Engineering Not For Us, Say Graduates
2007-10-25 | IT & Digital York
The chronic lack of belief amongst schoolchildren and students that engineering is an attractive profession, in particular for electronics, is apparent at university level with 50 per cent of electronics graduates from Imperial College going into financial services.Dr Stepan Lucyszyn, reader in millimetre-wave electronics at Imperial, said another 25 per cent go on to further academic studies and just 25 per cent get into the industry.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion on the UK’s engineering skills shortage organised by specialist manufacturer C-MAC MicroTechnology, Lucyszyn said: “We want to encourage the higher end of engineering and for that we need graduates but there is no sponsorship of graduates by firms anymore.”
Dawn Ohlson, director of education affairs at Thales, responded by saying it did sponsor students but never advertised the fact because it already received too many applicants. “Last year we recruited 60 graduates, this year it is 83 and next year it will be 127,” said Ohlson.
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