IF PROOF WERE EVER NEEDED of the win-win nature of industry placements, look no further than Kate Cooksey. She earned her MEng in civil engineering from Cardiff University in 2007, and has stayed loyal to her employer and sponsor Morgan Sindall for nearly 16 years. Today, she is based in the firm's Birmingham office as senior engineering manager working on HS2. Not content with such sterling service, she has also just taken up the chair of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS).Cooksey's passage into tunnelling has not been a direct progression. As a youngster, she did a placement with an architectural practice but found it not to her liking. It was only after one of the partners suggested she spend some time with the practice's geotechnical engineers that she realised engineering was to be her future. Shortly after, in 2002, she enrolled on the MEng course in civil engineering at Cardiff University.
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