• Question: Why do you believe the engineering you are doing is important? Why did you choose it compared to all of the oher options out there?

    Asked by 878heak43 to Alex, Carmel, Kath, Sean, Steve, Valerie on 13 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by Pixel pro, Picasso.
    • Photo: Alex Moldovan

      Alex Moldovan answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      I think it’s important because of the type of impact it can have on our current manufacturing of medication and help people get better.

    • Photo: Kathryn Thomas

      Kathryn Thomas answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      I think it’s important because I might be able to improve patient healing after big surgeries but I have to be honest I didn’t chose it to change the world I chose it because it sounded like an interesting project. 🙂

    • Photo: Carmel Howe

      Carmel Howe answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      If my way of detecting brain activity works then I would love to see it be used for preclinical testing of new drugs (before human or animal trials) or as a way of modelling how diseases that affect the brain like Alzheimers develop and find ways of treating them.
      I chose it because I really wanted to find a way of combining the engineering I was doing with neuroscience which I enjoy

    • Photo: Valerie Bentivegna

      Valerie Bentivegna answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      It’s important because it could help us understand better how cancer starts and develops, and will hopefully lead to better ways of preventing, detecting and/or treating cancer.
      I chose it because I really like working on a lot of different things at once, because it combined things from engineering, physics and biology, and because I felt like it would have a positive impact on peoples lives.

    • Photo: Stephen Lang

      Stephen Lang answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      It gives people mobility, freedom and independence. I chose prosthetics for both the engineering challenge and to help less fortunate people.

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