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Graduate Profiles
Lucy Gardiner
"I secured a 10-week summer placement with BP at Grangemouth at the end of third year. As a result I was keen to work for the Diploma in Industrial Training and so continued my placement with BP for a full year. I was involved in a pump improvement project and in co-ordinating plant maintenance.
"I have since been working with BP as Commissioning Engineer on a GBP180M new polyethylene plant. I enjoyed the responsibility and superb training programmes.
?My degree gave me an excellent technical grounding, team skills and, along with the management courses, a handle on modern day industry.?
Richard Kent
"I joined FMC after graduating in Mechanical Engineering. The company supplies subsea equipment for the oil industry and, in the Dunfermline design office where I work, 10 of the 30 engineering graduates are from Heriot-Watt.
"I think of designing new products as a creative art-form because the hardware has to be extremely reliable in a difficult environment. Work has taken me to Rio, Singapore, Europe and the USA."
