Diploma in Engineering - Mechanical

The aim of the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering is to provide skilled and competent engineering technicians who apply engineering theory to practice, and competently perform technical operations to high standards, including ethical and professional responsibilities required by the engineering profession and have a knowledge sufficient to permit informed, rational decision making in the specialist field of engineering and to implement these decisions.

On achievement of this qualification, graduates should be work ready and able to be employed in a relevant engineering environment to work towards the achievement of the New Zealand Diploma in Engineering Practice (NZDEP) and to meet the minimum standard of competence to practise competently to the standard expected of a reasonable Engineering Technician It is expected that graduates will attain the educational underpinnings and work ready attributes defined in the IPENZ Graduate Profile for Engineering Technicians.  The graduate profile defined by IPENZ is benchmarked internationally to the exemplar graduate attributes for graduates of technician education programmes recognised under the Dublin Accord.