b'22|IET Futures FundAlumni FocusThere are now hundreds of alumni from the Diamond Jubilee Scholarships and Engineering Horizons Bursaries. They are carving out careers in the many and varied routes they can take as engineers.The Engineering HorizonsThe award meant I did Bursary helped me throughnot have to drop out some difficult times inof university in the first university and aided myyear after unexpected search for employment.problems with the It has probably had aStudent Finance company. significant and positiveIt helped boost my impact on my career and life.confidence at a time when it felt like the Thank you very much. universe was telling me that Id never be an engineer and to just give up. Joe Spires MEng, Graduate Engineer at Roke I was able to complete a year in industry with Siemens and determined that engineering was a career that I wished to pursue after graduation, rather than a career in finance or The bursary, events, magazineanother, non-engineering related, industry. and support massively helpedPeople with my background and gender are not me to navigate university andexpected to become engineers, the support make my career choice. from the IET and Siemens made me realise that I could break the mould in this regard.Isabella Trujillo Cortes MEng, Trainee Clinical Engineer on NHSJessica Paterson, PhD student at Scientist Training Programmethe University of Manchester'