My name is Dominic Birn-Pratt.
I am currently studying at Strode’s College in
Egham, where I am taking A Levels in Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics.
While I have no specific plans for a future career, I know I would like to
continue working in and studying maths. I hope to go onto a good maths
specialist university or a Russell Group university.
I applied for the placement because I wanted to
gain experience with mathematical modelling and help me determine what kind of
job I wish to do in the future. In addition, I applied in order to help widen
my mathematical understanding. While I have previously taken in part in similar
extra-curricular Maths events, I have had little practical experience of
applying my mathematics skills and knowledge in a work context.
I spent my three week work placement with Jacobs
Engineering, where I was tasked with developing a model to forecast the cost of
maintenance of railway stations in Greater Manchester. I had to research
various methods of simulating asset degradation, before deciding which best
suited the available data. In the end, I succeeded in creating both a linear
and an exponential degradation model, which could be transferred and applied to
the various assets.
I feel this placement has not only helped me
understand some of the more practical aspects of mathematics, but also it’s
help me understand the importance of clear, high quality data. If you do not
have the information needed, then you are very limited in the models available
to you.
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