Today's world requires young people to keep pace with rapidly changing information and technology and to be prepared for multiple careers in their working life. Learning is now a life-long experience, with constant upgrading of knowledge and skills.

UNSW promotes the development of the skills required for life-long learning such as problem solving, critical thinking, reasoning, communication and management. It equips graduates with attributes that include not only knowledge of their discipline, but oral and written communication skills, and attitudes such as those that guide ethical behaviour. These skills and attributes are becoming increasingly important to employers, who look for evidence of them in students' academic work, employment, extracurricular activities and general life experience.

In the Engineering Faculty we, too, are preparing students for the real world they will work in. They are learning to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, using the essential skills of an engineer, such as problem solving and teamwork and the ability to think independently.

There are many reasons to study Engineering at UNSW.

It takes some students a little while to get used to the differences between school and university. Some of the changes they will encounter are:

• a much larger and more diverse community
• bigger classes
• more independent study and the need to manage their own time
• an expectation for them to be self-disciplined and self-reliant
• less frequent feedback