Engineering Scholar Student Review

The work place was pretty good place to work. Flexible working hours existed where you could start between 7am - 9am and leave between 3pm and 5pm. There was also weekly football games within the team, as well as weekly squash. There were opportunities to go and travel to machining facilities which was very rewarding, as it was much easier to visualise what you were working on when you could examine the finished component.

I felt fairly valued as most people in the office did not have experience with analysis programs, such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In this respect I feel I was able to add a lot to the company and was respected for it. However, for tasks that did not require the use of these programs, it was difficult to catch up and understand the scope of the tasks that I was given in a quick time frame without asking questions. With everyone being very busy, it felt that you were causing them hassle by asking, despite them having a culture of 'get it right first time'.

There was a placement team who were in charge of us throughout the two placements. I also had a buddy who was very good at explaining any issues I had and involving me with the rest of the office. We were required to have regular meetings with the management to discuss any problems we might have been having. Only issue was the support team was often located offsite, so a lot of the support was virtual.

As busy as I wanted to be. There were no firm deadlines given to me, save the end of the placement. The tasks are usually so big it is difficult to start and finish a task by the time you finish your placement, hence there we no great time pressures. However, you weren't usually looking for work.

The first placement I was not given much responsibility. However, the responsibility level grew in the second and third placements to the extent that at the end I was delegating work to others. The tasks also got more meaningful as the placement progressed. more responsibility was given on analysis programs as detailed above.

There was numerous online and physical training courses that were required to be completed at specific deadlines. The skills regarding working in a professional environment, presentation skills, and report writing skills were most useful in applying to my degree. However, I have not used much of the technical knowledge I learnt.

Open plan office so the opportunity to chat to others was there. The first placement was fine, however towards the last two placements the office were going through voluntary redundancy, so the atmosphere wasn't great to work in as I got the impression that most people were working for themselves rather than the team.

The placement was setup rather well. We had to check in monthly with the head of the placement scheme. We also had an end of placement presentation to office high ups, where we had to discuss what we had achieved in the placement and how this would benefit the company.

We had training modules that we had to complete online weekly. We also had to attend numerous courses where we were led in person by an experienced instructor on complex company engineer matters. We then had to sit numerous tests, usually multiple choice, to prove our understanding. The company invested quite a lot in the placement students.

Mixed. The work environment was good, and the work could be interesting. However I struggled to adapt to work that solely involved working in front of a computer 8 hours a day. However, with the majority of the office made up of design engineers, this seemed to be the normal. The future career progression did not seem promising either.

Discussed previously. There were football games organised in the office eery week which was a good opportunity to meet new people in the office. We also entered a charity tournament in a team which was good. There were was weekly squash organised, and there were a few socials organised throughout the weeks.

N/A, I was living at home, and costs of socialising in Glasgow are ok.

Glasgow is good for nightlife. The office was located that it wasn't too hard to get to town, and there was a team bonding session organised in a brewery which was nice. We then completed a cooking class before going out for the evening. A lot of costs were covered by company.

Not really.