"A scholarship has allowed me to open industry links and appreciate working life as an engineer."

UKESF Scholar, 2017–19

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Applications for 2018/19 are now closed, but you can use the table below to see the companies that were offering scholarships.

Answer the questions below to display a table showing relevant companies offering scholarships.

Are you a first-year student?

What type of degree are you registered on?

What is your nationality?

Do you require a 12-month placement?

Do you require a MEng Placement within Industry (less than 12 months)?*

*MEng placements (less than 12 months) are only applicable to students at Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Imperial, Newcastle and York. Please select ‘no’ if you are at a different university.

Companies relevant to you are listed in table below. You can further refine your results using the Type of Business and Geographical Area filters.

Type of Business

Geographical Area

Company	Placement location	Type of Placements Offered	Restrictions/Notes
Allegro MicroSystems Europe Ltd	Edinburgh	Summer placements; MEng placements	* No 12-month placements
Altran	Newbury, Bath or Filton, Bristol	Any placements	* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) This is an embedded software or control and instrumentation-focused scholarship; (3) All students should ideally have a minimum of 5 years’ permanent residency in the UK and be able to obtain security clearance
Animal Dynamics ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Oxford	Any placements	* (1) UK citizens preferred; (2) Students must be able to obtain security clearance
Arm Ltd	Cambridge or Sheffield	Any placements
AVL Powertrain Engineering	Coventry or Essex	Any placements
AWE	Aldermaston or Burghfield, Berkshire	Any placements	* (1) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (2) Requires 12-month placement; (3) All selected candidates will be required to undergo security clearance
Beko Research & Development Centre	Cambridge	Summer placements; 12-month placements	* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) No MEng placements
Calnex Solutions Ltd	Linlithgow, near Edinburgh	Any placements
CRITICAL Software ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Southampton	Any placements	* (1) Software-based placement; (2) 12-month placement required
Dialog Semiconductor	Swindon or Edinburgh	Any placements
EDA Solutions	Fareham, Hampshire	Any placements	* Requires 12-month placement for 2019/20
Embecosm	Lymington, Hampshire	Any placements	* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) Placement is software/embedded systems engineering, focused on compiler technology; (3) Must hold a current passport
Faraday Grid ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Edinburgh	Any placements	* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) Candidates must specify which functional area/s they are interested in
FlexEnable ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Cambridge	Summer placements only	* (1) Experience/knowledge of plastic electronics/nanotechnology preferred; (2) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree
Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd	Bristol or Burton	Any placements	* (1) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (2) Must include one longer placement
Grant Instruments ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Cambridgeshire	Summer placements only	* Knowledge of PID controllers and good understanding of debugging techniques and tools beneficial
IDEX Biometrics ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Farnborough	Summer placements; MEng placements	* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) No 12-month placements
II-VI ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Newton Aycliffe	Summer placements only
Infineon Technologies UK Ltd	Bristol	Any placements	* Must include one longer placement
ITDev	Southampton	Any placements	* (1) Requires 12-month placement; (2) Must be studying software/computing; (3) Placement is software/embedded systems engineering focused
Leonardo (Edinburgh)	Edinburgh	Any placements	* Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK
Leonardo (Luton)	Luton	Any placements	* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) Placement is software and/or firmware focused; (3) Software/computing course content preferred for software placements
Meggitt Avionics	Fareham, Hampshire	Any placements	* Must be successful in Meggitt Security Screening Parameters
Moortec	Plymouth, Devon	Any placements
Omnitek ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Basingstoke	Any placements
ON Semiconductor	Bracknell, Berkshire	Any placements
Plessey ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Plymouth	Summer placements; MEng placements	* No 12-month placements
Plextek	Great Chesterford, near Cambridge	Summer placements; MEng placements	* (1) Must have a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in UK; (2) One hardware and one embedded software focused scholarship; (3) no 12-month placements
Qualcomm Technologies	Cambridge	Summer placements only
R-P-R ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Lymington, Hampshire	Any placements	* Requires 12-month placement
Renesas Electronics Europe Ltd	Bourne End, Buckinghamshire or Harlow, Essex	Any placements	* (1) Placements starting in 2019 must be minimum 6 months at Harlow or 12 months at Bourne End; (2) Candidates must specify which job/s they are interested in
Rolls-Royce	Solihull, Birmingham	Any placements	* (1) Open only to British citizens/no dual nationals; (2) Must include one longer placement
RS Components	Corby, London or Cardiff	Summer placements only	* Applicants will ideally have an interest in commercial and digital management of technical projects
Sensata Technologies	Swindon	Any placements
Sky ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Brentwood, Essex	Any placements
Socionext	Maidenhead, Berkshire	Any placements	* (1) 12-month placements preferred; (2) Must include one longer placement
Solomon Systech	Whiteley, Hampshire	Summer placements; MEng placements	* (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) No 12-month placements
ST Microelectronics	Edinburgh	Summer placements; MEng placements	* No 12-month placements
STFC	Harwell, Oxfordshire	Summer placements only
UltraSoC Technologies Ltd	Cambridge or Bristol	Any placements
vivaMOS	Southampton	Summer placements only	* No first years
Waters ~NEW THIS YEAR~	Wilmslow	Summer placements only

Notes:

12-month placements only apply to students whose degrees include a year training in industry or have agreed with their university to do a 12-month placement in addition to their degree.
MEng placements (4–8 months) are only applicable to students at Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Imperial, Newcastle and York.

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