Theoretical understandings are always demonstrated via practical experiences which may include physical labs, digital labs, interaction with AI, simulations and computational analysis.
The undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Engineering achieve this through a balance of practicals, site visits, case studies and design projects which, toward the latter end of the qualifications, are based around significant industry problems. For the final year project, students are encouraged to use a problem they encountered while on work-placement to form the basis of their capstone project, or to engage with other industry-focused projects running within the Department.
The Master degrees are focused on providing a balance of in-depth technical knowledge with the broader transferable skills which are expected of mid to higher level engineers.
In addition, students are encouraged to participate in the design and build competitions, which are student-led. These may be the Motorsports team, which designs, builds, and races its own FSAE electric car, or the Mars Rover team, which competes in the Australian Rover Challenge to build the new version of the Mars Space Rover. Other teams, such as HIVE, compete in the Australian Universities Rocket Competition and the UAS team, design, build and fly their own autonomous craft.
RMIT Motorsport is a hands-on multidisciplinary student team that builds a vehicle yearly for the Formula SAE competition. Our students compete nationally against other university team, with the opportunity to also compete internationally to represent RMIT. They continue to push the boundaries of innovation, technology and engineering while gaining valuable experience in a real-world team environment.
The RMIT Rover Team is a multidisciplinary student team that build rovers to compete in the Australian Rover Challenge, an annual robotics competition where university students from across Australia and around the globe featuring semi-autonomous rovers that they have designed and built themselves. Utilising all their hands-on skills and knowledge from their courses, our students work as a team to innovate and develop their rover to represent RMIT as they battle it out in a full-scale Lunar mission.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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