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On a mission

Hanna Sykulska-Lawrence can truly claim to be ‘reaching for the stars' by helping to send a NASA mission to Mars! 

Academic

Swapping to engineering!

A chance encounter changed Mimi-Isabella's career path towards becoming a Materials Engineer.

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Flying to the future

Daniel Newman is a graduate engineer at Rolls-Royce, working in the Aerospace sector.

Academic / Vocational

Finding medical cures

Jemima Armstrong from GSK is an engineer on a mission to help find medical cures.

Academic

Adventures

Holly tells us about her life studying and working in motorsport engineering, and the exciting and challenging times she has along the way.

Academic

Marine dreams

About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and engineers like Martin Chan help to create ways of travelling across it. From transporting products to different countries, to protecting the seas and helping get energy from under the sea-bed, Martin helps Rolls-Royce create the propellers, boats or products their customers need.

Academic / Vocational

Standing on new legs

As an amputee, engineering student Rishi Vegad acutely understands how engineering can make life better.

Academic

Making a house a home

Angela Malynn is a mechanical engineer, bringing buildings to life so we can live and work in them - from offices to train stations to swimming pools

Academic

Emissions, engine improvement and alternative ideas

Lorena has studied and worked in Spain, Italy, and now England. She thinks that creating a team of engineers from different backgrounds, with different opinions, is the best way to solve any complex engineering problem.

Vocational

Investigating the rails

Imogen is an apprentice working on roads and rails, making sure the materials they are built of are still up to scratch.

Case Study

Sounds refined

Mechanical acoustics engineer Ben West ensures that the parts and systems of Bentley motor cars don’t create bad noises.

Case Study

Expert witness

Teli Chinelis is a forensics engineer specialising in acoustics who works as an expert witness advising courtrooms in legal cases.

Case Study

Connecting isolated rural people

Avery Bang from Bridges to Prosperity, and Marion O'Dowd from Bechtel, are engineers on a mission to help the developing world.

Academic

Taking the pressure

Samuel is a biomedical engineer working in the field of blood flow and blood pressure.

Academic

Collecting ambient energy

Philex is an electrical engineer working in ecological friendly electronics, collecting energy from thin air!

Academic / Vocational

Leading the signals

Lead Signalling Power Engineer on the UK Rail network, Abdul Rehman, tells us about his varied working day and how his Electronic Engineer mother was a career inspiration.

Academic

Making a difference

Phil Kirby is a civil engineer and has worked on projects not only on the computer but all around the world.

Academic

My life in engineering

Atkins structural engineer Christina Varnava tells us about the projects she works on, what she enjoys and how she first became interested in engineering!

Case Study

From sweet shops to stupendous ships

What do you want to be when you grow up? Graduate chemical engineer Will Sharpe tells us how his dreams have changed slightly from aged five to 25.

Academic

Every day engineering: a day out in London

Let’s get one thing straight, I am passionate about engineering – like really passionate, to the point that family members have been worried about how excited I get looking at the underside of a bridge

Academic / Vocational

Engineering and chewing gum

Maria Torres works for Wrigley's - she tells us how engineering got her involved in making gum.