Engineering is vitally important, challenging and exciting. Engineers bring ideas to life and make things happen. They find ways to use the world’s natural resources more effectively, they build spaceships and aeroplanes and robots, and they make artificial limbs and smartphones possible.
Finding Engineering inspiration in captivating Cambridge is easy. Discover its awe-inspiring Gothic architecture and marvel at the ‘Mathematical Bridge’ with its complex design that is rumoured to use no nuts or bolts to hold itself together. As you punt along the River Cam, see the Bridge of Sighs, Queen Victoria’s favourite spot in Cambridge. Soak up the city’s deeply academic atmosphere whilst contemplating the whys and hows of the modern world.
There are a multitude of different areas of Engineering – structural, chemical, aeronautical, civil, mechanical and electrical – meaning that the career options are endless. If you like designing and building and repairing, and enjoy figuring out how things work and how they could work better, Engineering is ideal for you.