MARINE SPORTS TECHNOLOGY: CAREER OPTIONS
Information provided by our Careers & Employability Service
Glen, our Careers Adviser for marine sports technology, says:
"Multidisciplinary degrees are particularly valuable to employers who need staff who can link up specialists' work and integrate different functions in their business. Small- and medium-sized enterprises often employ this type of graduate, in roles that offer a great deal of variety by comparison with typical jobs in larger businesses. Graduates from multidisciplinary degrees such as marine sports technology can access a variety of graduate occupations in industry sectors including environment, science, manufacturing, retail, SMEs, sport and leisure and tourism."
Skills you can develop during this course include:
- Design: prototyping and testing, innovative problem solving, research and investigation
- Management: project management, quality management, team performance development
- People skills: clear communication, cooperative teamwork, negotiating with clients and customers
How will marine sports technology develop me as a person?
Beyond developing your skills, studying this programme will change you as a person. Students typically become increasingly driven and achievement oriented as they build on practical successes during the course. Our graduates are able to take the initiative and project a resilient, flexible professional image, based on their existing technical and commercial knowledge - and confidence in their ability to understand new and unfamiliar technical information and commercial challenges. The Engineering Council’s Standards for Professional Engineering Competence outline the characteristics of graduates from this programme.
Work-Based Learning
Here you can watch a
video about UoP students’ industry placement experiences. The University encourages and helps marine sports technology students to compete for an industry placement year with businesses across the UK and overseas. Marine sports technology students are paid on average around £9,000 and up to around £14,250 per annum by their employers during their placement year, and in addition often receive final-year sponsorship and a graduate job offer.
The Placement Office collates and advertises employers’ placement year vacancies, and the University’s Careers & Employability Service teaches students how to target their performance management and convert their skills and experience into winning placement job applications. Both services work with individual students to improve their written applications and interview techniques. Your work placement experience provides opportunities to put theory into practice, and provides practical experience that makes sense of what you learn in your final year.