anyone here offering engineering placements to students?

[shirt]

Hi,

Just wondering if any of you have businesses in the engineering sector and if you would consider taking on a paid/unpaid Mech.Eng. undergraduate over the summer '09 period?

I am mentoring a young engineer who is interested in design & manufacture, but who also has sales experience and enjoys client contact.

He's a first year [has completed a foundation year already] and is looking at companies such as BP, proctor & gamble, JLR etc. but is finding short term placement opportunities are being pulled in the current climate.

I'm not trying to do his legwork for him, but am guiding him towards working for an SME where he may not be paid but might gain a better experience than he would being 'lost' withing a large organisation.

Could anyone potentially interested please PM me and I can pass on your details.

Best Regards,
Phil.

[Mr POD]

Maybe.

My boss, decided to get our company involved in Modern Apprenticeships, of which we now have 4 (2 per year), and he also wants to get the company involved in undergraduate training (that's where our paths first crossed about 22 years ago - when I was an undergraduate trainee, and he was a university sponsored postgraduate on a teaching company scheme at the same company)

I don't think he'll want to look at it as a 10 week placement over the summer, looking more at thick or thin sandwhich to 2 lots of 26 weeks or one of 52 weeks.

I'll email my work contact details.

[shirt]

Much obliged

He's studying at Manchester Uni so the location sounds ideal.

I am seeing him this afternoon to run through his CV so I'll get a handle on term dates etc. Seems very keen from our meetings to date.