Road to Chartership | April 2025
A free online event for student and early career professionals on different types, routes and importance of registration.
- Do you know how being Chartered could benefit your career?
- Do you know the different types of registration and the different routes you can follow?
- Do you know about the other registers?
- Do you know about the Institute's Mentoring support?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, then come along to the Student & Early Career Committee event that aims to tell students and early career professionals all about why you should aspire to becoming chartered and how to go about it.
Antonia Fan CEng CSci MIMMM
Antonia works for BAE Systems Submarines as a Corrosion and Coatings Engineer, providing build line support to in-process and design queries. She is also the System Owner for coatings on BAE Systems new class of nuclear-powered submarines, responsible for qualification for all coating systems. This role includes the development of Research and Technology projects and field trials. Currently, Antonia is working on the implementation of Cold Metal Spraying on an industrial scale and innovative anti-fouling technologies to reduce bio-fouling and improve propeller and hull performance.
Antonia previously studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, and then went on to complete a Master of Science in Material Science Engineering at the University of Leeds. She has always had an invested interest in coatings, enhanced by her summer placement at AkzoNobel.
Outside of work, you will find Antonia in her running kit on a fell or a mountain. She has represented England on the International stage on multiple occasions and remains dedicated to her training. Antonia is also a climber and often spends her spare time sport and traditional climbing.
Alice Robinson CEng MIMMM
Alice graduated from Imperial College London in 2018 with a First Class Honours degree in Materials with Nuclear Engineering before joining the Rolls-Royce graduate scheme which she has now completed. Alice has now secured a full-time role at the company working as a Materials Technologist focussing on novel manufacturing technologies. This current role allows Alice to continue to explore areas of materials science and engineering that she particularly enjoys, for instance additive manufacture and tribology whilst she supports programs which work to improve capability in these areas.
During university Alice began to foster relationships with the Armourers and Brasiers and the Tin Plate Workers and still remains involved with both companies today, attending relevant functions whenever possible. In 2019, Alice was one of the first Yeomen to be inaugurated into the Worshipful Company of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers.
Outside of work Alice spends the majority of her spare time at the gym or out socialising with friends. You can always guarantee her attendance at the local pub quiz too if she’s not on holiday somewhere sunny!
