Student Work Placements

Many organisations across the UK and overseas have long regarded the Department of Computing Science as an excellent source of summer work placements. Each year our penultimate (3rd) year students work during the long summer vacation in a wide variety of companies. Whether as part of their recruitment plans, to help freshen up a stale work environment or just to help a youngster’s career, the firms understand that they can benefit from having an enthusiastic and hardworking student with them for three months.

The placement students break down into two categories namely those who require to do a summer placement in industry as part of their degree and those who wish to work but do not need to. The former group are made up of our BSc (Hons) Software Engineering students and our BSc (Hons) Electronics & Software Engineering students. Actually on a purely financial level nearly all 3rd year students need to work nowadays.

This summer our students who required placements (SE3H and ESE3H) were placed with the following companies:

Recent Summer Placement Organisations

Freescale Semiconductors, East Kilbride, Scotland
Graham Technology, Glasgow, Scotland
IBM, Greenock, Scotland
Nallatech, Cumbernauld, Scotland
Scottish Police Information Systems, Glasgow, Scotland
Xilinx, Edinburgh, Scotland
Citigroup, London, England
Goldman Sachs, London, England
Detica, Guildford, England
Macro4, Crawley, England
Morgan Stanley, London, England
Reuters, London, England
Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, France
Teradyne, France
Chipcon, Norway

However there were many times that number of Computing Science students working for big and small organisations all across the UK. It is now common practice for companies to offer our students full-time employment on completion of their placement. This trend towards using short internships as a recruitment tool has really caught on and to some organisations the placement is the equivalent of a lengthy job interview.

With the latest 2004/2005 intake of students now matriculated there are more than 100 students in 3rd year so the Department needs as many offers of suitable summer work placements as possible.

Contact: Jon Ritchie
0141 330 6854
E-mail: jon@dcs.gla.ac.uk

For additional information see the placements guide