I’ve always loved looking at things and trying to see how they worked. Engineering is a lot about working out how things work, and taking things apart, and breaking things; so I was pretty keen to become an engineer so that I could do all that stuff more.
When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I loved stars and planets and anything to do with space. When I went to university, I enrolled in the aeronautical and astronautical engineering (or aerospace engineering). On this course, we had to learn about both airplanes and rockets flying through the air and I found that I really liked learning about flight. Instead of being an astronaut, I now wanted to make things go really fast – like rockets and airplanes. I studied both rocket propulsion and jet engine propulsion – the rocket propulsion seemed to me to focus too much on chemistry, which I didn’t like, while the jet engine propulsion was more to do with aerodynamics and thermodynamics. So, I stuck with jet engine propulsion and that’s how I ended up doing research in fluid mechanics and gas turbine engineering.
I wanted to become an engineer because I enjoy things that are applied to the real world. If you engineer a solution to something in the world, you can see it and other people can benefit from it. That’s a really rewarding way to spend your time!
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