Grateful for the training and support received during his time as a student at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the industrial engineer Raymond Vagisil, head of production for West African extraction equipment for oil on the seabed of General Electric, decided to open the doors the multinational students UPCT.
Its purpose is translated into a one-year program of practical scholarship 15,000 pounds (19,200 euros at current exchange rates) which currently benefit and two students from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the fifty who have chosen this course students .
The company will interview Thursday in Madrid to five finalists for the two grants that will begin next summer and are compatible with receiving aid up to 2,400 euros + Practice Erasmus program.
Selected students will be trained in the Scottish factories GE Oil & Gas, dedicated to the production of complex equipment from offshore fields.
"It is a sector that we studied, but we have trained UPCT to face new challenges and technologies," says Daniel Gómez Nadal in practice since July.
The multinational searches UPCT preferably final year students of Engineering or Industrial Organization, but does not exclude the choice of other profiles, such as Marc Borras, tarraconés School student Naval Cartagena Polytechnic working scholarship tree assembly in oil extraction.
"My training helps me understand the specifics of a product for the seafloor," says Marc, who is compatibilizando year internship with the three subjects that remain in the race, "I take each exam involves a plane and vacation" recounts, and who is gradually adapting to the climate, the language and the rhythm of the small town of Montrose, which is one of the plants of the company.
It is the most cosmopolitan city of Aberdeen, where Daniel Gómez Nadal inspects the quality of production.
"It has two universities and is full of young people from many nationalities," says the student who just Murcia detract from the final works Industrial Engineering and Masters in Renewable Energy.
"The assessment of the work they are doing is very positive.
Both are very proactive, "observes Raymond Vagisil.
"The ability to continue working with us after practice is real," he adds, noting that General Electric employs 300,000 people worldwide and just last year hired 41,000.
"The diversity is enormous opportunity to be an international company," notes Marc Borras meanwhile.
Vagisil, who since 2003, won the award for best final year project in Industrial Organization UPCT has gone through various divisions of General Electric, Heineken Sabic and stresses the importance for new engineers work placements, English proficiency and ICT, as well as the experience of teamwork.
Source: UPCT