• Question: Describe the most significant written technical report or presentation that you had to complete.

    Asked by amulligan12 to Cathy, Jaz, Mark, Roma, Rory on 16 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I’ve done many presentations on The Shard, the scariest (but most rewarding!) was to 300 families at the Royal Institution which had lots of young kids asking me hard questions! But in the end, they and I loved it!

    • Photo: Jaz Rabadia

      Jaz Rabadia answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I’ve presented a post investment review of a £20million energy project to the board of directors at Sainsbury’s. It felt very significant at the time and even now that i have done it a few times , it still gets quite nervewracking!

      Jaz

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      Mark Greaves answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Hello!

      I had to produce a report and present to the Chief Executive of United Utilities as part of a Graduate Challenge to save the business money.

      We presented a money saving scheme that didn’t require any money aside from peoples time. We were allowed to implement our scheme and to date have saved over £370,000 every year!

      Mark

    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I have just finished written a technical paper on the fires that happened after the asteroid the made the dinosaurs extinct hit earth. It’s pretty cool and answers some important questions from the history of the planet.

      I also presented a toilet that we developed to recover energy from poop to Bill Gates. It was pretty scary making sure that all the pieces worked together when he arrived. In the end he was very pleased and we were very relieved. Other than meeting Bill Gates, this was cool because the toilet has potential to help tackle the spread of disease in developing countries!

      Rory

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      Probably the scariest presentation was presenting my job (ie what I do) to a local engineering group.
      Sounds pretty minor right? Somehow I’m confident when speaking to 100s of people I don’t know – and do regularly – but when its people I know I get super-nervous!
      The most significant had to be presenting on an incident on the electricity network – it was to very senior managers who wanted specific technical details on what had happened, why it had happened and what was being done to make sure it didn’t happen again.
      I spent around a month getting all the information together – and had to speak to people across all areas of our business to make sure I was putting across the right information!
      Definately an experience that has helped me to learn how to speak to people, get information together and present it in a short but technically correct way!

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