At this time of year it is not uncommon for me to get phone calls and emails from students looking for industrial placements. They come from all sources including emails and phone calls from Germany, France and Spain right through to Asia. In the past I have even received emails from young people offering to work for nothing for
Last year we posted a blog about an inspirational social media campaign aimed at dispelling gender stereotypes in the engineering industry and encouraging more women and girls to consider a career in the sector. #iLookLikeAnEngineer The woman behind the #iLookLikeAnEngineer campaign is Isis Anchelee, a twenty-something software engineer based in San Francisco. She started the
At Warley Design we are keen supporters of the renewed focus on apprenticeships, following the 2015 pledge by the then Prime Minister David Cameron to create an extra 3million apprenticeships by 2020. A thorough understanding Both the directors at Warley went through 5-year craft apprenticeships within manufacturing environments and feel the shop-floor training they received gave them
At a recent get-together of engineering professionals, the conversation turned to the exciting Bloodhound project – a bold, ambitious venture, which aims to develop a supersonic car (SSC) capable of breaking the 1,000mph land speed barrier. To my dismay a fellow professional dismissed the Bloodhound SSC as being “a suped-up racing car”. I was disappointed because
It would be interesting to undertake a poll to determine people’s perception of if there was a golden age of innovation. The wheel, fire and electricity were all pivotal inventions or discoveries that put mankind on the path to where we are now, but in terms of technological advancement was there ever a really hot