• Question: What tools do you use and what are they called?

    Asked by 😛vava😜 to Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Charlene on 11 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Mark Bentley

      Mark Bentley answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Wow……..I use loads!!!!!!!!!

      From computer controlled milling machines, laser cutters, 3d printers, manual lathes and mills, pillar drills, welding (MIG TIG GAS) wood work machines, sheet mental.
      To loads of hand tools like hammers, files.

      A PC for design work, emails, research.

      And a note pad with pen, pencil and ruler, plus all the measuring equiptment!!

      And the most use full tool, my brain and hands!!!! 🙂

    • Photo: Charlene Chung

      Charlene Chung answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      For computer programs, Innovyze ICM (used for hydraulic and hydrologic modelling), QGIS, MapInfo (both of which are involved in analysing and manipulating geographical and mapped data) and Microsoft Word and Excel.

      When I’m out on site, the site crew install flow monitors, depth monitors and rain gauges to analyse and track the weekly flow, depth and velocity of flow in the pipes.

      They install the monitors in the pipe accordingly when they are lowered down into the manholes and use a camera to take photos ( one site crew person is lowered down while being attached to a small crane, and is hoisted back up)
      They also use measuring tape, pen and paper to noted down the pipe measurements and have monitors to test the levels of gases present.

      The rain gauges basically are like buckets which keep a track of how much rainfall has fallen over a specific area. The data can be accessed remotely by wifi, so that if any odd data is noted during the week, the site crew can physically go to check if the monitors are ok, or if there are issues with those or in the pipes.
      I get all this data sent to me, and then I use the programs above and my best tool, the brain and my calculator.

    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I mainly use a lot of computer tools because I do a lot of coding and modelling. I use different languages to code in: Python and Javascript are the main ones. Sometimes R and MatLab too.
      For the modelling I use blender and SolidWorks. When I need to create electronic systems I use a program called Eagle.
      In terms on physical tools: I use many things from a MecMesin testing machine to a soldering iron. I have lots of wires and circuit boards to put together and need to create the circuits with pressure sensors in them so be able to test them in prosthetic sockets. The sensors I use are piezoresisitive ones. I also use 3D printers when I need to create something to test with.

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      omg loads of different things but the main ones would be:

      computer programs: ABAQUS, used for modelling and analysis of mechanical components. MATLAB, which is a language for technical computing (you can do loads of things with it). Every engineer has to use Excel, word, powerpoint (it’s not avoidable)…

      in the lab I use a big heated press to make my materials, I use my own tool that I have designed and can make holes in composite materials. to make the materials and then make holes in them there are many other tools involved, but it would be a very long and boring list to just list them here, without seeing in action what it does. 🙂

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