Charlotte Chapman CEng MIMechE
Project Manager at Royal IHC
Bio:
This podcast was recorded in front of a live audience at The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. This is the first of a series of live podcasts to come as we take Designed for Life on the road to meet not only our stunning guests but also teachers, students and their parents.
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In this podcast, we were fortunate to be in conversation with Charlotte Chapman, CEng. MIMechE. Charlotte is a project manager at Royal IHC. In the pod, we follow Charlotte's journey through school to decide between a love of Engineering and a passion for English Literature. We look at how life's events may sometimes appear to block your way forward, but, with hindsight, sometimes things happen for a reason!
Charlotte designs, tests and commissions some incredible machines designed to lay cabling and infrastructure underwater in some very challenging environments. In the podcast, we discuss how such a complex machine moves through the journey from identification of the initial problem to exploration of this problem and the desired solution, through to initial thoughts, ideas and prototypes, then modelling and building of prototypes until eventual build, testing and commissioning of the final solution.
Videos of some of the machines that Charlotte has been involved with over the years can be found here. For a more comprehensive picture of the engineering footprint of Royal IHC, see here.
It was an absolute pleasure to hear Charlotte's story and to share it with the students and their parents on the evening. We know that you will enjoy it too, so sit back, relax and listen to Designed for Life Live - In conversation with Charlotte Chapman.
Thanks to staff, students and their parents at The Royal Grammar School for being such excellent hosts.
The Design and Technology Association is indebted to the Edge Foundation for their continued sponsorship of the Designed for Life series of podcasts. Without their support, this venture simply would not be possible.
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