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ELA Case Study: Jane Kendall
Jane Kendall received her
Engineer Leadership Award in March 2004. Jane
studied Engineering Science at Oxford University,
graduating in 2006 with a First Class MEng degree.
Jane has made use of her Award to study French at
the EF School in Nice and travelled to Kenya for a
work placement at the Jomo Kenyatta University of
Agriculture and Technology, where she produced a
laboratory experiment for undergraduates in
Production Engineering. The remainder of her funding
enabled Jane to accept a six-month work placement at
Tripelay in Paris, a bio-medical start-up company.
With reference to her
experience in Kenya, Jane commented:
“I feel I have benefited
from my time at JKUAT in many ways…I have gained
some technical knowledge and more importantly
problem solving experience…Working with people from
such a different background was occasionally
difficult and I have learned from dealing with that…
I have a lot of respect for the people in the
Mechanical Engineering Department at JKUAT and am
very pleased to have had the opportunity to work
with such talented and friendly people.”
Jane commenced a permanent
position in 2007 with Shell Exploration and
Production. During her first year, she worked as a
commissioning engineer on the Starling Project - the
connection of a gas condensate field to the
Shearwater platform in the Central North Sea. Since
April Jane has worked as a rotating equipment
engineer, supporting four North Sea platforms with
planned and preventative maintenance and general
technical issues.
Jane is also taking part in
the Academy’s Executive Engineers’ Programme which
provides training for engineering graduates who
intend to advance their careers rapidly, probably,
although not exclusively, via the route to CEng
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