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The significance of robotics and automated systems keeps expanding in manufacturing and industrial production as businesses utilize their potential to enhance manufacturing processes and boost output. Robots demonstrate versatile utility across numerous tasks including packaging, welding, painting, machining, and quality inspection, finding applications in diverse sectors like pharmaceuticals, chemicals, automotive, healthcare, and agriculture. This multidisciplinary field integrates electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science, encompassing specialized areas such as embedded systems programming, control mechanisms, autonomous decision-making, and power electronics. Given the technical complexity of this interdisciplinary domain, industries currently face a shortage of skilled professionals and qualified graduates.
Year 1 entry:
Candidates for year 1 entry to our Bachelor Degree programmes must hold a high school completion certificate that comes in at level 5 on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications. All candidates must have completed 12 years of full-time education prior to applying for entry to SETU Carlow. All subjects on the High School Completion Certificate must be successfully passed, with good grades.
Advanced Entry:
SETU Carlow welcomes applications from students who have completed some studies at higher level at other institutions and who wish to transfer onto a Bachelor degree programme at SETU Carlow.
English Language Requirements:
IELTS: 5.5 IELTS(minimum of 5 IELTS in each component)
TOEFL Internet Based test (iBT): 70 (min score of 15 in each component)
TOEFL – Computer Based Test: 196 (min score of 15 in each component)
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: Grade C
Duolingo English Test (DET): 90
English Test for Academic and Professional Purposes (ETAPP): B2+
GCE O-Level English: Grade C
GCSE English: Grade C
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE): 50
Test of Interactive English (TIE): B2+
TOEFL Paper Based Test: 550
TOEIC: 605
Irish Leaving Certificate: Ordinary Level O6