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Asked by Sophiee :D to Boris, Cat, Chung Han, Ian, Sophie, Sufia on 8 Jun 2018.
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Ian answered on 8 Jun 2018:
To get to where I am now I had to work extremely hard. I went to night school while working a full-time job, and I worked throughout University to fund my studies. My main motivation is knowing that if I don’t give my all now, then all the years I spent working towards this would become meaningless – that thought always drives me.
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Boris Mocialov answered on 8 Jun 2018:
I am not a perfectionist. I believe that doing somewhat decent job will give you time to work on other things and learn more than spending all your time perfecting one thing
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Chung Han Chua answered on 11 Jun 2018:
I just want to build things honestly, and to get access to bigger toys/equipment I need to prove I can deliver. My builds are currently all in plastic, but once I get them all working I will get to build some of them using carbon fibre!
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Sufia Fatima answered on 13 Jun 2018:
My dad always told me if your going to do something then put you mind and soul into it. So, I always try to live by that and do things to the best of my ability.
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Comments
Boris commented on :
P.S. The motivation for me is the variety of things that I can experience and learn from
Ian commented on :
Things break. People are not perfect. The world is full of complex interactions.
The brilliant thing about engineering is that we expect all of these things. We don’t expect everyone to know everything – and we plan for things to go wrong.
There’s a branch of engineering maths that helps us calculate the probability of failure then we can design alternatives that reduce that probability. If you have a computer that has a 1 in 10,000 hrs chance of failing, then if you have 2 computers doing the same thing, the probability of them both failing at the same time is really small (basically the product of the probabilities) 1 in 100,000,000. So depending on how critical a system is, you can design a solution that has “quality” built in.
Our customers tell us how reliable they want their system to be and we design a solution to meet that requirement. If we’re good at doing those calculations we stand a better chance of winning the business and that’s a very big motivator!