2018 - The Year of Engineering

Engineering is for everyone – it’s creative, exciting and offers a huge range of fantastic careers.

From acoustics to computing, sound engineering to yacht design – engineers create and support every aspect of modern life.

So if you want to bring your ideas to life and shape the world around you, engineering is the way to go.

Take a look at our engineering courses

Engineers from Southampton Solent – our academics, students and alumni – are teaming up with government and hundreds of industry partners as part of the Year of Engineering (YoE).

The YoE is a national campaign to inspire the next generation of engineers, and widen the pool of young people who join the profession.

Throughout 2018, we’ll be giving young people (and their parents) the chance to take a closer look at engineering – sharing stories of creativity, variety and innovation in the huge range of industries that rely on engineering expertise.

To find out more about the Year of Engineering, visit the website, or follow the campaign on Twitter.

Become a ship's engineer in the Merchant Navy

Find out more about engineer officer cadetships at our maritime training centre, Warsash Maritime Academy

Yacht engineering students' annual model yacht race

Running for more than 40 years, Solent's annual model yacht race is an opportunity for yacht engineering students to pit their designs against one another

Wessex Round Table of Inventors co-founder awarded degree

Richard Little, Managing Director of Hampshire-based Jenton International Limited, was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from Solent University

Students find electronics to be moving

The new electronics labs are a hit with engineering students

Leading female engineer awarded honorary degree

Naomi Climer, Fellow and former President of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and an active campaigner for gender diversity in engineering, is a Solent honorary Doctor of Engineering

Engineering taster days

Find out what it's like to study engineering at Solent