Careers Network is here to support you by providing information, advice, guidance, events and opportunities to enable you to secure placements, work experience, self-employment and graduate careers.

Working closely with your academic school, our team of experts ensures that every student has access to careers advice.  As well as large careers fairs, we hold sector-specific events, involving employers and Loughborough alumni, to help you make valuable connections and secure high-quality placements and graduate roles. 

To find out more about what we do and how we can support you, visit Meet the teams. 

Details of the Placements Officers for your school can be found here.

We look forward to supporting throughout your Loughborough journey.

• A high standard of numeracy
• Commercial awareness and business skills.
• Creative and innovative problem solving.
• IT competency and computer-modelling experience
• Research and report-writing skills
• The ability to analyse and interpret data.
• The ability to evaluate designs, processes and products, and make improvements.
• The capability to work in multi-strength teams.
• Time management, planning and organisational skills

Careers directly related to your degree:

• Design Engineer
• Manufacturing Engineer
• Materials Engineer
• Metallurgist
• Product Engineer
• Product/Process Development Scientist
• Research Scientist (physical sciences)
• Technical Sales Engineer

Careers where degree would be useful:

• Biomedical Engineer
• Higher Education Lecturer
• Manufacturing Systems Engineer
• Patent Examiner
• Quality Manager
• Secondary School Teacher

Further study at Loughborough University:

The Department of Materials Engineering offers two postgraduate taught masters programmes.

There are various postgraduate research opportunities from funded PhDs within Materials Engineering to study within the several doctoral training centres with which AACME is partnered.

Further study elsewhere:

Postgraduate taught programmes:

• Find a Masters course
• Prospects postgraduate courses

PhD opportunities:

• Find a PhD
• Jobs.ac.uk

What do Loughborough Materials Engineering graduates do?

Graduates from this subject area have gone on to destinations where:

Employers included:

Airbus, Atkins, BAE Systems, Bentley Motors Ltd, Cadent Gas, E.ON, Fibre Extrusion Technology Ltd, IBM, Intertek, National Composites Centre, Parker Hannifin, Pirelli Tyres, QinetiQ, Renishaw, Sky.

Roles included:

Design Engineer, Materials Engineer, Process Engineer, Product Design Engineer, Quality and Materials Engineer, Research and Development Project Manager, R&D Engineering Materials Testing and Characterisation, Research Engineer, Technologist, Technology Consultant, Transport Technology Consultant, Finance Analyst.

Further Study included:

MSc Additive Manufacturing, MSc Materials Science and Technology, MSc Medical Engineering Design, MSc Renewable Energy, MSc Renewable Energy Systems Technology, MSc (RES) Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, PhD Engineering, PhD in Materials Science.

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 Loughborough and track the career journeys and Loughborough experiences of some of our alumni.

Websites:

• National Careers Service
• Prospects: manufacturing sector overview
• Prospects: options with a materials science degree
• TargetJobs: materials and metals sector overview
• TargetJobs: materials science job description
• The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
• Biomedical Engineering News from the ImechE
• Careers in Biomedical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineer profile from the IPEM
• NHS STP Training Programme
• Medical Engineering profile from NHS Careers
• NHS Careers in Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering
• NHS Careers in Physical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
• Getting Started in Careers in Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• Engineering in Healthcare
• Careers in Bioengineering US article
• Careers In Biomaterials Science US article

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 Target Connect on our website for vacancies and opportunities

Other useful links:

• IET Jobs in Engineering and Technology                                               
• Prospects: jobs search   
• The Engineer jobs                
• Gradcracker                                                
• Just Engineers                                              
• Matchtech                                                    
• Target jobs                                                                            
• The Year in Industry   
• Engineering Jobs
• Student Ladder
• RateMyPlacement
• STEM Women
• Remap disability equipment organisation
• Hospital Open Days for STP Training
• emedcareers Pharmaceutical, Medical, Biotech & Healthcare jobs
• New Scientist jobs
• NHS Jobs

• Talentview Aviation free to use recruitment platform for a range of opportunities in the Aviation industry

Professional bodies:

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• Engineering Council
• The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
• The Biomedical Engineering Association
• The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• European Society for Biomaterials
• Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Sector and labour market information (LMI):

• Materials World
• Materials Today
• Engineering Materials News
• Science Daily
• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in the UK report