• Question: If you could engineer anything what would it be and do?

    Asked by lil the micro engineer to Siu, Norbert, Hannah on 21 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Katie.
    • Photo: Siu Ng

      Siu Ng answered on 21 Jun 2015:

      Dear lil the micro engineer,
      If I could engineer anything, I would want to engineer cost-effective floating houses that are able to recover from the effect of flooding very quickly. Water that enter the house can drain very quickly, no cleaning needed after a flood event and the houses are affordable.

    • Photo: Norbert Gogiel

      Norbert Gogiel answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Hi!

      Thanks for your question.

      I would engineer an electric car with an amazing battery that can provide a few hundred miles of drive on one charge and would require 5 mins to recharge to full. This would be amazing! There would be no need for fuel and wars because of oil. Imagine that?

    • Photo: Hannah Pearlman

      Hannah Pearlman answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I’d love to engineer something that really made a difference to people, like a low cost, low maintenance fuel cell which could be used after natural disasters when all the infrastructure is destroyed to power search lights etc.

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