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Asked by Jen_Lou_Xxx to Yetty, Tom, Laura, Jack, Gina, Chris on 16 Jun 2017.
Question: Did you have an idea you wanted to involve in the project but didn't make the cut? And if so, what was it?
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Tom Rooney answered on 16 Jun 2017:
I spent half a day working up an idea for a new type of acoustic transponder that would enable far greater operational ranges. My idea involved having one on the seabed tethered to one much higher in a floating collar so it “hovered” over the top. With some clever internal sensors the top one could cancel out the effects of it’s motion in any current to get high precision performance when used for positioning a subsea vehicle. I was really proud of my ingenuity and sent my idea to the company’s design team for comment.
“We already do that” was the reply and they sent me the brochure.
Taught me a lesson…
Time spend researching an idea is seldom time wasted!
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Yetunde Kolawole answered on 16 Jun 2017:
Hi Canj,
Since my project is research, I’m allowed to explore all of my ideas. I don’t follow through on some of them though and I’ve started a few and stopped because I’ve gotten new ideas that are more interesting.
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Laura Walker answered on 19 Jun 2017:
At work myself and otehr colleagues spent months desigining a new product, prototyping & testing it. Only to realise that it would cost too much to impliment within our factory due to the cost of our labour. – we gained ideas for other things through it though – so not all lost.
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Tony commented on :
I haven’t comes across this as a problem. My personal approach would be to drive forward an idea very robustly, if I was genuinely convinced that it was worth doing.
Beware anyone who tells you ” you can’t do it like that” ! I would suggest, question everything (always do that discretely and politely) and find out either theoretically or better still, experimentally to prove an idea.