This programme aims to provide students with skills appropriate to the aircraft design, manufacturing and repair sectors, and builds on the topics covered in relevant HND programmes of study. Graduates will be well-equipped to take up a range of career opportunities with aerospace companies in areas such as design, maintenance, or manufacture.

Chemical engineers are consistently among the most highly paid graduates of any subject, due mainly to their major responsibility for capital investment projects. Recent graduates have gained employment with a variety of major companies. Some recent examples of job roles include Plant Engineer at GlaxoSmithKline; Design Engineer with Foster Wheeler; Process Engineer with Texaco; Safety Engineer with BNFL Sellafield; Pilot Plant Engineer with Seal Chemicals; Process Engineer at Doosan Babcock; Plant Engineer with Nestlé; Research Engineer for Joint European Torus Project; and Researcher with Procter and Gamble. Several of our graduates opted for postgraduate study and many pursued PhD programmes both in the UK and abroad.