FactFile
Name: Gavin
Age: 18
School: The GM UTC
Further Education: Hopwood Hall
Passions: Football and fishing
Ambitions: Become a successful engineer
If you were a superhero who would you be? Batman
Questions:
- When did you decide on engineering and how did you get involved with the engineering apprenticeship programme?
At school really it all developed from there, I then chose to do engineering at GCSE and from their applied direct to Hopwood gears for an apprenticeship - What did you study at school to qualify in engineering?
Mechanical Engineering - What kind of projects does your apprenticeship enable you to become involved in?
Hands on training with different machines and materials - What help and support do you receive as an apprentice?
At have daily mentoring - Have you gained any further education qualifications after leaving school?
Yes , NVQ - Do you think your apprenticeship will set you in good stead for your current and future career?
Yes - What do you think you would be doing if you were not in engineering?
Never though about anything else - What did you want to do when you left school?
Engineering - How easy did you find the transition from school to a working environment?
Fairly simple - What Machine are you currently manning and training on:
Large CNC turning