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Industrial Placement

During the second year of your studies you have the opportunity to extend your study and to spend a year on industrial placement. The Industrial Placement is taken between the second and third year of the degree depending on whether you choose the BSc or MEng route. As a result you will have the word ‘Industrial’ added to their degree title.

During the second year of your studies you have the opportunity to change to
a 4-year degree programme and to spend a year in industry. The Industrial placement is taken between the second and final years of the degree and you will have the word ‘industrial’ added to your degree title. This gives you the chance to apply your knowledge of IT, motivate your future learning, get a step ahead in the search for a career, and not least earn some money!

You arrange your own placement, though the School assists in this process through its extensive network of external links with companies, which range from small local employers to large multi-nationals. The School's industrial placement tutor administers the process from publishing vacancies to monitoring progress. You must decide whether you want to take up this opportunity by Christmas of the second year.

In recent years, around one in six of our undergraduate students has taken the placement option. Among the companies who have received them are: BNFL, British Steel, British Telecom, Colgate-Palmolive, Defence Research Agency, Ford, IBM, KPMG, Leeds City Council, Logica, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yorkshire Building Society and Yorkshire Electricity.

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Internships

From time to time funding becomes available for student internships. For example. the Alumni Research and Leadership Scholarship allows students to develop skills and interest in academic research. The Employability Internship Scheme recruited two students for each school in the faculty of Engineering to develop communication plans to support employability engagement activities. Student research interns work in the School’s laboratories under supervision of our research staff, contributing actively to current research projects