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Supporting professional development
The objective of the Panasonic Trust is to encourage and support the professional development and retraining of engineers in the UK. It achieves this objective by providing funding for individuals to study courses which are designed to develop or update their knowledge and skills in new or emerging technologies and the various fields of engineering, manufacturing, materials science, environmental technology and IT.
The Panasonic Trust is generously supported by
Panasonic UK Ltd and administered
by The Royal Academy of Engineering.
The Trust administers a number of schemes which
support both full-time and part-time study.
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Panasonic Fellows honoured
Three Fellowship awardees were presented with their
Panasonic Trust medals at a recent ceremony held at Panasonic’s offices in
Bracknell. Keith Evans Panasonic UK’s Managing Director presented medals to
Ria Miller, Sachio Baig and Nick Warren, who have all recently graduated
from full time MSc courses. Ria studied Environmental Change and Management
at Oxford whilst Sachio and Nick studied Civil Engineering and Water
Environmental Engineering respectively at Surrey.
London engineer awarded inaugural Ayrton Fellowship
 Colleen Scales a graduate civil engineer from Stratford in East London, has become the first recipient of the Panasonic Trust’s new award the Hertha Marks Ayrton Fellowship. Colleen who until recently has been working at on secondment at London Underground from Atkins, was awarded the fellowship to study the full time Masters course in Engineering Geology with Ground Models at London’s Imperial College from the autumn.
The Hertha Marks Ayrton Fellowship has been established by the Panasonic Trust to promote and support under represented groups in engineering and is awarded as part of its highly successful Panasonic Trust Fellowship scheme.
Commenting on the award, Chairman of Trustees Robin Bond FREng said ‘This new fellowship underlines the Trust’s commitment to increasing the diversity of individuals in the engineering profession. Colleen is an extremely worthy winner; not only was she the only women at her school who chose to study engineering as an undergraduate, but she has since established an excellent professional track record in an extremely challenging working environment.’
‘The Water Management MSc has been an excellent year and an extremely interesting course which has greatly broadened my professional understanding and potential. I would not have been able to undertake the course without the generous support of the Panasonic Trust to which I am very grateful.’
Rob Youlton – MSc in Water Management, University of Surrey & Panasonic Trust Gold Medallist 2009
‘The MSc in Engineering Geology course has allowed me to further my career; I am now able to get into the more complex design areas of geotechnical engineering and engineering geology. The course was also highly industry focused and as a result gave me a good foundation for the professional skills that would be required of the modern engineering geologist. Without the support of the Trust, I would not have been able to complete the course.’
Ross Thompson – MSc in Engineering Geology, University of Leeds & Panasonic Trust Gold Medallist 2009
‘Winning the fellowship gave me the freedom to concentrate 100% on my studies and enabled me to achieve the grades necessary to advance to PhD level.’
Ronan Bolton – MSc in Environmental Sustainability, University of Edinburgh & Panasonic Trust Gold Medallist 2009
‘The Power Distribution Engineering course at Manchester is taught according to the experience-led principle; the core of the teaching staff is made up of senior industrial engineers who use case studies based drawn from their wealth of experience. I found this approach to be more enjoyable than the conventional way of teaching and more relevant to a practising industrial engineer like myself.
A unexpected bonus was being able to interact with other engineers from different industries, which helped to expand my appreciation and application of the knowledge and skills taught by the course.’
Victoria Liu – MSc in Power Distribution Engineering, University of Manchester
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Further information
For further
information please contact Ian Bowbrick
at the Academy's address.
[E-mail Ian]
The Panasonic Trust supports the professional development of UK engineers and engineers working in UK industry through its various initiatives regardless of their age, gender, ethnic origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or physical disability.
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