Are you the Engineering Undergraduate of the Year?

eonOpen to pre-final year undergraduates in
Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering only

 

 

Be part of a Better Energy Future

We're searching the best universities in the UK to find the outstanding pre-final year engineering undergraduate. We're looking for a winning mix of personal skills, career motivation and an excellent academic record. The rewards are great: the winner will be awarded a 48 week paid engineering placement starting in summer 2012 (start date flexible), plus a trip for 2 to the Netherlands to visit cutting edge energy projects in September 2012. He/she will collect the award at a gala event in Canary Wharf, London on 13 April, 2012.

Even if you don’t win, you still stand a chance of making the final shortlist of ten, all of whom will be royally looked after by the sponsor E.ON and invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards as their guests.

So if you are a pre-final year undergraduate studying one of the above degree courses...

And you are expecting at least a 2.2...

And you are a UK or EU national...

And you are available to undertake a 48 week placement (NB this is not a summer placement)

And you think you're the best engineering undergraduate in the UK, click the big button below.

Closing date for entries
is 31 January 2012.

Entries closed

How do I win it then?

It’s not easy to win the Undergraduate of the Year Award and competition will be fierce. The process is demanding and only the truly outstanding and committed will make it to the last 10. There are three stages that you’ll have to get through.

Stage One:
Submit your personal data and answer three special questions posed by the sponsor of the Award.

Stage Two:
Complete three online tests designed exclusively by our partners SHL, the world’s leading assessment provider. The online assessment will take you around 90 minutes to complete and somewhere between 30 and 70 candidates will pass through to the next stage. The closing date for entry is 31 January 2012.

Stage Three:
The sponsor will seek to find a shortlist of ten from the undergraduates who pass the first two stages. This will be done in a variety of ways including telephone interviews, assessment centres and further tests (depending on the sponsor). The final shortlist of ten is invited to the Undergraduate of the Year Awards in Canary Wharf London on 13 April where the winner will be announced.

 

Last year's winner:

William Ramsay

Will is from Solihull and he completed a 12-month placement with National Grid before taking his place at the University of Bath to study Mechanical Engineering, where he’s now in his second year. He plays wheelchair basketball for Aylesbury Aces and is on both the Great Britain development programme and the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme.

Tell me about E.ON

We're part of the E.ON group, one of the world's largest investor owned power and gas companies. In a nutshell, we aim to provide reliable energy solutions for around 40 million people in almost 30 countries around the world.

What's more, we're using our size and resources to tackle some of the energy industry's greatest challenges. For example, how we will go about meeting tomorrow's energy demands in a sustainable way and how we can encourage our customers to use less energy. We are looking for graduates to join us to help tackle some of these challenges and to shape a better energy future for us all.

Find out more about us at: eon-uk.com/graduates