• Question: How do you test your experiments?

    Asked by Ema.xx to Vinnie, Tam, Mo, Matt, Joe on 16 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Maurice Stokes

      Maurice Stokes answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Hi that is a great question. Even though we are engineers and we work to strict principles we still need independent check to make sure it doesn’t fail. We have to test the ground using a ground bearing pressure test. These are very heavy weights loaded onto a specific size plate. The settlement of the ground is then measured. We also take core samples of the concrete we have poured. That is sent to a laboratory where it is crushed and results sent back.

    • Photo: Tamsin Dobrowolska

      Tamsin Dobrowolska answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      I have to test lots of different things as an engineer. For example, the quality of the fuel that I put in the ship’s engines is tested by an independent lab. I test the equipment everyday I’m at sea at morning and in the evening – we check the temperature and levels of the engines, ensure that the generators are working correctly and test the drinking water in the tanks using a small kit that shows us the amount of chlorine in there.

    • Photo: Vinita Khiroya

      Vinita Khiroya answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      Before the equipment I work on can go onto the ship it usually needs to be checked by an independent party who checks all the work I do as well as the manufacturing drawings. My company also has a test rig at our factory where we do Factory Acceptance Tests or FAT tests on the equipment to make sure they work properly and safely.

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