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Mechanical Design specialisation

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 10 July 2025.
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Mechanical Design specialisation

Students in the Mechanical or Mechanical with Space stream must complete 18 credit points to achieve this specialisation.

 

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition
Students complete 18 credit points from the following:
AMME5902
Computer Aided Manufacturing
6 P (MECH2400 or MECH9400) and (MECH3660 or MECH8660 or MECH9660)
AMME5912
Crash Analysis and Design
6 P (MECH2400 or MECH9400) and (AMME2301 or AMME9301) and MECH3460 and MECH3361. Computer Aided Drafting, Basic FEA principles and Solid Mechanics.
MECH4460
Design of Micro- and Nanosystems
6 A (AMME1802 or ENGG1802) and AMME2301 and AMME2500 and MECH3361
P MECH2400 and MECH3460
N MECH5416
MECH5461
Design for Advanced Manufacturing
6 A Background knowledge of mechanical design, manufacturing, and engineering materials
Units taken for the specialisation will also count toward requirements of the Mechanical or Mechanical with Space stream.

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
10/07/2025

Course title published as:

"Mechanical (Space) Engineering"

Course title amended to:

"Mechanical with Space Engineering"