Engineering - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Throughout the Engineering - Placement Year (Hons) course from Lancaster University  you will develop valuable transferable skills that make you highly desirable to future employers. This includes working in collaboration, communication, and the ability to design and implement a system or device. You will grow practical skills in diagnosis and testing, system maintenance, digital proficiencies, and the ability to consider and maintain work safety practices in a range of environments.

In modern engineering there are no distinct boundaries between specialisms, and all engineers require a broad-based knowledge of the fundamental principles to be able to work across multidisciplinary teams. At their core, an engineer is a creative and technically minded individual who can conceive ideas, design and implement them. They are pioneers and problem solvers, innovators and analysers.

Career opportunities:

The general engineering first year allows you to get a taste of all of the disciplines within engineering if you are uncertain which path you wish to pursue. But regardless of whether you choose to progress onto mechanical or chemical engineering, or you find your passion lies within nuclear or electronic engineering, the interdisciplinary nature of our courses means that you will be in high demand across a huge range of sectors, such as energy, rail, 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. Graduates with our engineering degrees are well-paid too, with a median salary of £32,000 15 months after graduation (HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024).

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

• Engineering Consultant – Ernst & Young

• Wind Analyst – SSE Renewables

• Sustainability Design Engineer – Queen’s University Belfast

• Graduate Manufacturing Engineer – BAE Systems

• Nuclear Graduates Scheme – Rolls Royce

• Graduate Scheme – Sellafield Ltd

• Electronic Engineer - Partner Electronics

• Marine Engineer Officer (Submariner) – Royal Navy

• Electrical Power Engineer – BAE Systems

• Nuclear Safety Engineer – Mott Macdonald