• Question: Is it true that computers are starting to play a vitall role in engineering worldwide

    Asked by zoha to Ant, Dan, Matt, Mike, Steph on 19 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Matt Maddock

      Matt Maddock answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Increasingly so! Perhaps not so much in the putting-things-together stage, but certainly, for designing things, they are incredibly useful and powerful.

      Having said that, these days, you can even use computers to make stuff! – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3d_printing

    • Photo: Dan Veal

      Dan Veal answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Absolutely. And it’ll just be more so in the future. More and more computers will be integrated in every device possible. I bet you within 5 or 10 years you’ll have a computer within your toothbrush…

    • Photo: Anthony Hollingsworth

      Anthony Hollingsworth answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      very true indeed! Infact nowerdays they are vital for many tasks, theres actually a new type of fighter jet (the euro fighter typhoon) which can only be flown with computers too! if they were turned off then the plane would flip over and crash

Comments