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SKILLS FOR ENERGY Promising start for UEA's MSc students C Dr Lawrence Coates, Skills for Energy senior lecturer in engineering, UEA C Lawrence.Coates@uea.ac.uk Building on last year’s intake of 10 students, UEA has taken on 12 new entrants to the MSc in Energy Engineering with Environmental Management - 10 full-time and two part-time - meaning there are 18 students registered. The 10 full-time students will be seeking placements in industry for their dissertations that start in earnest after Easter. Example projects from last year were: C Analysis of grouted connections to monopiles C Scoping of tidal energy device, power production and impact C Noise abatement for offshore piling operations. The MSc at UEA enters its second year having just received accreditation from the Energy Institute. This allows students with a bachelor’s degree in engineering to use the course to achieve the required academic level for chartered engineer status. We are grateful to the many EEEGR companies who are offering support. A highlight of last academic year was Perenco sponsoring a significant amount of laboratory equipment which has enhanced the student experience. We intend to add to that this year, ready for the new undergraduate programme. Attracting undergraduate students in the current fees climate requires various financial incentives. At UEA, the SELECT sponsorship scheme is becoming established with half of the dozen or so companies needed close to confirming. This scheme offers companies the opportunity to work with our best students and, from second year onwards, using summer placements and sponsorship money to test for future employment. There will also be opportunities for a longer placement as part of the BEng with a Year in Industry. Companies wishing to secure our best undergraduates during the early stages of their degree should contact Lawrence Coates to join the SELECT scheme. Professor Paul Rijks (Choicce ltd) was welcomed last month as our visiting professor of innovation. Paul is sponsored for four years under the visiting professors scheme run by the Royal Academy of Engineering. As part of the induction of the new MSc students, Paul, Peter Haynes (Peter Haynes Associates) and Lawrence Coates (UEA) decided to emphasise the importance of safety and risk in its broadest sense. Paul and Peter exposed the students to several models of risk and disaster prevention as well as frameworks for encapsulating risks of different types using oil and gas as case studies. The teams of four were tasked with scoping the risks in one sector from offshore wind, solar or marine energy and delivering a 10-minute presentation to a panel of industry experts. A Dragon's Den format was adopted, with the willing support of Stephen Gregory, a specialist from Harnser Risk Group, Mark Aspinall of 4NRg, Simon Coward of Hethel Engineering Centre, and Sam Alexander, commercial manager of Windcrop. Paul said: “With a diverse group of cultures and academic backgrounds, I think the whole session panned out really well. I left the UEA proud of what they did today.” Young message from Camouflaged Learning C Matt J. Bagley, creative director C matt@camouflaged-learning.com Camouflaged Learning: It's education, but not as we know it! With activities that are designed to be fun, noisy and exciting and that appeal to youngsters and the young at heart, Matt Bagley and his team deliver every project they create in a relentlessly upbeat and positive manner. But, beneath all the fun and excitement, there is a very serious point to the company and that is to raise aspiration, inspire and engage the employees of tomorrow through experiential, real-world, hands-on learning. The best way of inspiring and enthusing anyone is to make sure they enjoy what they're doing, but that enjoyment has to be balanced with effective outcomes. Through careful design and consultation with its clients, Camouflaged Learning aims to do just that by 34 – NOVEMBER 2012 creating precisely what is wanted, but also exactly what is needed to create an indelible and sustainable impact. Camouflaged Learning activities are always easy to spot, even at large events such as OPITO’s Energise Your Future, Mason Trust’s Climate Run or on behalf of the UTC at Norfolk Show. And even if you can't hear all the noise, you can always see the crowds. “At the Climate Run this year we worked with the Norfolk UTC, using our 60 second submarine challenge,” said Matt. “As ever, we were mobbed from start to finish with people competing to create a working submarine that submerged and re-surfaced in exactly 60 seconds. “Lots of companies don’t really know what to do at events like this, but they are real winners for everyone involved. It's easy to attract young people to your stand with a bowl of sweets but that’s a missed opportunity to actually engage. Communication with students follows different rules to engaging with the business community so it makes good sense to ensure you're speaking the right language. That's where we come in.”
Network goes from strength to strength C Louise Jenkins, project co-ordinator, EEEGR C 01493 446519 C louise.jenkins@eeegr.com Top left: Student challenge for (back row) Yunbo Li, Henry Ross, Jonathan Davison, Tolulope Ugandare, Toby Simnett; (middle row) Amine Hadjer, Peter Kerrison, Nehssen Sockalingham, Andrei Stanica; (front row) Matthew Henderson, Toufik Hadjer, Julia Docampo. Above: The Dragons Den team Below: Fun time at Camouflaged Learning Bottom: Students from Great Yarmouth College visit Pasta Foods The Education and Training Provider Network (ETPN), as part of the East Coast Energy Skills Partnership, is going from strength to strength. Skills for Energy held a third meeting at Colchester Institute in early September to look at where the network could input and what the outputs of the group could be. One of the first results will be a directory and a prospectus to encourage inward investment. Included in both of these documents will be the Capability Matrix, a list of capabilities required by industry, available from the ETPN. This information will be available on the EEEGR website once completed. Energy sector support from Jobcentre Plus C Anne Rawstron, relationship manager Great Yarmouth & Waveney, Jobcentre Plus C anne.rawstron@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk Jobcentre Plus is working closely with Skills for Energy. Together they will focus on delivering skilled people to the energy industry when they need them for longterm careers and ensuring the existing workforce continues to meet the industry's need for the future. The network is not just producing documents, however, there is a strong emphasis on shared learning and collaborative working during the meetings. Following from EEEGR’s 2012 Summer Conference, where we had the largest number of education and training providers present in the exhibition, Skills for Energy is now looking further afield to other events such as GetEnergy next year as well as the Skills for Energy Conference 2013 to further promote the collaborative working between the ETPN by joint exhibiting. The project is to identify clients with transferable skills who would be suitable to work in the engineering and energy sector industries. Skills for Energy has attended Jobcentre Plus offices in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft to help advisers gain a better understanding of the energy sector in the local area. As Skills for Energy works closely with industry it can help Jobcentre Plus advisers identify training and skills that a client may require to enable them to have a career in the energy sector. More success for Energy Skills Foundation Programme C Louise Jenkins, project co-ordinator, EEEGR C 01493 446519 C louise.jenkins@eeegr.com After three years piloting at Lowestoft College, the Energy Skills Foundation Programme has now been taken up by Great Yarmouth College for the first year. Lowestoft College has 16 students this year and Great Yarmouth College has 19 students in its first cohort. The programme has proved a great success for the region and the popularity of the course is increasing amongst those wanting to find out if a career in energy is for them. To further boost the collaborative working of two local colleges, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth College have agreed to host both the speed dating with industry HR and gala dinner elements of the course together. Great Yarmouth College has also been working closely with Pasta Foods to allow its students workplace experience for the processing elements of the course. We will be running a number of employer engagement events, including presentation evenings from the students of the two cohorts, so anyone interested in engaging with these young and aspiring students should contact us. NOVEMBER 2012 – 35
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