Automation and Digital Engineering (Hons)

Overview

You enhance your employment opportunities in industrial sectors such as electronics, aerospace, communications, robotics and manufacturing. The knowledge and skills you acquire are relevant to many other sectors, including the service and financial industries.

Modules such as the mathematics, skills and project modules, support these threads and provide a more rounded (industrially relevant) educational experience.

Prepare for your studies with our free online Mathematics for University course. Develop your knowledge and understanding in maths so that you can start your studies in September confidently and better prepared. Places offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Career opportunities

Develop your professional skills and links with industry through our Expo Series and Student Futures activities.

You can pursue a career in a number of sectors including electronics, aerospace, communications, robotics and manufacturing. You can contribute to almost every area of modern manufacturing, service and financial industries.

Work placement

This Automation and Digital Engineering (Hons) course from Teesside University allows you to spend one year learning and developing your skills through work experience. A work placement officer and the University’s careers service are available to help you with applying for a placement.

By taking a work placement year you gain experience favoured by graduate recruiters and develop your technical skillset. You also obtain the transferable skills required in any professional environment. Transferable skills include communication, negotiation, teamwork, leadership, organisation, confidence, self-reliance, problem-solving, being able to work under pressure, and commercial awareness.

An increasing number of employers view a placement as a year-long interview and as a result, placements are increasingly becoming an essential part of an organisation's pre-selection strategy in their graduate recruitment process.