Siemens offers selected engineering students £3000-a-year

The Digital Academy will pay selected students £3,000-a-year from the second year of university and offers up to 12-weeks paid summer placement throughout the duration of their studies within a Siemens business.

Digital Academy is the result of a partnership between Siemens, the University of Sheffield and Newcastle University.

At the end of their degree, students on the programme will have the opportunity to join the firm’s grad scheme.

The first group of undergraduates was selected from the inaugural Sir William Siemens Challenge, a two-day hackathon-style event held at the University of Sheffield which involved 84 engineering students from partner universities.

The challenge, dubbed ‘Mindsphere Live’, tasked 12 multidisciplinary teams of students with inventing a ”unique device powered by data”.

Following the “Mindsphere Live” challenge, Nikhil Patel and Miles Moran from Newcastle University, Thomas Edwards from the University of Sheffield, Diana Crintea from the University of Southampton, Maryem Khan from the University of Loughborough and Ariana Escobar Chalen from the University of Manchester were announced as the scheme’s first cohort at a launch event in Congleton.

Patel said: “Being part of the Digital Academy gives me an insight into how Siemens operates as a business and it also provides me with the means to be able to make a difference.

“It gives me the opportunity to develop my technical and transferable skills whilst working on real, cutting-edge projects and I think that being a part of this scheme will help to accelerate my career progression and allow me to grow as an individual.”

Applications for the next Digital Academy cohort are now being accepted.