Materials Engineering covers all the fundamental scientific, engineering and design aspects of Materials, their structure, properties, processing, in-service behaviour and environmental impact. Materials are at the centre of any engineering activity and lie at the heart of research and development aiming to improve performance, efficiency, sustainability and hence profitability. Materials advancements are identified as strategically important to the UK and world economies. Materials engineers are involved with developments in high technology engineering such as aerospace, power generation and through all sectors of industry.

The Materials Engineering course prepares you for careers as materials specialists in industry. It also contains some management modules and gives you many transferable skills to enable you to fit in well in the workplace and quickly build a career. Recent graduate destinations and positions include: Rolls-Royce: Project Engineer, Atkins: Project Engineer, Smiths Medical: Development Project Manager, Team Loctite: Team Manager, Keyence: Application Engineer, Sermatech International UK Ltd: Process and Development Engineer and Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems: Materials Scientist/Technician.