How often do other areas of interest come into your work?

Question: How often do other areas of interest come into your work?
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Asked by El to Tonia, Sam, Emily, Ejay, Edgars, Charnett on 11 Jun 2019.
- Emily McNee answered on 11 Jun 2019:
  
  All the time, taking inspiration from other areas sometime leads to solving problems or the next big product idea.
- Ejay Nsugbe answered on 11 Jun 2019:
  
  Well when you say other areas of interest-i’m interpreting that as other themes and subjects outside of my primary task? The answer is loads of others! This tends to be the case when you deal with big ‘systems’ and you have to consider the external environment which your system is going to operate in. Good example being my current work on prosthetic Control, outside of the ‘techy'(super enjoyable :P) side of things, i’ve had to do some reading on; neuroscience, anatomy and physiology, human factors & ergonomics-just to name a few.
- Edgars Kelmers answered on 11 Jun 2019:
  
  Medical engineering is very underdeveloped field. Many medical inventions are build on knowledge from more advanced car and aerospace industry, for example, science of friction between two surfaces, and computational modeling came from car industry. Acrylic glass material was first used as windshield for airplanes, when they accidentally discovered that it is also bio-compatible with human body. And now people want to apply electrical and computer science knowledge into medical field to build robots and wearable sensors.
- Charnett Chau answered on 12 Jun 2019:
  
  All the time! I’m an biochemical engineer but I work in a team with a chemist, a microbiologist, a behavioural scientist, a design engineer, an economist and material scientist. There’s do much to learn from each other!
- Tonia Tzemanaki answered on 12 Jun 2019:
  
  all the time. I use my expertise in robotics and engineering to solve problems in various areas of healthcare. For example, I have observed many different surgical operations, I have also trained (for only a week) in surgical skills and I actually did some small part of a surgical operation in animals.
- Sam Gaughan answered on 13 Jun 2019:
  
  All the time, interdisciplinary work is the key to success!

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