KAREN: Hi. My name is Karen Moore. I graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2004 from the Mechanical Engineering and Business Management course. It’s a four year course and I graduated with a Beng and Bcom, Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce. I now work for a company called, Korteq, which is a Knowledge Management Consultancy.
INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us about why you decided to study Mechanical Engineering at Birmingham?
KAREN: I was always more interested in school in the sort of maths and physics side of things. I wanted to keep those two together, just in case I wanted to go onto do something more engineering orientated. Whilst I was doing the Physics A Level, I got involved in an Insight Course, which is sort of geared up to give you a bit of a taster about what engineering could be like. I did that at Brunel University. I’d also got involved in WISE which is specifically for getting women into engineering, because there is a bit of a drive to increase the female contingent. And, actually, when I finished, when I was getting towards the end of my A Levels, I decided that Mechanical Engineering was what I wanted to do, so that’s obviously when I applied for it. I also, at the same time applied for aeronautical engineering. It’s very important on your UCAS form, if you are going to go into engineering that you have that sort of on your full form, so you know that you are taking it seriously and that is really what you want to do. I chose Birmingham because I really liked the university, itself. I’d come here for a visit and it’s a really lovely place to be. It’s also got a fantastic reputation for the engineering, so that’s what I did specifically want to do. Furthermore, it was great that it had the opportunity to do a course that was engineering and business, I could combine the two and keep my options open.
KAREN: Hi. My name is Karen Moore. I graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2004 from the Mechanical Engineering and Business Management course. It’s a four year course and I graduated with a Beng and Bcom, Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce. I now work for a company called, Korteq, which is a Knowledge Management Consultancy.