• Question: how long have you been engineering for?

    Asked by tasha_cooley to Fran, Peppe, Greg, Petros, Rumman on 2 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by Xactoe.
    • Photo: Giuseppe Cotugno

      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 2 Nov 2017:

      I am doing a pure work as engineer for 3 years, but since 2010 then I was working in universities doing scientific work on engineering until 2015. It is 8 years of career but you can’t translate 5 years of academia directly into 5 years of engineering because academic engineers do a lot of other things closer to science

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      Greg Chance answered on 3 Nov 2017:

      12 years although not always in robotics. I worked engineering RF electronics for a plasma science company. Then I worked in aerospace and did a variety of different types of work including experiment design and data gathering, started developing my coding skills and a variety of manufacturing best practices. I moved back into academia after that and love it, the BRL is a fantastic place to work.

    • Photo: Petros Papapanagiotou

      Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      I wrote my first computer program when I was 9 years old. I think that counts as engineering! 🙂

      I have been more “formally” in software engineering since I started studying it in 2001 so roughly 16 years. I used to code for some extra money during my studies.

    • Photo: Fran Zuch

      Fran Zuch answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I think my current job is the closest to an engineering job I had and I have been doing it for a year. I have been working in a related field (reviewing and updating software) for the past 6 years.

Comments

  • Photo: Pooja

    Pooja commented on :

    I have been working as an engineer for 6 years now. I feel still quite a fresher in the field. I regularly meet superiors with more than 20 years of experience. Just like you are curious, I feel curious and fascinating how someone can spend so long of their life in one profession.

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    863artk22 commented on :

    🙂