Industry supports electronic engineering undergraduate scholarships

The employer funded scholarships include bursaries, paid work experience, industrial mentoring and professional development workshops to improve the skills of fledgling electronics engineers. Electronic engineering students at any of the 13 UKESF university partners will be able to apply for scholarships with one of 25 employers, including ARM, AWE, Imagination Technologies, CSR, Dialog Semiconductor, Thales and XMOS.

Rebecca Fradley-Stokes, Head of CSR, Sustainability and University Relations, Dialog Semiconductor, commented: “The scholarships are a way of exciting and encouraging young people into an electronics engineering career and of ensuring a future pipeline of talented engineers. In addition, the programme also gives us access to the brightest degree students early on and is a fantastic recruitment tool for companies like Dialog. This is invaluable for a rapidly growing company like ours which has to strive for excellence at every stage to support its expansion into exciting new products and markets.”

“We’re really pleased that the number of companies engaging with UKESF and offering scholarships continues to increase. At the same time, it’s important that we keep focused and aim to get even more industry engagement to drive an interest in electronics engineering from school to employment,” added Indro Mukerjee, Chairman, UKESF Strategic Advisory Board.