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Engineering at Cambridge
The following specialisations are available within our Engineering course:

Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering

Bioengineering
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electrical and Information Sciences
Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Information and Computer Engineering
Instrumentation and Control
Mechanical Engineering
See the Course outline tab and the Department website for further details.
Engineering at Cambridge
The Cambridge course is unique. It isnt a general course but allows you to keep your options open while equipping you
with all the analytical, design and computing skills that underpin modern engineering practice.
Part I provides a broad education in engineering fundamentals, enabling you to make a genuinely informed choice about
the area in which to specialise from your third year (many students change direction as a result). Part II then provides indepth training in your chosen professional discipline.
Department and facilities
The Department is a leading international centre for research, consistently ranked the highest amongst British universities.
We also have strong links with industry, with many research projects funded by industrial companies.
Our facilities are excellent: the Design and Project Office is equipped with more than 80 workstations; the library has
30,000 books and takes about 350 journals; and extensive mechanical and electrical workshops are available. The
Departments Language Programme for Engineers offers specialised courses at all levels in French, German, Spanish,
Chinese and Japanese.
Accreditation
The course is accredited by the Engineering Council and by all the major institutions, including the Institutions of
Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Engineering and Technology (IET), Civil Engineers (ICE), and Structural Engineers
(IStructE), the Institute of Measurement and Control, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, and the Royal
Aeronautical Society. An appropriate combination of Part II papers is required in each case.
Industrial experience
Youre required to complete four weeks of industrial experience by the end of the second year, and a further four weeks
by the end of the third year, obtained by deferring entry or during vacations. Our full-time Industrial Placement Coordinator helps deferred entrants and undergraduates to find suitable placements (in the UK and abroad) and
sponsorship. Exchange programmes About 10 per cent of our students spend their third year studying abroad through our
exchange schemes with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), cole Centrale Paris, and the National University of
Singapore (NUS).
Changing course

Students may transfer to Chemical Engineering after the first year, or to Management Studies or Manufacturing
Engineering after completing Engineering Part I.
Careers
When you graduate, youre fully qualified in your chosen area, knowledgeable across the range of engineering disciplines,
and able to apply new technologies in novel situations, giving you an advantage over engineering graduates from other
more narrowly focused courses. Employment prospects are typically excellent, with 99 per cent of our students finding a
job within six months of graduating. The average starting salary of Cambridge Engineering graduates in 2013 was 30,100.
Our students are in great demand and they go on to careers in all the major industrial and commercial sectors. Positions
currently held by some of our graduates include graduate engineer at Mott MacDonald, program manager in emerging
markets operations at Google, project engineer at Atelier One, heat management engineer at McLaren Automotive,
associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and environmental engineer at Water Environment Ltd.

Entry requirements
Typical offers require
A Level: A*A*A
IB: 40-41 points, with 776 at Higher Level
Some Colleges may also require/may require STEP Mathematics
For other qualifications, see our main Entrance requirements pages
Course requirements
Required by all Colleges: A Level/IB Higher Level Mathematics and Physics
Required by some Colleges: AS or A Level/IB Higher Level Further Mathematics, A Level/IB Higher Level in a third
mathematics/ science/technology subject
Further Mathematics is strongly encouraged (required by some Colleges). If unavailable or youve recognised its
desirability too late, wed advise you to do as much additional pure maths and mechanics as possible, eg by taking standalone units or Further Mathematics AS Level/IB Higher Level.
Please refer to the Department of Engineering's Guide to Undergraduate Admissions and individual College websites for
the views and preferences of individual Colleges concerning academic requirements for admission to Engineering.
All Colleges, except Trinity, welcome applications from students taking A Level Mathematics and a suitable vocational
qualification, eg a BTEC Higher National Diploma in an engineering discipline. Applicants are expected to achieve the
highest possible grades in A Level Mathematics and the vocational qualification. Those taking the Single Award Applied A
Level in Engineering or the Principal Learning components of the Advanced Diploma in Engineering must also be taking A
Levels in Mathematics and Physics. The Level 3 Certificate in Mathematics for Engineering is a suitable alternative to A
Level Mathematics for these purposes.
See the Departments Guide to Undergraduate Admissions for details.
Some Colleges encourage Engineering applicants to defer entry. See the Department website for details.
All undergraduate admissions decisions are the responsibility of the Cambridge Colleges so check College websites for
College-specific requirements. See also Entrance requirements and our Subject Matters leaflet for additional advice about
general requirements for entry, qualifications and offers.

Why Choose Engineering?

Look around you. How much of what you see has been manufactured? Engineers are involved in the design and
manufacture of (almost) everything from cars to computers, from web pages to widgets, from microchips to motorways.
Many recent medical advances have been made as a result of work done by engineers: from brain scanners to the drug
dispensers used by asthma sufferers. Engineers these days are also concerned with many important environmental and
social issues: what is the best way to improve transportation and housing? How do you make recycling work efficiently?
If you want to be an informed member of society, able to understand modern technology as well as the infrastructure on
which our society is built, then there can be no better training than that given to Cambridge engineers. Graduates of the
Department have benefited from an education that enables them to make a real difference to the world outside while, at
the same time, pursuing successful and rewarding careers.
Keep your options open
The training that engineers receive is scientifically rigorous. The distinctions between mathematicians, physicists,
computer scientists and engineers are blurring all the time. Engineers are team players and work closely with professional
colleagues from other backgrounds. Very few people describe themselves as physicists or mathematicians on their
passports. Nearly all 'scientists' have to apply their science at some stage and that is engineering. Studying Engineering
keeps your options open.
As well as gaining a broad scientific and engineering background and in-depth knowledge of the subject in which you
specialise, the training provides you with:

the ability to apply problem-solving strategies

a creative approach
team-working skills
excellent mathematical and computing skills
the ability to analyse data
written and oral communication and presentation skills
research skills

These are all important transferable skills much in demand by employers. According to recent Careers Service statistics,
the average starting salary of graduating engineers is among the highest of any Cambridge degree subject, and
employment prospects are excellent, with 99% finding a job within six months of the end of the course.
History
The University of Cambridge is rich in history - its famous Colleges and University buildings attract visitors from all over the
world. But the University's museums and collections also hold many treasures which give an exciting insight into some of
the scholarly activities, both past and present, of the University's academics and students.
The University of Cambridge is one of the world's oldest universities and leading academic centres, and a self-governed
community of scholars. Its reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known world-wide and reflects the
intellectual achievement of its students, as well as the world-class original research carried out by the staff of the
University and the Colleges.
Many of the University's customs and unusual terminology can be traced to roots in the early years of the University's long
history, and this booklet looks to the past to find the origins of much that is distinctive in the University of today.