TAFE Presentation

Our trip to Australia was based on an exchange with the TAFE NSW.

TAFE NSW is Australia's largest training provider, and it is among the largest in the world. The letters 'TAFE' stand for Technical and Further Education and, for hundreds of thousands of people each year, it also stands for high quality, accessible training.

TAFE offers relevant training and education in a way that makes sense in today's world. TAFE NSW courses and education programs are delivered flexibly – online, by distance, face-to-face, or by a combination of methods in many different domains such as Mechanical engineering but also seafood industry, cafe Management or creative arts.

During our session in Sydney, the courses were divided in three weeks:

• 1st week: CAD with autodesk inventor’s

• 2^nd week: Cross cultural communications

• 3^rd week: Lectures on non destructive testing.

CAD Activities

During our first week in Sydney, we have studied new CAD software: “Autodesk inventor’s”.

This software seems to be very close to solid works. Ergonomic is really good, and quickly we manage to create 3d models. Despite the short time accorded to this activity we were able to discover the main function as extrusion, assembly and drawing. We have worked only on very simple 3D models, but thanks to this we have had a global vision of this software.

Communication

We had communication courses during one week. After a short presentation of us, the teachers asked us to make an oral presentation about various subjects as: sport in Australia, beaches in Australia, use of alcohol in Australia. Theses presentations allow us to learn about the difference between France and Australia. After that, we had a half-day course about the Aboriginal story. She explains us the entire aboriginal story, their faiths, and their difficulties being recognized by the Australian’s state.

Non Destructive Testing

The last school week was devoted to Non destructive Testing classes. We has studied some different methods such as radiography, X ray, ultrasonic, Eddy current, dye penetrant. The TAFE facilities include testing machines to achieve non destructive testing. Therefore, we performed radiography, ultrasonic, X ray and magnetic particle inspection tests in order to find cracks.

Some other test, such as Eddy current or dye penetrant was explained during classes.