Employers & Case Studies

NUSTEM meets a huge range of engineers, researchers, programmers, mathematicians, and business people, working in universities and in companies small and large. Here, we’re showcasing a deliberately eclectic selection of case studies and STEM employers.
Click around and see who you find interesting!

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Katy Ellis

Meet Katy, a computing liaison working at CERN

Mika Shearwood

Meet Mika, a software engineering apprentice with the STFC.

Steph Hills

Meet Steph, a European Communications Manager for the STFC

William Pilcher

Meet William, the deputy IT service delivery manager with the STFC.

Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Find out more about the STFC and the research that they are involved with worldwide.

Paul Mann

Juna Sathian

Photonics Physicist researching light and the technologies that create it.

Stewart Franks

Talib Butt

Linzi Dodd

Harri Beatie

Carolina Costa

AVID Technology

AVID’s vision is a future where the air is safe to breathe and transport is more sustainable. Our mission is to help deliver this vision of a cleaner, greener future by enabling smart powertrain electrification with our high-efficiency electric motors and power electronics technology which we then use to power class leading electrified powertrain and propulsion systems.

Vikash Kumar

Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd

Picture of civil engineer Paula McMahon.

Paula McMahon

GlaxoSmithKline

Palintest

EDF

Procter and Gamble

Josslynne Masters

Newcastle International Airport

Polyphotonix

Oilseed Rape field By James Mason-Hudson (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Syngenta

Kromek

QT 100 being lowered into the sea. Credit: SMD

SMD

Siemens

Siemens is a global company with a North East base, who are leading the renewables revolution on and offshore as well as a whole bunch of other cool stuff.

Miller International

Making the bits that move the earth.

Milly Kelly

Foundation course physics student, patching her missing maths A-level before going on to a full Physics degree at Kent.

Inmarsat

Connecting the world, via satellite.

Accenture

Global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company.

Hitachi Rail Europe

Bringing rail manufacturing back to the North-East, with a new £82m plant at Newton Aycliffe.

Northumbrian Water

Let’s talk sewage.

MasterCard International

Moving money through myriad means.
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