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Asked by 274dagg45 to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 10 Nov 2016.
Question: have you done anything that is more challenging to everyone else?
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Sylvain Jamais answered on 10 Nov 2016:
Not sure I understand your question. All our roles will have their own set of challenges, we all have to solve those to progress, that doesn’t necessarily make one of us better…
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Dawn Gillies answered on 10 Nov 2016:
Not sure I understand this one either – do you mean more challenging than the other engineers here?
If that’s what you mean, I think we will all have done things that are very challenging in our jobs, but that’s part of the fun! -
Sarah Hampson answered on 11 Nov 2016:
Every engineer has different challenges. Like Sylvain said though, that doesn’t make one better than another.. Engineers tend to concentrate on one area that they’re good at and interested in, and try to get as good they can in it, so they can help as many people as they can
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Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 11 Nov 2016:
I have created a software tool to detect/diagnose the early signs of various eye (retinal) diseases. It has been successfully deployed to decrease the number of patients by five precent over last few years in around eight clinics in India. It is currently getting patented and I am very proud of that project. This might not be challenging but this is one of the first prototypes to be translated to application stage
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274dagg45 commented on :
oh what i was ment to say was have you done any experiments which have gone wrong
274dagg45 commented on :
yeah that was what i was trying to say
Dawn commented on :
Ah – yes! I have done lots of experiments which have gone wrong! But I’ve learned from all of them. Science wouldn’t be nearly as much fun if everything worked perfectly first time. I’m currently re-doing an experiment because one parameter was wrong on the program running it, so I have to do it all again to get results!
Sarah commented on :
Ohhh!! Yes, often! This is all part of the job though- if something goes wrong, engineers come up with solutions to fix it. Yesterday one of my microchips leaked fluid all over my microscope, but I’ve fixed it up now and all is good.