• Question: Why did you choose to become an engineer(what inspired you to)?

    Asked by Rainbow Unicorn to Vaanu, Tomas, Sylvain, Sarah, James, Dawn on 9 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by ARDA AND DAN 17, Doughnut123, Sidemen Juniors, 274dagg45.
    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      Taking up sailing when I was 12… I wanted to understand how boats worked started reading about that came across fluid dynamics

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      Dawn Gillies answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      My teachers inspired me. A lot of my teachers encouraged me to do engineering. Of course, I completely ignored this and went to university to do accounting. I hated it after 3 weeks and realized that my teachers knew me better than I thought!
      I transferred to electronics with music and loved it!

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      I was an electronics and communication engineer. I was fascinated by this mobile communication , radio waves,satellite working and wanted to learn more about it. Then my interest turns into signal processing. As I came to know more and more about signal processing and various fields of it. I was specifically interested in Image signal processing. Then I thought – if image processing then why medical image processing. I felt that there is increasing need for it and there you go!

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      Sarah Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      I studied Chemistry at university, and in it I did a research project where I made smart windows (windows that change colour. Like this: ). That project was half chemistry and half engineering, and I really loved it! (it was so fun)

      Also, my dad was an electronics engineer before he retired. He made technologies for planes. He has a crystal cup from the Queen (they all got given one at his work for an important project they did)

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