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Asked by DarceyH on 4 Mar 2021. This question was also asked by JadeT, MiracleA.
Question: What qualifications do you need?
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Vittawat Dolbandarnchoke answered on 4 Mar 2021:
This depends on what career path you decided to pursue, but for all engineering related fields, you would at least need a university degree in engineering or science related field. However, in some rare cases, an engineering consultant can come from a more diverse background as well. For example, some of my colleagues graduated from university with a degree in history, english literature, and even psychology! They are all superb engineering consultants in our company.
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Emma Robertson answered on 26 Mar 2021:
It depends on what career you want and also what type of engineering you want to go into. If you want to get a university degree, you generally need A-levels (or equivalent) to do this, but some apprenticeships do offer a university degree as part of the apprenticeship. To do an apprenticeship, depending on the level the company may ask for some GCSEs or A-levels.
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Sarah-Jane Potts answered on 27 Mar 2021:
It varies quite alot depending on what path you would want to take: university, apprenticeship etc. If you go the university route there are many different types of engineering courses to choose from with a range of different grade requirements. If you go the university route many employers will take people on with an engineering based degree with a 2:1 or higher, with a few requiring a masters. I’ve gone the academic route so I also needed to do an engineering doctorate to get my role. As engineering uses a broad skill set, I also have colleuges who have done degrees in physics, chemistry, maths and even geology prior to doing a doctorate related to engineering so there are many different routes.
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Different types of Engineering need different things. Engineering is a combination of Maths, science and design so I have know people come from a range of sciences, product design, maths as well as typical engineering courses and apprenticeships and ended up as Engineers. To study engineering at university or do an apprenticeship, you typically need to either do a levels with at least one science, maths and something else (I did Maths, Physics and Art) or do engineering at college.