A young Aberdeen engineer has been recognised by engineering's lead body for her work inspiring school pupils to take on a career in the oil & gas industry.
The exploitation of UK shale gas has the potential to create thousands of highly-skilled engineering jobs over the next decade, one of the country's largest engineering institutions said yesterday.
Concerns have been expressed that the oil giant may never be able to find a solution to stemming the leak, which will take the "world's greatest mechanical engineers" to fix.
In what is a UK first, The Robert Gordon University has gained Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) approval for a suite of engineering and business masters-level modules for use in further learning plans.
