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Graduate profile: Tom Elson Studied: MEng in Aerospace Engineering Currently: PhD in Aerodynamics and Computational Aeroacoustics at Cranfield University Why did you choose Queen Mary? It’s the oldest institution in the UK to teach Aeronautical Engineering and has good facilities. Coming from the heart of Wales, a move to multicultural east London was very tempting.
Career opportunities Students graduating with a degree in any engineering discipline have always enjoyed excellent career opportunities. Graduates from our engineering degrees have a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of the subject, with specialist knowledge from their degree, and valuable transferable skills. As well as careers in the engineering sector, some graduates enter careers in other fields such as finance, sales, marketing and IT while others go on to further study in the form of an MSc or PhD.
What did you gain from your time at Queen Mary? The degree at Queen Mary was really useful as it combined the standard methods of learning like exams and tutorials with lots of projects and group work. This helped with my team working, organisational and presentation skills.
Salary bracket: £10-15,000 What can current students do to prepare for getting a job in your area? Firstly, to do a PhD you’ve got to be interested in your subject! To demonstrate this make sure you do well in your third and fourth year projects and build good relationships with the people who will write your references: your project supervisor and personal tutor. That, and your grades will be important, so work hard especially in the modules linked to the area you want to do a PhD in.
Aerospace Engineering Recent graduates from this degree programme have gone on to careers within the aerospace engineering industry, including working as a stress engineer at Marshall Aerospace, a design engineer for DKN, a graduate engineer for Airbus and for the Ministry for Defence. A few students have trained as pilots; and others have gone on to further research, studying for an MSc or PhD.
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