Stephanie Oswald has won the EEF North East Apprentice of the Year for Outstanding Final Year Apprentice. Stephanie started her engineering experience with TDR Training as a Student Engineering Apprenticeship at Emmanuel College. She completed her Btec National Certificate there and achieved a Double Distinction for her efforts. She also completed a Performing Engineering Operations NVQ Level 2 at South Tyneside College prior to starting work as an apprentice at BAE Land Systems in Newcastle where she currently works as a design engineer in the hydraulics team.
During her time as an apprentice to date she has completed a Btec Higher National Certificate in which in the second year she picked up Distinctions throughout again. Stephanie has also completed an NVQ Level 3 in Engineering Technical Support for both Project Management and Engineering Design and has shown that she could run a number of projects by her own, working with suppliers, scheduling workloads for the factory, designing and modifying new parts for the vehicles and organising work layouts.
Other achievement's Stephanie has received during her apprenticeship was to win a Bronze Chairman's award for 'Transferring Best Practice'. This was awarded for work on the annual Apprentice Charity Challenge in 2009. At this time no other Apprentice team had ever won a Chairman's award. Also in 2009 Stephanie won the Newcastle annual apprentice of the year award.
Finally Stephanie is currently studying a BSc honor's degree in Management of Engineering Technologies and has also been an ambassador for BAE Systems by giving presentations to primary schools to encourage learners to look to engineering as a career. Overall Stephanie has worked very hard to achieve her goals and will hopefully do well in the National EEF awards in December 2011.
TDR Training wish her well................
