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Executive Engineers’ Programme Case Study: Amy Elliott
Amy Elliott graduated from
Imperial College in 2002 with a First Class MEng in
Chemical Engineering. Over the past few years of
working for INEOS Fluor she has strived to acquire
as many environmental buzzwords for her profile as
possible through work on sustainable development,
life cycle analysis, clean development mechanisms,
emissions trading, technology benchmarking and green
chemistry projects. Most recently this has involved
managing technology design and development for
extracting Artemisinin from Sweet Wormwood, in a bid
to rid the world of malaria.
Not content with just saving
the world, Amy has been furthering her freelance
graphic design and photography work with attendance
on the Royal Designers for Industry Summer School
and consequential nomination for Fellowship of the
RSA. If the world is going to be saved from an
environmental apocalypse, it might as well look good
in the process.
Amy attended the Executive
Engineers’ Event in October 2006 as a guest, having
previously completed Years 1, 2 and 3. She commented
as follows on the benefits derived:
“- It provides access to a
unique network of young engineers, but instead of
just being a list of names with various
academic/professional achievements, the annual
meetings serve to get an insight into what actually
makes them tick and how this may change or develop
with time. In today's climate of few mass-graduate
recruitments, it can often be difficult to judge how
your experiences of work compare to those in similar
shoes. It can be far too easy when times are tough
to think that the grass-is-greener elsewhere, but
the events of the EEP seminars give a great
opportunity to find out where people are struggling
alongside their successes - the "it's not just me"
effect is a great motivator in itself.
- Structured
graduate training programmes are also rarer these
days, so the seminars also offer great value for
money for getting good snap-shots of the latest best
practice management techniques.
- The seminars that
have had greatest impact on me have been those
covering personal development/motivators. The
courses are very much structured for the attendees'
benefit, and even answering a few psychometric style
questions without the knowledge that it's for a job
interview or assessment means you suddenly find
yourself answering with a whole new degree of
honesty, leading to much greater insight to how you
should structure your career development.”
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