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Whether your career holds space travel, or more earth-bound ambitions; engineering offers a huge choice of opportunities, specialisms and the chance to see the world. Explore employers and sector advice to find your path.
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Overview

You’ll find that there are a huge number of engineering roles and specialisms to choose from across a range of industries, including: aerospace, automotive, chemicals, consumer goods and construction. In engineering, your job title could be the same as your degree discipline, for example mechanical engineer, or it could be based around a particular stage of the engineering process, for example design engineer. Engineering is suitable for you if you find satisfaction in solving challenging problems. Explore opportunities in engineering here .

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FAQs in engineering

Engineering careers can be very rewarding. Engineers design and create products that help improve lives. As an engineer, you could be working on life-saving medical equipment, cutting-edge new technologies or sustainable solutions for the future of our planet. Moreover, engineers are in demand and tend to be well compensated.

An engineering degree opens plenty of doors besides becoming an engineer. You could opt to work in the engineering industry but in a different role, such as operations management, technical sales, finance, purchasing or logistics. Or you could move into a different industry or profession completely. STEM students are highly sought after in all sorts of organisations, including professional services firms and law firms.

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