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EOHD 2021: Ella Podmore tells us what it’s like to work as an engineer at McLaren Automotive

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  • Duration: 5 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Aug 2021
  • Part of series Engineering Open House Day

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Ella Podmore is a Fault Analysis Engineer at McLaren Automotive Ltd, and the IET’s 2020 Young Women Engineer Award winner. She joined us live for Engineering Open House Day where she gave us insight into what she does at McLaren. And she even tells us what it is like to drive one of the supercars! 

See more clips from our Engineering Open House Day Live show on our media hub: https://www.engineer-a-better-world.org/engineering-open-house-day/

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    Ella Podmore

    Ella Podmore is a Materials Engineer for luxury British supercar maker McLaren Automotive. She is responsible for all the material investigations in the business across all development phases of the company’s supercars; from concept drawings, all the way to customers in the field. Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further. As the leading STEM ambassador for McLaren, Ella helped launch the recent competition McLaren Automotive ran with BBC Blue Peter asking children to design their ‘supercar of the future’ and was one of Autocar’s Top 10 ‘Rising Star’ in 2019.
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