Chemical Engineering - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Throughout the  Chemical Engineering - Placement Year (Hons) course from Lancaster University  you will undertake a year in industry, gaining valuable experience and enhancing your employability. We have extensive links built through our leadership in research and have students undergoing placements with multinational corporate companies through to smaller specialist SMEs. Typically, this is undertaken during your third year, after you have gained a reasonable amount of engineering knowledge. Once you have completed your placement, you will write an extended reflective piece about your time spent with the company.

Career opportunities:

Chemical engineering is an innovative and interdisciplinary subject area, combining techniques and processes used across the STEM field in order to evolve the world around us. Chemical engineers are therefore in high demand across a huge range of sectors – and our graduates have gone on to pursue careers in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing and much more. Some have even gone on to pursue further study and embark on a career within academia, working at the forefront of scientific research and discovery. The highly-transferable skills you will acquire will make you a desirable employee in many fields – even those beyond traditional engineering career destinations. 

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

• Engineering Consultant – Ernst & Young
• Wind Analyst – SSE Renewables
• HDD Design Engineer – O’Connor Utilities Ltd
• Graduate Chemical Engineer – Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
• Submarine Engineer – Royal Navy
• Data Engineer – Cabinet Office
• Graduate Engineer – Engineering Analysis Services Specialists
• PhD Candidate – Lancaster University
• Project Engineer – Hydraulic Analysis Ltd
• Safety and Reliability Engineering Consultant – AFRY UK
• MPhil Advanced Chemical Engineering – University of Cambridge
• Operations and Management – Network Rail
• PhD Candidate – Newcastle University