• Question: What are you most proud of in your engineering career?

    Asked by Jazzy to Chris, Paul, Priyanka, Ryan, Sarah on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Victoria, Shannon.
    • Photo: Christine Coonick

      Christine Coonick answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I have got to design lots of amazing things for amazing people. One of my prouder moments was seeing photographs of the completed hybrid solar system installed on a hospital on Likolma Island (in the middle of Lake Malawi), where they previously had limited power and now people can get hospital care 24 hours a day.

    • Photo: Priyanka Dhopade

      Priyanka Dhopade answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I was most proud when I finished my PhD three years ago. A PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy and this is the highest degree that you can get in any subject. It typically takes 4 years as a minimum. We are supposed to research something new and then write a 200-page thesis that describes our findings.
      My PhD project was developing a new method to predict how jet engine blades vibrate and how this vibration makes them break sooner.
      Needless to say, I was pretty relieved and proud when I submitted my thesis!

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