How competitions could be key to winning in the jobs market
Students wanting to boost their employability should enter engineering competitions to improve their communication, team working and practical skills.
That’s exactly what four university teams are doing as they ready themselves for this summer’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Railway Challenge in Leicestershire.
Teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Huddersfield University (who won in 2013), Sheffield, and Southampton are going up against competitors from Interfleet Technology Ltd (winners in 2012), TE Connectivity, Transport for London (last year’s winners) and Warwick Manufacturing Group.
According to IMEchE, the competition comprises of two presentation challenges, one of which is the submission of a design report and the other being a business case presentation, and six track based challenges that will be decided over the weekend. These include: energy storage, traction, ride comfort, noise and, new for the 2015 competition, maintainability and energy efficiency.
Prof Simon Iwnicki, chair of the Railway Challenge took some time out to talk to the Student Engineer about what the competition entails, how competitors should prepare and how taking part will look great on your CV.
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