Episode 3: I, Engineer

Charlotte Strang-Moran, graduate electrical engineer at ORE Catapult, compares career paths with three of her engineering colleagues. If you’re looking at engineering as a future career, you’ll get some advice on qualifying, getting your first projects, choosing your discipline and getting into the fast-growing renewable energy sector. Can you have both a maths brain and an art brain? Charlotte and the guests discuss with fellow engineers working in ORE Catapult’s disruptive innovation, electrical infrastructural research and test and validation teams. Charlotte Strang-Moran, Graduate Engineer, ORE Catapult is a Graduate Electrical Engineer and a STEM Ambassador. She qualified with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering with Honours at the University of Strathclyde in 2017. She works on some of the Catapult’s most ground-breaking sub-sea cable projects from Glasgow and the Blyth test and validation facility. Adam Burgess works as Mechanical Design Engineer. He gained a first-class BEng (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Teeside Unviersity and he is currently taking his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering through the Open University. He is also Chairman of the IMechE for Tyne & Wear and is a STEM Ambassador in the Tyne & Wear region. He previously worked in the Energy and Nuclear sector at Assystem UK on various high integrity projects, producing calculations, designs and reports. David Cox has worked as a Senior Mechanical Engineer at ORE Catapult’s test and validation facilities in Blyth for three and a half years. He has previously worked as Design Engineer at Enerpac in Milwaukee, Ipeco located in Southend-on-Sea and Fisher & Paykel Appliances in Dunedin, New Zealand. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Canterbury. Sam Porteous is an Engineer in the Operational Performance Engineering Group at ORE Catapult, based in Glasgow. His current projects include developing an innovative approach to measuring tidal flow and turbulence for the EU’s flagship tidal energy projects. He is also working on a project looking at floating wind turbine substructures and where they are best suited for deployment in Scotland. Read more about Sam’s work in the EnFAIT blog: https://www.enfait.eu/blog/flow-and-turbulence-taking-measurements-for-tidal-turbines/

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