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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award- Morgan McIntosh⤴

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small-morgan-mcintoshJoin us on Tuesday 15th November at 11am for an opportunity to chat to an engineer who can help you as part of this year’s Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award.

Today’s engineer is Morgan McIntosh. She has just recently turned 20. She’s from a small town in Lanarkshire called Blackwood and she attended Holy Cross High School in Hamilton. When she was at school she was always interested in Maths and Science as well as Art and Design however was never really sure what career path she would like to follow. It was her Physics teacher who suggested she look into engineering. She looked into many different engineering fields and pursued a Mechanical Engineering HNC course at City of Glasgow College where she was part of the first all girl class in Scotland. This was part of an initiative by the college to get more women into engineering.

After a year at college she decided to apply to university to study Prosthetics and Orthotics which is a specialised department with Biomedical Engineering. She is currently within her first year of this course and enjoying it immensely. In the future she would like to be involved in further developing biomechanical limbs and making these more accessible and affordable to patients.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Sarah Williams⤴

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Small - Sarah WilliamsJoin us on Tuesday 22nd March for an opportunity to chat to an engineer who can help you as part of this year’s Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award.

This week’s engineer is Sarah Williams and she is currently in her final year at the University of Glasgow studying Biomedical Engineering. Her degree has covered many fields such as electronics, mechanical engineering, biology, business management and mathematics, these classes have helped her to establish her strengths and weaknesses.

Her placements have also helped to expand her knowledge and experience within the field. She has had the opportunity to shadow an orthopaedic surgeon at Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary, observe clinical engineers at WestMARC in the Queen Elizabeth hospital, work alongside a rehabilitation service TRAC team at Udston hospital and carry out research at Nuclear Cardiology in Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary.

Her recent six-month research placement involved working within the Nuclear Cardiology department alongside clinicians and looking into the machine learning of SPECT imaging, specifically DaTSCAN imaging which involves acquiring images of the brain to diagnose Parkinson’s disease. Using programming software and mathematical techniques, the images were loaded into the computer which could then detect whether the subject has Parkinson’s disease or not.

This research contributed to a large part of her fifth year at university and her final degree classification. She is now pursuing a career within the NHS as a clinical scientist to carry out further research and improve services for patients within rehabilitation and diagnosis.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Lynne McIntosh⤴

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Small - Lynne McIntoshJoin us on Wednesday 16th March at 11am for an opportunity to chat to an engineer who can help you as part of this year’s Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award.

Lynne McIntosh is 28 years old and I’m a Senior Manufacturing Engineer and Forging Team Lead at the AFRC. On a day to day basis, her job as an Engineer involves many varied and interesting things. This can be anything from designing a piece of tooling to allow us to forge complex shapes using our forging presses at the AFRC to helping customers solve problems they may be experiencing with forging, or general manufacturing processes.

She joined the AFRC around 11 months ago after leaving Aerospace company Rolls-Royce, where she worked as both an under-graduate and graduate Engineer for over 5 years in the area of Research and Development within Manufacturing Engineering. She realised that Engineering might be a career that she’d like to pursue after being inspired by a talk which she attended as a high school student, presented by a gentleman called Dr Peter Hughes. He explained the varied, interesting and fun things which Engineers do and he spoke about it in terms which she understood and which made sense to her.

It made her think “maybe I could do that” and so she investigated further and realised that being an Engineer would allow her to be creative, work with sciences and maths, solve problems and also innovate and make / mend things – so she decided to apply to study Mechanical Engineering at University and has never looked back!

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Maaz Nayyer⤴

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This week’s engineer is Maaz Nayyer. Maaz grew up in Hull with a keen interest in Maths and Sciences at school and college. He attended the University of Leeds to study Mechanical Engineering following which he completed his Master’s level degree at the University of Sheffield. As a result of his academic achievements as well as previous experiences he also received the IMechE postgraduate scholarship at their Vision Awards Ceremony in 2013. He is now working as a graduate engineer at Doosan Babcock which provides engineering expertise to the energy industry. His work involves lots of design and calculations and also project planning and controls. He has worked on various projects involving coal and nuclear power and gas processing plants.

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