Oil and gas: bit sticky at the moment. So let’s have a look at all the other energy jobs hopping up and down for your attention.
A UK student engineering project providing an electricity system to rural Rwandan communities has received the grand prize in a competition to reward students who develop, design or implement technology to solve a real world problem.
Student & Young Professional visits a model racing-car manufacturer, and discovers that many of the tools, materials, challenges and demands involved in designing and building cars are the same, whatever scale you build them to.
If you know the answer, there’s never been a better time to solve the manufacturer's eternal question: how do I save money? If the answer is in the principles of Lean, then how do you build your career on them?
And the ideal employer is....a Really Big IT Business, according to the latest survey of IT and engineering students
It may have been the final frontier for Captain James Tiberius Kirk, but for the current generation of student engineers, space might actually represent something far more mundane: the workplace.
Figures showing that the proportion of women working in engineering in some European countries is almost three times greater than in the UK have prompted a year-long investigation into the reasons for the disparity
Responsibility, training, cross-department experience, and some outside advisory work too: find out about Chris Hinton's four-cylinder apprenticeship
UCL student Zain Jaffer has been selected as one of the youngest of the future top 80 ‘world leaders’ to attend the graduate studies programme at Singularity University, which runs at NASA’s Ames Research Park in Silicon Valley.
He won an award for being top grad employee - but it's not all about prizes, it's about work as well, you know. What's the job like?
Engineering: engages hands and brain, creative, technical, tick tick tick. But exciting? Narcotics hunting, ship deconstructing, world travel exciting? Probably not.
Unless you thought about joining the Royal Navy.
Partners In Health (PIH), The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) and reggae band Steel Pulse have announced the release of the song “Hold On [4 Haiti]”.
Getting ready to head back to uni or start your first year? One way to get your head into the zone is to start heading along to the many IET events in your area.
Look 'em straight in the eye, grip the offered hand tightly and think, VERY LOUDLY: "Give me the job! Give me the job!" Could work. Or you could break the hand of your future employer. Get some interview tips here
If your head tilts to the side when you work you’re displaying uncertainty. If your chin’s up you’re on to a really good idea. Find out what the cues you give to the outside world say about you – and whether your employer’s watching you
The management teams of engineering companies may contain accountants, marketing people and HR specialists - almost everyone but engineers. How can you break through to management?
Info on your target firms and sectors, plus advice on the job search: dive in to the IET library
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Or something like that. Anyway, you need to do your homework when it comes to getting a job. Get the top tips here.
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