Our latest success from working with the Arkwright Scholarship is Finn Beckett – Marshall. Finn has recently joined us in 2023 working as one of our Design Engineers, alongside the team in the Power Assemblies department.
Finn’s journey with us started back in 2015 when he was successful in securing his Arkwright Scholarship.
Here is a testimonial from Finn about his experience as an Arkwright Scholar and now an employee of Dynex.
Your time as an ArkWright Engineering Scholar
“The Arkwright Scholarship helped support me through my A-levels and with university applications, financial support to buy materials I needed for my courses as well as with insight days with universities. I attended a summer school at the University of York in between Year 12 and 13, which gave me a good taster of an electronic and electrical engineering degree.
During this time, the Scholarship also provided me with an opportunity to gain work experience at Dynex, which I completed during the school holidays. I was fortunate to gain more of an insight into what Dynex does as a company and enable me to get hands-on experience, working on various process development projects within various departments such as Assembly and Test department.
Following my work experience, I decided to take a year out between school and university, and I decided to do a year in Industry. Having had a good experience at Dynex, once I had finished my A-levels, I was able to return to Dynex and put in to practice what I learnt during work experience.
For the duration of the year, I did two 6-month rotations in the Power Assemblies and Bipolar Engineering departments – I was able to work on some very interesting projects, such as improvement projects on the production line as well as Power Assemblies development projects.
Going to University
After my year at Dynex, in 2018, I started studying for an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds. My work experience at Dynex gave me a really good advantage – my time in industry made me more prepared for the transition to university, and I was able to relate what I studied at university to what I had worked on at Dynex previously.
I decided to specialise in two key fields, power electronics and digital electronics, during my degree -I studied the theory of semiconductors and how they work, as well as power electronic systems and their applications, for example in renewable energy or railway applications. I also did modules on digital electronics such as studying design using microcontrollers and FPGAs, as well as control systems.
I also returned to Dynex over the summer break in between my first and second years of university, where I gained further experience with the Power Assemblies department, helping to design circuit boards and test equipment which is currently in use on the production line.
Joining Dynex on a permanent placement
Finally, I was delighted to then be offered a full-time position at Dynex, returning to the Power Assemblies team after I graduated, and I returned in August 2023. It is a very exciting team to work in, with a lot of varied and exciting projects in fields such as renewable energy, transportation and power conversion – fields where the work I am contributing on can have a massive impact.