BSc (Hons) Robotics - Career, further study and research opportunities
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    KEY FACTS

    • Title
      BSc (Hons) Robotics
    • Course type
      Full-time
    • Duration
      3 years (optional placement)
    • Award
      Bachelor of Science - BSc (Hons)
    • Faculty
      Faculty of Science and Technology
    • School
      School of Computing and Mathematics
    • UCAS codes
      Institution P60
      Course H671
    • Location
      Plymouth
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​Career opportunitiesBioloid robot feeding a fish

The increasing use of robots for hazardous environments, to educate and entertain or to assist people with limited mobility offers many new and rewarding career paths. There is an exciting range of engineering and other professional careers in home automation and remote access and monitoring systems. You will be well placed to contribute to the rapid growth of robotic development in new applications.

​Student placements

Students will also receive profession recognition from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for their placement (EngTech).
Many of our graduates say the work placement year, offered on most of our courses, was invaluable in helping them launch their careers.
As well as giving students invaluable 'real world' experience a year in industry can often lead to job offers from the placement company. Some placement companies have even chosen to sponsor students for their final year.

​ROBOTICS: CAREER OPTIONS

Information provided by our Careers & Employability Service

Glen, our Careers Adviser for Robotics, says:
The iCub robot"This programme converts school leavers and career changers into professional engineers. Every industry competes through innovation and improving productivity. Robotics graduates are uniquely well prepared to design and develop integrated mechanical, electronic, control and computing systems, because of their overlapping expertise and skills in these traditionally separate disciplines.
"Robotics graduates can compete effectively for roles the automotive and aerospace industries, deep sea exploration and extraction, commercial fields such as food manufacture, pharmaceutical production and medicine. Many Plymouth robotics graduates also enter roles in specialised engineering fields."

Visit the Plymouth University Careers website for more information on any of these areas, or call in to see the Careers & Employability Team in Gateway in the Roland Levinsky Building.

Skills you can develop during this course include:

  • Engineering design and prototyping
  • Problem solving
  • Commercial awareness
  • Data analysis
  • Clear communication
  • Organisation
  • Adaptability

Beyond developing your skills, studying robotics 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 professional image, based on their existing technical knowledge - and confidence in their ability to understand new and unfamiliar technical information and challenges.

Work Based Learning

Watch a video about Plymouth University students’ industry placement experiences. The University encourages and helps robotics students to compete for an industry placement year with businesses across the UK and overseas in countries including France, Germany and Japan. Robotics students are paid in the region of £18,000 and up to £24,000 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 teach 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. In addition, students often use a real world problem from their industry experience as the focus for their self-directed final year project, showcased at the University’s nationally acclaimed project open day.

​Long-term Career Development

Use this LinkedIn search to explore Plymouth University Robotics graduates' long-term career trajectories.  
​The iCub robot

​Previous Plymouth University graduates from this course are now employed in a wide variety of roles, some of which include: IT Engineer, Expert Report Developer, Programme Developer, Network Engineer, Information Security Risk Analyst, Systems Engineer, IT Consultant, IT Support Technician, Technical Consultant, Systems Analyst, Electronic Design Engineer, Network Engineer, Computer Manager, Application Engineer, Electronic and IT Systems Designer, Electronics Engineer, and Web Developer.

(Source: DLHE Surveys 2008 and 2010)