• Question: Have you ever used your skills in engineering to solve a problem that occured outside of your job?

    Asked by Ferray to Andrei, Dominique, Mark, Masha, Sarah on 7 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Masha Folk

      Masha Folk answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      Even when I’m not working on gas turbines, I’m always engineering things around the house to make my life easier. My latest idea is to build an automatic sifter that blends and sifts almond flour and sugar for baking macarons without any work form me! Can you think of a way to do this?

    • Photo: Andrei Ilie

      Andrei Ilie answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      Yup, my job has helped me find and fix problems on my own car so I’ve saved a bit of money that way rather than going to the mechanic 😉

    • Photo: Mark Catherall

      Mark Catherall answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      All the time! When you’re an engineer, people tend to assume you can fix stuff for them, the great thing is that often you can!

    • Photo: Sarah Hunt

      Sarah Hunt answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Yes! Engineering is just the practical application of science. I like how all of my friends automatically think that I’m good at fixing things or coming up with solutions to problems because I’m an engineer.

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