This course is the first of a series of practice courses that are intended to enable you to acquire engineering and professional practice skills.  Engineering practice skills, such as the ability to perform practical and project work, innovation, problem identification and solution, and engineering judgement, will be developed as you progress through your courses, through activities such as laboratory design and project work.

Topics include practical work primarily in the areas of instrumentational measurement, engineering materials and manufacturing.

Travel to Australia

Attending a practice unit at the University of South Queensland (USQ) in Australia is a requirement of this course.

These units are held twice yearly in February and September. You can find out the dates for practice units relating to this course by clicking on this link for USQ: 

https://www.usq.edu.au/handbook/current/resschoolsched.html

Once you have decided on the practice unit you would like to attend we recommend you email us at beng.technology@openpolytechnic.ac.nz so we can arrange your placement with USQ on your behalf. Once we have confirmed your placement, we will notify you and then you can enrol in the course via our website.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

• Choose the qualification you will study the course under. See the Work towards tab below for qualification options.
• Check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses tab on the qualification page.