Electrical and Electronic Engineering careers

Career prospects

Gaining a degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering opens up many different career pathways for you. You may wish to stay in academia and continue your studies as a postgraduate, or pursue a career in industry. 

The average starting salary of our graduates is £27,000 (GEMS data 2016/2017) and 87% of our graduates are in graduate level jobs or further study after graduation.

Our Industrial Placement Year degrees offer a great opportunity to work in an Engineering company for a year as part of your degree as Callum did who stars in the video below. We also have a dedicated Industrial Placement Year team to help Faculty of Engineering students to find the best placements available.

What our graduates do

Our graduates work in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, power generation, and sustainable energy, for companies such as Rolls-Royce, Jaguar Land Rover and Thales.

Robotic Process Automation is a great balance between a technical and a business role

Anjani Wirasinghe Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering (MEng)

Anjani secured a job as an Automation Support Engineer with Accountancy firm BDO LLP in London

Thanks to all the experience I gained during my course I left University feeling confident about my knowledge & ready to start my professional career.

Gianmarco Pisanelli Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering MEng

I'm Gianmarco, I studied Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering and enjoyed it from day one!

Industry focus

We have links with major organisations such as Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems and the European Space Agency. This means our courses are relevant and our graduates develop the skills employers look for.

Our courses cover all the engineering disciplines needed by systems engineers: electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer hardware/software, and control components.

Help with your career

We regularly introduce new modules in response to current developments in research, and demands in the careers market.

There's a vast array of careers support opportunities available to you here at Sheffield, and not just in the lab or lecture theatre.

Get one-to-one advice

As an Engineering student at Sheffield there are weekly opportunities to arrange an appointment with a career advisor and placement officer through our friendly Careers Service.

Use Career Connect to book on to career fairs and events as well as browsing through jobs and placements.

Student Jobshop is your one stop portal for jobs that are available to students including part-time paid work, summer internships, vacation work and voluntary work.

If you are considering a placement then our placement team can help you find one that suits you.