IME 2017 — Questão 28 · Gramática - Língua Inglesa

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NUCLEAR MATERIALS ENGINEER

1 My career ___(21)___ a planned one in any way. At school I was athletic; I ran and played

badminton to a high standard when I was young and always thought my career would be a

sporting one __(22)___ I suffered an injury during my teens. The rest of my family was academic;

my father was an aerodynamic engineer and my mother a mathematician, __(23)__ my sister

5 studied geology.

At the age of 16, I attended a Women in Science and Engineering careers week with

school, just to have a look at what was available. This helped me decide that __(24)___ I really

wanted to do was an engineering degree, so I chose to do a BEng in materials science and

engineering at Liverpool University, and then went on to do a PhD.

10 My PhD looked at auxetic polymeric materials. No one __(25)___ of them: they get fatter as

you stretch them, __(26)__ is very novel, and at the time there were only a handful of researchers

in the world working on these. The PhD started my interest in polymeric materials. Towards the

end of my PhD I __(27)___ two research roles, and ended up taking a job with British Nuclear

Fuels Limited at the Company Research Laboratory (CRL).

( . . . )

15 During my time at CRL I __(28)___ on secondment to the Sellafield site in Cumbria, which

then turned into a permanent position in the research and technology materials and inspection

group. During this time I became a chartered engineer and a full professional member of the

Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining. I now head up one of Sellafield’s Centres of

Expertise (CoE): I am the CoE lead and subject matter expert for polymeric materials. Recently

20 I __(29)__ as a fellow of the Institute of Materials.

I definitely don’t have a “typical day”. I sometimes have a plan, but __(30)___ stick to it as

much of my work is responsive to situations which are transient. The range of things I can get

involved in is huge and includes specifying materials for use in challenging environments, new

plant designs and decommissioning activates.

RATHBONE, Penny. Adapted from: The Guardian. A day in the life of a nuclear materials engineer. Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/women-in leadership/2016/jan/22/aday-in-the-life-of-a-nuclear-materials-engineer>. Acesso em: 22/06/2017.

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