M
eet Ella Podmore. At just 26, she’s already a trailblazer in the automotive industry. McLaren Automotive’s first materials and fault engineer and IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2020, Ella has combined her knowledge for science and cars to carve out a career she loves.
When did you realise you wanted to become a materials engineer?
I grew up in an environment that made me quite inquisitive. My dad was a tinkerer, and he would always pass car objects or washing machine parts around the dinner table. He would encourage me to question how things were made and why a certain object was there and what was beneath or inside a machine. So that inquisitiveness was instilled in me from a
By combining her passion for science and cars, Ella Podmore is paving the way for engineers of the future, writes Constantina Demos.
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