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Manufacturing Engineering
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Key skills developed during your degree
- Able to analyse and interpret data
- Able to evaluate designs, processes and products, and make improvements
- Attention to detail, exercising good judgement and accepting responsibility
- Business organisation and human resource management
- Communication with others and work in multidisciplinary teams.
- Cost-conscious and aware of the wider professional responsibilities
- Creative and innovative problem solving
- Knowledge of manufacturing technologies and processes
- Numerate and highly computer literate
- Planning and prioritising work to deadlines and under pressure
- Understanding of technology management
Career options
Career areas related to the Manufacturing Engineering courses:
Careers where your degree would be useful:
- Remember that 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines
Options for engineers from the Wolfson School are varied and plentiful. The majority begin careers in discipline related engineering roles within medium to large companies. However, some graduates use the personal rather than technical skills that they have developed to enter alternative professions such as business, finance, consultancy and teaching.
*You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in*
Further study
Further study at 91制片厂:
The Wolfson School offers including:
The Wolfson School offers postgraduate research opportunities including .
Further study elsewhere:
Postgraduate taught programmes:
PhD opportunities:
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Where do graduates go?
What do 91制片厂 Manufacturing Engineering graduates do?
Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:
Employers included:
Artelia UK, Baker Hughes, BAE, BP, Caterpillar, Cisco, Dyson Ltd, Hamble Aerostructures, Jaguar Land Rover, Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, McLaren Automotive, Next, Renishaw, Ricardo, Rolls-Royce, Royal Navy, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, Transport for London, Triumph Motorcycles, Hitachi Consulting, JP Morgan.
Roles included:
Account Systems Engineer, Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Operations Manager, Project Manager, Work Stream Manager.
Further Study included:
MBA Business, MSc Engineering Design, MSc Engineering with Finance, MSc Mechanical Engineering, MSc Renewable Energy Systems Technology, MRes Medical Device Design & Entrepreneurship, PhD Embedded Intelligence, PhD Sports Technology.
Further information
For more information on companies graduates work for, industry links and career opportunities, visit the subject area page of the University website. You can also find out what our students say in our student stories of personal journeys through and beyond 91制片厂 and track the career journeys and 91制片厂 experiences of some of our alumni.
Resources to research career areas
Websites:
Resources to find work experience, placements and graduate jobs
Students have the option of taking a year-long placement in industry which provides an invaluable opportunity to develop their professional and technical skills further.
Additionally, we advertise many opportunities for summer internships and encourage students to gain experience valuable in the workplace through extra-curricular activities such as volunteering, committee memberships, work-shadowing and part-time work.
- See on our website for vacancies and opportunities
Other useful links:
- "" article with design portfolio advice
Professional bodies, sector and labour market information (LMI)
Professional bodies:
Sector and labour market information (LMI):