• Question: Is there more than designing in your field? How practical do you get/hands on?

    Asked by Nick to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I spend much more time doing practical stuff than drawing up designs. Once I’ve made a design & printed it, I test it works by doing experiments- this is the practical side of my job.
      I use lots of different chemicals and equipment at work.

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 12 Nov 2016:

      There is always the need to test something at some point in a project. The more difficult what you are trying to achieve is, the more testing. Nowadays I don’t spend much time in the labs, but I define the tests others in the project team need to do.

    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      I spend much more time doing practical work than design! Some of the design is done as you make something – if I make a circuit and it doesn’t work I’ll make some changes as I build it on a test board. I spend most of my day in the lab running experiments at the moment, and the design side of my work is mostly coding so I spend time doing that as well.

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 15 Nov 2016:

      My working is more kind of developing rather than designing so it is practical. I have not started to scan people myself if that is what you mean, but I do get to develop software on real clinical data and test it on patients. I am expecting to scan soon as a part of my software development

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