From aerospace engineering to telecommunications, a range of career areas are open to you with a degree in electrical and electronic engineering

Job options

Jobs directly related to your degree include:

• Acoustic consultant
• Aerospace engineer
• Broadcast engineer
• CAD technician
• Control and instrumentation engineer
• Design engineer
• Electrical engineer
• Electronics engineer
• Nuclear engineer
• Sound engineer
• Special effects technician

Jobs where your degree would be useful include:

• Clinical technologist
• Land-based engineer
• Machine learning engineer
• Management consultant
• Project manager
• Software engineer
• Technical author
• Technical sales engineer

Work experience

You can gain a hands-on, practical understanding of engineering systems, and the specialised industries they're used in, through work experience. Some courses offer a year out in industry, providing further opportunities to broaden your skill set and establish a network of contacts. You could also arrange some work experience yourself by checking the careers sections of company websites for opportunities or looking for advertised internships.

Typical employers

Electronic and electrical engineers are highly employable and can find work in many areas, including the electronics, automotive, IT, gaming, telecoms, manufacturing, power, transport, utilities and construction industries.

Skills for your CV

In the course of your degree, you develop subject-specific skills in areas such as designing and testing circuit building blocks, computer programming and computer-aided design. You also develop other transferable skills including:

• the ability to use specialist knowledge creatively and innovatively to solve problems
• pragmatism and practicality to turn a concept into reality
• effective communication (spoken and written)
• good teamworking
• project and time management
• a professional approach and ability to work to an ethical code of conduct.

These skills help electrical and electronic engineers to be in demand in other sectors, such as finance and management.