Engineer by Design: The story of my career from Apprentice to Chartered Engineer

By PETER WILLIAM GEACH

This is a social history of the opportunities in the 1950's to 1970's open to people prepared to work hard to progress in their chosen careers.I was trained during this time and by application and aptitude was able to progress from Craft Apprentice to Chartered Engineer. Often biographical accounts leave out how a person progressed making his own luck, positioning himself and recognising the opportunities when they came along.In this book I have described how it's done, and to be aware of the signs when a job is going sour It happens everywhere; orders get cancelled, or don't come, there are changes in Management and perhaps more importantly management styles.I was very fortunate to work on some of the iconic projects of the time; Concorde and Tornado. When work was slowing down at the Rolls Royce Bristol Engine Division, the company I was working for at the time in the Stress Office, I emigrated with my family to New Zealand. I had a job with New Zealand Electricity at Wellington in their Research Section working on the seismic response of power generating and supply systems. I was promoted Earthquake Engineer and stayed for 5 years. When I returned to the UK the effects of the UK joining the Common Market in 1975 were by 1980 biting hard in NZ It wasn't long after I left that New Zealand Electricity was privatised and the Earthquake Engineering Section disbanded.On returning to UK I found a general slow down, but kept busy, completing my last 13 years as a Senior Structural Design Engineer and later Senior R&D Engineer at Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Limited; a very happy fulfilling time. That company was forced by the MOD to merge with BAE Systems and is no more; like many of the other wonderful companies I had worked for in my youth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1093287012
• ISBN13: 9781093287011
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"