• Question: did u all go to uni

    Asked by daveyboy to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Dean Whittaker answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      Yes, I went to the University of Bath and did a placement year at ISIS (one of the neutron sources) while I was there. Uni is a fantastic experience whatever you’re going to go off and do – for me it gave me the base knowledge I needed for my job now and lots of contacts. Now I’m half employed by the Uni Bath and half employed by ISIS because I knew the right people to annoy when I was looking for jobs and enjoyed my time at ISIS!

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      Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      Yes, I went to the University of Dundee. From Sept 2005 to June 2009… so I am a relatively new graduate.. almost exactly a year ago now 🙂 I did a BSc Hons in Zoology! My favourite thing in the world 🙂

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      Alexandra Kamins answered on 12 Jun 2010:

      I went to university in the States for four years–got a BS in science (bachelors of science–why they call it that, I have no idea…).

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      Jessica Housden answered on 13 Jun 2010:

      I did – although there are lots of routes into science so remember that uni isn’t the only option. I did a three year degree (called a Bachelors) at the University of Birmingham in the Physics department. The degree was called Physics with Space Research, so it had a variety of general physics and maths along with some more specific Space and engineering topics.

      I decided that I loved the spacecraft engineering part, so after this degree I headed to London for one year to do a Masters at UCL (University College London) which is spacecraft design specific. This was partly physics and electronic engineering (so studying how we send signals, data processing, antenna design; that sort of thing).

      Interestingly though; it would have been possible to join my company without going to uni and joining as an apprentice after GCSEs.

    • Photo: Luisa Ostertag

      Luisa Ostertag answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Yes, I did go to uni too. The first three years in Germany and then another one in Aberdeen. There I gained my Bachelor of Science. I really liked going to uni (well, most of the time) and especially because I got parts of the German and parts of the UK system, which focus on different things (Germany: lots of practical lab work and writing lab reports; UK: writing essays and articles for publication) I learned really many things that I need every day now.

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