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New degree course fills experience gap for engineers
17 Apr 2007
Newly graduated scientists and engineers can now leave university with industry standard research experience that allows them to get off to a flying start thanks to a pioneering new technical research degree from Sheffield Hallam University.
Responding to calls from industry experts, the University's Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) is running a Masters in Research in Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.
In a unique departure from the taught MSc format, students study a mix of practical and technical information set within the context of cutting edge research. The course combines two skills-based modules, four taught modules and two extended project modules.
During the course, students gain the professional level research skills, technical expertise and project experience needed by the international science and engineering industrial sector. On completion, graduates are ready to be placed straight into research positions in an industrial environment, or management, business development or communications roles within companies with a significant technical focus.
The course comprises:
- Research Methods (skills-based)
- Advanced Measurement Techniques (skills-based)
- Soft Condensed Matter
- Material Modelling
- Nanotechnology and Sensors
- Modelling of Semiconductor Materials and Optics
Course Leader Doug Cleaver explains, "We know that our colleagues in industry need graduates ready to hit the ground running, with a high level of expertise but not necessarily a PhD. This extremely targeted course not only plugs that gap but produces highly qualified, clued-up graduates able to contribute quickly to an organisation".
