GMIT’s School of Engineering is a thriving community of just over 1100 students and 100 staff. We provide a broad range of engineering, technology and management programmes that meet both the career aspiration of students and the practical skills needs of regional and national industry. The entry programmes in general are level 7 ordinary degrees from which students can progress to appropriate level 8 honours degrees.
We place a strong emphasis on professional and personal development. Our programmes focus on the practical problem-solving techniques and methods appropriate to each career. Each student has also the opportunity to avail of work placement modules which give an introduction to the workplace in Ireland or overseas, and introduce the student to work-based learning and the development of essential life-long learning as a habit.
All of our students can also avail of overseas study at our partner institutions in Europe, and North America. This study is designed to give the student a different perspective on the discipline of study and learning, and to provide the student with the challenges of accommodating to a new culture.
Our staff constantly strive to improve to the student’s learning opportunities through their teaching and assessment methods. These currently embrace the use of our Learning Management System (Moodle), project-based learning, and group work, for example.
All our programmes have a capstone final-year project which is designed to challenge students on real industry problems that require the integration of their knowledge and skills acquired over the course of the programme. The project work is assessed through a project report, presentations and a project poster.
The practical strengths of our programmes derive from our strong and long-established links with practitioners and industry, ensuring that our programmes remain relevant for the appropriate challenging careers. A panel of senior industry experts also advises the School of Engineering on the strategic development of the School and its programmes.
The School’s programmes are administered within three departments:
Dept. of Building and Civil Engineering