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

UKESF Scholar, 2017–19

Apply for a Scholarship

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.

*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.

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 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 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 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 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 Cambridgeshire

Summer placements only

 * Knowledge of PID controllers and good understanding of debugging techniques and tools beneficial
IDEX Biometrics Farnborough

Summer placements;
MEng placements

 * (1) Students must be in the penultimate year of their degree; (2) No 12-month placements
II-VI 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 Basingstoke

Any placements
ON Semiconductor Bracknell, Berkshire

Any placements
Plessey 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 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 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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