A Zimbabwean student has been named as one of the top 50 women in engineering in the UK. Melissa Chigubu, is second year apprentice t...
A Zimbabwean student has been named as one of the top
50 women in engineering in the UK.
Melissa Chigubu, is second year apprentice training with
the Coventry-based Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre. She was been given
the accolade by the Women's Engineering Society. Her nomination was announced
at the Women's Engineering Society centenary dinner at the Waldorf Hotel in
London and she received her award at a ceremony at the Royal Academy of
Engineering.
Melissa, 19, who lives in Abingdon, developed her love of
hands-on engineering after being enthused by her uncles. She came to the UK in
2012 and was the first female to complete the Foundation Gateway in the
Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre's new Apprenticeship Engineering
Standard programme.
She was the AMTC's Apprentice of the Month on three
occasions and became an enthusiastic advocate of women in engineering.
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