Engineering: You're Hired

Engineering: You're Hired (EYH) Project Week - January

Similarly to your first year this is an important part of your degree and there will be sessions throughout the day, each day and attendance for the whole week is, like the first year Global Engineering Challenge, compulsory.

EYH is all about obtaining the skills, and evidence of those skills, that will make you a highly employable engineer. The way that you will do this is by getting some experience working in the way that a professional engineer would do, and facing some of the challenges of the real workplace that employers may ask you about on application forms and at interviews.

As well as the technical skills, an employer is likely to want you to be able to display a range of other skills that will help you:

• Work effectively - Can you set your own goals, making sure you tackle the key problems to achieve your aim? Can you manage your time so that you meet deadlines?

• Work with your colleagues - Can you cooperate with a team to achieve a common goal? Can you explain your technical knowledge to non-specialists? Can you interpret and take into account factors outside of your specialism in reaching a decision?

• Work with a client - Can you understand the factors of importance to industry, not just the technical goals. Can you produce work of a high standard even under pressure and shifting deadlines (or goals)?

Global Engineering Challenge does not prevent progression from years 1 to 2, but students who have still failed following the 2nd sitting will be required to complete the Global Engineering Challenge as well as Engineering You're Hired before graduating.

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