Cultural awareness
Cultural awareness is embedded across our Engineering, Forestry Science, and Product Design degrees. Negotiation and cross-cultural skills are taught in project management, and we engage Māori advisors as part of programmes.
Working across disciplines
At UC, you have the opportunity to work across disciplines. We encourage creative problem solving and collaboration between disciplines, through teamwork, group projects, communication, and leadership skills development. Having the School of Mathematics and Statistics in our Faculty gives students a more integrated understanding of their application to problem solving. Mathematics and statistics underpins much of engineering, and is at the forefront of breakthroughs in science, technology, and finance. It is an interdisciplinary field, with students working across not only the Faculty of Engineering Te Rāngai Pūkaha programmes, but also across faculties, universities, and other organisations. Data Science is our newest subject on offer, combining mathematics, computing, technology innovation, and practical results.
Student mentoring and engagement
We offer all first year Engineering students access to a peer mentoring scheme, called ENGMe! 40 Engineering students in their second and third year, who have “been there and done that”, offer advice, tips and tricks, and answer questions from new students. A schedule of events is also run during the first year, tailored to first-year Engineering students, with events covering TEDX-style talks from our Engineering programmes, a final year project showcase day, and a look at what our innovative research centres do behind the scenes.
