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Team on 03 December 2003
Student wins national engineering award
A BMW engineer currently studying for a manufacturing degree at UCE's Technology Innovation Centre has received a national prize awarded jointly by the Ford Motor Company and WISE.
Bryony Bartlett, a BMW engineer currently studying for a manufacturing degree at UCE's Technology Innovation Centre (tic), has received a national prize awarded jointly by the Ford Motor Company and Women Into Science and Engineering (WISE) The Ford WISE Prize awards recognise and reward exceptional women in the final year of their engineering degree level studies
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It is hoped the awards will encourage more women to consider engineering as a career.
She received a cheque for GBP 500 at the Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award ceremony in London along with joint winner Elizabeth Allen, from Sheffield, studying aerospace engineering at UMIST (the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology).
Bartlett combines her part-time degree studies at UCE's tic campus, Millennium Point, Birmingham, with her full-time job at BMW Group Plant Oxford, home of the new Mini.
Ford Manufacturing Manager, and engineering graduate recruit, Alexandra Walker said: "Both Bryony and Elizabeth were exceptional candidates for the Ford WISE awards.
They are women who are not only active and committed to the world of engineering and study the discipline, but are also enthusiastic and dedicated to being an engineer through, for example, their hobbies and voluntary work".
Bartlett says: "I've cut my engineering teeth in a very practical way through various roles.
That's why the tic has been so good for me.
The MOMS (management of manufacturing systems) degree course has drawn my experience and my current job role together with engineering theory and practice.
I have become more confident and my whole thinking has expanded.
As a result I know I am able to make a very real contribution in my day-to-day work".
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