Alumni Profile: David Smith Manufacturing Systems Engineering Graduate
David is Asset Management Specialist for Energy & Utilities (E&U) at IBM in New York and graduated from the BEng (Hons) Manufacturing Systems Engineering degree programme in 1995.
Tell us about your time at the University
I chose UWS for three reasons. Firstly, it was a manageable size: big enough to offer a broad university experience and meet interesting people, and not so big that I might get ‘lost’ in the system. Secondly, the degree was a ‘thin sandwich’ structure, allowing me to alternate work and study. (That helped enormously with finance, and also gaining competitive advantage in the form of experience by the time I would graduate.) Thirdly, UWS had some flagship employers who were known to routinely hire UWS graduates, and these were firms I was attracted to.
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