"Emma is a Handling Qualities Engineer at Airbus, helping to design aircraft which are able to piloted safety.Emma is curious and persistent and likes to understand why things are the way they are, and this allows her to show the ‘Explorer’ type when investigating which model best represents the reality. She also likes to be creative to investigate how to influence results and see if they can be improved and she needs to be the ‘Investigator’ type to do this. She is also the ‘Quality Controller’ type which is important because she needs to make sure what she and others are doing is of the right quality level to ensure reliable, accurate, safe and demonstrable results."

"Emma is a Handling Qualities Engineer at Airbus, helping to aircraft that can be safetly controlled by a pilot. Emma decided to do engineering after a teacher recommended it during her A-levels has always wanted to do engineering, to learn about the physics behind how aircraft fly and how to design and optimise them, as well as how to meet customer and business needs and safety requirements and this is exactly what she does now. Emma works in a team to help ensure the aircraft have adequately sized control surfaces for the aircaft mass and centre of gravity range. The team also ensures that the aircraft control system protects the aircraft from going into any potentially unsafe flight conditions, and assesses the pilotability when certain items no longer work correctly. This is all done by working closely with control law and systems designers who then make sure their systems meet the handling requirements her team sets. She does this by generating numerical models, computing calculations, analysing results, reporting, scripting, running tests on the aircraft simulators and requesting, observing and analysing flight tests.The most exciting part of her career was the first flight of the A330neo aeroplane. She knew it would fly, but having worked on the design, she felt proud of what she had done herself, as part of a team, and as a company as a whole."

"Emma has always enjoyed maths and physics. She first considered engineering when a teacher encouraged her to look into it while doing her A -Levels. After finishing school, Emma did a Year in Industry at Rolls-Royce in their defence engines department, which let her see that engineering was for her. She then did an undergraduate MEng in Aeronautical Engineering, which included summer placements at Atkins Global, Rolls-Royce, The University of Bristol and volunteering in Africa. She actually failed some exams at university, but then re-took them and passed. She feels that it is OK to fail sometimes, as it teaches you about who you are as a person and helps you find what works for you and what doesn't.Emma then did the Airbus graduate programme on a starting salary of £25,000, doing placements around the business before starting in the Loads and Aero-elastics department, where she worked for 6 years before starting in Handling Qualities at the end of 2021."

"Emma generally enjoys being outdoors, including hiking, climbing, cycling and skiing. She also likes cooking, diving and pole dancing!Since Emma works for a trans-national company, she gets to travel to France and Germany regularly and she had the opportunity to work in Malaysia while on the graduate programme.If Emma stays at Airbus, she can progress by either choosing to be an expert, going into management or being an architect (someone who leads on the overall design and safety). She likes the idea of being an architect expert and hopes to progress into overall aircraft design. Outside of work she would like to one day have a family."

"Her days can be very variable. She has meetings with suppliers or customers to work out how to tackle a task, and she may also do some model adaptations or calculations and plotting of results. Sometimes she generates a presentation about results or a plan of how to do something. It is critical that her work is accurate and thorough, the aircraft must be safe to fly."

"A-levels in Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Physics. AS-Level German. Masters of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering from The University of Bristol."