• Question: Whats your favourite thing about engineering?

    Asked by Jarshuwa to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 4 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 4 Nov 2016:

      Hi

      My favourite is that there is engineering in pretty much everything around us, even the simplest things, sometimes we just don’t think about day to day objects in that way.

      What I also really like about the branch of engineering I am in (medical) is that the things I design can directly help improve people’s life, diagnose their condition, help doctors treat sick people.

      Sylvain

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 6 Nov 2016:

      The feeling when you make a working product, after lots of prototypes that didn’t work and lots of thinking and tinkering with your design, is really great. It’s like “TA-DAH!”

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I think it is the thrill in knowing your basics, applying the principles towards applications, tweaking procedures and finding things fall in place.

      I think the most fascinating thing is the way nature has analogy/inspiration for thing man is trying to engineer or build (for example , birds and aeroplanes). Engineering is like an art at some level, you need creativity to built new ideas.

      Engineering is not about acquiring knowledge, it is all about what you apply out of knowledge – that is the fun part.

    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      My favourite thing about engineering is getting to learn new things every day! Knowing that the project that I’m working on could lead to quicker diagnosis and better treatment of cancer is really exciting. The moments when my code actually works are pretty amazing too!

    • Photo: James Clarke

      James Clarke answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      Inventing something new is pretty cool. You get to sit there and look at what you’ve made and know that you’re the only person ever to have built it. Then – and only if you’re really lucky – it might also work.

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