• Question: what's the most important skill as an engineer

    Asked by anon-88298 on 22 Nov 2022.
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      Veronica Pisani answered on 22 Nov 2022:

      Teamwork – everything I do involves working with others! Being a good team player means you work hard, treat others with respect, keep an open mind, and communicate clearly.

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      Nicole Payne answered on 22 Nov 2022:

      To be able to communicate effectively with a team around you, so that you can learn and share knowledge!

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      Adam Yates answered on 23 Nov 2022:

      I agree with the other answers. Teamwork is a very important skill for an engineer. There are very few tasks or jobs that don’t require help from other people. All projects require a team and input from different people. Other skills like logical reasoning, creative thinking and problem solving and also really useful.

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      Katherine Whyte answered on 24 Nov 2022:

      I think being able to communicate well is really important. This helps everyone work well together as a team, and makes everything more efficient!

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      Paul James answered on 25 Nov 2022:

      I agree with the comments below and I would add.
      Engineers should be curious (how do things work) and creative (how can this be made better) and committed (keep going unit you have solved it)!

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      Wenzhu Li answered on 25 Nov 2022:

      I agree with the other answers – teamwork, time and task management skills are really important for an engineer 😀

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      Anastasia Bird answered on 28 Nov 2022:

      Ability to step back and ask ‘Why?’ and ‘What?’ – what we want to achieve? why we doing this? why it does not work? etc.
      And then another important skill is ability to gather and process information.

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      Emma Farquharson answered on 28 Nov 2022:

      I think always being curious and not afraid to ask questions is really important. It really helps with your learning, but also others learning and the sharing of knowledge.

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      John Harland answered on 1 Dec 2022:

      Quite hard to answer and I wouldn’t disagree with other people’s answers. I’d add that having an enquiring mind is often key e.g. If someone states something as a ‘fact’, do they really have hard evidence to back it up? Is that evidence applicable to the current situation?

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      Anne Velenturf answered on 8 Dec 2022:

      I agree with all other answers, but just to add something different – the ability to put engineering in perspective of sustainability, how will a new solution benefit people and environment, are there any downsides?

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