At Flinders we are as excited about your future as you are.
The next four years present a world of opportunity in which you can be challenged, mentored and equipped with personal enterprise skills to make you employable and adaptable in a changing world of work.
Our Engineering degrees are powered by creativity and we offer a range of engineering specialties including robotics, biomedical and maritime engineering, areas which are marked for huge future potential growth and are only offered by Flinders in Australia.
We also provide flexibility to transfer between degrees as you discover where your passion lies.
The Robot Tsar
Dr Rodney Brooks
The quiet boy from Glenelg who was fascinated with electronics and harboured an abiding love for maths has become one of the world’s leading roboticists, but is quick to point out that he was set on his career path during his Bachelor of Science degree at Flinders.
“Flinders had a mainframe computer with 16 kilobytes of memory,” Dr Brooks said. “During the weekend Dr Kautsky let me and another student have that computer to ourselves for 12 hours every Sunday, running it ourselves and learning all sorts of stuff.”
The hands-on experience gave the talented coder an opportunity to build computer functions way ahead of his time, kick starting his technological career.
He established iRobot in 1990, followed by Rethink Robots in 2008. The company has produced the world’s first collaborative robot for industrial settings; a robot that is safe to work with shoulder to shoulder, and one that factory workers can quickly learn how to train, so that it can do new tasks without having an engineering team reprogram it.
Baxter, the company’s first model, has been sold to hundreds of research laboratories globally – including Flinders – and is also being widely used in factories.
Meet Baxter
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The Flinders experience at Tonsley
As an Engineering student at Flinders you will study at our new $120 million purpose-built Tonsley teaching & research facility.
Designed to bring students, researchers and industry together, working in a culture of collaboration, Tonsley features include: maritime engineering lab, design studio, robotics & automation lab, serious gaming & haptics lab, biomechanics and implants lab.
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