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School of Aeronautical and Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering (AACME)
Materials Engineering
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Key skills developed during your degree
- A high standard of numeracy
- Commercial awareness and business skills
- Creative and innovative problem solving
- IT competency and computer-modelling experience
- Research and report-writing skills
- The ability to analyse and interpret data
- The ability to evaluate designs, processes and products, and make improvements
- The capability to work in multi-strength teams
- Time management, planning and organisational skills
Career options
Careers directly related to your degree:
- CAD Technician
- Design Engineer
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Materials Engineer
- Metallurgist
- Product/Process Development Scientist
- Research Scientist (physical sciences)
- Technical Sales Engineer
Careers where degree would be useful:
Further study
Further study at º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ:
The Department of Materials offers two postgraduate taught masters programmes.
There are various postgraduate research opportunities from funded PhDs within Materials Engineering to study within the several doctoral training centres with which AACME is partnered.
Further study elsewhere:
Postgraduate taught programmes:
PhD opportunities:
Where do graduates go?
What do º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ Materials Science and Engineering graduates do?
Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:
Employers included:
Cabinet Office, Explo, Interface Polymers, Jacobs, Jaguar Land Rover, National Composites Centre, Pick Everard, Reactive Components, Rolls Royce, Solvay, Thermal Hazard Technology and United Cast Bar.
Roles included:
Associate Consultant, Cybersecurity Risk Advisor, Design Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Materials Graduate, Metallurgist, Product Development Engineer, Project Manager, Quality Control Scientist, Research Engineer, Test Technician and Vehicle Emissions Validation Engineer.
Further Study included:
Materials Science and Engineering graduates undertook postgraduate courses or PhDs at the University of Bristol, King’s College London, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ, the University of Manchester, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Warwick and Technical University Delft.
Further information
For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website. You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ and track the career journeys and º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ experiences of some of our alumni.
Resources to research career areas
- National Careers Service
- Prospects: engineering and manufacturing overview
- Prospects: options with a materials science and engineering degree
- Prospects: Biomedical engineer job description
- TargetJobs: Materials engineer job description
- TargetJobs: Materials specialist job description
- TargetJobs: Metallurgist job description
- The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining: Careers and learning
- Biomedical Engineering News from the IMechE
- Biomedical Engineering from the IPEM
- NHS STP Training Programme
- Medical Engineering profile from NHS Careers
- NHS Careers in Physical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
- Getting Started in Careers in Physics and Engineering in Medicine
- Engineering in Healthcare
Resources to find work experience, placements and graduate jobs
Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further.
Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.
- See Target Connect on our website for vacancies and opportunities
Other useful links:
- IET Jobs in Engineering and Technology
- Prospects: jobs search
- The Engineer jobs
- Gradcracker
- Just Engineers
- Matchtech
- Target jobs
- EDT Placements
- Engineering Jobs
- Student Ladder
- RateMyPlacement
- STEM Women
- Remap disability equipment organisation
- Hospital Open Days for STP Training
- emedcareers Pharmaceutical, Medical, Biotech & Healthcare jobs
- New Scientist jobs
- NHS Jobs
- Talentview Aviation free to use recruitment platform for a range of opportunities in the Aviation industry
Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)
Professional bodies:
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Engineering Council
- The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- The Biomedical Engineering Association
- The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
- European Society for Biomaterials
- Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- United Kingdom Society for Biomaterials
Sector and labour market information (LMI):