Activity 3.1A.

Personal development planning.

I could relate to a few of the speeches from other engineers in regards to their PDP.

Chris Lowe.

Chris mention studying taught him “How to study and how to filter information.” I feel this is something I’m already starting to learn and is a useful skill to take back to the work place. You don’t need to know everything so being able to take bits of information and recognise them as being the most useful or productive parts can be really important.

Daniel Fraser.

Daniel spoke about how he was inspired by seeing someone more senior at his work place in an engineering role. This is how I have come to start at the OU due to inspiration of someone in a more senior position and realising that’s where I would like to be moreover I realised how the OU qualification will help me to progress and get closer to that goal.

Katy Brent.

Katy mentions the lack of females within the engineering industry. Again this a reason behind my motivation and wanting to achieve my degree more. In aviation especially at my work males out number females massively, I feel women don’t have as much of an interest within engineering and its nice to start to break that taboo and venture into the industry and be in a job role equal to that of male colleagues.

Luke Higham.

Luke comes from an aerospace background which is where my main interest is. It’s the industry I currently work in but also the one I would like to develop and grow in more in the future, it would be the main point of my personal development plan.