Staff-Student Consultative Committee
Contact the SSCC for any issues or queries you may have regarding your courses.
The SSCC is one route through which you can raise any issues or queries you may have regarding your courses and environment within the Department. You can also approach your lecturers, course advisers, department administrative and IT staff, and the Head of Department.
The SSCC includes two elected representatives from each year group of Mechanical and Mechatronics, Masters and PhD students, and relevant departmental staff. They meet at least four times a year.
The SSCC is also responsible for organising events such as staff/student BBQs and sports tournaments.
Student reps
Part II
Mechanical: Tayla Wong – twon940@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Mechatronics: Adam Lee – alee524@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Part III
Mechanical: Ahimsha Vallipuram - asar861@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Mechatronics: Geoffrey Huang - ghua980@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Part IV
Mechanical: Konstantin Deridov - kder867@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Mechatronics: Peter Lee - xli344@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Staff reps
Head of Department
Krishnan Jayaraman - k.jayaraman@auckland.ac.nz
Deputy Head of Department (Academic)
Dr Karl Stol - k.stol@auckland.ac.nz
Programme leaders
Mechanical: Rajnish Sharma - r.sharma@auckland.ac.nz
Mechatronics: Peter Xu - p.xu@auckland.ac.nz
MEng Studies (Medical Devices): Luke Hallum
MEng Studies (Polymers) - Johan Verbeek - johan.verbeek@auckland.ac.nz
Postgraduate Advisers
Research: Kean Aw - k.aw@auckland.ac.nz
Taught: Stuart Norris - s.norris@auckland.ac.nz
Technical Manager
Jos Geurts - j.geurts@auckland.ac.nz
Group Services Coordinator
Caroline Turner - cb.turner@auckland.ac.nz
Group Services Administrator
Ms. Niketa Bhaiya - niketa.bhaiya@auckland.ac.nz
SSCC Chair
Dr. Michael Mac Donald - michael.macdonald@auckland.ac.nz