Students choosing Financial Management will develop a valuable awareness of the financial aspects of engineering management, including raising capital in the bond markets to finance innovation in engineering industry. Such awareness is much sought after, and highly rewarded by employers. Note also that the Department also provides courses with greater specialisation in two of these areas, namely Aero-Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering . Career Opportunities Mechanical engineering is the most broadly founded and the most pervasive of the engineering disciplines. The sheer breadth of activity gives graduates the widest range of opportunity to function at a professional level.
Mechanical engineers respond to the needs of society for the delivery of advanced technologies.
They have to be responsive to environmental concerns and the use of scarce resources. The main areas of employment are in design and manufacture, research and development, management, sales and marketing. Graduates are prepared for a very wide variety of stimulating and interesting careers, reaching positions of authority and responsibility not only in the UK but worldwide.