• Question: what do you most enjoy about engineering?

    Asked by 898sptm43 to Ollie, Guy, Christine, Angus on 2 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Guy Rixon

      Guy Rixon answered on 2 Mar 2018:

      It’s the chance to make things and particularly to make *systems* that work. I can make small, separate things as a hobby, but if I want to make large systems I need to work in a funded team with specialists.

    • Photo: Angus Gallie

      Angus Gallie answered on 2 Mar 2018:

      I think what I enjoy most about engineering is the end result! Nearly always (after a lot of hard work) you get to say ‘I designed that’ .. and it’s something real that you can see and touch and appreciate how it might have solved a problem. Sometimes at the start of a project, you can think, ‘this will never work’ or ‘this is too hard to work out’ but when you have been doing engineering for a while you think of all the stuff that you designed and it got made and it works and then you think ‘we’ll definitely make this happen’.

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