• Question: has any engineering gone wrong for you?

    Asked by 274dagg45 to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 10 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Yes, once I was working in a team to make a very high current circuit. It charged and discharged and one day it got left on charge overnight. So much current built up in the circuit that as soon as someone bumped it the next day it went up in flames! Thankfully nobody was hurt – we just had to rebuild our whole system from scratch with only a few days to our deadline!

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Some of the things I have designed never made it to market, there can be several reasons for that to happen, change of market, money running out, objectives too ambitions or trying to break the laws of physics…

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      Hmm.. well my microchips often leak, or the light system instead them doesn’t work properly and I have to repair them.

      I’ve broken an expensive machine before by putting a wrong command into it. (my supervisor wasn’t mad though, thank goodness! and fixed it)

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      Many times, I think that is the crucial part and thats how you learn!

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