• Question: When you were in university how many years did you have to study to become an engineer?

    Asked by mgarrido12 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by mhercyk13.
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      Cathy Fraser answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Yes, I went to Swansea University and studied for 4 years for an undergraduate Masters degree in Electrical and Electronic engingeering – I learnt so much! But I could have also done an apprenticeship in Power Engineering and still ended up in the job I’m in!

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I did 4 years (3 years of physics at Oxford and 1 year of engineering at Imperial).

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      Mark Greaves answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I went to Brunel University. It took me 5 years in total to get my degree…mainly because I failed a year (I had to redo the whole year!) and had a year off. It then took me 3 years of development at work to become an Incorporated Engineer.

    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      It took me 3 years to do my mechanical engineering degree.. but then i went on to do a masters in energy, environmental technology and economics which took me another 2 years

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      It took me 4 years to get my Masters in Chemical Engineering. I then stayed on for another 3 and a half years to do my PhD (a degree you get after doing some research). Thats 7.5 years in total! Now I work at a university so you could say I’m still studying 😉

      The good thing about engineering is that you never stop learning (but thankfully you do stop learning in a classroom!) there are always new things to know about.

      Rory

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