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My career goal: Engineering

Updated Friday, 21 January 2022
In this multi-disciplinary industry, you'll need a diverse range of technical and critical thinking skills to take on complex tasks. Here's some advice to help you get started with building tomorrow's world.

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  • Introducing engineering

    Introducing engineering

    Engineering encompasses a broad range of disciplines from design to manufacturing. This free course, Introducing engineering, introduces a number of key themes that explore how engineering is undertaken in our modern world. These themes include engineering design, rules that govern engineers, manufacturing for products and electricity ...

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Other materials

  • TryEngineering

    TryEngineering

    This is a careers advice site, exploring the meaning of engineering, its different disciplines, and how to begin an engineering career.

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    External link

  • eGFI

    eGFI

    eGFI ('engineering, go for it') is a blog about the latest developments in engineering. You can subscribe to a newsletter to keep updated.

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    External link

  • iLectureOnline

    iLectureOnline

    iLectureOnline contains thousands of lessons organised by subject (you can see an example video further down this page).

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    External link

  • The Physics Classroom

    The Physics Classroom

    A good site for physics beginners, with tutorials covering the basics using informative graphics and easy-to-follow language.

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  • Evan's Space

    Evan's Space

    A blog covering a wide variety of different physics subjects. The kinematics materials are especially useful.

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    External link

  • Electronics Tutorials

    Electronics Tutorials

    This site has learning resources covering an extensive range of electrical / electronics concepts.

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  • Learn easy

    Learn easy

    This site contains lots of training resources (with particularly useful materials for 2nd Moment of Area).

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  • Beam guru

    Beam guru

    This beam calculator is an interactive resource to check answers and learn S.F.D and B.M.D

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Practical video materials

Bending moments diagram:                                        Other beam theory examples:

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Explanation of static equilibrium [iLectureOnline video]:

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National Careers Service links

icould links

icould is a site that provides career guidance based on real world experiences, providing an inside view of many different jobs, and tips on how to get there. They have over 1000 personal video stories, and every page contains detailed job information and insightful practical advice.

  • Engineer

    Engineer

    An engineer describes their role

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