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Career interview: Performance engineer — Rolls Royce

Mathematics is an integral part of Adrian Bird's job as a performance engineer at Rolls-Royce. "It involves analysing the thermodynamics of aircraft jet engines to try to understand their workings," Adrian says. He's currently working on the Trent 900, the huge A380 airbus that is being developed. But despite always enjoying the subject, Adrian's mathematical career nearly didn't come to be.
Monday 13 August, 2007 10:12 AM

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