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Coding Your Future: A Guidebook for Students

17 Opportunities at the University of Manchester

Any internship or placement you do will help your CV stand out from the crowd. Any EXPERIENCE you get before you graduate will be a key part of your story enabling you to build your knowledge, improve your skills and gain professional experience through paid employment. Any co-curricular or extra-curricular PROJECTS you can do alongside or outside your University curriculum, will also help you stand out from your competition.

17.1 Summer Internships in the School of Engineering

The School of Engineering (SoE) at the University of Manchester (UoM) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2026 Summer Internship scheme. An internship provides you with paid experience of working within The School of Engineering during summer 2026 to improve your future employability and skills.

All students must remain working in the UK for the duration of the internship and most internships will be fully based on campus. Some internships may have an option to complete part remotely - please check individual project descriptions for more information.

There are many different projects to choose from, each with different supervisors and very different project outlines that you could be working on over the summer. By applying for one of our internships you are giving yourself a chance to develop your technical and transferable skills whilst gaining experience of working with an accomplished academic on a project that you are inspired by.

Applications will be reviewed following the closing date and shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to the next stage of the process, which will be a video interview that will be reviewed by the project supervisor.

17.2 Scheme Eligibility

The scheme is open to registered Year 2 undergraduate students on a 3- or 4-year programme, as well as Year 3 undergraduate students on a 4-year programme at UoM. You may be on a BSc, BEng or MEng programme, and both home and international students are welcome to apply.

You may only apply to a maximum of 3 internships (unless you are in receipt of a bursary or financial support from the University, in which case, you may choose to apply for more). These SoE internships are open to students from multiple disciplines within the School of Engineering. Please see each advert for further information on which disciplines can apply.

Students who have previously undertaken an internship through this scheme are unfortunately not eligible to apply again. The purpose of the scheme is to provide valuable and relevant work experience that Engineering students can include on their CVs, which in turn should increase the chances of securing external opportunities at a later point.

17.3 Projects available in 2026

There’s more than 70 projects to choose from, listed below Closing date Friday 20th February 2026, 5pm. As these vacancies aren’t very easy to find, link to or browse on Career Connect, they are listed here. You will need to login to careerconnect.manchester.ac.uk to see the details when you follow any of these links below:

