Nuclear engineering degree apprentice Review

The first year was spent at college and involved completing the first year of our degree, having three full days of lessons a week on this and two study days where we would also be in college. We also did PEO and had block weeks of this at different times in the year. Now I’ve just started my first placement which involves working alongside people in the business.

My academic knowledge has increase I’ve also been introduced to new things suck as working with breadboards in our degree lesson and the PEO gave us basic electrical, mechanical and C&I skills. As well as that on my placement I have started using a software called navisworks which was new to me.

Currently I am mostly enjoying my programme, however from speaking to some other people on my course who are on different placements the work they’re doing doesn’t sound as enjoyable

We are only the second year to start our programme, so there has been a couple things that have changed from the original plan of the year but they do make changes where necessary

We have forums every six weeks with our early careers manager to discuss what we’ve been doing and any issues, he also keeps us updated on anything necessary or information we need from him. We can contact him with any issues we have and we also all have career managers now so we also have them to go to with any issues.

The college and the teachers are quite good at helping you when you need it, we’re able to email them to ask them questions and they’re good at giving us study materials.

So far there’s been a minimal link between what we’ve covered in our lesson and what we do at placement which I think is the same across different placements. We did only start a month ago so there might be more of a link after we’ve been at our placement longer.

I’ve joined the women’s network and attend some of their discussions and meetings.

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Overall I think they’re a good company and I think degree apprenticeship are a great career path.

As it’s a big company lots of people apply for the same position, try to include something in your application that other people wouldn’t have in there’s to help make you stand out.