Engineering

From James Watt’s steam engine to Andy Scott’s Kelpies, Scotland is great at engineering. It’s an industry offering careers in a range of sectors including space, aviation, transport, medicine, technology and fashion. You could become an aerospace engineer, chemical engineer, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer or naval architect.

You won’t always be sitting at a desk and could be working in a laboratory, at sea, underground or a recording studio. And, there’s a huge demand for new engineers. Companies are projected to need 182,000 people with engineering skills each year to 2022 in the UK. There’s never been a better time to start your engineering career.

What will I learn?
The topics you learn as part of your National Certificate will depend on the area of engineering you choose to study. These include:

• Engineering Systems
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Fabrication and Welding Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering

To achieve your SVQ units, you’ll be assessed as part of your work placement. You’ll learn how to comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements, use and interpret engineering data and documentation and work efficiently and effectively in engineering.

Your Foundation Apprenticeship will also help you to develop core skills valued by employers, particularly communication, problem solving, working with others and time management. These transferable skills are necessary and highly desirable for working in a range of other related jobs.

Entry requirements:
National 5 Mathematics is required, must be capable of progression to Higher Mathematics. Working towards or completed Physics. All applicants must have a good level of written and spoken English and demonstrate a real interest in Engineering.