• Question: What was the first experiment you ever did as an engineer?

    Asked by nyxiemoonbeamz to Cathy, Mark, Roma, Rory on 26 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      Hmmm… I’m not sure. I’d say it was probably trying to build the tallest tower out of my lego when I was younger. You soon learn that stacking all the bricks on top of each other is not the best way to go!

      In my professional life at university, it was trying to figure out how the cooling of nuclear power stations works.

      Rory

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      The first I can remember was trying to build a simple circuit for a doorbell – I don’t remember whether I was successful, but I did enjoy using a soldering iron!

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      I’d say when I was doing my design & technology A-level, I made a lamp and did all the circuitry. It was good fun designing and then making the circuits, it worked pretty well but I did make a mistake which meant it made a loud whirring sound 🙂

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 27 Jun 2014:

      As a working engineer I think my first experiment, if you can call it that, was taking gas pressure readings to identify pressure losses in the pipes.

      I had to use a very simple piece of kit, a U-tube manometer filled with flourescent die. I attached this to bio-gas pipework, the difference in height between the two sides of the manometer showed the gas pressure.

      For more about U-tube manometers see this link…http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/u-tube-manometer-d_611.html

      Mark

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