Composite Courses

Schools

• Engineering Education Scheme (EES)  (Engineering Development Trust/EDT)
• IOM3 information for school and college pupils (IOM3)
• IOM3 information for teachers, parents and governors (IOM3)
• IOM3 Schools Affiliate Scheme  (connecting teachers to materials, minerals and mining)
• Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids (SeeK)
• Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics network (STEMnet) STEM Ambassadors
• The Smallpeice Trust

Apprenticeship

• A dual mandate for adult vocational education (BIS consultation paper)
• Apprentice Composite Technician Level 3 (Weston College)
• Composite engineering apprenticeship
• Composites Technician (Chichester College Group)
• Composites Assured Practitioner (CAP) Scheme (Composites UK)
• CSA Apprenticeship Frameworks (England)
  • Composite Engineering
  • Composite Engineering (Craft and Technician)
  • Composite Engineering (Operator and Semi-skilled)
• CSA Apprenticeship Frameworks (Wales)
  • Composite Engineering (Operator and Semi-skilled)
• Education and Training Foundation
• Engineering Apprenticeship/Composites (Yeovil)
• Marine Apprenticeship (City College Southampton)
• Marine Engineering and Boatbuilding Training (Falmouth Marine School)
• National College for Advanced Manufacturing
• National Occupational Standards (NOS)
• Norco Composites & GRP (Poole)
• SFA Appenticeship Standards (Skills Funding Agency)
• Trailblazer Apprenticeships
• University Technical College (Plymouth)

Colleges and universities

• IOM3 accredited programmes
  • Engineering Council Accredited Course Search (ACAD)
• Higher Education Academy
• Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF)
• Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)​​
• UK Centre for Materials Education

• Undergraduate
  • BEng (honours) Mechanical Engineering with Composites (Plymouth)
  • MEng (honours) Mechanical Engineering with Composites (Plymouth)
  • BEng (honours) Composite design (top-up) (Wrexham Glyndŵr)
  • BEng (honours) Yacht Design and Construction (Solent University)
• BEng Verbundwerkstoffe/Composites (PFH Stade Hansecampus – Germany)
• Composite Materials Engineering Program (Winona State University – USA)
• Composite Materials UG ENGN4511 and graduate ENGN6511 (Australian National University)

• Postgraduate
  • MSc Advanced Composites (Bristol)
  • MSc Advanced Composites Design (University of Bolton)
  • MSc Advanced Engineering Materials (Manchester)
  • MSc Advanced Materials (Cranfield University)
  • MSc Composites (Imperial College)
  • MSc Engineering (Composite Materials) (Glyndŵr)
  • MSc (Eng) Polymers and Polymer Composites Science and Engineering (Sheffield)
  • MSc Advanced Composites and Polymers (Ulster)
• Masters degree in Advanced Composite Engineering and Science (Centrale Nantes)
• Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering, with option for
  Dynamic and Sustainability of Composite Materials (DDC) (École Centrale de Lyon ~ France)
• MSc Biocomposite Technology and Design By Research (Univeriti Putra Malaysia)
• MSc Composite Materials (Luleå University of Technology ~ Sweden)
• MSc Éco-conception des Polymères et Composites (Université Bretagne Sud ~ France)
• MSc Materials Engineering (Chalmers University – Sweden)
• MSc Verbundwerkstoffe/Composites (PFH Stade Hansecampus – Germany)
• Graduate Certificate in Composites Manufacturing and Engineering (University of Delaware ~ USA)

Careers for composites graduates

• Careers for composites graduates

Continuing Professional Development

• Abaris Training
• Aeroskills
• All Around Composites
• Banbury and Bicester College
• City of Bristol College
• Composites Integration Limited
• Composites Skills Alliance
• Consuta Training Limited
• Cornwall College
• Coventive Composites
• Dark Matter Composites
• Earth and Flight Composites
• EasyComposites
• High Peak Courses Limited
• National Composites Centre
• North Composites Engineering Limited
• The Polymer Centre

Professional accreditation

• IOM3 become a member
• IOM3 membership grades
• IOM3 professional registration
• Engineering Council
  • CEng: Chartered Engineer  (ebook)
  • IEng: Incorporated Engineer   (ebook)
  • EngTech: Engineering Technician   (ebook)
• Science Council
  • CSci: Chartered Scientist
• Society for the Environment
  • CEnv: Chartered Environmentalist

Professional recognition

• IOM3 Awards (medals and prizes)
  • Leslie Holliday Prize for personal achievement:
    In recognition of a significant or technological contribution relating to any type of composite material.
  • Swinburne Medal and Prize for personal achievement:
    To recognise the achievement of a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement and knowledge of any field related to the science, engineering or technology of plastics. It is a requirement of acceptance that the recipient shall prepare and deliver the Swinburne Lecture on an occasion selected by the Institute.
  • Composite Award: for published work of particular merit in the field of composites.

Created by John Summerscales on 05-Jul-2018 and updated on 21-Jan-2020 12:10,
for the HEFCE Catalyst funded project
Closing the skills gap and supporting the Industrial Strategy through curriculum development.
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