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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Jon Reed⤴

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Small - John ReidJoin us 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 Captain Jon Reed who currently the Adjutant of 2 Close Support Battalion, The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), based in Leuchars, Fife. In previous roles he has been responsible to Armoured Infantry Battlegroups for the maintenance and repair of all the vehicle and equipment, this ranged form pistols to main battle tanks and everything in between.

He has also lead soldiers responsible for all recovery elements of exercises from Afghanistan, Canada, Germany and the UK. Before joining the Army he left school at 16 and completed a modern apprenticeship in engineering design and production, this job saw him learn all basic engineering principles such as milling, turning, welding, CNC machining and production line techniques and then apply them to produce vehicle parts for heavy vehicle systems ranging from buses and lorries to earth moving and military equipment.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award -Lindsay Kinghorn⤴

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Small - Lindsay KinghornSESLA is celebrating International Womens Day on Tuesday 8th March at 11am with a special interview with Captain Lindsay Kinghorn an engineer with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME)

Captain Kinghorn joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) in 1991 when she was 18. None of her family had been in the army, but she wanted to do something different and it seemed to be an exciting life! She joined as a Private soldier as a vehicle mechanic and specialised in fixing tanks! There were hardly any girls working as mechanics when she first joined, in fact there were only 5 women in a Battalion of 500 men!!

Now of course they have far more females working as mechanics, armourers (fixing weapons), recovery mechanics (like the AA), aircraft technicians (working on helicopters) and technicians. As a REME soldier you move every two or three years to a different unit, that way you get to experience working on lots of different types of vehicles whether it is tanks, trucks, land rovers or motorbikes. You also get to see different parts of the world; Lyndsay has served all over the world in UK, Germany and Canada and deployed to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, all as a mechanic.

Why not join Lindsay and find out more about her job and being female in a job seen usually for males?

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – John Penman⤴

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Small - John PenmanJoin us on Monday 7th 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.

Today’s engineer is John Penman, the Sales and Marketing Director for FiFe Fabrications, based in Fife. John started his career making coal cutters and served my apprenticeship as turner/Mechanical engineer. He then progressed his learning by going to college in the evening and gaining experience in various areas in engineering. He has learnt a lot about the sectors he sells into, these include test and measurement/Defence/oil and gas/Audio visual displays.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award vlog Part 6⤴

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SESLA LogoScottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – join the thousands of children already registered for this exciting free competition!

If you could be an engineer in Scotland – what would you do?

Find out the latest from the Strathclyde University team about the Shopping Trolley for the Elderly, in ‘Making It – Part 2’ as they show us classical engineering processes; sketching, teamwork, prototype and model making, investigating and problem solving.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Rob Ward⤴

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Small - Rob WardJoin us on Wednesday 2nd 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.

This week’s engineer is Rob Ward, a Weapon Engineer Officer in the Royal Navy. To be a Weapon Engineer you need to very good at leading teams of highly qualified, incredibly motivated and enthusiastic experts. These Engineers have a very in-depth understanding of IT, explosives and sensor systems. But on a submarine you need to include nuclear physics in the mix too. Apart from excellent Science and Mathematic Skills you need to be really good at dealing with people often in stressful conditions and exciting situations and, perhaps, after months without contact from their family.

The biggest thing to realise is that understanding your team is just as important as knowing your equipment. On a daily basis Rob could be doing anything from fixing Missiles and Torpedoes on the submarine in the Port to being ultra quiet in the middle of the Ocean hunting down other submarines. There really isn’t a typical day and every day is exciting!

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – join the thousands of children already registered for this exciting free competition!⤴

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SESLA LogoIf you could be an engineer in Scotland – what would you do?

The Strathclyde University Prototype team are starting to get busy…in our fifth vlog they tell us about making prototypes and show us techniques, tools and devices they will be using to build the 2015 winning design.

Now it’s time for you to get involved with the prototype team – the engineers would love to hear from you with any questions you might have – get tweeting and get the lowdown from the engineers!

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Maaz Nayyer⤴

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Small - Maaz NayyerJoin us 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 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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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Tania Russell⤴

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Small - Tania RussellJoin us on Wednesday 10th February 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.

Tania Russell graduated in 2014 from Strathclyde University in Glasgow with a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering and is currently a graduate trainee at Doosan Babcock based in Renfrew, Scotland. Doosan Babcock are a leader in the delivery of engineering, aftermarket and upgrade services to the energy sector. Whilst there Tania has had the opportunity to work at power plants focused on reducing the carbon emissions while producing electricity. She currently works in the newly established Green Power Solutions team which are focused on delivering low carbon energy solutions to the customers through our fuel cell CHP (combined heating & power) product.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – vlog 4⤴

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If you could be an engineer in Scotland – what would you do?

Be inspired by the Strathclyde University Prototype Team in our fourth vlog as they discuss why they chose the winning entry, how they are planning on making it and where! Hear advice from the engineers about how to start thinking about your own design and how to develop it.

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Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Niall Caldwell⤴

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Small- SESLA Niall CaldwallJoin us for the first opportunity to chat to an engineer who can help you as part of this year’s Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award – Niall Caldwell.

Niall Caldwell is the Managing Director of Artemis Intelligent Power Ltd., which is a company based in Loanhead (near Edinburgh). They develop and commercialise our unique Digital Displacement (R) fluid power technology, an innovation which combines mechanisms with computers and electronics to make the world’s biggest and most efficient fluid power machines.

These days Niall spends a lot of time on the business management of the company, but he still finds time to do some technical work. He builds and tests mathematical computer models to predict how our machines will work when installed, for instance in a wind turbine. Using these models he can design the control system and predict the behaviour in all the different situations which can happen (for instance start up, shut down, emergency stop) before they actually build the machine. He makes these models by combining his understanding of the physics and mathematics of the machines with the results of experiments, to make a model which is complex enough to be realistic – while being simple enough to give an answer quickly. But no matter how much he thinks it through, when the machine finally starts working…there are always surprises!

Join Niall on Wednesday 3rd February at 11am to ask your questions and find out more!
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