• Question: How long did it take for you to get your degrees to become an engineer?

    Asked by Moomin Bates to Hilly, Lee, Liz, Tadhg, Yasmin on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 110enec42.
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      Yasmin Ali answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Mine took 4 years at University, which gave me a Master’s degree in Chemical engineering. Some people do 3 years and get something called a Bachelor’s degree.

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      David Hill answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      7 years at Primary School
      6 years at High School
      4 years doing my honours
      1 year doing my masters!

      Its now been 4 years and I’m almost chartered!

      It was a long haul… but I got there!

      (Note my years are based on the Scottish Education system!)

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      Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I’m Irish and of course we do things a bit differently. It took me 4 years to get my Bachelors in Engineering. I then did a PhD in Mechanical Engineering which took another 3.5 years. But I’ve been in the University system since….well let’s just say a long time – my family think I must be a bit slow 🙂

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      Lee Margetts answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      A typical engineering degree at the University of Manchester is 3 or 4 years. That’ll start you off very nicely in a great career and you could work in some really amazing companies.

      My path through life has been a little bit unconventional. I have 4 degrees and that took about 14 years to achieve through a mixture of full time and part time courses.

      I do get asked by my friends “Are you still at University?”, followed by giggles.

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