MSc Advanced Control and Systems Engineering / Careers

Year of entry: 2025

Career opportunities

Our graduates therefore have excellent employment prospects, and have gone on to become: 

  •  Project Manager;

  • Consultant Engineer;

  • Electrical Engineer;

  • Senior Process Control Engineer;

  • Control Engineer

And our graduates have secured roles in organisations such as: 

  • Thales;

  • Accenture;

  • SIEMENS;

  • Multivista Global Pvt. Ltd.;

  • KBR (UK) Limited

In 2018 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of our MSc course. In that time graduates of the course have achieved top ranking industrial and academic positions in their home countries, in the UK, and around the world.

Graduates from the course are employed in a variety of industries, including process and petrochemical industries, manufacturing, power generation and the automotive and aerospace sectors. Recently there has been a surge in demand for control engineers in the field of biomedicine. More generally feedback control and systems engineering skills play an important part, in an ever-widening range of high-tech applications.

The MSc can also be used as a springboard for postgraduate research.

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Accrediting organisations

This degree has been accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institute of Measurement and Control under licence from the UK regulator, the Engineering council .

Accreditation is a mark of assurance that the degree meets the standards set by the Engineering Council in the UK standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC). An accredited degree will provide you with some or all of the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills for eventual registration as an Incorporated (IEng) or Chartered Engineer (CEng). Some employers recruit preferentially from accredited degrees, and an accredited degree is likely to be recognised by other countries that are signatories to international accords.