What's on at Engineering and Design | Mānawa Mai Open Day
Get a taste of your future! Explore our vibrant campus in the heart of the City. Come and meet our staff and students, and get a feel for what Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, is all about.
Mānawa Mai, Open Day, is your chance to find out what it's like to be a student with us! Registrations are open for this year's event!
Come along and experience our campus in person and discover the worlds of Architecture, Engineering, Design, and Urban Planning. Whanau and supporters are welcome to attend to find out more about life at the University of Auckland.
How to find the Faculty of Engineering and Design
There are two main entrances to our facilities: one on 5 Grafton Road, which leads you to Level 2, and one on 20 Symonds Street, which leads you to Level 4.
A map of the event space will be uploaded closer to the day, watch this space!
What's happening at the Faculty
The Faculty will have over 60 tables and displays showcasing to visitors the wide range of study and research opportunities on offer. The tables and displays include, but aren’t limited to, those listed below.
| Level 3 | |
|---|---|
| Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering | Candy floss machine |
| Chemical and Materials Engineering quiz | |
| Popcorn machine | |
| Design Programme | Design Programme lounge |
| Clubs Zone | Auckland Programme for Space Systems (APSS) |
| Design Students Association (DSA) | |
| Rainbow Engineering | |
| South Pacific Indigenous Engineering Students (SPIES) | |
| Students of Urban Planning and Architecture (SUPA) | |
| University of Auckland Formula SAE Team (FSAE47) | |
| Women in Engineering (WEN) | |
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Augmented Reality Sandbox |
| Bridge Model Testing | |
| Hydraulic Flume | |
| Induction Pavements | |
| Liquefaction Tank | |
| Mechanically Stabilised Earth | |
| Race Course | |
| Shaking Table Testing | |
| Surface Runoff | |
| Virtual Reality Demos | |
| Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering | Computer Systems Engineering Demo: Flappy Bird Console |
| Computer Systems Engineering Demo: Real-time IoT Monitoring and Autonomous Driving Vehicle | |
| Computer Systems Engineering Demo: Robotics (Dancing Robot) | |
| Electrical & Electronic Engineering Demo: Renewable Energy | |
| Electrical & Electronic Engineering Workshop: Smart Car Racing | |
| Software Engineering Demo: Drawing with ML | |
| Software Engineering Demo: LLM Solving Challenges |
| Level 4 | |
|---|---|
| Faculty of Engineering and Design | Ask a Student presented by Project Wellbeing |
| ASMR Immersive Experience | |
| Photo Station | |
| Programme Advice | |
| School of Architecture and Urban Planning | Architecture and Urban Planning gallery |
| Architecture and Urban Planning workshop tours (limited availability) | |
| Department of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering | Interactive heart |
| Virtual gut hologram | |
| Windturbine | |
| Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering | Anti-gravity phenomena under action of vibration |
| Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) | |
| Drones | |
| ENGGEN299: Workshop practice | |
| Laser cutting | |
| Mechanical Design | |
| Te Pūnaha Ātea - Space Institute | |
| Mechanical and Mechatronics lab tours (limited availability) | |
| Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) | Check out our colleagues from ABI at their zone in the Level 4 Atrium |
Any of these activations catch your eye? With so much to explore and look at, come along to our Open Day and see it all for yourself!
Short talks
The short talks are 10 minutes long and will give an overview of the programmes on offer. These talks will provide insight, as well as a look into some of the research and examples of future careers that graduates can pursue.
Short talks are designed to provide the most important information to those attending in an easily understandable format.
| Faculty short talks | Engineering and Design |
|---|---|
| 11:00 | Lecture theatre 401-439 (Neon Theatre) |
| 12:00 | Lecture theatre 405-460 |
| 1:00 | Lecture theatre 401-401 |
| Design short talks | 401-401 |
|---|---|
| 10:30 | Design Programme |
| 12:30 | Design Programme |
| School of Architecture and Urban Planning short talks | 401-439 (Neon Theatre) |
|---|---|
| 10:30 | School of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| 12:30 | School of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| Engineering short talks | 405-460 |
|---|---|
| 9:30 | Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering |
| 10:00 | Department of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering |
| 10:30 | Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering |
| 11:00 | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 11:30 | Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering |
| 12:30 | Department of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering |
| 1:00 | Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering |
| 1:30 | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 2:00 | Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering |
| 2:30 | Department of Electrical, Computer,and Software Engineering |
Long talks
The long talks are 20 minutes in length, each providing a deeper dive into a particular topic about our programmes, allowing students to gain an in-depth understanding of the work that goes on within the Faculty of Engineering and Design.
| Design long talks | 401-401 |
|---|---|
| 11:00 | Design Programme: Student perspective |
| 11:30 | Design Programme: Alumni perspective |
| 12:00 | Design Programme |
| 1:30 | Design Programme |
| 2:00 | Design Programme: Student perspective |
| 2:30 | Design programme: Alumni perspective |
| School of Architecture and Urban Planning long talks | 401-439 (Neon Theatre) |
|---|---|
| 11:30 | School of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| 1:30 | School of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| Engineering long talks | 405-470 |
|---|---|
| 9:45 | Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering |
| 10:15 | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 10:45 | Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering |
| 11:15 | Department of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering |
| 11:45 | Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering |
| 12:!5 | Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering |
| 12:45 | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 1:15 | Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering |
| 1:45 | Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering |
| 2:15 | Department of Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering |
| 2:45 | Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering |
If you've read this far, why not come along to this year's event and see what it's all about!
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Come along to the Faculty of Engineering and Design on Saturday, 30 August, for Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland’s Mānawa Mai Open Day!
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Mānawa Mai Open Day 2024 highlights
Watch our Mānawa Mai Open Day 2024 highlight reel and get a glimpse into what the day is all about.