• Question: How long did it take you until you felt like a proper engineer?

    Asked by Yasmin to Agata, Chris, John, Kirstin, Michael on 20 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Agata Suwala

      Agata Suwala answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      I think when I completed my first project after few months at work I felt a bit more like an engineer

    • Photo: John Allport

      John Allport answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      In engineering, there are always new things to learn, so you always keep developing. However, there are a couple of major milestones I remember. The first time I was given complete responsibility for a project, including all the finances and management was significant, I would have been about 25 at the time. The other was when I gained my Chartership, which shows that I have been recognised as a professional engineer by my peers, which took until I was 32.

    • Photo: Chris Hackett

      Chris Hackett answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      I am still relatively new and there is always things to learn. I am still a graduate engineer till the end of September so probably after that I would consider myself a proper engineer.

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