Nuclear Engineering - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Through the Nuclear Engineering - Placement Year (Hons)  program offered by Lancaster University  you will be taught a series of modules that are taken by all first-year engineering students. They will introduce you to many of the key features of engineering, equipping you with a well-rounded understanding and skill set. Following the first year, you will have the opportunity to consider and plan your academic progression. At this stage, you may choose to begin your nuclear engineering study, or move onto any of our other specialist programmes.

Career opportunities:

Nuclear engineering is a truly multi-disciplinary subject, going beyond just the provision of nuclear power for our electrical needs and expanding into sectors as diverse as medicine and space travel. From working in a nuclear power plant as a Nuclear Safety Engineer, to going into the automotive industry or medical and healthcare technology development, there are a wide range of career opportunities open to graduates from nuclear engineering courses – and some of our graduates even go on to further study and lead in their specialist field as academics. The ability to think creatively to solve problems, alongside your experience managing projects and applying practical and technical knowledge to novel scenarios will make you a desirable employee for careers that even sit outside of traditional engineering destinations. Graduates from our Engineering degrees are well-paid too, with a median starting salary of £29,000 (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2023).

Here are just some of the roles that our BEng and MEng Nuclear Engineering students have progressed into upon graduating:

• PhD Candidate – University of Bristol

• CERN Research Fellow – CERN

• Nuclear Safety Engineer – EDF Energy

• Nuclear Graduates Scheme – Rolls Royce

• Graduate Scheme – Sellafield Ltd

• CE Safety Engineer – Amec Foster Wheeler

• Nuclear Safety Engineer – Mott Macdonald

• Global Manufacturing Trainee – Kraft Heinz

• Operations Graduate – BAE Systems

• Molecular Imaging Application Specialist – Bartec Technologies Ltd