• Question: What personal characteristics do you feel are necessary to be a successful engineer

    Asked by astro to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 10 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      For me, curiosity and wanting to solve problems are really important. Working hard at maths helps too.

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      I’ll second what Dawn said, you need to want to know how things work, you need to be creative when faced with a problem and you need to be thorough when it comes to deciding how to go about solving a problem, otherwise you’ll come up with bright ideas that have no chance of working or worse, are dangerous

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Curiosity, good at problem-solving, a little bit of creativity (to come with new, great ideas!) and doesn’t like giving up! And good attention to detail so that all the things you design work exactly how they should

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      Perseverance, lateral thinking, open mind and creativity

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