School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

This page takes you to tailored information and resources to explore the career options available related to our undergraduate degree programmes. However, many of these resources will also be useful for Master's Students and Doctoral Researchers in these subject areas. For information on a wider range of job roles and professions, including careers for which your specific degree subject is not necessarily required, you can also look at the Prospects and TargetJobs websites. 

  • Attention to detail
  • Communication skills
  • Computer programming
  • Confidence
  • Initiative
  • Numeracy
  • Practical, environmental and business awareness
  • Problem solving
  • Professional competence
  • Project management
  • Team working
  • Time management

Careers directly related to your degree:

Careers where your degree would be useful:

Remember 60% of graduate roles are open to all disciplines.

Career prospects of EESE graduates are excellent; there is no part of the modern world where electronic, electrical and systems engineering do not play a part. You may choose to follow a career in a technology company, or a specific industry sector, such as healthcare, government and public services, finance and banking, transport or construction as well as education, research, leisure, media or sport. The difficult part may be deciding where to let your degree take you.

You can also look at other course pages depending on other modules you have taken and/or are interested in.

Further study at Loughborough University:

The School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manfacturing Engineering offer a range of postgraduate taught masters programmes across three key challenges of Communications Energy and Systems.

The School welcomes enquiries about postgraduate research opportunities including MPhil and PhD degrees. 

Further study elsewhere:

Postgraduate Taught programmes:

PhD opportunities:

 Professional development websites:

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

Employers included:

AECOM, Airspan Communications Ltd, BAE Systems, British Army, Carbon Trust, Cummings, CERN, Civil Service, DNV, GSK, Harley Haddow, IGS Ltd, Inspired Energy, Jaguar Landrover, Lockheed Martin, Micron Design, Ministry of Defence, My Energy, National Grid, RAF, Royal Navy, SHEco Renewable Systems Ltd, Simulation Solutions, Thales, Transport of London, ZF.

Roles included:

Analyst, Duty Analyst, Electrical Engineer, Electronic Engineer, Embedded Software Engineer, Graduate Control Systems Engineer, Graduate Hardware Engineer, Innovation Manager, Installation Manager, IT Graduate, Mechanical Engineer, Publisher, Research Engineer, Senior Geo Physicist, Systems Architect, Systems Analyst, Royal Airforce Officer, Technical Specialist Application Engineer, Weapon Engineering Officer, Civil Servant, Tax Consultant, Wind Engineer.

Further study included:

MSc Renewable Energy, MSc Energy and Power, MSc Telecommunications with Business, MSc Design Innovation Management, PGCE, PhD Autonomous UAVs for Marine Mammal Monitoring, PhD Manufacturing, PhD Robotics.

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:

Professional bodies:

Sector and labour market information (LMI):

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.

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