Engineering has been described as possibly the most exciting career you could have! Its engineers who create the products, structures, buildings and roads that surround us all.  In Portsmouth alone, you could work on satellites, aircraft engines, the new Naval supercarriers or McLaren Mercedes-Benz SLR cars.

Engineering can take you anywhere you want...

Fast changing technologies mean great opportunities are waiting for today's male and female engineers.

Skills shortages and increasing international competition are making it harder for employers to find enough qualified engineers and forcing them to pay inflation-busting salary increases.

 

Some Interesting Engineering Facts

Did you know engineers save more lives than doctors in the early stages of drought or earthquake disaster by reconnecting water supplies to avoid the spread of disease?

83% of graduate engineers find permanent employment as soon as they leave university.

Unemployment in professional engineers is less than 0.99%.

The industry is likely to need as many as 270,000 professionals over the course of the next 10 years.

Over 40% of British GDP depends on engineering in some form, according to the Engineering Council, the profession's regulatory body.

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