Graduates of other educational Institutions who want to be admitted to the Department, through qualifying exams, submit the relevant application to the Department Secretariat in the first fortnight of November and participate in the relevant exams organized by the Department between December 1st and 20th .
Candidates for graduate classification are selected exclusively through qualifying exams with development issues in the following three courses:
1. Mathematics I
2. Mechanics – Statics
3. Thermodynamics I
Candidates are examined in an exam material, which is announced in time by the Department Secretariat.
Course recognition
Students admitted to the Department through placement exams can recognize courses they have successfully completed in their previous Department of study. For this purpose, they submit to the Department applications grouped by teacher, stating the courses of the study program that they wish to recognize from the study program of the Department or Departments of origin, the courses in which they have succeeded and which they consider to cover the workload and the corresponding material of the courses to be recognized, a copy of the detailed score from the Department in which they had studied as well as excerpts from the Study Guide which describe in detail the content of the material of each course. Each student is entitled to submit a course recognition application only once,
The conditions for a course in the Department’s curriculum to be recognized are:
- Its content is covered by the content of the course or courses completed by the student in the Department of origin,
- The workload of the course, based on ECTS, must be equal to or less than that of the course or courses of the Department of origin.
For each course or group of courses that the student wishes to recognize, the Department forwards the relevant application to the course instructor, who decides whether the aforementioned recognition conditions are met (workload and material coverage) and recommends the grade to be registered. The decision to recognize the course or courses that the student has applied for is taken by the Department Assembly.
The maximum number of courses that can be recognized for a student is defined as 30% of the total number of courses that must be taught to receive the degree, with priority from the shortest to the longest semester. The calculation of the percentage does not include the “courses” of the diploma thesis and practical training, which cannot be recognized courses. Students who enroll in the Department through the placement exams process will be able to apply for recognition of all the courses taught up to the previous semester in which they are enrolled by the Department.
The courses in which the student was examined in the qualifying exams and collected an average score greater than or equal to Ten (10) with an excellent score of 20, are automatically recognized and are not included in the percentage of 30%.
The result of the decision is communicated by the Department Secretariat to the student regarding the courses that were recognized and corresponding justifications for the courses that were not recognized.
Relevant Ministerial Decisions
No. 192329/B3 Official Gazette 3185/16.12.2013 (in Greek)
No. 92983/Z1 Official Gazette 1329/02.07.2015 (in Greek)
Qualifications for graduates of Institutes of Vocational Training (IVT) and Post-secondary year apprenticeship class
In addition, the Mechanical Engineering Department organizes qualifying exams for I.E.K. graduates and Post-high school year of apprenticeship in the following specialties:
SPECIALTIES OF IVT
- RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES INSTALLATION TECHNICIAN
- VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING TECHNICIAN
- TECHNICAL ENGINEER OF THERMAL PLANTS AND OIL AND NATURAL GAS TECHNOLOGY ENGINEER
- MECHATRONIC TECHNICIAN
- ELEVATOR TECHNICIAN
- TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS AND INSTALLATION TECHNICIAN IN LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
- AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEER/MECHATRONICS
- MECHANICAL STUDIES – MARINE ENGINEERING
- ENGINEERING AIRCRAFT SPECIALIST
- ENGINEERING AIRCRAFT SPECIALIST
- AIRCRAFT ENGINEER
SPECIALTIES OF POST-HIGH SCHOOL YEAR OF APPRENTICESHIP
- VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING TECHNICIAN
- MECHANICAL INSTALLATION AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNICIAN
- VEHICLE TECHNICIAN