GMIT’s School of Engineering is a thriving community of just over 1100 students and 100 staff. The School provides a broad suite of programmes that meet both the career aspiration of students and the skills needs of regional and national industry. The entry programmes in general are level 7 ordinary degrees from which students can progress to an appropriate level 8 honours degrees.

Each student has the oportunity to avail of work placement modules which give an introduction to the workplace in Ireland or overseas, provide opportunities for work-based learning, and that contribute to the student’s development of important life-long learning skills 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 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 the student on a real problem that requires the integration of their knowledge and skills acquired on the programme. The project work is assessed through a project report, presentations and a project poster.

Our programmes, designed by our lecturers with the assistance of industry practitioners and experts, are reviewed on an on-going basis. 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

Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Head of School of Engineering

GMIT

Dublin Road

Galway

Tel: +353 91 742241

Email: Gerard Mac Michael