His name is Emilio Laíño, he is 24 years old and has just achieved an "honors" in his master's thesis in Canal, Road and Port Engineering. In addition, the life of this Lanzarote native has been marked by excellent academic results, for which he has been awarded on several occasions. "I've had a few," he says as if it were nothing, despite the fact that he has up to four awards for his record.
This young man was born and lived in Arrecife until he finished high school, when he moved to La Coruña to study for a degree in Civil Engineering, Canals and Ports. A career that he says he chose "a bit by elimination" but that he later "liked a lot" and now believes that "he couldn't have chosen better."
It was in 2014, after finishing high school at IES Las Salinas in Arrecife and moving to Galicia, when he received his first awards: the Civil Engineering Foundation of Galicia Award for the best pre-university records; and the Academic Excellence in Baccalaureate Award, granted by the University of La Coruña.
To them and after finishing the Degree in Civil Engineering, Canals and Ports, he added two more awards in 2018: the Extraordinary End of Degree Award from the Higher Technical School of Civil Engineers, Canals and Ports of La Coruña, awarded by the University of La Coruña; and the Civil Engineering Foundation of Galicia Award for the best student of the Degree in Civil Engineering Technology from the University of La Coruña.
And, according to him, in addition to finishing the Degree in four years, he also achieved "the best grade" among the students who graduated that year. Specifically, his average was 7.7 and his record also includes 13 outstanding grades and six honors.
Now, Emilio Laíño has added a new honor to his record, that of the master's thesis he has been studying. In addition, he has achieved the highest grade with a project based in Lanzarote, in which he proposed the creation of a tunnel in Femés. "It is an academic project," he clarifies, so as not to generate susceptibilities. However, he points out that the tunnel he proposed "seeks the least environmental impact and the best landscape integration."
He works in London, where he hopes to "make a career" and become a member of the association
Currently, this young man from Lanzarote resides in London, where he works for the company ARUP. "I was able to access this internship company in the summer and in the end I stayed," says Emilio Laíño, who says that his work there is related to "maritime and port engineering," which is what he specialized in. In fact, while he was doing his master's degree, he was also doing an internship at the Port Authority of Las Palmas.
In the British country, he says that the beginning is being "very hard." And it is that, his contract started on January 7 and, since then, due to the coronavirus, he is teleworking and has barely been able to have a social life. "You can't leave the house practically. I go to the supermarket and go out to exercise once a day. So, I've been practically alone at home since I arrived, two months ago."
Even so, Emilio Laíño hopes to stay "a while" in London. And it is that, his objective is to "make a career" in the company ARUP and obtain the 'chartership' or, what is the same, to become a member of the British association of civil engineers. "It's almost like a career. It takes three, four or five years, it doesn't have a fixed time, and it gives a lot of prestige," details this young man who, with his academic record, is sure to achieve it.
