• Question: what is your favorite thing to do in work?

    Asked by 228rbte28 to Paul, Abbie, Melanie, Stu, Tom on 7 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by amos.
    • Photo: Tom Rooney

      Tom Rooney answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      My favourite thing at work is after I finish my reading, writing and programming, it’s when I get to run an experiment. Typically an experiment takes weeks to prepare, it’s very exciting when I actually run it. My usual experiments involve me setting up my whisker software on a computer, sorting our the whisker array, then instructing the tow tank robot arm to send my whiskers off through the water. After all that I dash back to the computer to see the data from the whiskers, and try to work out what happened.

    • Photo: Abbie Hutty

      Abbie Hutty answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I like concept design- when you have a problem and a blank sheet of paper and you literally just use your creativity and come up with ideas for solutions. Half of them are impractical or won’t work but you get to really just throw ideas around and have fun and then some of the ideas develop and become practical and finally you get to a solution. I also love going down to our factory building to look at the stuff I’ve designed being manufactured. Looking through the lab windows at stuff I’ve designed being bolted onto spacecraft and ready to blast into space is a very special buzz that never gets old!

    • Photo: Stuart Inglis

      Stuart Inglis answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      Does eat the cake people bring in for their birthdays count?! 😛

      But with my serious hat on, I like to get out and about with work. Whether that’s across to the workshop, offshore on one of our ships or visiting a supplier I like the constantly changing scenery that my work offers.

    • Photo: Melanie Zimmer

      Melanie Zimmer answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      My favourite part is to work with other people and learn from them and as Tom said, it is very exciting when code finally runs and gets tested – although this is also the most nerve-racking bit as (although code has been tested before) things can still go wrong!

    • Photo: Paul Webb

      Paul Webb answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      When I do presentations about projects in front of my engineers, gives me a real sense of achievement, helping the others to realise my goals and briefing them on the work coming and being a leader I thrive from a challenge

      It’s what we do 😉

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