The scholarship can be used by the winner for any training relevant to his work and Ponnampalam chose to develop his CAM skills at Delcam’s Birmingham headquarters.
Lego has used PowerMILL for more than ten years in its prototyping and tooling division and now uses 13 seats of the software to produce the moulds for its Lego and duplo bricks, as well as for parts for the special characters in its Star Wars, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and other ranges.
The scholarship was established in 1982 by Borg-Warner Chemicals, GE Plastics and Thuesen & Funch in memory of Hans Schiesser, who worked to the development plastic moulding technology within the Lego Group. It supports the training and professional development of young, promising Lego engineers.
