{"id":2032,"date":"2019-02-14T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:15:43","slug":"engineering-graduate-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/2019\/02\/14\/engineering-graduate-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering: Graduate Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third year Mechanical Engineering student Jenny Olsen talks us through the many options that are available to engineering students once you graduate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So you\u2019re thinking of choosing an engineering degree to study at Newcastle University \u2013 great! You\u2019ll learn lots of practical skills and engineering theory that will make you both knowledgeable and employable.<\/p>\n

First of all \u2013 there are lots of different types of engineering; Mechanical, Civil, Bio-medical, Electrical and Chemical (to name just a few!). That means lots of different career routes, but despite there being lots of different streams of engineering we all study quite similar topics (at least for the first few years of your degree). Often, companies hire engineering graduates from more than one discipline, so try to study what you think you\u2019ll enjoy the most! If you have a set career in mind, look at what types of engineers they tend to advertise vacancies for and consider tailoring your degree towards that.<\/p>\n

So what happens after you graduate? You\u2019ve passed all your exams, you\u2019ve been at University for 3-4 years, maybe taken a placement year or Summer internship \u2013 what now?<\/p>\n

As an engineering graduate, there are lots of options open to you \u2013 if you\u2019ve graduated with a BEng and want to become chartered, the next step is probably taking an accredited Masters degree. Alternatively, some graduate schemes are tailored to take BEng graduates straight to being a chartered engineer, however these are harder to find and require a longer training period.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve taken an MEng and want to be chartered: straight into a graduate scheme or professional job role and you\u2019re on your way to chartership!<\/p>\n

There are plenty of places to search for graduate roles or engineering vacancies \u2013 using sites like Gradcracker<\/a> is a good place to start however they generally only list big companies which makes the roles extremely competitive. The University Career\u2019s Service<\/a> also lists vacancies in the UK and abroad from companies who are actively seeking to recruit Newcastle graduates which is a brilliant resource. Alternatively, asking your lecturers if they know any companies that are hiring is a great way to find out about smaller companies that won\u2019t be listed on the other sites!<\/p>\n

But what if you\u2019re not ready to give up Uni life just yet? If you\u2019re one of the many students (like myself) who aren\u2019t quite ready to leave behind the lecture hall, maybe further study is for you? There are plenty of research degrees or Doctorate schemes available, and this is a great time to specialise as you\u2019ll already have had 3 or 4 years to discover what you really enjoy learning about.<\/p>\n

Whatever you choose to do after your engineering degree, you\u2019ll be well prepared to fit into a workplace, communicate with your colleagues and tackle the problems of our generation!<\/p>\n

Jenny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Third year Mechanical Engineering student Jenny Olsen talks us through the many options that are available to engineering students once you graduate. So you\u2019re thinking of choosing an engineering degree to study at Newcastle University \u2013 great! You\u2019ll learn lots of practical skills and engineering theory that will make you both knowledgeable and employable. First … Continue reading Engineering: Graduate Prospects<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,330,317],"tags":[135,319,133,335],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-meet-the-scientists","category-student-profile","tag-engineering","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-newcastle-university","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}