

What does provisional accreditation mean?
This is when ENZ has assessed the evidence available for a qualification, and expects that the qualification will become fully accredited, once further evidence is provided (this is usually our students graduating and working in industry).

For more information you can visit: https://www.engineeringnz.org/

From our YES - Young Engineers Society at UoW student club:

NEW EVENT: YES CV & Interview Workshop

🚀 Elevate your career game! Join us for an exclusive CV & Interviewing Workshop hosted by BCD Group and the Young Engineers Society. Register for a spot now to sharpen your professional edge!

Registration form: https://forms.gle/cNMkuvFd9SSA82rBA
- May 9th from 6-8 pm
- Counts for ENGEN570 CPD hours
- Free for paid YES members and $20 for others

Today we had a low-key postgraduate seminar to give our students an opportunity to practice their public speaking skills, doing conference style presentations, three-minute presentations as well as preparing posters for conferences in a no-pressure supportive environment.

We hope everyone who attended enjoyed the day and big thank you to the people who did the marking, time keeping, and chaired sessions. Huge shout-out to the two students who helped organise the day and ensured it ran smoothly.

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our graduates! Some of us were very sad to miss you* walking across the stage but managed to catch some of you afterwards on the Village Green! Please know that we're very proud of you all, this is a huge accomplishment. Feel free to share your photos (or your parents' photos) below.

(*We were driving back from Experience Engineering in Tauranga in the hope we'd make it back on time, but were a little too late!)

Experience Engineering is underway at our Tauranga campus for the highschool students who registered! Seven different activities spanning all eight of the disciplines we offer. Students selected and ranked what they were most interested in.

Super proud of all our graduands anticipating their graduation this week! Huge congratulations to all of you on your hard work paying off!

Excitement is building at our Hamilton campus with graduation next week! 🎓🎉

Meet Anthony (Shermi) Perera, a standout Waikato grad who broke the family mould of lawyers to excel in Civil Engineering.

Today he is making waves at Beca in Dunedin on the Southern Water Resources team.

His story is just one of the many we're eager to celebrate, so join us in cheering on our graduates as we share more inspiring stories like Shermi's over the next week!

Check out Shermi's full story here 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wIJTO



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JOB ADVERT - CIVIL - GDC are looking for a recent Civil Engineering graduate - either someone who has just finished, or due to complete in the next couple of months.

The job is based in Thames, pays between $65K - $70k and any applicant must have NZ residency or permanent NZ work rights with no restrictions.

You can email [email protected] for more information.

We are proud to support our student clubs!
YES - Young Engineers Society at UoW, University of Waikato Astronautics Club - UWAC and WISE (Women in the School of Engineering).

They're all pretty busy leading up into the teaching recess. YES have their BBQ tomorrow, UWAC have their AGM and WISE are organising their executive committee. More information about these events are on the Engineering Hub for our current students.

Last night we had our Work Placement Launch. ~200 students attended an information evening to learn about the requirements surrounding the work placement components of their degree.

Students doing a BE(Hons) are required to undertake 800 hours of work in an engineering company. These are usually done in two lots of ~400 hours at the end of their second and third years, however each student's journey is unique.

Happening THIS FRIDAY.

NEW EVENT: YES Mixer
Keen on cheap drinks, free nibbles and socializing? RSVP and join us on Friday the 5th of April at The Don.
Free for YES members
$5 for non members
RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/9Lc4vrc9XeEQdUv38

NEW EVENT: YES Mixer

Keen on cheap drinks, free nibbles and socializing? RSVP and join us on Friday the 5th of April at The Don.

Free for paid YES members
$5 for non members

RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/9Lc4vrc9XeEQdUv38

The photo competition for our work placements is now over and these two left everyone in the dust, the only two that got into triple figures. It was a very close right until the end (but we took the count at 5pm), however there can only be one winner.

Congratulations Eva Glucina-Young! We will be in touch to sort out your dinner voucher!

We're giving you the chance to vote for your favourite photos from the engineering students' amazing summer work placements! 🌞

Just hit like, comment, or share your favourite photos! There's no limit on how many photos you can like/comment/share. 👍

The student with the photo with the most votes (1 like = 1 vote; 1 comment = 2 votes; 1 share = 10 votes) wins a voucher for a dinner-for-two! 🍽

Everyone and anyone can vote - so make sure to share this post with your friends and whanau. Voting starts now and closes Tuesday, 26 March, 5pm. ⚡

VOTE NOW!!!

Congratulations to Hannah Carino, the 2023 recipient of the Waikato Graduate Women Educational Trust Engineering Scholarship Engineering Prize. Hannah has just started her final year of her BE(Hons) in Software Engineering.