• Question: During your time as an engineer, what has been the most interesting thing you have learnt?

    Asked by Sim to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 7 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      That failing isn’t a bad thing! I’ve learnt loads from all of the experiments that have gone wrong or circuits I din’t design quite right – and I learnt how to do it right the next time (or maybe the time after that!).

      Also, learning that I can be an engineer and work in medical research has been amazing, it’s a fairly new field and I didn’t know it even existed when I started university!

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      Just how many things you can 3D print (clothes, cars, buildings, drones, small aircraft, food, prosthetic limbs….)- I had no idea how creative people can be with it

      I also think nanotechnology is really interesting (I use particles to test my printed chips, & I work in a lab where most people research nanotechnology)- you can use nanorobots to swim around & scoop up stuff like toxic metals in rivers (there’s a video of 1 swimming here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/lead-eating-ocean-cleaning-nanobots/), & deliver drugs around inside the body

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      The value of teamwork… what a team can achieve is so much more than what the individuals would have if working alone on their own tasks.

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      Strangely, it is reporting you work. It is significant because when you develop a new thing it is important to record it (for your future reference) and report it (for others’ future reference)!

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