• Question: Who/What inspired you to be an engineer if no one did why did you want to become an engineer?

    Asked by Adam to Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Douglas, Charlene, Alistair on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by Lil, Zhenya, Ruby, 338mgrq39, George mp, Murray, Aine Murray, victorious560, Marvel, karcha, 333jp, Ewan scobie.
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      Mark Bentley answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      My great granddad was an engineer, but this didn’t inspire me.

      To be honest I sort of fell into it, I friend went to Uni to do Mechanical engineering, and at the time I had left half way through my A levels (a bad mountain bike crash lost me a month or two of school)

      My mum told be to get a job so I applied for a apprenticeship at a local Toolmakers as in the advert I saw words like CNC machining and the like, and this had interested me.

      But over the years I have realized that the role I’m in now is who I was meant to become.

      I have met a couple of key engineers in my 20 years so far who have inspired me to push myself.

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      Shruti Turner answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I never had an engineering role model – there are no engineers in my family and I never knew anyone really who was an engineer or even wanted to be an engineer!

      For me, it all just sort of fitted into place: at school I always loved the subjects that are beneficial for engineering (maths, science and design & technology). I spent a lot of my time at school in the D&T room, creating things and I entered quite a few engineering and D&T competitions. Though I didn’t win many of them, I enjoyed the process of designing and creating.

      It was a few years into secondary school that I realised that all the things I enjoyed could be put together to be a career.

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      Faranak Bahrami answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      My dad first and then my brother. They are both aerospace engineers, and I always loved the things they did and I found it very cool. But also I always loved how you give a problem to an engineer and then BOOM! they have the solution to it. So I also wanted to do that 😀 but also where ever I looked I saw stuff that was made by engineers… so I thought it should be very satisfying to be an Engineer.

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      Douglas Wragg answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      One of my heroes was Frank Whittle, the designer of the jet engine – a man who battled against great odds to get his invention in to production!!!!
      Another one was Thomas Edison – the man who never gave up when trying to find the right material to make the element in a lamp bulb!!!!!
      Sherlock Holmes is frequently in my thoughts when I am on a case – “When you have eliminated all of the impossibilities, then whatever is left, however improbable, is the answer.”
      Does that answer your question to your satisfaction?

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