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Greetings blog!

This week we have gotten some restrictions on what we are allowed to publish.

We are not allowed to reveal more than this, who knows, next year´s candidate might be reading this post!

The next university career fair GKN is visiting is CHARM so make sure to go past our charming booth (bdm tss) on 4th and 5^th of Feb. 

At our booth you can test our VR experience where you will get to know the company and learn more about our products! Don’t forget to ask about the Graduate Program and what jobs/thesis options we offer. At the booth we will have our representatives Peter Emvin, Marcus Johansson, Sören Knuts, Maria Östman, Magnus Hallberg and 3 of the trainees.

We also want to remind all of you to apply for the Graduate Program before Sunday the 16th of February!

Hi,

The past few months have gone by fast and we are in the last work week before the holidays. This period has been very educational for all of us trainees, from interviewing colleagues at GKN to working with our individual assignments. Now the time has come to rest up for two weeks of visits and training in California and Charleston (more on this coming soon).

During the week we have spent two days at Bohusgården and participated in training and workshops within working methods and conflict management. Everything went well and we have now completed four out of our six training days at Bohusgården. Now it’s time to recharge the batteries for a hectic first month of the new year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,
From the Trainees to you.

On Wednesday, a career and trade fair was held at Lyrfågelskolan in Trollhättan. All the GKN Graduates in Trollhättan were there and talked about GKN, informing about Industritekniska programmet (ITU) that is part of GKN High School and what opportunities there are for working with technology. The ITU program has existed since 1992 and is both a college preparatory and a trade education. During the day we met several students who have a great interest in technology and it was fun to discuss what opportunities exist in the industry. We also had two ITU students with us Nora Fröberg and Ruben Östlund who are in the third year of the ITU program, they explains a little more detail about why you should choose this program. Now we can only hope that we have awaken an interest in technology in the students, who hopefully might be our future colleagues.

This was all from me this time, see you again soon!

/Elamin

Hello again! It’s time for a new post!

This past weekend, we were given the opportunity to be judges for the first LEGO League regional competition here in Trollhättan at Innovatum. 15 teams from the region were given the opportunity to participate in the technology competition and compete for a place in the Scandinavian final in Roskilde, Denmark. Of course, GKN, which is a main sponsor of the competition, will be a part of the judges and we the Graduate Engineers were given that honor. This year’s theme is City Shaper, designed to inspire curiosity in architecture and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The competition is for students to program a LEGO Mindstorms robot to collect points on a course but also to work in groups and try to solve a social problem linked to this year’s theme, which is challenges in our cities and communities. As a former contestant and judge in First LEGO League, I think this competition is a great opportunity for youth to learn more about technology and programming.

Our job as a judge is to rate each group in four smaller areas where we were divided as Competition judges, Robot Desig Judge, Project Judge and Core Values Judge. The team that accumulates the most points wins the grand Champion Prize and are given the opportunity to participate in the Scandinavian final. During the course of the competition, all teams in the competition have done a brilliant job with their assignments. We judges got to experience a high level of programming, execution of assignments, strategies and collaboration.

A big congratulations to Byhålans Eliter from Centralskolan in Grästorp who performed a brilliant job and won the grand Champion prize!

Hello, blog,

The recent weeks have been quite eventful for us trainees. But compared to the other weeks this week is different because now we are going to start with our rotations in our home departments (Hurray!!). The last week started with us spending Monday and Tuesday in Bohusgården where we had a course in group dynamics and leadership. But that’s not all, Monday ended with the traditional trainee dip in 5-degree Celsius water with clouds as far as the eye can reach, so now we’re trainees!! The evening, on the other hand, was a bit nicer with a three-course dinner and a lot of fun. Now that the Bohusgården courses are over, it’s time for us to start the rotations.

As we say in the Aerospace business “time flies” and now we have all started our 10-week rotations in our home departments. This is a small description of what projects and departments each trainee will be on for the next 10 weeks.

• Elamin Hamid Elamin: I will spend my weeks at Nozzle with data collection from old ARIANE 5 launches.
• Elin Eriksson will spend his weeks at Propulsion engineering with a loop analysis of the control system in the RM12 engine.
• Emily Chen will spend her weeks at ROTORS Engineering with a project in the field of software for the design of space turbines.
• Hampus Olsson will spend his weeks at GTC engineering methods working with benchmarking of how aerospace companies work with simulation of additive manufacturing.
• Rasmus Tyft will spend his weeks at Engines Digital with implementing AI to forecast inventory levels.

During these weeks, we will not only be working with our individual projects but also with our trainee project. We are still waiting for our major trainee project, an update on what it is will be posted in the near future. The weeks ahead will be very exciting and educational for us all. During the week, the trainee group will participate in various training sessions during the Training Days.

Now we will look forward to the fun in the coming time.

Thank you for reading, See you again soon!