{"id":41,"date":"2022-01-01T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/?p=41"},"modified":"2023-06-30T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:04:00","slug":"rdds-avionics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/2022\/01\/01\/rdds-avionics\/","title":{"rendered":"RDDS Avionics: Harnessing Expertise Through a Student Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RDDS Avionics are the leading provider of image enhanced aircraft displays and video distribution systems. Based in Margate, Kent, they have a strong reputation among the Police and Military airborne surveillance operations. They approached the University of Kent to coordinate a student placement, resulting in an expansion of their expertise and workforce.<\/p>\n<h2>The Challenge<\/h2>\n<p>Managing Director, James Sullivan, was keen to expand the RDDS expertise and workforce.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0The Approach<\/h2>\n<p>He approached the University&#8217;s Student Placement Officer to coordinate a one-year placement for a third-year Electronic Engineering student.<b>\u00a0<\/b>A placement is a great way for a student to get a glimpse inside a company, industry, or a particular occupation. It can help an individual to discover whether the career path they have chosen is right for them; to hone their \u2018soft skills\u2019 and learn to work well with others; and to enhance their future employment prospects. It also offers the company fresh, new talent and a new way of thinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-75 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/files\/2021\/06\/RDDS-Avionics.jpg\" alt=\"Erlang Logo\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/>&#8220;The work environment is new to students and they bring both enthusiasm and motivations, which often proves to be something of an inspiration to older individuals like myself!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">James Sullivan, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Managing Director of RDDS Avionics<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Result<\/h2>\n<p>The placement proved to be a success for both the company and the student, with the student completing the placement and going on to undertake a project with them in his final year. Since graduating in 2008, the highly-skilled and experienced individual has gone on to be a permanent employee with RDDS Avionics.<\/p>\n<footer><strong>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-digital-arts\/research\" data-link-type=\"external\">School of Engineering<\/a> has expertise in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li><strong>Communications<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Intelligent Interactions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Instrumentation and Control<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:keinnovation@kent.ac.uk\" data-link-type=\"email\">Contact our business and innovation gateway team<\/a>\u00a0to discuss how your business can access the School&#8217;s expertise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RDDS Avionics are the leading provider of image enhanced aircraft displays and video distribution systems. Based in Margate, Kent, they have a strong reputation among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/2022\/01\/01\/rdds-avionics\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74795,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[275477,1],"tags":[278378,278381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}