The Department offers a course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in
Mechanical Engineering. The course involves four years of full-time study post-Grade 12
entry.
The undergraduate teaching in the Department is aimed at providing a broad and solid basis
in fundamental Mechanical Engineering and at the same time offering relevant workshop
experience and management studies.
The program outcomes are comparable to Washington Accord on student outcomes.
Accordingly, the mechanical engineering teaching and learning efforts are focused on
developing student’s abilities in the application of mathematics, science, and engineering
principles to solve practical problems, designing systems, components, and processes within
realistic constraints of economic, political, ethical, social, environmental, health and safety,
and sustainability. Efforts are also focused on students developing personal qualities in
effective communication, multidisciplinary team participation, interpersonal skills, life-long
learning, and contemporary global issues.
The first year of the course is basically common to all engineering students with the
exception of one or two department-specific subjects. This consists of the study of language,
mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, drawing, computing, workshop practice, and
introduction to mechanical engineering.
Students who have successfully completed a Foundation Year Science Programme at the
University of Papua New Guinea or another equivalent institution may be admitted to the
second year but will be required to complete a bridging course in Drawing, Workshop
Practice, and other subjects prescribed by the Department before the commencement of
Semester 1.
The second and third years consist of further studies to develop analytical skills in
Mechanical Engineering Sciences – Thermo fluids, Applied Mechanics, Engineering
Materials, Drawing and Design, Manufacturing Processes, Industrial Electronics, Industrial
Engineering and Management, and Language or Surveying studies.
The fourth year consists of more advanced studies in Thermo fluids, Applied Mechanics, and
Design, together with studies in Manufacturing Technology and further Industrial
Engineering and Management. A special feature of this year is that students are required to
undertake a major engineering project. Also, students are allowed to choose elective subjects
in the second semester.
It is not possible for students to obtain, within the University, anything to replace the
fundamentals of practical experience and knowledge of engineering processes, which is
essential to the engineer’s development. So, students taking the regular course are required to
accumulate at least twelve weeks of professional work experience in the latter part of the
course during their vacations. The Head of the Department must approve this training and all
students are required to submit a diary and report at the end of each training period.
Completion of at least twelve weeks of approved practical training and completed diaries and
satisfactory reports covering that period are necessary requirements for graduation.
