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News Release from: Peter Brotherhood
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Team on 14 November 2007
Scheme promotes engineering education
The Engineering Education Scheme allows students to gain hands-on experience of real technical problems.
Peter Brotherhood has teamed up with students from Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough, through the Engineering Education Scheme The scheme is run by the Royal Academy of Engineering and was set up in 1984 to promote engineering within education
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The scheme allows students to gain hands-on experience of real technical problems.
Working with a Peter Brotherhood engineer, a team of four sixth-form students from Thomas Deacon will develop solutions to a challenge set by the company.
This will enable the students to enhance their existing skills and develop new ones; skills that will help them at university and which are sought after by graduate recruiters.
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Peter Brotherhood has acknowledged the skills shortage within engineering and has put together a number of initiatives to try and overcome this problem.
For example, over the past four years it has recruited eighteen apprentices and two graduate trainees.
Ken Andrews, Engineering Director at Peter Brotherhood, said: "By getting involved in the Engineering Education Scheme we are hoping to encourage the young people to look at engineering as an exciting, challenging and rewarding career possibility.
"We selected the Thomas Deacon Academy as one of the 'new approach' educational establishments in Peterborough which has excellent facilities and a good reputation in the city".
The four students from the Academy have been set their project by the company and assigned an engineer who will act as a mentor to the team throughout the project.
As part of Peter Brotherhood's policy on continuous improvement for serviceability and maintainability, the company is looking at improvements to machine overhaul in order to reduce downtime, reducing the time machines are unable to operate whilst being maintained or repaired.
Downtime represents a major cost to machine owners and cuts in downtime are therefore invaluable.
At present, several large components need to be removed to gain access to the centre of large reciprocating gas compressors used in oil refinery applications.
The students have been tasked with creating special tooling designs which will eliminate the need for major disassembly of the compressors when they are being serviced.
The Engineering Education Scheme was officially released this month (November 2007) and will run until the end of April 2008, when the team will need to submit a final presentation to a board of engineers at RAF Wittering near Peterborough.
The team, along with the company engineer, will also attend a three-day residential workshop in December 2007.
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