Engineering apprenticeship interviews
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Apprenticeship interview: Building Spacecraft
Building spacecraft is one of those careers that even little kids dream of. No wonder Amy Palmer grins from ear to ear when she talks about her apprenticeship, which focuses on constructing satellites – earth observation satellites, navigation satellites and weather satellites among them.
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Apprenticeship interview: Civil Engineering
Like anyone doing a degree apprenticeship, Tyrone Upton is able to earn while he learns. ‘I’ve been able to afford to move out of home and get a place on my own in London, which just wouldn’t have been possible if I’d gone straight to university full-time,’ he says.
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Apprenticeship interview: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Matthew realised long ago that he’s a kinaesthetic learner. ‘I’m so much better at learning through doing rather than sitting listening to lectures. So I knew I’d be well suited to both engineering and an apprenticeship as the means to gain the necessary qualifications.’
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Apprenticeship interview: Marine
‘University wasn’t for me,’ says Ryan Acres, despite it being his original plan. ‘I left school at 16 to go to college to do a BTech in sport with the sole aim of going straight onto university, but I quit my degree after about two months,’ he says. ‘I’d taken a gap year and got a taste for earning money. I started to worry about getting into debt and if I’m honest, I wasn’t suited to the intensive academic learning.’
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Apprenticeship interview: Meterology
Like many 16-year-olds, Carter Murphy left school not having a clue what he wanted to do with his life. ‘I had the option to stay on and do A’levels, but to be honest, I’d had enough of school,’ he says.
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Engineering essentials: no need to buy a hard hat!
The modern engineer once described, literally, as an engine operator can be not only a scientist, computer and technology specialist or mechanic but also an artist, designer or creative thinker.
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The Year of Engineering 2018
Engineering touches almost everything we do and use. From switching on a light to driving a car and from going on holiday to being treated in hospital, engineers have made it possible. The problem is that the diversity of exciting careers that an engineering qualification can open up isn’t getting through to enough young people and their parents.
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