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Engineering Workshops For Year 9, 10, 11 and 12 Students

4 August - Women in Engineering,
5 August - Engineering Day@Swinburne

If you are interested in attending one of these engineering workshops, please register your interest and ensure you notify your school/career advisor to arrange supervision to our campus.

For any enquiries, please contact Martine Dickie:


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  • Hawthorn

    John Street, Hawthorn,
    Victoria, Australia 3122
    Tel: + 61 3 9214 8000

In the past few years, Swinburne University of Technology has held a number of events and workshops in various engineering disciplines such as Robotics and Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic, Mechanical, Biomedical, Product Design and Civil Engineering to help secondary school students choose their future profession.

The Workshops

“Build an Electronic Die” - Electrical/Electronics Engineering Workshop

Students will construct a small electronic die in a practical exercise involving soldering and testing of the final product. Students will keep the circuit constructed and be able to amaze their fellow students with their construction skills or improve their knowledge of probability.

"Build your own smart car" - Robotics & Mechatronics

Students will construct a motorized robot car from Lego pieces, then program it to explore its operations, e.g. racing around the room, dodging obstacles, and following light sources etc. A photo or video of their own robot cars may be taken during the workshop, as a memoir of your experience in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering.

“Building the Bionic Human” - Biomedical Engineering

In this workshop we will investigate the ways engineers are currently working with doctors and biologists to create replacement parts for the body. You will have the opportunity to work in teams to discuss the critical factors we need to think about when designing things for the body and work with the team to develop your own ideas on how to create the perfect hip implant to help people live longer more active lives.

“Design and Make” - Product Design Engineering Workshop

This is a workshop in Product Design Engineering where students will be guided through the design of a product, for example furniture and then assisted to transfer it onto a computer. Their design will then be created with the use of a computer controlled machine and if possible be finished and taken away at the end of the visit to Swinburne. This will enable students to experience what students in the Product Design Engineering course do during their studies.

Why Engineering Students Choose Swinburne?

Laurie Farnsworth, Swinburne Engineering student of Bachelor of Engineering (Robotics and Mechatronics) / Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering) said that

after year 12, I attended many University open days and Swinburne appealed to me for a number of reasons: ... it was smaller than some of the bigger Universities; ... it explicitly defined its course structures, telling students exactly what's involved in a 'Robotics and Mechatronics' Engineering degree as opposed to the standard 'Bachelor of Engineering'; ... it offered Industry-Based Learning (IBL); and ... it offered double degrees



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