bnicholls92 P2 Flare

[bnicholls92]

Going in to my third year now. Really enjoying it averaging just under a 1st at the moment.

 

[Liam]

How many years does it take to become a Master?

 

[bnicholls92]

Four year course in total

 

[Liam]

Any courses previous to that? Or 4 years from leaving school to graduating? (sorry for being nosy, just interested in the amount time it takes )

 

[bnicholls92]

Yeah four years from start to finish, started course at 18 now am 20. 2 years to go

 

[PrimeraPowa]

Where are you doing Mech Eng? I'm starting my final/4th year of my Mech Eng Master's Degree at Coventry in a weeks time.

 

[bnicholls92]

Also, being a Master rather than a bachelor means you can get chartered which opens more job opportunities

 

[bnicholls92]

Am studying at UWE. Whats your final project on Ben?

 

[Liam]

Thats quite impressive on the time scale, I thought it would be much longer! Im going to be starting marine engineering (at technician level to start but with the opportunity to progress) in the very near future so its good to know!

 

[bnicholls92]

Where are you starting marine engineering liam?

 

[Liam]

With the bum boy brigade.

 

[bnicholls92]

Didnt realise you were in the forces?

 

[Liam]

Im not yet, hence the starting in the near future Waiting for a start date.

 

[bnicholls92]

Ahh, should be an interesting area of engineering to study

 

[Liam]

Hopefully. A friend of mine has recently left the RN (after 10yrs service, starting in the same role as I am) and has some very interesting job offers to choose from. One of which carries a hefty salary and includes living in the Caribbean.

 

[bnicholls92]

Not a bad place to live especially with the salary

 

[bnicholls92]

Worked with someone who left the RN 10 or so years ago doing something engineering related and he was working where i was until he found something with better pay. His old jobs allowed him to run a skyline and an old triumph so cant have been too badly paid

 

[Liam]

Indeed, but I need to get the quals first haha.

 

[bnicholls92]

What quals will your current course give you? Will that be a HND in marine engineering?

 

[PrimeraPowa]

I did a final year project in 3rd year, and do another in 4th, my 3rd year one was on the Design and optimisation of finger follower valvetrain, involved a lot of finite element analysis (FEA) stuff, which is my main area of interest, along with fluid dynamics. I asked one of my lecturers before I finished in 3rd year about a 4th year project in a stress analysis area, using FEA heavily, which he was keen for me to do, so that will be the order for this year I think!