• Question: do u design or make products?

    Asked by harryhamroll98 to Amit, Emily, Joanne, Martin, Paige on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Martin Wallace

      Martin Wallace answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I design and make products that go into all sorts of medical environments. At the moment I am working on a new design of hospital bed to go into general wards. The project will take many months to finish and there are lots of design stages and tests to go through before we can try it out in a hospital.

    • Photo: Joanne Davies

      Joanne Davies answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      Yes! I design and make products.

      We make all sorts of things from handsets for mobile phones to huge CT scanners at hospitals for scanning patients.

      Currently I’m working on a device called the BodyFIX. It’s like a big bean bag and we suck all the air out of it when the patient is lying on it, so we can make a copy of their body shape. Next time they come for treatment, we get their bean bag out so they can go back to exactly the same position as before. This helps us to target their bad cancer cells because it keeps them in the same place as well. 🙂

      Great question harryhamroll98 🙂

    • Photo: Amit Pujari

      Amit Pujari answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I make products, I am rarely involved in designing, most of the designing part is done by an engineer who is expert in mechanical design.

      For my PhD, I made a device, a device to improve muscle strength. It took me four years to do that.
      Now I am working on a machine which tests artificial knees. That means before artificial knees are fitted into people’s bodies, we make sure that they are working fine. For making sure artificial knees will be fine, we tests them in our device. This is the device I am working on now..

    • Photo: Paige Brown

      Paige Brown answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      YES! Although my products are not necessarily sold to the public, they are products in the communications of science. For example, I design and write stories on engineering research and cool research projects for the LSU College of Engineering. For example, I wrote this story about an LSU student who is helping to change our energy future by making catalysts that can ‘speed’ up the burning of cleaner fuels in our cars: http://www.eng.lsu.edu/news/2012/1/lsu-chemical-engineering-graduate-student-improves-clean-energy-production-through-ethanol-research–/

      As a biological engineer, I design product nanomaterials that can be used in drug delivery trials and medical diagnosis experiments.

    • Photo: Emily Bullen

      Emily Bullen answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I design the way products are made 🙂

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