Enhance your employability in the competitive global market with a qualification that provides advanced technical foundations and industrial perspectives in your chosen field. Programme overview The MEngSt allows students with academic engineering backgrounds to expand their existing theoretical and practical skills. It is flexible – you can study either full-time or part-time, undertake either a primarily coursework or research-focused programme, and choose from sixteen distinct specialisations. This programme ultimately requires an in-depth exploration of your chosen topic. You will demonstrate the high-quality critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are sought-after by employers worldwide, or consider this as foundation for further study. Postgraduate courses that specialise in plastics are designed for current industry professionals who wish to continue their studies at an advanced level, develop an advanced technical foundation and gain industrial perspective in a specialised area. The course has strong links to the New Zealand plastics industry, which are reflected in both lectures and the practical components. The topics covered include: Understanding the structure, properties and processing inter-relationships of materials used in the plastics industry The effect of additives on processing and degradation Specialised topics and applications including fluoropolymers, silicones, film blowing, thermoforming, membranes and bioplastics Where can postgraduate study in Plastics take you? If you’re a current industry professional with a few years of experience, a postgraduate programme in Plastics is intended to give you the specialised knowledge necessary for the next step on your career pathway. Some of the intermediate and experienced roles this can lead to include: Research Engineer Injection Moulding Specialist Plastics R&D Engineer Quality Assurance Inspector Factory Manager Senior Product Analyst Jobs related to this programme Design engineer Process engineering manager Product engineer Project manager Senior engineer Software developer Further study options Master of Engineering Doctor of Philosophy