Careers and Employability success…and opening up Future Worlds

The academic year has such a rapid momentum and is so packed full of activity that it’s often hard to find the time to take stock. But as we prepare to welcome our students back…

Chris heads for a year in Silicon Valley

Amongst the many destinations for our 2015 graduates, Silicon Valley provides a direct engagement with the latest developments in the global technology industry. Several ECS graduates will be making the journey to California for their…

ECS – outstanding results for graduate prospects

Graduate prospects for ECS students have never been better! The publication of the first of this year’s official league tables – the Complete University Guide 2016 – ranked Electronics and Computer Science at the University…

ECS alumnus Nick Hatter raises £35,000 in a few days via crowdfunding

Nick Hatter graduated from ECS in 2012. After working for Internet Security company Netcraft, Nick founded his own venture, giftgaming, a non-intrusive in-game advertising platform. He shares his story with us. My story Once upon…

No interviews, no CVs, just code …. a direct route to an internship with Snowflake Software

Southampton-based company Snowflake Software held their annual ‘Code-Off’ in ECS Labs last month. The premise is simple: be the best coder on the day and your prize is a summer internship working with the company….

Business and Busy-ness – six weeks in the life of ECS

February and March 2015 have set new records for company engagement in ECS!  – the Engineering and Technology Careers Fair on 10 February was our biggest and most successful so far, with 85 companies and…

Hearing from our graduates – Ashley Robinson at CDP

ECS graduate Ashley Robinson (above) provides some excellent insights on his graduate role at Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) as well as some of his future aspirations in a blog published this week on the company’s…

Imagination launches CI20 to compete with Raspberry Pi

  ECS Laureate Company Imagination Technologies has launched a rival to the Raspberry Pi, the BBC reports today. Tony King-Smith, EVP of marketing for Imagination, comments: “We are very excited to be taking part in…

Companies and students are more motivated to make the right careers choices than ever before

November has been one of the busiest months we have ever experienced in our interactions with business and industry! In the week that Lewis Hamilton won the F1 Drivers and Constructors’ Championship for Mercedes AMG,…

Recruiting Romanian students for ECS

Romanian students are amongst the most prominent international groups in ECS. Over recent years they have made a strong and distinctive contribution to student life in ECS and also gained excellent jobs on graduation. When…