Advice from a female engineer: Go for it!
A way to become an engineer At the bright age of 15, school student Catherine Anderton was enjoying work experience at a local NHS Hospital training centre. The manager at the time – a family friend – suggested to Catherine that she possessed an aptitude for engineering and that she should consider engineering as a potential career path. Prior to this revelation, Catherine had wanted to be a chef or a customs officer, however the possibility of an engineering career seriously got her thinking. Catherine’s parents encouraged her to enter into an engineering career and, back in 1987, such a direction was not common for women. Thankfully, her father was an electrical engineer, and acted as a great role model for Catherine. Full of enthusiasm, Catherine would have her parents pick her up from college twice a week in the evenings as she worked to complete her Ordinary National Certificate (ONC) in electrical engineering, until she passed her driving test and could manage her own com...