Can’t add much more to Archy’s posts.
I don’t know if it’s still possible, some companies would give bursaries to engineering students at university. It’s worth looking for as it guarantees a work placement.
Work placements are essential, you get to know the real world.
I had a few on work placement with me, I enjoyed it but I was young and mellow then.
The company I worked for would take on graduates, their first three months was a bomb shell to them:
Electrical, they got chucked in my direction on shifts. (The mellowness had worn off by then).
Mechanical, god help them, they got….. They got Hutch! (The only fitter that could put me down)!
All these graduates were destined for the drawing office but first they had to work on the plants alongside the guys that would be ripping their heads off if thy cocked up a design.
It was a two way thing, I sat down with them and they started me on PLC programming. Something that paid dividends when I moved to a new company. This time I was the new boy, with a few tricks up his sleeve!
If you’re lad really wants to go for engineering then back him as much as you can. My only proviso, we need practical engineers therefore the work placements are critical. Theory is one thing, a sledgehammer gets things going!
Before Archy starts on me:
No I am not a qualified engineer, I’m an engineer by virtue of the companies I worked for designating me as such! M&E shift engineer!
