• Question: How old are you, and at what age did you decide you wanted to be an engineer?

    Asked by Ri to Dimitrios, Becky, Tony, Alessandra, Niamh, Stacey on 11 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by Eliza, sizzling sausages, JamandJud59, mariya_m16, Toshi, 225smaj38.
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      Rebecca Bennett answered on 11 Jun 2017:

      Hello!
      ha ha the age is a secret!
      I don’t think I was always aiming for an engineer title. I started my degree because I knew I wanted to focus on the technical and science side of textiles, my skills are not in the design and artistic side!
      I think after I graduated from Uni in 2000 I didn’t really know what types of jobs were out there within the textile field and so I took a role in a textile factory and learnt what skills were required to progress. I was very lucky and was headhunted by Berghaus a year out of Uni in to a materials development role. Textiles is still a developing art and so that means my role becomes more technical / more varied / more engineered as we increase the performance of our products.

    • Photo: Dimitrios Fantanas

      Dimitrios Fantanas answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      I am 27 years old and I think I started being interested in engineering since I was 14-15 years old.

    • Photo: Stacey Marple

      Stacey Marple answered on 19 Jun 2017:

      Hi, I am 36 years old. I had decided by 17 that I wanted to become an engineer, I had being doing formula 1 project at school (building a car to race), that inspired me to be an engineer. Although I did not get the a-levels needed to study engineering at uni, I did not let that stop me and completed a foundation year before studying engineering degree.

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