• Question: what made you want to be a engineer?

    Asked by 367dagg45 to Tomas, Vaanu, Sylvain, Sarah, James, Dawn on 9 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Anna Sofia ♥.
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      Dawn Gillies answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      My incredible high school teachers! I had especially amazing maths, chemistry, physics, and computing teachers who all got me interested in engineering. My chemistry teacher looked like Einstein and blew holes in the ceiling quite often!

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      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      I think it is my curiosity to know how things work, what is the basic principle governing them and what would happen if I slightly tweak them. Probably when I knew more about it, I was wanted to automatise things and make them more efficient. That is why went for medical diagnosis , which sounds more like medical field but actually an engineering job which calls for the use of advanced signal processing techniques

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Sailing… I wanted to understand how sail boats work, so I read about it, and came across fluid dynamics… that’s what started it all..

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      During my chemistry degree I did a research project where I had to make materials for smart windows (windows that change colour, like this: ). Some of them I made out of a chemical from crab shells!

      That project was half chemistry, half engineering, and I really loved it! It was the first time I’d ever done engineering

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