  1. Designing a Chemical Engineering Process for Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Production - REF: SoE/26/D26G9
  2. Imaging Pharmaceuticals and Agrochemicals to Obtain Particle Size and Shape Distributions - REF: SoE/26/QLD7J
  3. Designing Sustainability-Themed Outreach Activities for Public Engagement - REF: SoE/26/LEMKE
  4. Climate Impacts on People and Lifestyle - REF: SoE/26/MWQKQ
  5. Developing interactive teaching resources to improve experience and enhance learning - REF: SoE/26/X3G6Q
  6. Outreach resources for Civil Engineering - REF: SoE/26/O6OKG
  7. Developing a Blended Learning Resources Platform: Best Practices and Student-Centred Approaches - REF: SoE/26/4EMQD
  8. Motivation and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Student Learning: A Comparative Study - REF: SoE/26/ND8KO
  9. Simplifying collusion detection in assembly programming coursework - REF: SoE/26/9ODDA
  10. Extending Frontend Module for Bennett - REF: SoE/26/QLDDJ
  11. Assessing the potential role of Churches as resilience hubs - REF: SoE/26/D2669
  12. Security Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure - REF: SoE/26/EW337
  13. Neurons That Learn on Their Own - REF: SoE/26/ZJMMM
  14. High Voltage Training and Test Rig for Formula Student Electric Vehicle - REF: SoE/26/4EMMN
  15. Inverse Designing Optical Surfaces with Machine Learning Optimization - REF: SoE/26/ANO7G
  16. Tools for Software Engineering 1 - REF: SoE/26/KZ27M
  17. Robotic DIW 3D Printing of Soft Robots with Embedded Sensors - REF: SoE/26/ND8W9
  18. Unravelling Rogue Breaking Waves with Machine Learning - REF: SoE/26/VDQG2
  19. Large language model assisted automated workflow for a liquid-liquid separation platform - REF: SoE/26/74ONM
  20. An autonomous liquid-liquid extraction screening platform - REF: SoE/26/QLD38
  21. Passivity-Based Control for Magnetically Actuated Dynamical Systems - REF: SoE/26/D267E
  22. Symbolic Machine Learning for Interpretable Detection of Breaking Waves - REF: SoE/26/W6E26
  23. Flow characterisation of the British Cycling wind tunnel and Manchester Velodrome - REF: SoE/26/3Z273
  24. Swabbing Monitoring and Data Collection System for Smart Robotic Policy Learning - REF: SoE/26/6O8NG
  25. Natural product biosynthesis of the antifungal compound pyrrolnitrin by heme enzymes - REF: SoE/26/LEM7V
  26. Exploiting submerged structures for coastal protection - REF: SoE/26/ZJM8M
  27. Sensory augmentation in haptic-shared driving cars - REF: SoE/26/JQG7N
  28. Standardising Educational practices -the impact on students’ experience and educator’s autonomy - REF: SoE/26/EW377
  29. Building Accessible and Equitable Learning through Microsoft 365 Copilot - REF: SoE/26/G6J7A
  30. Data-driven catalyst design for plasma-assisted CO2 hydrogenation - REF: SoE/26/2JQNY
  31. Supporting gender balance in engineering - REF: SoE/26/MWQ7L
  32. Experimental investigation of turbulent flow - REF: SoE/26/X3GQO
  33. Data Review and Mapping for Integrated Water Management - REF: SoE/26/8OWN6
  34. A Simulated Robot for Teaching Python Programming - REF: SoE/26/O6ODB
  35. SporeSense value Engineering - REF: SoE/26/JQG3N
  36. Satellite Subsystem Testing Laboratory Development - REF: SoE/26/EW3Y7
  37. Chemical Engineering LinkedIn Content Internship - REF: SoE/26/2JQYY
  38. Space Mission Analysis Tool Development - REF: SoE/26/G6JWA
  39. Multiproduct Formulas for High-Order Simulations on Quantum Computers - REF: SoE/26/MWQZL
  40. Analyzing Dust Storm–Aircraft Interactions through Atmospheric Data and Visualization - REF: SoE/26/KZ2LM
  41. Sustainability of bereavement and burial practices - REF: SoE/26/ND8E9
  42. Domain-Specific LLM for Spintronics: Specialized AI for Advanced Materials Research - REF: SoE/26/B2WQG
  43. Comparing a Commercial 3D Scanning Rig with Open-Source AI Tools - REF: SoE/26/YL268
  44. AVRO 707C Aircraft Replica Rebuild of FLY-BY-WIRE (FBW) Control Unit for AVRO Museum - REF: SoE/26/ANOXG
  45. Project Rune Breaker (Cathode Architecture) - REF: SoE/26/VDQY2
  46. Project Rune Breaker - REF: SoE/26/9ODJG
  47. Utilising AI-integration for Chemical Engineers - REF: SoE/26/74O3M
  48. Machine Learning and Data Augmentation for Defect Detection in EVs Battery Interconnect Welding - REF: SoE/26/QLDM8
  49. Human-rated Cardboard Aircraft - REF: SoE/26/W6EB6
  50. Enhancing Student Competency in Simulation: Developing Teaching and Learning Resources for Aspen HYSY- REF: SoE/26/D264E
  51. Developing Teaching and Learning Resources for the New Signals and Systems - REF: SoE/26/6O86G
  52. Improvement of Slides for Digital Signal Processing EEEN30201 - REF: SoE/26/LEMJV
  53. Developing Teaching/Learning Resources to Support Mech/Aero Eng Degree Programme: First Year Fluid Mechanic SoE/26/ZJM6M
  54. Mapping Industry Use of AI in Chemical Engineering - REF: SoE/26/8OWL6
  55. Interactive Graphs for Learning Chemical Engineering - REF: SoE/26/ANOQG
  56. Developing a Famous Engineers Top Trumps-Style Game - REF: SoE/26/KZ26M
  57. Investigating the Benefits of On-Board Cloud Detection for Spacecraft Operations - REF: SoE/26/ND8J9
  58. Exploring Long-Term Orbital Stability with MOCAT-SSEM - REF: SoE/26/VDQO2
  59. Fast Object Sorting with Event Cameras - REF: SoE/26/9ODZG
  60. Upstream Syngas Production Pathways for Low-Carbon Fischer–Tropsch Fuels - REF: SoE/26/W6E46
  61. State-of-the-Art Technologies for Methanol Production as a Low-Carbon Fuel - REF: SoE/26/6O83G
  62. Development of a Modular Electronics Platform & Teaching Resources for Competitive Student Space Systems - SoE/26/W6E4Y
  63. Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of Flow Instability and Transition in the Human Aortic Arch - REF: SoE/26/D26OG
  64. Developing a Measurement of Electrical Resistance for Thin Films - REF: SoE/26/3Z2W7
  65. Developing Y2 Lab Experiments - REF: SoE/26/G6JB2
  66. Quizzes and Other Short Exercises for Students- REF: SoE/26/2JQ9K
  67. Rust Programming for STM32 Boards - REF: SoE/26/YL2AX
  68. Developing Machine Learning Techniques for Data Visualisation Feature Extraction - REF: SoE/26/9ODW6
  69. Equation-Oriented Modelling, Simulation, and Optimisation of Carbon Capture Processes - REF: SoE/26/QLD6N
  70. Developing a LEGO SPIKE Diffractometer for Engineering Outreach - REF: SoE/26/ND8D3
  71. Optimisation of microfluidics fabrication using high resolution 3D printers - REF: SoE/26/O6O9K
  72. Developing Data-Driven Optimisation Approach for Black-box Problems - REF: SoE/26/O6O7G

Any questions or comments about these internships, email soe.studentexperience@manchester.ac.uk