Underlying our specialist degrees is the drive to provide a study experience that gives you the skills and knowledge valuable to employers. We've worked with industry to develop our courses to meet the needs of the engineering sector now and for the future. And they are delivered by academics with a wealth of expertise and experience to teach and support you through your MSc.

As well as learning the technical and practical elements of your course, it's also important to us you develop the professional and transferrable skills that will make you more likely to be employed in the career you want. This is why we integrate project work and different ways to engage with industry on your degree. These include placements, guest lectures, industrial mentors, and project work with industrial partners. Your experience in project management and teamwork will help you grow as a strong communicator and confident leader. it also means you'll learn the skills needed to work in a wide range of sectors and not just engineering.

Our MSc Modern Building Design includes an integrated placement¹ as part of your course, while our MSc Robotics and Autonomous Systems and MSc Artificial Intelligence for Engineering and Design offer optional placement routes.²

On our Modern Building Design and Robotics and Autonomous Systems courses, you can go on placement for three-to-six months after your second semester and it can run parallel with your dissertation allowing you to apply what you've learnt by working on industry-driven research topics.

Benefits

• our good industry links give you access to a range of placement providers
• you have the option to base your dissertation on a topic set by your placement company
• a placement can help reassure your future employers of your professional experience
• it is an opportunity to build relationships in industry

Where could you go?

Our students have been on placement at companies including:

• Benedex
• DF Automation
• Henriksen Studios
• Mott McDonald
• Sonneman Toon Architects

Our consultancy project (sometimes known as a Practice Track) is a group project where you'll work in teams to solve a real business opportunity or challenge for one of our corporate partners. It gives you experience in creating and managing a brief, running a team project, using cross-functional approaches, and stakeholder management. You’ll also get training in project and client management, and presentation skills.

How do they benefit you?

• you'll have the opportunity to be mentored by experienced industrial leaders
• you'll work on a real engineering or technology management challenge in multidisciplinary teams
• you'll apply the knowledge and behaviour-based skills you have learnt during your studies

Courses with consultancy projects

• MSc Automotive Engineering with Business Management
• MSc Automotive Technology with Business Management
• MSc Engineering Business Management
• MSc Innovation and Technology Management
• MSc Zero Carbon Futures