• Question: How do you include the subjects you studied at school in your work?

    Asked by lampost101 to Al, Emma, Ivanka, James, Omar on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Omar Mustufvi

      Omar Mustufvi answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I don’t use everything I learnt at school directly but remembering what I did at school/college helps me understand the harder concepts much easier.

    • Photo: Al Bartlett

      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hello Lampost101

      In answer to your question, School subjects play a part in your everyday life so it is only natural, that they’ll be somewhere in your worklife too. Things like science, maths and technology help engineers to understand what is happening with their work whether it be through design, investigations or the physical mechanics of engineering.

      English is a very important subject too – it helps you to communicate with other people, including engineers to describe your findings or observations so that they understand what you mean – the better you understand the meaning of words, the more diverse you can be in your descriptions.

      For a designer, Art can be a very useful subject – the ability to draw and design is very important to be able to get designs and ideas across to other engineers and manufacturers.

      I hope this helps you.

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      James Vokes answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Computing: I use it every day. I have to remember how certain languages work. What little “tricks” there are.

      Physics and Maths: Knowing about numbers gives me a good feel for them so when the computer tells me that the UAV is 1126 x 10^2 cm away I can think: “That make sense because that’s about a 1 km away”.

      Other subjects: I would say that I use about 20% of the knowledge I gained from these? Specifically? it’s hard to tell, it’s little odds and ends that I only know I need because I’m in the job. So you have to have a job to know what bits you should learn better to get a job. It’s Catch-22.

    • Photo: Emma Bould

      Emma Bould answered on 22 Mar 2012:

      Well, I use bits of what I did at school and university all the time, writing reports, analysing systems using graphs and some basic maths….. Physics is probably what I use most. I found I use it more often than Maths…… being applied Maths I find it slightly more practical and a little less academic.

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