{"id":1420,"date":"2019-08-31T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T12:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2019-08-31T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T12:08:25","slug":"uwe-beng-graduate-gemma-christian-featured-by-institute-of-mechanical-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-beng-graduate-gemma-christian-featured-by-institute-of-mechanical-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE BEng graduate Gemma Christian featured by Institute of Mechanical Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From leaving school with no GCSEs to becoming a chartered engineer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UWE Bristol BEng (Hons) in Aerospace Systems Engineering graduate Gemma Christian has been featured by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, describing her non-traditional route into engineering and reminding us that it&#8217;s never too late to pursue a career in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After leaving school with no GCSEs and later reaching UWE through a BTEC in engineering, since graduating Gemma has gone on to complete a Masters, work for Airbus, GE Aviation and Avant, and become chartered. Read her inspiring story on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeche.org\/news\/news-article\/from-leaving-school-with-no-gcses-to-becoming-a-chartered-engineer\">IMechE website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From leaving school with no GCSEs to becoming a chartered engineer UWE Bristol BEng (Hons) in Aerospace Systems Engineering graduate Gemma Christian has been featured by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, describing her non-traditional route into engineering and reminding us that it&#8217;s never too late to pursue a career in the industry. After leaving school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-beng-graduate-gemma-christian-featured-by-institute-of-mechanical-engineers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UWE BEng graduate Gemma Christian featured by Institute of Mechanical Engineers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering-our-future-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}