Loughborough offers such a great opportunity to advance your studies and gain relevant skills and knowledge tailored for the industry. The university is involved with many partnerships and research programmes with industries and when I come across these programmes in the media, forums and events and hear about what Loughborough is doing, I feel very proud of my association as an alumnus.
The support was very person-centred. Before starting my course, our course tutor had been in contact to answer questions and help us get settled. In the first week, she arranged numerous induction events to understand the programme and campus life, know and meet the right people in the student services, and navigate through the facilities available and the online systems. There was also ample support from the module lecturers and instructors. Loughborough has one of the world’s best student-to-staff ratios, and the lecturers are always open to meeting students outside of lecture rooms to answer questions and guide you through coursework requirements.
The greatest skill I learned during my master’s programme is the approach to solving problems which I use on a day-to-day basis at work. Research was also a key skill I developed at Loughborough: although my course was a taught programme, my final dissertation was a mix of research and laboratory work.
My Loughborough degree programme was very centred on industry requirement. I completed numerous coursework that could well be direct solutions to engineering problems the industry is facing, so I had a very smooth transition into full-time work after my degree. During my course at Loughborough, I was introduced to computer-aided-engineering (CAE) skills which I have now developed in industry where we employ such systems for faster, easier and more accurate means of solving engineering problems.