Student experience
Building Services (Hons) in TU Dublin has two common entry routes – one through the honours mechanical engineering course and the other through first graduating the ordinary building services degree. Generally, in the second year of honours mechanical engineering, students are given the choice between continuing to third year in either building services, mechanical or manufacturing engineering. History and statistics confirm that only the smallest percentage of students choose building services as their course.
But why is that? Experience says that the perception of building services engineering by students is where the issue emanates from. Students perceive the course as too “limited” with the notion that the course itself only involves pipe-sizing and duct layout design, with similar convictions with regard to job roles after graduating. They lack the slightest hint of alternative subject matter covered such as modelling and simulation, acoustics, lighting design and the like.
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