TTP
"Using our expertise in science and engineering we work on projects that are transforming everything from medical devices to satellite and UAV communications." TTP
Our Scholarships
Placement Location
Cambridgeshire
Type of Placements Offered
• Summer placements • 12-month placements • 6-month MEng placements
Restrictions/Notes
No first year students
2024/25 Scholarships
One new scholarship
Who we are and what we do
TTP is an independent technology consulting company where scientists and engineers collaborate to invent, design and develop new products and technologies. We work with the world’s most ambitious companies to address diverse, deep technology problems that enable advanced products and make a difference to people’s lives. Electronics engineering is an important skillset that is used in most of the projects we work on, so you could find yourself working on anything from biosensing devices to drones and autonomous technologies.
As TTP is a multi-disciplinary environment, you will work alongside talented people from a wide range of academic backgrounds – from biologists, to engineers, to physicists – getting to learn from them, whilst also making your own mark on projects.
An internship at TTP presents the opportunity to join us for 8 weeks, 6 months, or a full year, working alongside our consultants and gaining an insight into life within a technical consultancy. You will contribute to exciting live client and internal TTP projects to get hands-on, practical experience and learn more about what a career in innovative technology and product development can offer.
What you could be doing during your work placement?
You will be an active, contributing member within TTP’s business and will be working on internal technical research projects, as well as client-facing product development projects. You will work predominantly with fellow electronics and embedded software engineers but will also work collaboratively with a range of scientists and engineers on multi-disciplinary projects. You will be expected to contribute technically to projects, to be involved in generating ideas, developing concepts, and electronics engineering project activities.
Training, Development & Support:
By actively contributing technically on projects, the aim is for your skills and knowledge relating to product design, electronics engineering, and business development, to increase significantly. You will also be exposed to a range of software and programmes you may not necessarily have used during your studies.
Primarily, you will be ‘learning by doing’, involved in hands-on activities from Day One in which you are simultaneously given the freedom to learn, make mistakes, and try again, whilst also having a network of support around you. You will have a mentor assigned who will introduce you to others, provide a tour and support throughout your time, to help make sure you are getting the most out of your placement. You will also have a Project Leader for every project you work on, who will provide support specifically relating to day-to-day tasks. Less formally, you will be in a small subgroup of electronics engineers, who will provide ad hoc guidance, coaching and support as needed.
If you are interested in exploring the broader ‘consultant’ role (beyond technical development), you will receive the opportunity to learn from others about aspects such as project leadership and business development, but we would not expect these activities to form the core of your role.
Benefits:
- We provide free lunch, subsidised breakfast and all-day refreshments.
- There are also a wide range of lunchtime activities including various sports, yoga, arts and crafts, a rock band and board game club.
- For summer interns we also offer free accommodation (subject to availability).
Meet one of our Engineers
Name: Elisa-Jayne
Job Title: Consultant Electronics Engineer
My Journey to Engineering
From a young age, I wanted to be an inventor because I loved taking things apart to see how they worked. I never went anywhere without my trusty toolbelt, which included a pad and pen ready to jot down designs and ideas of devices and contraptions to help others. At school a teacher pushed me to do an intro to engineering; a career in using interesting technologies to design something new, which included things like prototyping ideas, refining products to be ready for production. All the things I loved doing, at scale, and making a positive impact on others. So I decided to go to Bath to do Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Internships, Year in Industry and Finding TTP
Each summer I went to a different company for an internship. After 3rd year of University, I was looking at companies closer to home and found TTP plc which then had the slogan of ‘The Space to Invent’. But what initially stood out to me because of my childhood dream of becoming an inventor turned out to be better than I had imagined, as I discovered that TTP worked on a wide range of technologies and development areas. From helping clients in Life Science (such as diagnostics and cell and gene therapy), and Deep Tech (including space & satellite and sustainable energies), to Heath Tech (from biosensing and neuro technologies to medical devices and surgical tools), all of which I would be able to learn about during the internship. So, I decided to apply.
My Experience at TTP plc
During my internship, I found myself contributing to client facing projects really quickly and taking on greater ownership and responsibility in projects than I thought possible on a summer internship. I worked within the surgical tools and devices team, adding capabilities to devices and developing equipment for surgeons that could be safer and more accessible. I really enjoyed being able to walk through labs, seeing some of the vast number of projects running at the time, and asking colleagues what they were working on and how things worked.
What stood out to me during the internship was how everyone was so passionate and willing to share their knowledge about each project, and the freedom I was given to work on any project, in any area, across the whole company.
After graduating, I decided to come back to TTP, partly because of that breadth it afforded me. I was thrilled to find some of the technology I had worked on during my internship had progressed to later stages of the development cycle, and some of the products I had contributed to were being used by clients and patients. I could see that the hard work I had put in during my internship was making a difference. Today I feel lucky to say that I do one of my main hobbies as my job: designing electronics, prototyping interesting electromechanical systems and inventing new technologies that help people.