An honours undergraduate degree (NFQ Level 8) with a minimum upper second class honours or international equivalence in a relevant Engineering or Science programme.
Applicants whose first language is not English must also demonstrate English language proficiency of IELTS 6.5 (no band less than 6.0 in each element), or equivalent.
A detailed explanation of the student’s interest in the programme must be provided.
Students meeting the programme’s academic entry requirements but not the English language requirements, may enter the programme upon successful completion of UCD’s Pre-Sessional or International Pre-Master’s Pathway programmes.
These are the minimum entry requirements – additional criteria may be requested in the future.
The College of Engineering and Architecture has invested more than 1 million EUR over the last years on robotics, smart automation, and digital manufacturing technologies. The available equipment, which will be used in a number of lab and training workshops include state-of-the-art industrial and collaborative robots, as well as autonomous industrial / logistics mobile robotic platforms, advanced sensors, and digital manufacturing / simulation software. Knowledge and understanding: The programme will offer multiple sources of knowledge in the areas of robotics and manufacturing. Applying knowledge and understanding: The programme will be including a series of advanced labs and projects thus allowing students to take advantage of modern equipment and apply their knowledge to complex engineering applications. Making judgements: Students will have a lot of opportunities to decide about which resources, processes, potential process / resource configurations may be used in specific applications. Communication and working skills: Students will have multiple opportunities to present their work, work as part of multi-disciplinary teams, communicate with engineering or manufacturing firms and improve their working skills. Learning skills: Students will have the chance to further develop their learning skills and prepare for lifelong learning. On top of the multiple learning sources, they will be using during the programme, they will also be talking part in a real engineering research project thus applying standard and specialised research methods. At this point of time there is a quite significant lack of automation scientists and engineers in the Irish job market. The prospectives for the programme graduates are excellent. Leading automation companies, such as KUKA Ireland and Cobots.ie, as well as biomedical manufacturing companies, such as STRYKER and Boston Scientific, are continuously looking for automation experts in the Irish job market. Below is a list of all modules offered for this degree in the current academic year. Click on the module to discover what you will learn in the module, how you will learn and assessment feedback profile amongst other information. Incoming Stage 1 undergraduates can usually select an Elective in the Spring Trimester. Most continuing undergraduate students can select up to two Elective modules (10 Credits) per stage. There is also the possibility to take up to 10 extra Elective credits.