Career Opportunities Computer skills are in great demand and graduates from this course are currently employed, mostly in the software industry, as Software Test Engineers, Software Developers, Data Analysts, and network engineers. The PC is an integral part of almost every modern physics laboratory. Laboratory instruments are routinely placed under computer control for automated data acquisition. The harnessing of PC power for statistical and data analysis is ubiquitous. Many physics problems can not be solved exactly and require the use of numerical, modelling techniques.
Physics is thus an ideal subject to teach and develop a working knowledge of computers.
While the course is aimed primarily at those who have studied physics up to general degree level, this is not a pre-requisite. Anyone with a science degree who has studied physics for at least one year at university level is in a position to benefit from this course. We have taken students with honours degrees in maths, or a degree in biology and only first year physics. These students have successfully completed this course and have clearly benefited from it.